The Martha of Martha & the Muffins , Martha Johnson , has decided that thirty years is long enough to wait. She's releasing her debut solo album, SOLO • ONE on June 26th. Watch the video for "See Saw Eyes" (co-written by Ron Sexsmith ) here: Martha Johnson plays an album release show at The Rivoli in Toronto on June 25th.
Ron Sexsmith's 2013 album, Forever Endeavour BY JORDAN MAINZER With a name like Sexsmith, how can you not be noticed? Singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith has existed just outside of the popular singer-songwriter circle for virtually his entire career. As trends came and went, Sexsmith relentlessly produced Seventies-ish schmaltzy, Davies, Newman, and Nilsson-like pop songs at a remarkably consistent pace and of remarkably consistent quality, perhaps only bested by someone like Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard. From 20022s excellent (and perhaps career best) Cobblestone Runway to his most recent effort, [...]
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Reunited with Mitchell Froom, the songsmith Sexsmith produces another beguiling release. "I'm a 35-year-old guy from Canada and I don't write groove-oriented music. I can't expect too much," Ron Sexsmith was quoted as saying in 1999, when quizzed on the commercial prospects and potential of his work. Well, Sexsmith is now a 49-year-old guy from Canada who's still not writing groove-oriented music but who's nonetheless proved to be an enduring artist: critically feted, often covered, though not, as he sagely predicted, a household name. That position...
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ARTIST: The SWAG Report 132 with freebie mp3s by artists including They Might Be Giants, Tricky, The Cannanes, Awolnation, Billy Bragg, Amanda Palmer, CocoRosie, Ron Sexsmith, Mother Mother, Social Studies, The View and more! So much more! DATE: 03-06-13 WRITER: Don Loder Heya junky, Awright, so, apparently i's a holiday – didja know? They tell me thit half the music business is outta town an' shmoozin' down in Texas at South By Southwest. They tell me thit every publicist thit could afford it [...]
Ron Sexsmith is in a difficult spot: Despite his well-structured pop songs and praise from the likes of Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney, his music has been confined to critical darling status. It's a shame, because Sexsmith's music comprises orchestral, Brian Wilson-esque love odes at times, and at others, contemplative, Sea Change- era Beck tunes. His newest album, Forever Endeavour , fuses those elements into an album of tightly-packed pop goodness. Sexsmith is at his best when he doesn't try to do too much. Songs like the jaunty “Nowhere Is” and the slow-rolling “Lost in [...]
Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith is revered among the cognoscenti and rightly so. Forever Endeavour is his 13th album and the first to feature orchestrated stings and woodwinds. Sexmith has demoed the songs for his new album when he ran into producer Mitchell Froom who convinced him to go for a richer sound. Froom had produced four his previous albums and they hit it off immediately, recording at Froom's Santa Monica studio. The new approach could have ruined the intimacy of his songs, but the added instrumentation is an enhancement of the emotions that are flowing through [...]
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by Tiana Feng Rating: Release Date: February 5th, 2013 Label: Warner Ron Sexsmith delved into pop territory with Bob Rock (producer of Aerosmith, Metallica) in 20112s Long Player Late Bloomer . While it was an okay album, it was forgettable and lost some of that Sexsmith charm. It was missing honesty and the [...]
The first time I heard Ron Sexsmith 's " These Days " (about a decade ago), I was tucked away in the back room and of a not-to-be-named medical software company. The song (a bit of a departure from his previous works apparently) hit me like a breath of fresh air flowing through the plain manilla air ducting located directly right above my head. Compared to what I was hearing most of the time back then, the stylings of the songs on Cobblestone Runway coupled with Sexsmith's casual way [...]
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Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music , New Releases Ron Sexsmith Facebook In 2011, Ron Sexsmith raised more than a few eyebrows with Long Player Late Bloomer , a bombastic Bob Rock -produced pop album that put a critical darling into commercial consciousness. Nominated for both the Polaris Music Prize and a Juno, it was a breakthrough album for Sexsmith. The singer/songwriter could have played it safe [...]
IT SOUNDS like songsmith Ron Sexsmith's latest effort, Forever Endeavour, was a labour of love - he really should shout about it. Because the folky Canadian singer songwriter's new album is a bittersweet sounding collection, relaying tales of mortality and of love lost, but not in a melodramatic way. Now Sexsmith's songs are all well-crafted, stripped down, full of clever wordplay and delicate musical ornamentation. The problem here is that because of this soft approach, he rarely grabs the listener's attention - this is highlighted by the few songs where he does, such as adding the New [...]
Ten post-Winter blues remedies at the ready... This easily could have been a Top 20 but alas it's called the "Top 10 Dublin gigs for February" post. Rules be rules. 1. Quarter Inch Collective compilation launch Girl Band, Spilly Walker, Cloud Castle Lake and more in When?: Friday, 1st February Where?: The Workman's Club How much?: €10 [...]
Midweek madness: ► The Who's "Quadrophenia and More" tour visits the Staples Center. How is the legendary U.K. band doing these days? Here's what Monday's show at the Honda Center was like . ► With a new album ready to go, LA Font headlines the Satellite on a night that features Hindu Pirates and Thorcraft Cobra. ► And Dead Sara teams up with the likes of Warner Drive, Future Villains, Gundpowder Secrets, Diamonds Under Fire and S.K.A.T.T. at the Ritapalooza benefit for the Rita Fiora Foundation at [...]
Incoming: Local Natives, Niki & the Dove, the Who, Lisa Loeb, Ron Sexsmith, Two Gallants, Dead Sara, Jon Foreman, Sound City Players, Meiko, Tristan Prettyman, Tegan and Sara, the Gaslamp Killer, the Happy Hollows, Vieux Farka Touré, the Bronx, Radar Brothers, Branford Marsalis, Augustana, Benjamin Francis Leftwich Above: Tegan and Sera return this week with the seventh full-length album, "Heartthrob." That's the video for the first single, "Closer" (co-written by Greg Kurstin), above, and the Quin sisters headline Club Nokia on Friday night, supported by Night Terrors of 1927. [...]
Puede que no hayamos hablado mucho sobre Ron Sexsmith , un cantante canadiense que ya lleva varios discos en su haber. Pero la realidad es que es un artista a tener en cuenta, con algunas canciones excelentes –y, en su momento, una colaboración con Chris Martin, el frontman de Coldplay, cuando no era tan excéntrico, por así decirlo-. Ahora, Sexsmith está trabajando en un nuevo disco que verá la luz el año que viene, llamado Forever Endeavour , con fecha de lanzamiento el 5 de febrero a través [...]
Yesterday, Dermot O'Leary (pictured above in a turtleneck, naturally) had four lovely singing ladies, dubbed his "Choir of Angels", to spread the holiday cheers on his last radio show before Christmas. Rumer, Ren Harvieu, Emily Baker and Kristina Train (a Radio 2 super girl group right there) joined the host for a chat, then each offered their take on a holiday classic. Disney-noir songstress Ren Harvieu picked Joni Mitchell's not-so-cheery "River" , which she pulled it off beautifully. MP3: Ren Harvieu - River (Joni Mitchell Cover) [...]
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