EXCUSES EXCUSES SHARE “LISTEN UP!”
EXCUSES EXCUSES RELEASE NEW SINGLE “LISTEN UP!
(April 1, 2022) – Ontario rock trio Excuses Excuses follow up their debut track “Far From Perfect” with the commanding new single “Listen Up!” From its opening lines “Listen up, listen in. (Don’t stop fighting.) We can win if we believe we can” this powerful and anthemic track resonates with a message of inner strength and resilience.
One of the first songs the band wrote during the pandemic, “Listen Up!” is about being resilient and not giving up on yourself. About the track lead singer, Kyle Wilton shares: “Listen Up! is our anthem for the lost and broken. No matter how alone we may feel or how low we may be, this song is our reminder that the fire in our bones is always there to guide us through to a brighter light.”
Packed with raw passion, energy, and a hint of grit; the trio, comprised of guitarist/vocalist Kyle Wilton, bassist Trevor Bowman and drummer Jason Nicoll, is driven to empower millennials to find strength in self-expression and individualism, and encourages people to live their lives to the fullest potential in our restrictive, modern society. The band has developed their positive anthem rock akin to peers such as PUP, The Flatliners, and The Dirty Nil, while taking notes from all of your favourite stadium rock bands like Green Day, Billy Talent, & My Chemical Romance.
TOUR DATES
April 26th – The El Mocambo – Toronto, ON – Get Tickets Here
May 13th – Maxwell’s Concerts & Events – Waterloo, ON** Get Tickets Here
May 14th – The Mansion – Kingston, ON** Get Tickets Here
**w/ The Standstills
More about Excuses Excuses:
Rock and roll: young hearts, alive, wild, and free, under the lights of a club stage, in front of decibel-bending amplifiers, behind a wall of shaking fists and shouting friends, conjuring the spirits, cleansing with fire. Like an untamed and ferocious animal, you can feel and hear it all wash over you like waves from your place in the crowd. It is here that Excuses Excuses are most at home.
Unlike some of their contemporaries however, Excuses Excuses don’t rely on just their energetic spirit alone: Excuses Excuses expertly pairs their unconfined, youthful energy with a pop sensibility and a focused sense of attention to the most subtle details of meticulously catchy songwriting.
“I was always very attracted to high energy music, and that started with Sabbath,” recalls singer and guitarist Kyle Wilton, reminiscing of rifling through a dusty record collection, the spirit of rock and roll at his fingertips, right there for the taking. “But all of our songs really mean something very specific, and although we want people to interpret them however it makes sense to them, you’ve got to communicate those emotions in a way that people are going to feel.”
Excuses Excuses come armed with a lawless desire to make a true believer out of everyone—and that means everyone—in the room with their jaw-dropping intensity and melody-heavy songs. From the veteran jaded rocker in the front, to the fading bartender claiming to have “seen it all,” to the star-crossed lovers soon to meet in the front row: all are tender prey, fair game, and converts in the making. “That’s where we live, on the road. That’s the best way to express our music,” Wilton admits earnestly. “The emotion is so much more and speaks a whole new volume to the story when somebody can perform it to you as opposed to you just listening to it. That’s the best way for us to communicate our songs to the world, is to show them.”
Rock and roll is a weapon, a promise, an energy, and it captivates and inspires, pulling us within the fiery whirlpool of its deadly spell. Carrying that torch into a new era of young, sweaty, and overdriven rock and rollers, yet standing apart from those that have come before them.