More new music from Vancouver band Dead Soft ahead of their new EP, New Emotion, which is set for release on October 12th!
Speaking of dates, I hope you have November 3rd booked into your calendar for their show with The Dirty Nil at the Biltmore as it’s going to be a great night.
Get a taste of the new material below!
A couple weeks ago Folk Road Show released this live version of their song “Come Closer”, from their latest album Gold.
The band is returning to Canada for a string of shows, and will be in Vancouver on the 25th of October, with Andrew Phelan, at the Fox Cabaret.
Watch the live performance below as a preview and get yourself to the Fox at the end of the month!
Mother Mother is set to release a new album on November 2nd called Dance and Cry, and their latest single from the record, “Get Up”, is definitely a fit to the former part of the record name.
It’s an ear-worm for sure, and has some major George Michael vibes to it, and makes me VERY excited to hear more new music from them.
photo by Lindsay Duncan
I’m still crying on the inside that I missed Matt Mays at Skookum while I was in Ontario, so when this acoustic version of “Drive On” landed in my inbox this rainy weekend, I was very happy.
Going to repeat this line to myself over the next…6(?!) months: “There would be no good sunsets, if it wasn’t for the rain…”
Enjoy it below, and be sure to get his new album Twice Upon A Hell Of A Time on October 19th!
photo by Cotey Pope
Big Daniel Romano news today!
A new song, “Empty Husk”, from a new album (Finally Free - due out November 30th), and a tour announcement!
He’ll be in Vancouver on February 25th at the Biltmore, which will give you plenty of time to listen to the new record, starting with today’s song (and video!) below…
Good news: Young Galaxy just released a brand new song called “Future“, just ahead of their upcoming EP, Snow Leopard!
Bad News: They also announced they are going on the dreaded “indefinite hiatus”.
Silver lining: While it may be the end of Young Galaxy, there will still be creative endeavours coming from the minds of Catherine McCandless and Stephen Ramsay. In a statement released with the single, they said:
Young Galaxy has been the singular site of all our creative coordinates since 2006. Generatively, as source, as the conduit for all our content, and as the bloom of each album cycle, it is the flower we have presented to all those who want to listen, see, and appreciate.
YG has had a linear movement until now with Stephen and I as it’s central driving force. And to satisfy our need to change and be challenged, each album bloomed differently than the last with loved and varied people to help present it. But now the two of us see that it is a matter of survival, personally and creatively, that we transform our singular process from its linear movement to multiple processes / branched movements.
Young Galaxy will go on hiatus so that we can go inside, stir it up, and regenerate. There will be many more Ramsay and McCandless blooms but they will have new and varied origins, conduits, and presentations. We both wish to focus on solo work, interdisciplinary collaborations, and ways of presenting content beyond prescribed music industry limitations.
Most of all, we want to thank you, the fans, for your support. To all who have listened, come to our shows and kept in touch, you have truly been the reason we have continued to love doing this and believe in it, through the ups and downs of these past 12 years. Thank you again.
We will have lots to announce in the coming months. We will see you soon.
caterpillar to butterfly
As sad as this is to hear, I am very much looking forward to what they’re up to in the future. McCandless has one of the best voices in Canada, and it would be a shame not to hear it again.
With her new album out at the end of the week, Chersea is giving one last sneak peek with the song “I Can’t Be You”.
Said to be her most heartfelt track on the album In Limbo, her fragile voice carries the song to an intensely emotional ending, as it “explores gas-lighting – the manipulation of someone through psychological means into questioning their own sanity. The affected person views their emotional situation through a distorted lens, and becomes willing to sacrifice their own happiness and health to conform to the flawed perspective,” Chersea says. “The effect of that sacrifice allows the cycle to continue and in the process, one loses their individuality, as well as their grip of reality. “I Can’t Be You” follows that journey of the victim trying to reconcile his or her own thoughts about the situation. As they begin to discern that it’s not their fault, they realize that their desperation is only a by-product of codependsey. They have been under the illusion that their identity requires outside validation. Acknowledging that they will no longer be the product of their partner’s gas-lighting, helplessness transforms into a proclamation of inner validation: “I can’t be me” becomes “I Can’t Be You.””
More new tunes from Vancouver’s own The Pack A.D. who are currently out on tour in Ontario and are heading this way.
The duo play a free show at Neptoon Records on September 30th, where they’ll be playing songs from their album Tintype, as they will be reissuing it!
But right now, you can watch the video for their song “Woke Up Weird”, which is off of their latest record Dollhouse, below!