photo by Scott Little
Happy Boxing Day!
Vancouver band Wooden Horsemen released a new song before Christmas and announced a show in town at Guilt & Co. on January 5th.
If you’re avoid the crowds today pour yourself a glass of whiskey, sit by a fire and listen to “It Don’t Matter”, and when you’re slowing coming down from the holiday madness, get yourself to Guilt & Co!
photo by Christine McAvoy
I (Christine) am in Ontario for Christmas yet again, so this song is fully appropriate because holidays at home is the only time I really want to be in the snow.
“White Christmas” is another track from JP Maurice’s Christmas covers album, and it features Jamie Smail of Leisure Club. They’re covering what sounds like my favourite version of the song, which is the one that’s featured in Home Alone and sung by The Drifters.
Check it out below and hope for some snow!
I mean, I was already excited when I saw that The Elwins wrote an original Christmas song, but then it also resulted in that amazing photo up there of the boys lookin’ like baby deer.
You’re sure to fawn over “With All Your Friends”. So happy Christmas Eve Eve, and enjoy it below.
photo by Christine McAvoy
That Beach Boys Christmas Album has some of my favourite holiday music on it, and some of my favourite musicians covered a song from it this year!
JP Maurice put out a Christmas record with covers (check it out here) and has been releasing the songs throughout December. (We’ll probably have more as SOTD leading up to Christmas.) (Also, fun fact, I took that photo up there!)
I present to you JP Maurice and Said The Whale covering “Little Saint Nick”.
We’ve opened the floodgates on Christmas songs now!
Megan Bonnell has had a pretty great year, and she’s capping it off with the release of an original Christmas song about the complexity of being Santa Claus.
“Santa Needs A Santa” is fun and playful, and makes an excellent point. Check it out below.
photo by Leeor Wild
Kirk has a rule around here that we don’t post Christmas/holiday music until December 20th because his birthday is on the 19th!
So I’ve been sitting on a few x-mas songs that we’re going to roll out starting today with “It Won’t Be Christmas (‘Till You’re Here)” by Winnipeg’s Begonia!
Get the eggnog out, put on some cozy socks, and get into the holiday mood!
What better way to end off the year (well, almost…) than with more new music from Rong? The Vancouver four-piece of Kristy-Lee Audette, Catherine Hiltz, Emily Jayne, and Jen Foster (who have collectively played with something like over a dozen bands) just put out a video for the new song “Bitter Suite” and have teased lots more to come in the new year.
So crank the song below, as it was meant to be heard, and keep your ears out for more!
Warning: “Level Best” is going to be the most heart-melting thing you will see/hear all month.
The latest song released off of Cascadia, the upcoming Said the Whale album, is a song that singer Tyler Bancroft wrote for his son, a promise that he will do his “level best” in his job as a father as his son gets in trouble, starts bands, the usual stuff.
You can also check out the video, which (literally) follows the Bancrofts on a walk through the forest. Check it out as you get ready for Cascadia to come out February 8, 2019 on Arts + Crafts! (Or pick up a pre-order package, which come with fancy extras like flags, flasks, and even custom backpacks!)