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THE TREWS SHARE BRAND NEW PANDEMIC ANTHEM “I WANNA PLAY”

April 16, 2021 by admin

(Toronto, ON – April 16, 2021) – It’s been over a year since the world came to a halt, and although things aren’t quite safe yet, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Today, The Trews released their pandemic anthem, “I Wanna Play,” an ode to what we’ve all felt since the beginning of lockdown, getting through all of Netflix and daydreaming of when we can all get back to doing what we love safely again with our friends and family. Watch the video here.

Filmed in Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre, the video has the band sneaking into the stadium to play some music together at center ice. On writing the track, the lead guitarist John-Angus MacDonald says, “What rhymes with Global Pandemic? … pathetic? prophetic? This is a song written and recorded for, during and about the strange, unusual and unprecedented time we all just lived through and the toll it took on our collective psyches. We Wanna Play!” While lead singer Colin MacDonald notes, “This is our song for the lonely in the strangest time in recent history. A musical longing for understanding, meaning and emotional release. It’s also just a really catchy and anthemic rock JAM that we’re all really excited about.”

Without touring, musicians have had to resort to new ways to engage fans and stay connected. The Trews have not been immune to the effects of canceled tours, and most recently, canceled live streams (their April 3rd Livestream show at The Horseshoe had to be rescheduled to May 8th, due to Ontario’s Stay-at-Home order). With that said, the band pivoted towards weekly Instagram Live sessions, as well as using the membership-based platform Patreon, which offers fans exclusive access to previously unreleased tracks, merch discounts, and content, including the first look at this video. Fans can sign up here.

Stay tuned for more from the band!

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WE WERE SHARKS RELEASE NEW SINGLE “OVER THIS”

April 9, 2021 by admin

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NEW ALBUM NEW LOW OUT MAY 21, 2021

(April 9, 2021 – Toronto, ON) – Recently, Ottawa’s We Were Sharks, officially announced the release of their new full length album, New Low, due out May 21, 2021 via Known Accomplice. Today, the band has released a new single “Over This,” which fans can stream now here.

“Over This” as well as previously released singles “Problems,” “Shameless,” and “Bring Me Down” all come off of the band’s highly anticipated record. Fans can pre-order New Low now here.

On New Low, lead vocalist Randy Frobel shares, “New Low is a collection of songs that we created that focuses on being down but not out. Since the release of Lost Touch, we’ve experienced many of life’s ups and downs. We’ve lost relationships, friends and family, and have gone through a lot of unexpected challenges that life has a tendency to throw at you when you least expect it. However, no matter what may have tried to keep us down or hold us back, we always take the hit and keep pushing forward.”

On the new single, guitarist Jason Mooney continues, “A lot of songs tell stories, but when we talked about what “Over This” was going to be about we decided to talk about a feeling or vibe rather than go the narrative route. We wanted to talk about the feeling you have when you find yourself in a place in life where you should be filled with joy, happiness, pride and essentially every positive feeling imaginable. Instead you feel lost with no sense of enthusiasm. Although you should appreciate the moments, you feel like you would rather be doing absolutely anything else and be anywhere else than where you are right now.”

Additionally, on April 30, 2021, We Were Sharks will be hosting “New Low: The Visual Album Experience” via Veeps. The experience will feature We Were Sharks performing New Low in its entirety almost a full month prior to the release of the album in the form of a visual album experience that includes live performance style videos of every song on the album, behind the scenes look from the music videos and the making of the documentary. The event will conclude with a live Q&A with the band. Tickets are available now via weweresharks.veeps.com.

We Were Sharks’ flippancy is a breath of fresh air in the face of a pop punk scene that’s very self-serious (and seriously lacking self). While many of their peers wax poetic about wearing their hearts on their sleeves, this Ottawa band wears their wit in their moniker; they literally were a band called Sharks until legalities threatened to stop the party.

But the party didn’t stop, as the band cheekily updated their name and carried on, and it continues on sophomore LP New Low. Irreverence inspires the lyrics, more a means to an end than some meaningful and profound proclamation that would position We Were Sharks as pop punk philosophers.

