Steve Gunn and the Way Out Band have begun their May mini-tour supporting the great Wilco, which will be followed by a long European tour through August. Plus, Jake Xerxes Fussell plays Union Pool on May 6 (check out some videos of him performing with pal and producer William Tyler.)
The Weather Station will be hitting the road in Canada and the United States this Spring and Summer, in both solo and full band incarnations. Tamara is one of the most transfixing performers we know. Don’t miss it!
The Line of Best Fit has premiered “Tapes,” one of our sentimental favorites on The Weather Station’s Loyalty: “A moving, melancholic though magnificent piece of work.” Many thanks also to Uncut for their beautiful lead review of Loyalty: “There are many wise, deceptively simple insights on this wonderful album.”
Many thanks to The Fader for premiering “Shy Women,” another stunning song from Loyalty, the forthcoming album by The Weather Station, which The Fader calls “the best folk album of the year.” Stream and pre-order herein. Also, TWS has just announced that they’ll be playing this year’s Pickathon Festival.
Nova Scotia’s Nap Eyes is the greatest band you’ve never heard, and Whine of the Mystic is their first full-length album, a brilliant small-batch brew of crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, it’s equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA and the Earth’s magnetic field coexist easily with songs about insomnia and drinking too much.
Many thanks to Stereogum for premiering “Whiskey” from our upcoming reissue of Kenny Knight’s Crossroads, one of our very favorite songs on an album of indelible songs. This jittery head-nodder touches on some heavy darkness: an alcoholic’s lament about childhood drinking, drunk driving, a constant fear of death, and almost shitting your pants (seriously, it’s dark.)
Due to popular demand, our PoB High Roller t-shirts are back in stock and ready to ship. We’re also thrilled to announce that, effective March 31, Paradise of Bachelors will be distributed exclusively worldwide by the fine folks at Secretly Canadian Distribution. Pre-orders are still rolling for our two May 12 releases–our first in collaboration with SCD–The Weather Station’s Loyalty and Kenny Knight’s Crossroads.
Paste has premiered a video for Steve Gunn’s gorgeous “Wildwood,” from Way Out Weather. Appropriately for a song inspired by the eponymous New Jersey beach town, director Dan Murphy shot the video in Wildwood in the dead of winter, when the boardwalk was deserted and gray ice floes littered the empty beach. Full Gunn tour dates, plus a special announcement follow herein.
Prepare thyselves to break Spring, Spring Breakers. Check out these upcoming dates with Steve Gunn (with Wilco), The Weather Station (with Great Lake Swimmers), Promised Land Sound (with Alabama Shakes), Nathan Bowles (with Steve Gunn), and Jake Xerxes Fussell (with William Tyler.)
The third and finest album yet by Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman, recorded in France with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), Loyalty crystallizes her lapidary songcraft into eleven emotionally charged vignettes and intimate portraits. Pre-order now and get an immediate download of “Way It Is, Way It Could Be,” as premiered by Stereogum and Q on CBC Radio.
