Slowcity Open Mic Night - Yellow sun on the snow edition; Shad, Howlin' Circus, Madison Violet, Rachel Beck

Quite an eclectic line-up tonight for this week’s open mic. Shad, Madison Violet, Rachel Beck and Metric

Shad's new album "A Short Story About A War" out now! Listen here : http://smarturl.it/AShortStoryAboutAWar Video Directed by Matthew Progress DOP: Giles Monette Edited by Cam Lasovitch Actors: Oluseye Shae-Lynn Masik Max Mohenu #Shad #AShortStoryAboutAWar

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The first song and title track from the debut album by British-Canadian rock band Howlin' Circus. Pre-order the album at howlincircus.com

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Howlin’ Circus - Mar 2- Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto
Rachel Beck - Mar 7 - The Dakota Tavern, Toronto
Metric - Apr 26 - Scotia Bank Arena, Toronto

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Listen https://RachelBeckMusic.lnk.to/ListenID Tour https://RachelBeckMusic.lnk.to/TicketsID CD + Vinyl https://RachelBeckMusic.lnk.to/ShopID Facebook https://RachelBeckMusic.lnk.to/FacebookID Twitter https://RachelBeckMusic.lnk.to/TwitterID Instagram https://RachelBeckMusic.lnk.to/InstagramID || I Wanna Dance With Somebody || Performed by Rachel Beck || Single Release Date 02.01.2019 || Written by George Robert Merrill & Shannon Rubicam (UMPG) || Engineered, mixed, and produced by John Mullane (Halifax, NS) || Mastered by J.

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"Love You Back," the official music video from the new album "Art of Doubt" out now. Directed by Kristina Fleischer & Jonny Sanders. Produced by Kristina Fleischer. Edited by Jonny Sanders. A Dark Artists Production. Follow Metric: ilovemetric.com

Slowcity.ca Open Mic Night - baby its cold outside edition

By Will McGuirk

Always like an open mic, good place to gather, chill, meet, collaborate, hear new tunes, reconnect with the old, so we have a new feature on slowcity.ca - our open mic; tonight we welcome Aerialists, Tariq, Merival, Bob Sumner, Abigail Lapell to the mic, all airing new tracks.

New album Getaway out February 1, 2019 via Coax Records Pre-order here: http://www.smarturl.it/getaway-LP https://www.abigaillapell.com https://www.coaxrecords.com Music and lyrics by Abigail Lapell Featuring Dana Sipos (vocals) - http://www.danasipos.com/ Produced and recorded by Chris Stringer at Union Sound, Toronto Assistant recording by Darren McGill Mastered by Fedge Filmed by Brittany Farhat https://www.brittpaperscissors.com/ Edited by Abigail Lapell Where will you go my darling daughter?

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First single from Bob Sumner's Debut Record, 'Wasted Love Songs' available Jan. 25, 2019. Filmed & Edited by Colebrook Productions Stream/Purchase the track: http://smarturl.it/Riverbed Pre-order the album here: http://smarturl.it/bobsumnerpreorder BOB SUMNER http://www.bobsumnermusic.com http://facebook.com/bobsumnermusic http://instagram.com/brotherbobsumner http://bobsumner.bandcamp.com http://soundcloud.com/bobsumner This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada's private radio broadcasters.

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Bob Sumner Feb 1, The Dakota Tavern, Toronto
Aerialists Feb 6, The Burdock, Toronto
Tariq
Merival Feb 7, The Burdock, Toronto
Abigail Lapell Feb 27 , The Burdock, Toronto

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TARIQ-Coquihalla (Official Video) Listen on Spotify: Listen on Apple Music: Directed by: Glen Jackson Follow Tariq: Website: https://www.tariqmusiq.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tariqmusiq Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tariqsongs/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tariqmusiq/ Lyrics: It started with a buzzing feeling that turned into a ringing sound. So, I fired up the head bolt heater and headed on into town.

