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New Music

Little Scream – “Cannons” / On Tour With Plants & Animals

February 22, 2012

One of the artists that has been hanging around my inbox for some time now is Little Scream (aka Laura Sprengelmeyer) – currently on tour with Plants & Animals, and which will be touching down here in Edmonton on March 27th at the Starlite Room (full itinerary below). Sprengelmeyer was born in Iowa, but is [...]

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Wooden Sky – “Child Of the Valley” / LP Drops February 28 / + Tour Dates

February 20, 2012

One of the albums that’s been getting a lot of spins on my Iphone since I first received it is Wooden Sky’s new release, “Every Child A Daughter Every Moon A Sun” – which drops February 28th (Black Box). The Toronto band features an alt-country-folk with epic overtones – compelling, somber, inquisitive, with an overarching [...]

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Wil Mimnaugh / Travel Alberta – “Roam” / + Tour Dates

February 20, 2012

I was flying through my twitter timeline earlier this morning, and came across a youtube link. Didn’t think much about it at the time, but clicked through, and was greeted with the most amazing Travel Alberta video ever. Three minutes worth, featuring some of the most amazing cinematography I’ve seen in the last few years. [...]

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The Lighthouse And the Whaler – “Pioneers” / New EP Of Same Name Out Soon

February 16, 2012

Cleveland’s The Lighthouse And the Whaler are set to drop a new EP “Pioneers” ever so shortly, *and* will also be in Austin for South By Southwest in March. They’re also just finishing up their sophomore LP, which should drop later this year – produced by Ryan Hadlock (Ra Ra Riot, Blonde Redhead). Take a [...]

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Fenster – “White To Red” / Debut LP Out March 13

February 14, 2012

The transcontinental Fenster is getting ready to drop their debut album to the world – March 2 in Europe, and March 13th in North America (Morr Music). New Yorker turned Berliner J.J. Weihl and Berlin-born Jonathan Jarzyna met in 2010, when J.J. was a solo act opening for Jonathan’s project at the time, who apparently [...]

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Wave Sleep Wave – “Hey … What?” / Debut Eponymous Out March 27

February 14, 2012

Jerry Adler is anything but new, as the lead singer and guitarist for New York’s The Blam, or his own solo folk project Flugente. But Wave Sleep Wave is anything but old. But in some sense they are. Their sound is a revelric cavalcade, an intertwined blender of Pixies meets new wave meets psychedelia. The [...]

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Gardening Not Architecture – The Florida Sessions

February 13, 2012

The weekend’s CMA session was more intense than I figured, and it looks like I’m going to be extremely busy between now and when the program concludes in June – but I did get an awesome email on the second day from one of my favorite artists of the past few years, Sarah Saturday (aka [...]

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Spanish Prisoners – “Downtown Chicagoland” / Tour

February 13, 2012

Brooklyn dreampoppers Spanish Prisoners just released a new track from last year’s buzz album “Fool’s Gold”, one of my favorites off the albums (one of those tracks that just pops into my head from time to time). The band also announced a tour. Unfortunately, the tour won’t cross the 49th parallel, but if any of [...]