Song of the Day: March 22, 2019 - "Creator Made An Animal" by Snotty Nose Rez Kids ft. Boslen

New music from Snotty Nose Rez Kids!

Been waiting for this one after being pretty obsessed with their Polaris nominated album The Average Savage - and now we have a new single “Creator Made An Animal”, and release date for their next album Trapline - May 10th.

The JUNO nominated duo will also be heading out on tour, and their Vancouver show is May 30th at Fortune Sound Club with DJ Kookum.

This is what the band has to say about the new single (that features 19-year year old Boslen - a Haisla/Jamaican from Chilliwack):

“Creator Made An Animal is our way of paying homage to the place that we call home as our spirits awaken and our people rise up,” the band comments. “Creator Made An Animal carries an aggressive and assertive energy that imitates the way society portrays Indigenous people and People of Colour across Turtle Island. Our ancestors were stereotyped as savages, and we are often regarded as the pissed-off generation who haven’t gotten over what colonization has done to our lands and to our people. Through stylish delivery, we proclaim ourselves as the Father 7th Generation and let the world know that we aren’t changing for anyone. The future is ours. We are powerful as human beings and it’s integral that we respect the knowledge that was passed down from our ancestors. Many of us also carry their pain, but every single one of us carry their power. Embrace that power, stay true to that power and to yourself!”

Song of the Day: March 21, 2019 - "Can't Find My Heart" by Broken Social Scene

After Broken Social Scene released their an EP this year entitled Let's Try The After - Vol 1, it was pretty much expected that Volume 2 would be coming after.

What wasn't quite as expected was how quick we would be hearing new music from Vol 2. "Can't Find My Heart" is the first peek at the companion EP, due out April 12th.

Kevin Drew says, “The theme is to continue. Sickness, suicide, uprise, love, death, betrayal, hurt, joy, sex, communication, battles and divisions … Let's just get to their after and start building again. How do we do it within the isolation of self prescribe empty popularity? How does the ego revolt? How does the heart win? Can it? Maybe after we will find out.”

Have a listen below!

Song of the Day: March 17, 2019 - "Hideout" by The Dark Fruits

“Hideout” is the second single off Authors of Affection, the debut album from Yukon’s The Dark Fruits. The video shows 4 kids devouring a hamburger, and lead vocalist Jeff Wolosewich says:

"It’s an homage to an old Andy Warhol performance art piece, filmed by Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth. I was just trying to think of a really simple idea for the video yet I also wanted it convey that feeling of a secret place or a special moment in time. I remembered this idea from Leth where Warhol just sits and eats a burger, but it’s so much more than that. There are so many micromovements he makes… it becomes almost like a beautiful ballet. I thought I’d enlist my kids to try it - all with just one take each - and I was going to pick the best one. In the end, cutting them all together made it work. I love how it captures these four fleeting moments in time, from young to older and older to young. The bonus was that my kids all ate the burgers entirely, and it only took them 4 and a ½ minutes each. If you’re a parent, you know how special that is.”

The album was out at the beginning of the month, so you can check it out now!

Song of the Day: March 16, 2019 - "Tell Me I Exist" by Lydia Ainsworth

Phantom Forest comes out May 10, but we’re getting another tease at the new album from Lydia Ainsworth with the latest single, “Tell Me I Exist”.

The existential song has an ethereal vibe, and Ainsworth says in an interview: "I find many facets of social media to be meaningful and I feel more connected than ever with kindred spirits who I'd probably not been able to connect with had the technology not been there. But I am afraid of the way it is being harnessed by dictatorial powers. Our faces all stored in a tidy database. Technology has become a distraction to the truth."

She also announced a batch of tour dates, but looks to be skirting Vancouver, so hopefully will be back here sooner than later!

Song of the Day: March 14, 2019 - "Blue Moon (Nude)" by Ashleigh Ball ft. with Gracenote Choir

Ashleigh Ball released this stripped down version, live off-the-floor, of her song “Blue Moon” last week.

The song features the all-female Gracenote Choir in a one-shot video at the Settlement Building in Vancouver, and it’s as gorgeous as it sounds.

The album from which it came, Gold In You, is being released again with a “Nude” version of each song, on April 24th!

Check the video out below:

Song of the Day: March 13, 2019 - "Conflicted/Restricted" by Tourist Company

Vancouver’s own Tourist Company have released a new video for their single “Conflicted/Restricted” which will be from their new album set to come out later this year (that’s all the deets we have!).

In the mean time, put this one on full screen, because it deserves it!

Song of the Day: March 12, 2019 - "Running Scared (Desert Song)" by The Strumbellas

While we wait for their new album Rattlesnake (out March 29), The Strumbellas are giving us another tease by way of a new song!

“Running Scared (Desert Song)” is “actually the song that inspired the artwork for the album. We love playing it because it makes us feel like we’re in the middle of the desert,” says singer Simon Ward. “This is one of the songs that came together the fastest and the studio was fun because we got to experiment with lots of weird instruments”.

Song of the Day: March 11, 2019 - "Future Shade" by Black Mountain

Black Mountain has announced a new album and if they don’t take Destroyer on the road with them when they tour it, I’ll be sad, because it is indeed titled Destroyer.

The first single from the EP is “Future Shade” and if you needed to wake up this morning, this is the jam for you.

The album isn’t out until May 24th, so I’m sure we’ll get more music along the way!