Whether you care about Valentine's Day or not, I think everyone can enjoy -- and maybe even relate with -- the concept of bad dates. Real bad dates.
The new video for "Jim, Jack, Johnny , and Jose" features just that, following the members of Nice Horse on a string of terrible swipes (but maybe not exactly how you'd expect).
All I know is, you do NOT want to challenge Brandi to a hot dog eating contest.
Your favourite Halloween-themed band, Mariah Scary and The Ghoulish Cauldrons, is back with a Valentine’s Day song to melt (or maybe stab you in) your heart.
We had a “Spooky Christmas” and now a “Werewolf Valentine”… I’m curious which holiday is next, St. Patrick’s Day? Easter? Passover?
There’s a spooky video to go along with the song, which you can see below!
On the eve of their tour run, Metric has released a video for their song “Love You Back” from their latest album Art Of Doubt.
The video is full of submissions from fans singing along to the song, as well as Emily Haines in a similar style in a living room.
The band will be travelling across Canada with July Talk and the Vancouver show is slotted for April 18th at Pacific Coliseum.
I’m still really loving Shad’s album Short Story About War, and now we have a video for the single “The Stone Throwers (Gone in a Blink)”.
I’m not going to try to break it down because Shad already did it in the video’s press release, so here you go:
““The Stone Throwers” are another character in this Short Story About a War: A metaphor for powerlessness, and for the hypocrisy of the powerful. You can read about that here.
In line with this theme, what I hoped to capture in a visual for this song were two things: Vulnerability and Rage. The two main feelings I associate with powerlessness. These emotions are represented here in the nakedness (vulnerability) and the screams (rage) of these brave actors. Through these visuals, I hope folks will be further immersed in these two feelings. As for the hypocrisy of the powerful, I also hope that this raw representation of powerlessness will cause the viewer to consider their very personal response to seeing another person’s vulnerability and anger. Fight or flight? Love or fear? Repulsed or compelled to empathize? How do we respond to another person’s pain (or our own) and why? These are all questions I hope to raise with this song.
Lately, stories in the media of poor folks throwing stones to defend themselves from state violence have brought this metaphor to life in painfully literal ways. But I still think of The Stone Throwers primarily as a metaphor for the powerless in our midst here. “
I hope you have your tickets for his performance in Vancouver on the 21st at Fortune Sound Club because it’s sold out, and it’s gonna be a great night!
photo by Leeor Wild
Winnipeg’s Begonia has released a new single for 2019 - “Beats” - which follows another single in fall of 2018, meaning we hopefully get a new album soon too.
I got a huge Bahamas vibe from the music in the background, but Begonia’s vocals are so unique and soothing it’s exactly the song I needed this morning.
The band is on tour right now with Terra Lightfoot and Lindi Ortega - but unfortunately it’s only east coast shows, so you’ll just have to listen to “Beats” on repeat!
Photo By Ryan Jafarzadeh
A few days ago Donovan Woods released a stand alone track, “Go To Her” that didn’t make the cut for his new album (Both Ways - which is out TODAY!) and then a few days after that, he was nominated for both Songwriter of The Year, and Contemporary Roots Album of The Year for the JUNOS!
So to say it’s been a big week for him would be an understatement!
Check out the new track below, and you can see Donovan at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver on March 28th!
Photo by Colin Medley
If you are a musician or play a musical instrument in Canada it is likely that you are very familiar with the chain of Long and McQuade…
Well, Toronto band Partner wrote a kind of ode to the retailer and it’s everything you’d want…including a video of the duo at the actual store.
Partner also announced their new EP entitled Saturday The 14th, and they will be cruising into Vancouver to kick of their first ever west coast tour on February 20th at the Fox Cabaret.
Memphis is back!! It's been almost eight years since we last heard from the duo of Torquil Campbell (of Stars) and his long-time friend and collaborator Chris Dumont, but last year the band started an IndieGoGo page for a brand new album.
Now we get the first glimpse of that new album with the first single "You Never Really Knew Me", which is as gorgeous as you would hope/expect from the duo.
(Unless you were a supporter of the IndieGoGo, in which case you may have already heard it?)
Check it out below, and be sure to pick up the new album Leave With Me on February 8th!