(January 19, 2022 – Toronto, ON). Band of Horses have shared “Lights,” another new song from their forthcoming album. Things Are Great is out March 4th via BMG. Listen to “Lights” HERE.
Lead singer Ben Bridwell’s lyrics envision a cinematic reflection on a night out with a friend that mutates into what feels like a Law & Order episode, but the case is actually a mystery of where did the love go. Bridwell reflects, “I was with my family at an indoor water park hotel. On my last day there, I was walking down the hall and this guy was like, ‘Ben?’ It happened to be this dude that was producing the film that I was writing the score for. We met up in the family-friendly hotel bar which gets closed down by us at 10:00, at which point we then ended up in the parking lot. We get a little loose – nothing too crazy, but we ended up dodging security guards. Our story then goes on to when I’m back home and someone had broken into my house. With the cops that ended up being around, there were more people turning the lights on us, one way or another. At the parking lot of the hotel, it was the security guards turning them on to check on us out there and at home, it was the lights going on and off with these cops. I’m drawing metaphors here and there from these two stories. Also, things were going poorly for me at that time and that kind of peppers the entire track.”
(January 14, 2022). The Lumineers are proud to announce today’s release of their eagerly anticipated new album, BRIGHTSIDE, available now via Dualtone in the U.S. & Canada and Decca Records for the rest of the world.
“Hope is a risky thing,” says The Lumineers singer-guitarist and co-founder Wesley Schultz. “It doesn’t ignore the danger, but rather it believes in the face of danger. BRIGHTSIDE is an album that hopes, even against the sadness and staggering odds.”
(Toronto, ON – December 14, 2021) – Prolific Canadian troubadour Eamon McGrath will release a new full-length album, Bells of Hope, on February 25, 2022 via Saved By Vinyl. Pre-order Bells of Hope HERE, his most exploratory, reverential and optimistic LP to date. This year, McGrath performed over 70 shows across Canada. Tomorrow, he resumes his national tour with an additional 22 dates in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia up until his album release. In the spring, he will take Bells of Hope live across Europe. Full routing is available below.
(January 11, 2022 – 10:00am EST) — Acclaimed indie pop band Lucius returns with their highly-anticipated new album Second Nature, set to be released April 8 on Dine Alone (Canada), Mom + Pop Music (U.S. and Mexico), Second Nature Records/Secretly Distribution (RoW) [pre-order]. Produced by Dave Cobb and Brandi Carlile, the album features ten new songs, including the first single, “Next To Normal,” which is out today. Second Nature is now available for pre-order in a variety of formats including CDs, standard vinyl, and deluxe vinyl via the Dine Alone webstore HERE.
(December 1, 2021) – Montreal’s fierce rock quartet NOBRO unveils a new single titled “Julia” today via Dine Alone Records. “The song almost wrote itself,” vocalist and bassist Kathryn McCaughey explains. “The ‘Julia-ya ya’ hook had been in my head for a couple days and with the help of our producer Thom D’Arcy we put together enough of a demo to make the song make sense, but the real magic happened when we went to record it. We couldn’t decide on a speed at first because our normal ‘shred your face off’ pace was not the vibe, but then we decided it was OK to live life mid-tempo. And voilà, the song was born.”
“Julia” follows “Better Each Day” mixed by two-time Grammy Award winning engineer Dave Schiffman (Vampire Weekend, Adele). The anthemic track kicks off with the powerful set of vocals, “I spent my whole life running away…” before culminating into the pounding drums, shredding riffs and blistering vocals that NOBRO has become known for. The official video is directed and produced by Jeremy Shantz, Jenn Wade and Daniel Esteban, and shot in the band’s hometown of Montreal.