Song: "The Reasons" Artist: The Weakerthans Year: 2003 Album: Reconstruction Site Download The Weakerthans - "The Reasons".mp3 How I don't know how to sing I can barely play this thing But you never seem to mind And you tell me to fuck off When I need somebody to. How you make me laugh so hard. How whole years refuse [...]
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John K Samsons neues Solo-Album «Provincial» ist der Soundtrack für die Rückkehr in die Heimat zwischen Verdruss und Nostalgie. Ein Nachhauseweg, der gut tut, schmerzt und an Vergessenes erinnert. Zuletzt hatte Samson 1993, damals noch Mitglied der Politpunk-Band Propagandhi, ein Solo-Album veröffentlicht. Das rockig jugendliche «Slips And Tangles» vertickte er nach seinen Konzerten in seiner kanadischen Heimat Winnipeg. Danach kamen The Weakerthans und mit ihnen der Erfolg. Vier Langspielalben, unzählige Konzerte, jetzt auch ein Dokumentarfilm. Hauptschlagader der Band sind und waren jedoch schon immer Samsons sensible [...]
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Tweet If there is one man whose songwriting truly embodies the spirit of humanity, it's John K. Samson . He first made his name in the activist punk-rock band Propagandhi, then started his own band, The Weakerthans, one of my personal favorites. He's made a career writing songs that take the mundane and melancholy and turn them into beautiful, truthful statements about society and humanity in general. We've been waiting with bated breath for five years (that seems like such a long [...]
Many albums have a biographical feel, but few are imbued with as vivid a sense of both time and place as Provincial , the debut longplayer from John K. Samson (January 24, ANTI-). Best known as the founder, frontman and songsmith for critically lauded indie band The Weakerthans, Samson drifts from rough hewn folk to loose, rough and tumble alt/rock, transforming and fleshing out songs from a pair of earlier EP's while adding a handful of new tracks. Songs such as the prairie anthem "Highway One West" and punk gloried "When I Write [...]
In case you don't live here, or haven't seen us being made fun of in the international media: it's been a snowy week in Seattle. The hilly roads have been swooping lines of pure white; the line of firs in my backyard still droop elegantly under the load of their slowly-melting coat. It's been the [...]
Photograph by Jason Halstead Provincial is John K. Samson's first full-length solo album. Collecting re-recorded versions of songs from his previously released EPs City Route 85 and Provincial Road 222 , along with a few extras, the Weakerthans' frontman finds himself able to explore a bit musically and indulge in a bit of weirdness. Not that anything here would be particularly out of place on a Weakerthans album, but the subject matter is certainly more varied, and as a whole the album is more subdued. Most noticeable is [...]
Photograph by Jason Halstead Provincial is John K. Samson's first full-length solo album. Collecting re-recorded versions of songs from his previously released EPs City Route 85 and Provincial Road 222 , along with a few extras, the Weakerthans' frontman finds himself able to explore a bit musically and indulge in a bit of weirdness. Not that anything here would be particularly out of place on a Weakerthans album, but the subject matter is certainly more varied, and as a whole the album is more subdued. Most noticeable is [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music , New Releases ANTI- It's hard to imagine Bruce Springsteen being from anywhere other than New Jersey, and in much the same way, John K. Samson 's affiliation with his home province of Manitoba has become the stuff of CanRock legend. As frontman for the Weakerthans since the band's formation in 1997, Samson's lyrics have often exposed harsh truths about life in and [...]
John K. Samson is the frontman for the Winnipeg folk-rock band the Weakerthans, and he was also in Propagandhi, which means he has punk rock cred for life. Provincial , his first solo album, is out later this month. And below, listen to a track from that album, the prettily still "Letter In Icelandic From The Ninette San." Read More...