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Debut video from prog-trad band Aerialists Download track at http://aerialists.bandcamp.com Filmed by Trent Freeman at Fiddle Head Studios on Mayne Island, BC in June 2015 "Deep Toque" written by Adam Iredale-Gray, arranged by Aerialists Mairi Chaimbeul - Harp Elise Boeur - Fiddle Adam Iredale-Gray - Guitar Nate Sabat - Bass Jake Jenne - Drums http://www.aerialistsmusic.com http://www.trentfreeman.com/video

Weird pals The Holy Gasp build a complex album around Oedipus

Who doesn’t dig the Bo Diddley beat - The Holy Gasp do and its sweet underpinning for a jaunty jointy alt-pop track, “What I Gotta Know.” These kats are a whole lot of 80s Queen St art-punk, like Shadowy Men jamming with the Shuffle Demons only in Montreal. The track is from their album The Love Songs of Oedipus Rex.

"What I Gotta Know," official video by The Holy Gasp (SOCAN) All rights reserved. From the album "The Love Songs of Oedipus Rex" available everywhere online music is sold.

The Dreamboats strut like stray cats into the Horseshoe Sept 8

The rockabilly can be grease and Eddie Cochran but it can be letter jackets and varsity frat a la Happy Days too I guess as TO's bro-billies, The Dreamboats, make out. They cruise into the Legendary Horseshoe Sept 8 2018. Get ready to swing.

The Dreamboats team up with Rebel Love Clothing for the release of the official "Run Away" music video, featuring the Spring Summer Rebel Love Clothing colle...

Benedikt releases 'Dreams and Blood', and drifts into the otherworld

 "We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. "
Blaise Pascal 

EP "Facia" will be available June 1 2018

Haley Blais plays the Baby G in Toronto May 12

By Will McGuirk

Like the late Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries, Vancouver singer/songwriter Haley Blais has a gritty breathy voice, which roils up before popping with an icy tingle. Her new EP, "Let Yourself Go" has just been released with "Remove Tag" and "Small Foreign Faction" the singles.

This song is very transparent in its meaning; it's literally about the worst photo ever taken of me in high school, that was repeatedly posted on Instagram. This song and 'Seventeen', another track on the EP, are the only ones that are actually about a part of my life - both stemmed from my teenage years.

Stream the real deal track on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/track/42ri8tCtPeHfGQJTo7zIVX?si=0cLQ6oMCTPSak8LXYYvcsg wrote this yesterday, recorded on my iphone, i don't have a guitar strap Purchase the "Late Bloomer" EP right here right now: http://bit.ly/2ebEAM5 Available on all streaming platforms!!!!

Fabrizio Cammarata to play CMW at the Cameron House

By Will McGuirk

I miss Okkervil River, waiting for new tunes but Fabrizio Cammarata is a fair substitute. The Sicilian singer/songwriter last put out an album in 2011, "Rooms", and has released an EP in the interim. But he is touring still. He will be playing a few times at the Cameron House in TO over the course of Canadian Music Week. "Long Shadows" will feature on his upcoming album due November 2018.

Cammarata says on his website, the song features “total solar eclipse of memory. Two young women. They look alike… but not quite. It’s as if one was the idealized version of the other, the real one: in black and white, she’s naked, in the wild, like an angel, perfect. In color, she’s in a household context, where she can be smiling, crying, yelling at you, violent, let down. It takes a moment to understand. It only takes a total eclipse inside yourself.”

Fabrizio Cammarata - Long Shadows Taken from the album 'Of Shadows': https://fabri.lnk.to/sptfy_Of_Shadows Released Nov 17th 2017 on 800A/Kartel Music Group and Haldern Pop Recordings. Buy here: https://fabri.lnk.to/buy_Of_Shadows --------------------------------- Follow Fabrizio Cammarata http://www.facebook.com/fabriziocamma... http://www.instagram.com/fabriziocamm... http://www.fabriziocammarata.com ✈ Fabrizio is on tour!

Canadian Music Week -> 

Fionn make cool pop tunes, open for Royal Wood at Massey Hall May 11

White Rock BC twins, Fionn, want you to suspend your first impressions, get past the looks and think deeper, think soul, think bones, think "Skeleton" and maybe skip around your living room while you contemplating how quickly we sum up things in just one glance or one listen and perhaps we could slow down a tad.  The Good Lovelies are also on the bill. Ticket details here.

'Skeleton' By Fionn - buy or listen here http://smarturl.it/FionnSkeleton Follow Fionn online: Facebook.com/Fionnband Twitter.com/FionnBand Instagram.com/fionnband Lyrics: If eyes are the soul's windows Then I might as well keep my blinds closed You see blue, see green not what's underneath God I try, but you just can't look into me (pre)