Slowcity.ca Open Mic - April Showers, May Flowers edition with Local Natives, In The Valley Below, HuDost, Russell Louder, Grizzly Coast Sasami and Black Mountain,

Will McGuirk April 15, 2019

By Will McGuirk

Thinking positively, extreme April showers should bring extreme May flowers, so lets look forward to a season in bloom, record breaking blooms.

We begin with the cheerful sounds of Local Natives. They have contemporary dancer Micaela Taylor. We move into In The Valley Below, a pop duo, we will give you an explicit warning fyi, - the Valley have a short film, ‘The Pink Chateau, which they are touring, and the album is the soundtrack. Performances feature the two playing live to the film.via headphones. Also on are HuDost, Russell Louder, Grizzly Coast, Sasami and the majestic psyche-sonics of Black Mountain.

Directed & Produced by Jonathan Chu Featuring Micaela Taylor Listen / Stream the new music: https://found.ee/LN_TapDancer Pre-Order/Save Violet Street: https://found.ee/LN_VioletStreet Spotify: https://found.ee/LN_VioletStreetSpotify Apple Music: https://found.ee/LN_VioletStreetApple iTunes: https://found.ee/LN_VioletStreetiTunes Amazon: https://found.ee/LN_VioletStreetAmazon D2C: https://found.ee/LN_VioletStreetStore Follow Local Natives: Facebook: https://found.ee/LN_Facebook Twitter: https://found.ee/LN_Twitter Instagram: https://found.ee/LN_Instagram Soundcloud: https://found.ee/LN_Soundcloud Music video by Local Natives performing Tap Dancer.

This video is for mature audiences only. It contains nudity and sexual content. If that's not your thing, we suggest you scroll down and just listen. "Blue Sky Drugs" is out now! Add it to your playlists: https://ffm.to/blueskydrugs This video is a scene from our visual album "The Pink Chateau' Tickets to the immersive film screening/live band performance now available in select cities!

Shows

Sasami - Thursday, April 25 @ Baby G, Toronto
Black Mountain - Thursday, May 9 @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto
Grizzly Coast, - Saturday, May 11 @ The Paddock, Toronto
Local Natives - Monday, May 27 @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto

Burning Church- the 3rd single from HuDost's upcoming album 'of Water + Mercy'. The video was directed by Moksha, filmed by Craig Hill and colored corrected by Derrick Hunt.

Russell Louder - Light Of The Moon (available on April 12th 2019) Follow Russell Louder: Instagram: http://bit.ly/2Owzb3K Bandcamp: http://russelllouder.bandcamp.com Facebook: http://bit.ly/2yYfsVw Twitter: http://bit.ly/2JR0JjB Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/2DbSQnJ https://lisbonluxrecords.com/ Light Of The Moon (lyrics) He looks to you And understands your constrain I see right through His shadows are all the same What's

Video by: https://www.parliamentpictures.co/ Website: https://www.grizzlycoastmusic.com/ __ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2oEB4... Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/gr... Bandcamp: https://grizzlycoast.bandcamp.com/

"Morning Comes" features on SASAMI's debut self-titled album, out now on Domino.

Black Mountain - "Boogie Lover" off of 'Destroyer,' out May 24, 2019 on Jagjaguwar Buy / stream - https://blackmountain.ffm.to/destroyer Get some boom boom on! #BoogieLover riffs before poetry. Space Doom for lovers. If you haven't already, pre-order the new LP 'Destroyer' (out 5.24.19) along with some exclusive merch!

My Father’s Son - plays Springtide Festival in Uxbridge

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Springtide performer My Father's Son, plus Merin, Old Man Canyon, Dead Soft, Bear's Den, Hayden Thorpe, Clinic, Ronley Teper & the Lipliners,

Will McGuirk April 10, 2019

Welcome, thanks for showing up. Its vital that, showing up, its what makes a scene. Showing up this week from Montreal is My Father’s Son., who will performing at the Springtide Music Festival of Uxbridge, just a couple of weeks away.