I board a plane early this morning to Portland, Oregon, for the first of six short-term graduate school residencies I'll be completing in two-week chunks over the next couple of years, contributing to a shiny Master's degree in Intercultural Relations. This new song from John K. Samson (The Weakerthans) is just about the most perfect soundtrack for the precipice I stand on that I can think of. John K. Samson - When I Write My Master's Thesis by [...]
Today Exclaim debuted the first single from the debut album from Weakerthans ' frontman John K. Samson. You can hear the track, "Letter In Icelandic from the Ninette San" here . The album, Provincial , comes out on January 24th. John K. Samson plays The Great Hall in Toronto on March 22nd.
1. The same new Japandroids album I talked about last year. 2. A full-length from Victoria's Hawk & Steel. No release date yet, but frontman Peter Gardner reports they're recording fifteen songs in January. 3. Provincial, the debut solo full-length from Weakerthans vocalist John K. Samson, out January 24. (Pre-order here.) And in February Samson will [...]
A few days ago I wrote a post about a track called Boeing 737 by The Low Anthem. In the lyrics of that song The Low Anthem intertwines the tragedy of the World Trade Center terrorist attack with hanging out in a bar with Philippe Petit (the man who strung a high wire between the twin towers). In that track there is a certain beauty found in what is ultimately a melancholy and utterly tragic experience. It takes a unique talent to capture the bittersweet emotions of certain events and forge from that fire something beautiful and worthy. [...]
I've never exactly been a massive fan of the Weakerthans , but the upcoming John K. Samson album, Provincial , is sounding pretty great. Just listen to the excellent first single "When I Write My Master's Thesis," which blends a gritty rock arrangement with heartbreaking lyrical details about playing video games and how much graduate school sucks. I've thought periodically about going back to school to do a master's degree in journalism, and this is making it sound like a pretty bad idea. I've written about Samson's album for Exclaim! [...]
photos by Amanda Hatfield words by Andrew Sacher When The Weakerthans walked on stage at the sold out Bowery Ballroom Friday night (12/9) to play their 2003 album, Reconstruction Site , you could see the appreciation of the crowd's enthusiasm on John K. Samson's face before he even picked up his guitar. And from the first chord of album opener "(Manifest)," it was obvious that the band were going to feed off of that enthusiasm for [...]
photos by Kurt Christensen The Weakerthans @ Bowery Ballroom - night 1 The Weakerthans played their first of four shows at Bowery Ballroom last night (12/7). Last night's featured album was "Fallow" which they played in its entirety like they did in San Francisco.... "There were only a number of times when the crowd wasn't singing along with John K Samson who came out in a plaid shirt [...]
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Billed as the "Four & More" tour, Winnipeg's the Weakerthans set up residency at the Independent for a sold-out four-night stretch of dates, each a celebration of a different full length from their modestly-sized but venerable discography. The album show, if it is common enough to be known as such, is a peculiar kind of palimpsest. Original, recorded material is inevitably written over with individual experience and sentiment. At a typical show, however, songs range across the entire breadth of an artist's catalogue, usually with an emphasis on the more recent, and the listener's connections to the music range similarly. [...]
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As the holidays quickly approach, the number of shows in this fine city will dramatically decrease. Sure seems like someone forgot to tell that to the various bookers across the city. Catch Hooray For Earth , Lana Del Ray , The Antlers , Clap Your Hands Say Yeah , four straight nights of The Weakerthans , plus much more. Enjoy the music folks. The Antlers , Suuns @ Webster Hall ( Tickets ) [...]
Said the Whale is opening up for fellow Canadian music brethren in arms The Weakerthans and need some gear!
Weakerthans frontman (and ex-Propagandhi bassist) John K. Samson is releasing his first proper full length solo album, Provincial , on January 24 via Epitaph (eight years after his 15 song demo Slips and Tangles was released). The album will feature re-recorded material from his two most recent EPs, City Route 85 and Provincial Road 22 , and some new stuff as well. According to a press release, " Provincial travels four routes woven into the prairie landscape of Manitoba, the Canadian province where [...]
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