By swinging to both sides of pop punk, both the pop and rock edges, the band expanded their sound while shrinking from three guitars to two. It’s the kind of thing that will make the van a little roomier when touring returns. Similar to their sonic gains made since the release of Lost Touch, We Were Sharks were growing their draw with their first proper US experiences. That included a slot at punk rock mainstay The Fest and tours alongside fellow pop punk satellite acts like A Wilhelm Scream, Such Gold, Youth Fountain, Assuming We Survive, Boys of Fall.

Not like the added space would be a huge worry. With an album like New Low, We Were Sharks are ready to reach a new high — and that could include a Bandwagon, or even bus. The only thing holding them back is the reality of the world they’re rearing to take over.

New Low will be released May 21, 2021. For more information, please visit http://www.weweresharks.com/.

New Low Tracklisting

Shameless
Bring Me Down
Problems
Over This
New Low
Burning House
Ashley (Pt. 2)
Golden
Omens
Ready To Go

For press photos, please see here.
For high-res album art, please see here.
For official bio, please see here.

We Were Sharks is Randy Frobel (vocals), Jason Mooney (guitar), Colin Jacques (guitar), Matthew Sears (bass) and Will Plummer (drums).

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MOIST ANNOUNCE FULL-LENGTH “END OF THE OCEAN” OUT OCT. 1

April 2, 2021 by admin

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MOIST ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF FIRST NEW ALBUM SINCE 2014 – END OF THE OCEAN

OUT OCTOBER 1, 2021 VIA KNOWN ACCOMPLICE

LISTEN/WATCH TITLE TRACK NOW

(Toronto, ON – April 2, 2021) – Moist announce upcoming record, End of the Ocean, their first album release since 2014’s Glory Under Dangerous Skies, out October 1, 2021, via Known Accomplice. Fans can pre-order here! The band has also shared the title track alongside this stunning visual.

WATCH” END OF THE OCEAN”

The video is adapted from the film OFF WORLD (2009), which was directed by Mateo Guez, filmed on location at Smokey Mountain in the Philippines, and narrated by lead singer, David Usher. When the band was working on the creative for the video for “End of the Ocean”, a song which discusses peak consumption and its devastating results on the planet, Moist keyboardist, Kevin Young, referenced OFF WORLD, recalling how closely the film’s themes and imagery matched “End of the Ocean”. David quickly put an edit together and shared it with Mateo – who loved the video and the idea of these two elements coming together – and the emotionally charged and beautiful music video was born.

With “End of the Ocean” Moist take another biting and critical look at modern life, with a video that reflects on the end result of our disposable lifestyle and a song that reflects on how quickly technology in our culture is moving and the impact it has both on us and our planet.

Lead singer David Usher expands on the track and album’s theme: “I live in analogue, trained to trust in feeling. And I live in technology, in love with my new shiny objects. These days it feels like we’re constantly racing, dealing with an endless stream of data, our days stuffed with online meetings, and passwords, and Netflix, and unsocial media, and always more stuff – a material culture on speed.

The song “End of the Ocean” came from a dream, and that seeded the album. A place at the end, where we came tumbling out of the whirlwind, rolling ass over head – we looked up, and it all stopped. It was a place we could just sit and watch quietly as it all crashed down around us. There was nothing left to do but breathe it in and look to the ones we love.

Usher references the latest trend in technology, Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), reminding us of the often unforeseen, environmental consequences of our desire for something shiny and new, saying: “Can we just slow down on the love affair with the NFT’s, at least until we can make them climate-neutral? The greatest irony would be if artists and their art are the catalysts that lead the world to embrace a new unsustainable economy. Right now, until Ethereum switches its model from proof of work to proof of stake, NFT’s are the new oil business; a gold rush for people making money at the expense of the planet. The blockchain is definitely the future, but as the world accelerates we need to be constantly thinking about the ecosystems we’re building, and that they are sustainable.” For additional information please read more here and here.

“End of the Ocean” follows “Tarantino”, the album’s first single, which was released in late January with an accompanying video adapted from the National Film Board of Canada short, Caterpillarplasty and re-edited by director David Barlow-Krelina. The video, which has since racked up over 100k views on YouTube, is a powerful and sardonic take on society’s unrelenting obsession with beauty and perfection.

Produced and mixed by lead guitarist, Mark Makoway, End of the Ocean also features the band’s original bass player, Jeff Pearce (who rejoined Moist for their 2019 25th Silver Anniversary tour), as well as rhythm guitarist Jon Gallivan and drummer Francis Fillion.

