by Laura Feeney One of my most anticipated performances in the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival line-up was British Columbia’s Said the Whale. I’ve been hoping to catch them live ever since I discovered their music on Ride the Tempo in 2010. With Said the Whale being one of the three Canadian groups taking the Barrack’s stage on Saturday, I decided to check out the whole line-up. Shaun LeBlanc [Photo: Scott Greer] The Festival’s Galaxie Rising Star Competition winner, Shaun LeBlanc of [...]
by Laura Feeney One of my most anticipated performances in the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival line-up was British Columbia’s Said the Whale. I’ve been hoping to catch them live ever since I discovered their music on Ride the Tempo in 2010. With Said the Whale being one of the three Canadian groups taking the Barrack’s stage on Saturday, I decided to check out the whole line-up. Shaun LeBlanc [Photo: Scott Greer] The Festival’s Galaxie Rising Star Competition winner, Shaun LeBlanc of [...]
by ellefeeney The end of the in Fredericton summer is sweetened by the anticipation of one of the finest Music Festivals on the East Coast - the Harvest Jazz and Blues. This is the largest annual music festival in Atlantic Canada, featuring an impressive 150 performances (35% of which feature New Brunswick's own musicians) on 26 stages (including 4 completely free venues). I'll be covering the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival as only a Maritimer can - starting with this list of 1 0 [...]
The bar was open and the drinks were flowing Monday night at The Mod Club for for the first night of the annual Festival Music House . Servers worked their way through a crowd of entertainment and movie industry professionals loaded with trays of bacon-stuffed hamburger sliders, sake-soaked gravlax and some sort of fried cheese thing that smelled delicious but I couldn't quite bring myself to try. After the audience had a few minutes alone with the bar and the hors d'oeuvres, Ottawa's Jeremy Fisher got onstage to kick off the evening. [...]
You may not be familiar with the name Jon Samuel , but if you are a fan of Canadian independent music, you're likely familiar with the band he plays in: Wintersleep . The multi-instrumentalist Samuel releases his solo debut, First Transmission , on August 28th. The album is a collection of elaborate, yet laid back songs, the kind of thing you would expect from a musician who seems to enjoy dabbling with sounds at his own pace. That comes through from the get-go with the relaxed, thoughtful and melodic title track. [...]
Zuzana Hudackova It's shaping up to be an Autumn of Can-rock double bills high on value. Folks thought that it was a pretty impressive pairing of talent when it was announced last month that Dan Mangan and The Rural Alberta Advantage were teaming up to cross the country in October, or the June announcement that Metric and Stars were hitting the country's arenas together, but that were just the first of a number of impressive double-bills looking to share driving duties across Canada this Fall. [...]
You may, if you've been paying attention, noted a proliferation of electro pop leaning music being featured on these pages lately. I noted the trend when I posted about Kashka last week, that it's just been the musical mood I've been in lately, a penchant for something summery, poppy, and mostly fun. Those descriptors aren't isolated to electronic music, though, as Jon Samuel has pointed out to me. Samuel spends his days as Wintersleep 's keyboardist/guitarist and by nights he's been working on his first solo album, First Transmission , due out on August 28. The [...]
In support of their forthcoming new album, Hello Hum , Wintersleep have announced details of a UK tour. The Canadian band will kick off their tour on October 2nd at London's Bush Hall, and end up in Manchester on October 7th. October 2012 2nd London Bush Hall 3rd Birmingham Hare & Hounds (venue 2) 4th Glasgow Nice N Sleazy's 5th Dublin Academy 2 6th Belfast Limelight 7th Manchester Deaf Institute [...]
Halifax's Wintersleep have had a very successful career so far, capped by a Juno Award win. Now the band's Jon Samuel is ready to step out on his own for a bit. Samuel will release his debut solo album First Transmission on August 28th. Listen to the title track here: Continue reading »
If you had to summarize the sound of Hello Hum , imagine if Broken Social Scene wound up getting fused at the hip of the New Pornographers. Halifax's Wintersleep is a band that seemingly doesn't exactly have a super-high profile in their home country of Canada. Though they are distributed through a major label (Capitol/EMI), you generally don't hear people talking about them in the same way you would a Metric, an Arcade Fire or a Broken Social Scene. (Which is odd, considering that 2010's New Inheritors did go to No. 12 on the Canadian Albums Chart.) Well, [...]
Oh, you know...just a few songs to get you through the next day or so. Free mp3: Night Panther - Snudge Download: night-panther-snudge.mp3 Free mp3: The xx [...]
Filed under: Video of the Day Artist : Wintersleep Video: "In Came the Flood" Highlight: Wintersleep invite you to "come to your senses" as you glide through the pulsing lights of their performance. Watch Wintersleep's "In Came the Flood" Video
Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music Facebook When Halifax, Nova Scotia rockers Wintersleep decided to stream their new record, Hello Hum , on an online chat room prior to its release, they were both excited and skeptical. "We were afraid that we were going to get a bunch of goons talking shit the whole time," guitarist Tim D'eon tells Spinner. "But it turned out great." Admittedly, [...]
Wintersleep Wintersleep has released a live video for "Resuscitate" recorded at Audiotree in Chicago. Watch the video in this post. The Canadian band's album, Hello Hum , is out now.
Como lo prometimos, aquí está nuestro mixtape post-Rock al Parque. Sin mucho post-rock, pero con mucha gente conocida. Alguna enfermedad que nos pegaron los piojosos en "el festival gratuito y al aire libre más grande de latinoamérica" nos impidió colgarlo cuando era debido. Lo barato sale caro. Y lo gratis, pior. Sin contar nuestros mixtape, claro. Pero entremos en materia. Arrancamos con una gente que nadie conoce, pero continuamos con una tripleta conducida por nuestros favoritos The Orwells , seguidos por ese clásico pro-cocacolo de Lenguas Largas y empatando con los ibéricos [...]
A Quick Word from the Author: As I mentioned in week 25, EARMILK is currently in the gradual and delicate process of refining our features, aiming to provide more than just lists of tracks, but solid editorials. A big part of this process is creating a feature that tailors to you, the fans, and your needs. We've implemented some more changes to the Sabbath, mainly categorizing the sets by the 'feel' of the music, if you will, as well as implementing a few more visuals and tracking back to the Straight From the Teet features. In [...]
One could hardly conjure a less appropriate way to spend his/her Summer solstice-evening than with a band from Canada called Wintersleep. But those who did were treated to an evening of warm spirits and sounds from our neighbors to the North. Wintersleep is a Juno-award winning 5 piece that formed in 2001. 2012 marks the release of their fifth record Hello Hum , which has enjoyed a mostly positive reception. The record is a surprisingly synth-heavy, epic affair that evokes the powerful crescendos of post-rock, while simltaneously maintaining a danceable, often upbeat rhythm. In a [...]
Just when you feel like all musical acts and bands seem hopeless, underrated bands like Wintersleep come along and reevaluate your previous assumption. Canadian indie rock band, Wintersleep, formed in 2001, where music was—and still is—predominately teen pop, dance pop and bubblegum pop. The fact that this band as well as other rock and indie rock bands can survive in this bubbly musical era is a feat on its own. Their fifth studio album, Hello Hum , exemplifies the use of vocal harmony and major key tonality. There is no noticeable [...]
I'd really like to say different, but Wintersleep's Hello Hum is just kinda boring. Roll Call Records, 2012 5.6 / 10.0 Nova Scotia's Wintersleep formed in 2001. Initially, they were part of the Nova Scotia label and artists' collective Dependent Music, which released their first two albums, [...]
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