photo by Kelli Anne
It’s Shark Week! Well…for Andrew Phelan, as his new single “Sharks” came out on Friday!
I just heard this man open for Folk Road Show last week (click for pics) and was very excited to hear that the song was being released.
Couldn’t find a date for the release of the album, Everything Rattles When I Breathe, but with a title like that, I’d assume it would be sometime this winter/during cold and flu season!
Photo by Sophia Baboolal Photography
WILLA just gave us a new, highly dance-able, break up anthem - and it’s her first new single in a long time!
I really hope this means even more music is coming from this talented girl, and maybe a tour, because I miss having her in Vancouver…lucky Toronto.
Check out “Cause You Did” below!
Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez
Even though their last album, There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light, only came out a little over a year ago, Stars has not slowed down one bit with the release of yet another new song.
“Are You With Me?” was produced by their Broken Social Pal Kevin Drew, and is beautiful and heartbreaking as only Stars can be. Especially when you find out “the words to this song came about after Torq spent one liquidy night sending text messages to Gord Downie's old cell phone number.” says the band. “It’s very difficult not to miss that guy, and sometimes you just want to send a message into the ether and hope he receives it. We’ve always used songs to communicate with ghosts. If you can think of a better method, let us know. We have a lot of ghosts we want to talk to…"
photo by Vanessa Heins
Happy Halloween!
I was wondering if we’d get a spooky-themed song or video this year in our inboxes, and we got the latter!
Yukon Blonde has released a video for their song “Feeling Digital” from the recent LP Critical Hit, and I’m not going to spoil it for you (though I hope you aren’t afraid of clowns)……you’ll just have to watch it below.
Oh, and while you’re at it, get tickets to their show with The Zolas at the Commodore on December 5th!
photo by Cody Briggs
Only a few more weeks until Old Man Canyon’s new album A Grand Facade comes out (November 16th) and we have another new track from the album!
”Run Away” is the second release from the sophomore album, and like the first (“Good While It Lasted”) is a jam - man, I’m excited for the whole thing!
Of the track, songwriter Jett Pace say: “This song is written as a conversation between someone and their future self, a version of themselves that’s attained all they wish to be and know. It’s the inner dialogue that follows a revelation, and that compulsion to run and abandon everything to avoid real resolution."
Check it out:
Yesterday saw the release of Howl, the debut full length album from Bre McDaniel.
Produced entirely by female identifying collaborators, Howl was recorded both in studio and outdoors! Bre says "I don't actually remember what first sparked the idea to have field recordings as part of the production HOWL. In some ways it just seemed like an obvious and fun thing to try because all of these nature metaphors and imagery were coming through in the writing. I love nature and I liked the idea of foraging sounds from this environment and would love to explore that more - looping sounds you encounter in normal life into a beat, or collecting very intentional textures of ambient noise. There is waterfall white noise from Lynn Canyon layered in some songs, murmuration flocks of birds sounding like the ocean in others, dying embers of a fire that me and a few close friends are silently gathered around - all these very personal impressions are embedded in the songs. Also I love hearing that in other people's music, when people sample organic sounds for beats, etc, there’s just something more alive about it."
Check out the video for the title track below, and be sure to head to the Railway Club on November 7th for her album release show!
When I saw the inaugural show by Hotel Mira earlier this year, they played one song that stood out to me that didn’t end up on their debut self-titled EP.
That song was “Jungle”, which luckily was just released as their brand new single! And even though it’s coming out on the first rainy Vancouver weekend in some time, it’s a summery jam that evokes love and adventure. Check it out below!
photo by Sam Katz
The new album from Royal Canoe, Waver, is slowly creeping up to it’s release day of January 25th in 2019, and I’ve been loving all the singles being released from it.
The latest is this awesome slow jam below called “Peep This”, which hopefully we’ll get a video we can peep eventually as well.
Hopefully it is just the right vibe for your Thursday morning.