Joel Plaskett – Head Over Heels Into Heaven [Music Video]

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2020, 44, alternative, Canada, Halifax, Head Over Heels Into Heaven, indie, Joel Plaskett, Music, Music Video, Musician, Review, Rock, Single, Spotify

This is very ambitious for Joel Plaskett!
On April 17, 2020, the day before his 45th birthday, he will release 44 which is a four 11 song record via Pheromone Recordings.
A conceptual follow-up to his JUNO-award winning triple record, Three, 44 is a visionary project comprised of four, 11-song records, packaged together and connected thematically. Four years in the making, the songs were recorded in Dartmouth, Memphis, Nashville and Toronto with 33 different musicians.
The first single from the first album, “Head Over Heels Into Heaven” was co-written by Joel and Mo Kenney and features The Emergency (Dave Marsh & Chris Pennell).
The leading single has a catchy airy pop rock vibe to it.

Nap Eyes – Mark Zuckerburg [Music Video]

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2020, alternative, band, Brad Loughead, Canada, Group, Halifax, indie, Jagjaguwar, Josh Salter, Mark Zuckerburg, Music, Music Video, Musicians, Nap Eyes, Nigel Chapman, Paradise of Bachelors, Rock, Royal Mountain Records, Seamus Dalton

Very excited about this and can’t believe this will be their upcoming fourth album in the span of 6-7 years!
Nap Eyes will release their new album, Snapshot of a Beginner which will be their most concentrated and hi-fi effort to date.
Dropping on March 27, 2020 via Royal Mountain Records (say what!?) / Jagjaguwar (Yay) , in partnership with Paradise of Bachelors (Huh?).
The lead single/music video is Mark Zuckerburg which I find is their most uplifting cohesive really-not-really stoner rock track!

Rich Aucoin – The Middle [Music Video]

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2018, Canada, Dance, electronica, Halifax, Music, Music Video, Musician, Rich Aucoin, Single, The Middle

Rich Aucoin dropped the second single plus music video for The Middle!
This track is making me all emotional and also a shorter song!
As quoted on Noisey:
““The Middle” is an extremely earnest, charming-as-hell reflection on the self at the midpoint of life and death. ”

Hold – EP drops on March 16, 2018!

The Olympic Symphonium – Thanks A Lot / Comedy

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2018, alternative, band, Canada, Comedy, Dennis Goodwin, Forward Music Group, Graeme Walker, Group, Halifax, indie, Kyle Cunjak, Music Video, Musicians, Nick Cobham, pop, Rock, Thanks A Lot, The Olympic Symphonium

Halifax band The Olympic Symphonium will drop their upcoming album Beauty In The Tension on February 9, 2018 via Forward Music Group.
So far the band has dropped a music video for Comedy and a track called Thanks A Lot.
Here are the details about the album.
“Beauty In The Tension is the result of rural isolation, small comforts, and the discovery of two pairs of Dark Side Of The Moon pajama pants.



For six days last winter, Nick Cobham, Kyle Cunjak, Dennis Goodwin, and Graeme Walker holed up in the legendary Old Confidence Lodge studio in Riverport, Nova Scotia to focus on 13 new compositions. Working long days with the help and stamina of engineer Diego Medina, the band laid down a batch of songs that were road-tested and ready to be captured in this magical Oddfellows Hall-cum-studio.



Delicious home-cooked meals and harmony vocals were provided by Jennah Barry, a fellow resident of Nova Scotia’s south shore, and additional instrumentation was provided by Michael Belyea (Jenn Grant), Tim Crabtree (Paper Beat Scissors), and composer / arranger Drew Jurecka. Sonic inspiration came from Pink Floyd, guitarmonies, and Chicago power-ballads.”

Rich Aucoin – Release [Music Video]

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Canada, Dance, electronica, Halifax, Music, Music Video, Musician, Release, Rich Aucoin, Single

The wait is over! After a three year drought!
Rich Aucoin dropped a new single plus music video for Release!
The track is instrumental but it has that Euro-electro dance vibe a-la Daft Punk.

Rich Aucoin’s “Release” was directed by Dave Hung, who worked on Kanye West’s infamous Famous video, and was shot on four separate occasions off the coastline of Nova Scotia.

Hold – EP drops on March 16, 2018!

Nap Eyes – Every Time the Feeling [Music Video]

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2018, alternative, band, Canada, Every Time The Feeling, Group, Halifax, indie, Montreal, Music, Music Video, Musicians, Nap Eyes, Single

Finally something new from Nap Eyes!
Every Time the Feeling is taken from the upcoming album I’m Bad Now which drops on March 9, 2018 via You’ve Changed Records (Canada), Paradise of Bachelors (USA) and Jagjaguwar (UK & Europe)
Listen to their mellow alternative rock tune!

Best of 2017: Canadian Tracks #34

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2017, alternative, artist, band, Best Of, Best of 2017, Canada, Group, Halifax, indie, Mauno, Music, Music Video, Musicians

Best of list for Canadian tracks of 2017.
#34 goes to Mauno.
Com is taken from the album Tuning which came out on October 13, 2017.

Walrus – Family Hangover [Music Video]

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2017, alternative, band, Canada, Family Hangover, Group, Halifax, indie, Music, Music Video, Musicians, Rock, Walrus

Today Walrus releases their music video for Family Hangover.

The music video was directed by Luke McCutcheon and Michael Yablonski.
Family Hangover features a soulful, fuzzed-out mix of swirling vocals, wailing guitar riffs, and Spacemen 3-style drone, all with a laid-back, ’60s-infused vibe.

Don’t forget the band will be in Ottawa on November 15, 2017 at Live on Elgin.

Jon McKiel – Conduit [Listen]

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2017, alternative, band, Canada, Cousins, Group, Halifax, indie, Jon McKiel, Joyfultalk, Music, Musicians, Rock, Single, You've Changed Records

Jon McKiel band: lead guitarist Jay Crocker (of experimental instrumental group Joyfultalk), bassisist Sean Dicey (also of Joyfultalk), and drummer Aaron Mangle (of Cousins).

Jon McKiel will release his album Memorial Ten Count on March 10, 2017 via You’ve Changed Records.
The leading single is Conduit and have a listen to the song.

Details about the album:
Jon McKiel makes an impassioned return with Memorial Ten Count, (named for the fabled toll that marks the death of a champion boxer), equal parts blister-forming-grit and punch-drunk-wistfulness.
In these trouble days, first single “Conduit” offers a system of love, an anthemic and relentless peace sign to America, with intricate guitar arrangements and anxious psychedelic vocals.
Hailing from Sackville, NB, Jon McKiel is the steady, stalwart son of the East Coast. A long-time collaborator with a steady rotation of acts – including the celebrated supergroup, Weird Lines – he is the purveyor of some of Canada’s most brilliant, emotive, but still somehow unassuming indie rock.
Memorial Ten Count is the follow up to McKiel’s self-titled 10” (2014), the Tonka War Cloud LP (2011), and the Confidence Lodge EP (2011).
RIYL: Cousins, Fake Palms and Preoccupations

Jenn Grant – Galaxies [Music Video]

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2017, artist, Canada, folk, Galaxies, Halifax, Jenn Grant, Music, Music Video, Musician, pop, singer

Check out the music video from Jenn Grant.
Galaxies is taken from the upcoming album Paradise which is available on March 3, 2017 on Outside Music and BaDaBing Records.

Reminder that she will be in Ottawa on March 25th at the NAC.
Details are on here.