Also coming in is the Pavement-like Merin from Thunder Bay and Old Man Canyon from Vancouver and Dead Soft, also of Vancity. And some Brits breaking out, listen to the shimmer of Bear’s Den, the trilling beauty of Hayden Thorpe and the pyschedelia of Clinic. TO Art punk from Ronley Teper & the Lipliners, close out the mic. Dig in, thanks for showing up.

http://myfatherssonlive.com

"Coral Island" is the first single and title track off of Merin's new EP, to be released on April 26th, 2019. Merin is: Cole Zachary Kathryn Kerr Jordan Cayer Joel Klaverkamp Directed, Shot, and Edited by Scott Anderson Art Direction by Brenna Linton "Coral Island" was recorded and produced by J Riley Hill at Collector Studios in Winnipeg and mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering in Chicago.

Shows:

My Father’s Son - Saturday/Sunday April 27 & 28 @ Springtide Music Festival, Uxbridge
Ronley Teper & the Lipliners - Friday, May 3 @ the Dakota Tavern, Toronto
Merin - Monday, May 6 @ The Burdock, Toronto
Old Man Canyon - Saturday, May 11 @ the Rivoli, Toronto
Bear’s Den - Friday, May 24 @ the Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto

Directed by Geordie Starr / geordiestarr@gmail.com / Instagram - @geordiestarr Cinematography by Jeremy Cox Album: A Grand Facade Song: Run Away Released: November 16th 2018 Stream or Purchase on your preferred music platform here - https://ffm.to/omcagrandfacade Produced, Written, Recorded and Performed by Jett Pace Additional instrumentation by Malcolm Dow and Colyn Cameron Mixed by Ryan Enockson Mastered by Josh Bonati (Bonati Mastering) Supported by Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia

Buy / Stream - https://DeadSoft.lnk.to/Porch Dead Soft on Tour - http://www.dead-soft.com _______________________________________ "Porch is a song written by the ghost of my former self who forever wanders the alleys of Vancouver daydreaming, worrying about money, trying to come up with a game plan for his life, wondering which town he should move to, talking to himself, speaking with people who aren't there, making up tunes, scribbling things down, slowly figuring it out."

Hayden Thorpe - "Love Crimes", taken from the debut album Diviner, out 24th May 2019 on Domino.

Clinic - "Laughing Cavalier", taken from the forthcoming new album 'Wheeltappers and Shunters', out 10th May 2019 on Domino Record Co Subscribe to Domino Records on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/DominoYT Pre-order 'Wheeltappers and Shunters': http://smarturl.it/WTAS Stream and save "Laughing Cavalier": http://smarturl.it/LaughingCavalier Follow Clinic: Facebook: http://smarturl.it/ClinicFB Twitter: http://smarturl.it/ClinicTW Spotify: http://smarturl.it/ClinicSP Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/ClinicAM Follow Domino Record Co: YouTube: http://smarturl.it/DominoYT Website: http://smarturl.it/DominoRecordCo Facebook: http://smarturl.it/DominoFB Twitter: http://smarturl.it/DominoTW Instagram: http://smarturl.it/DominoIN Directed and animated by Joseph May www.sublune.xyz @sublune

The Game is a musical satire, based on the absurd, ever present and variety of acts of Abuse of Power. Directed by Ronley Teper and Saúl Lederman The Game combines puppets, performance art, illustrations and a few audio clips from popular news sources. Trigger Warning: This video has potentially disturbing content to some viewers.

UK Hookworms drive into the heart of the Microshift

Will McGuirk January 10, 2018

I'm old school - I'm a sucker for songs which skip the head and the heart and go straight for the crotch, if you can get all three all power to you but if you are going to pick one go low. Hookworm from Leeds. UK, go low. There's a lot of head and heart in their tracks, lot of drone, lot of prog, lot of smarts, lot of strings but there's also a drive and an energy and a rumble and veering and its get-loose-time in the best of the Velvet Underground/ Pink Floyd-dy psychotic trips. But there's a new album due, "Microshift" - it seems based on the available tracks they have just shifted up a gear.

Hookworms - 'Static Resistance' from the new album 'Microshift' out 2nd February 2018 on Domino Record Co.

Hookworms - 'Negative Space' from the new album 'Microshift' out 2nd February 2018 on Domino Record Co.