On Friday, I told you about the thousands and thousands of CDs I got to sort through in my Program Director's office last week at WDVX. I shared a few of my finds with you then, and I'd like to share a few more of them here today. Rebecca Pronsky - Departures & Arrivals As I mentioned here last month , Brooklyn native Rebecca Pronsky's new [...]
Every Wednesday, I feature a brief review of at least one album that has been submitted to me through the ReviewShine website. I have cleverly titled this recurring segment "ReviewShine Wednesday. This week, I'm taking a look back at an album that I should have reviewed some time ago. I first downloaded Amelia Curran's Hunter, Hunter back in September around the time she was releasing it in the United States after it had already become a critical success in Curran's homeland of Canada. [...]
Brilliant Elizabeth Cook interview and session @ American Songwriter including this Another from Elizabeth, any excuse to post it, live version of Sunday Morning. Elizabeth Cook - Sunday Morning Amelia Curran and Mary Gauthier from Music Fog Samantha Crain from hear ya Session <a
For her fifth studio album Halifax Nova Scotia based singer-songwriter Amelia Curran returned to her birthplace in St. Johns Newfoundland and Labrador where her musical journey began busking on the streets of her home-town, the album Hunter,Hunter was nearly two years in the making drawing it's emotive themes from the ashes of a failed relationship and inspiration from the return home. Recorded in various locations in St. Johns including an abandoned CBC building and an old farm house on the outskirts of the town, the resulting album is a rewarding one, a literate, poetic and captivating [...]
So goes the motto of Canadian indie label Six Shooter Records and who can argue when you listen to the three albums they have set for release over the next month or so, Amelia Curran "Hunter Hunter" gets a UK release on 6th Sept, Justin Rutledge "The Early Widows" on 27th Sept and Luke Doucet "Steel City Trawler" on the 4th October. Three very different albums all top quality and all worth some attention, all three artists are touring the UK in the autumn, check the dates here , all [...]
Halifax singer/songwriter Amelia Curran describes her craft as "expressing the inexpressible, a means of describing the indescribable," a skill that comes to good use on her latest album Hunter Hunter , released last year in Canada and now readied for a U.S. release September 21 (Six Shooter). As a document of a broken relationship, Curran's latest -- her fourth in six years -- was originally supposed to take just a few weeks. But after nearly two years of on-again-off-again writing and recording with producer Don Ellis, where she tossed out more than half of her songs and [...]
The second event I went on Canada Day was on Major's Hill Park. It was a CBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 taping for the Canada Day Song Circle with k-os , Julien Mineau of Malajube , Amelia Curran and Digawolf . Here are the photos from the show. Blog this on Blogger [...]
If you have been reading The Late Greats for a while, you know The Duke champions bands from Canada. So when news broke this week that one of my favorite music festivals - The Philadelphia Folk Fest - will be featuring a "Canada Stage", I got extra excited for the event (August 20-22). Slated to play said stage (on Sunday the 22nd) are: Treasa Levasseur If you like your blues piano with sultry vocals, you'll LOVE Treasa. [...]
Here is part 2 of who I or you should check out at NXNE in Toronto. So this will be Thursday night's event. It is going to be busy insane Thursday at NXNE. A hard decision to choose on who to see badly. Let's check out who will be playing. Found out that from Thursday to Sunday there is going to be a " Live in Bellwoods " picnic series at Trinity Bellwoods Park. It is present by The Musebox and Humble Empire. [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , You Oughta Know , Canada Amelia Curran 's nomination for solo Roots and Traditional Album of the Year makes her the only native Newfoundlander up for an award at the 2010 Juno Awards taking place in her St John's hometown. Learning she'd be returning to take part in the celebrations, Curran felt as though she's been caught up in the plot of a fairytale. "I didn't expect it at all and it kind of blows my mind. I feel a [...]
Thursday is here, so it's time once again to fire up our favorite semi-regular fourth-day feature: Video Hits. Last time out I talked about doing an all-female version of our clip show, but unfortunately I don't have enough content to make that happen. But I didn't want to wait, so I've hooked up an eclectic selection that closes with two strong women from out this way. Like any and all rap groups from their hometown of Edmonton, The Wheat Pool gets a hearty thumbs-up from the hill. Hauntario is full of good songs, [...]
Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the... Continue reading "Staff Trax: Sparklehorse, Priestess, Amelia Curran, and The Delfonics" >
East-coast singer-songwriter Amelia Curran performs songs from her new album, "Hunter Hunter," in this CD release concert.
Filed under: Canada With all the attention being paid to music coming out of Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, it's easy to miss the steadily increasing wealth of talent in Canada's Atlantic provinces. The recent nominations for the 2010 East Coast Music Awards prove the talent pool in the Maritimes grows ever deeper, with artists like rapper Classified, folk singer Jenn Grant and former Polaris Prize short-listers Two Hours Traffic and Joel Plaskett each earning multiple nods. Canadian-indie mainstay Plaskett leads the charge [...]
Sia - You've Changed (mp3) * New electro-pop ditty from Sia's upcoming album We Are Born , to be released in 2010. Pre-order @ Amazon (not yet available) *mp3 hosted by & posted w/ permission of artist's PR rep ******************* Luke Doucet - First Day (In The New Hometown) (mp3) * This is a song from Luke Doucet's latest album, Blood's Too Rich (click album title for my review). Buy @ [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , Northern Exposure , Canada Toronto indie label Six Shooter Records (home to Luke Doucet , Jenn Grant and Justin Rutledge , as well as Polaris Prize -nominees Elliott Brood ) has a knack for rooting out artists who carry on the Canadian troubadour tradition. Their latest discovery, East Coast singer-songwriter Amelia Curran , fits right in. With four albums already to her name, Curran's no stranger to Canadian roots-music fans, but her new release [...]
Welcome to my weekly roundup of inexpensive indie(ish) musical happenings in downtown Toronto, all for $10 or less. If I'm missing something you think I should list, or you have any comments, let me know. I star (*) shows that most interest me. Like this list? Join my Facebook group to get my weekly Toronto indie music listings. Subscribe to my weekly podcast (or download the episodes) here , or through iTunes . Or just listen to the latest [...]
We've said it a million times; Halifax is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to talented female song writers. It's a crime that Jenn Grant 's new record hasn't been deemed required listening, but with people like Rose Cousins , Jill Barber (we miss you here), Erin Costelo , Christina Martin and Ruth Minnikin running alongside her, it's almost understandable how she gets lost in the shuffle. But the most overlooked name, considering her talent, is Amelia Curran . The Haligonian resident by way of Newfoundland has [...]
Over the last few weeks, we've been trying to bring those interested some preview coverage of the '09 edition of the In The Dead of Winter Festival, which kicks off tomorrow night here in Halifax. Well, seeing as how the event is now upon us, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the marquee event of opening night: Al Tuck at the Rebecca Cohn. Not only will this show serve as a release celebration for Al's new record, Food for the Moon , but it's also being recorded by CBC Radio for its [...]
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