Founded in 1993, Moist was propelled to prominence on the strength of their debut album, Silver, and the uniquely powerful alt-rock anthems “Push”, “Silver”, and “Believe Me”. Like Silver, the band’s follow up records – Creature (1996) and Mercedes Five and Dime (1999) – went on to achieve multi-platinum sales (over 1.3 million albums worldwide) and yielded more chart-topping hits including “Resurrection”, “Tangerine”, “Gasoline”, “Breathe”, and “Underground”.

End Of The Ocean
October 1, 2021
Pre-order Here

Tracklisting:
1. Ammunition
2. Dying for a Light In The Dark (We Are)
3. End Of The Ocean
4. Flesh and Bone
5. High On It
6. Party’s Over
7. Put The Devil On It
8. Tarantino (Bullet Kill Sex Love Thrill)
9. The Millions
10. Tip Of My Tongue

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WE WERE SHARKS ANNOUNCE ‘NEW LOW’ OUT MAY 21

March 4, 2021 by admin

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OTTAWA’S WE WERE SHARKS RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR “PROBLEMS”

ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM NEW LOW OUT MAY 21, 2021

(March 04, 2021 – Toronto, ON) – Ottawa pop-punk group We Were Sharks, have released a brand new single and video “Problems” – check it out here.

“Problems,” as well as previously released singles “Shameless” and “Bring Me Down” all come off of the band’s forthcoming album New Low, due out May 21, 2021 via Known Accomplice. Fans can pre-order the record here.

He continues on the new single, “‘Problems’ could be considered a typical song about a relationship. It’s about being with someone and passionately loving one another, being angry with one another, and overall, being stubborn. In the heat of the moment, we find ourselves saying things we never genuinely mean, and that’s where ‘problems’ can usually start. It’s not that the love between one another is gone, even when it sometimes feels like it; instead, it’s about needing to be heard.”

We Were Sharks’ flippancy is a breath of fresh air in the face of a pop-punk scene that’s very self-serious (and seriously lacking self). While many of their peers wax poetic about wearing their hearts on their sleeves, this Ottawa band wears their wit in their moniker; they literally were a band called Sharks until legalities threatened to stop the party.

By swinging to both sides of pop-punk, both the pop and rock edges, the band expanded their sound while shrinking from three guitars to two. It’s the kind of thing that will make the van a little roomier when touring returns. Similar to their sonic gains made since the release of Lost Touch, We Were Sharks were growing their draw with their first proper US experiences. That included a slot at punk rock mainstay The Fest and tours alongside fellow pop punk satellite acts like A Wilhelm Scream, Such Gold, Youth Fountain, Assuming We Survive, Boys of Fall.

New Low will be released May 21, 2021. For more information, please visit http://www.weweresharks.com/.

New Low Tracklisting

Shameless
Bring Me Down
Problems
Over This
New Low
Burning House
Ashley (Pt. 2)
Golden
Omens
Ready To Go

For press photos, please see here.
For high-res album art, please see here.
For official bio, please see here

We Were Sharks is Randy Frobel (vocals), Jason Mooney (guitar), Colin Jacques (guitar), Matthew Sears (bass) and Will Plummer (drums).

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MOIST RETURN WITH NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “TARANTINO”

January 29, 2021 by admin

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Photo Credit: Tania Lily / Jerry Abramowicz / Ryan L. Johnson

VISUALS ADAPTED FROM NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA ANIMATED SHORT CATERPILLARPLASTY DIRECTED BY DAVID BARLOW-KRELINA

WATCH “TARANTINO” HERE

(Toronto, ON – January 29, 2021) – Recorded remotely in lockdown by band members in their homes in Toronto and Montreal, and assembled and mixed by Moist guitarist and producer, Mark Makoway, “Tarantino” is Moist’s first new release since their 2014 album, Glory Under Dangerous Skies.

The song tells a story of a life of meaningless excess. Singer David Usher explains “The first lockdown sent me on a Quentin Tarantino binge and the song came out of a dream sparked by those images where we have lost all sense of ourselves – where there are no limits on our consumption and all we want is more. We deconstruct and reconstruct ourselves to fill an unfillable void and we just eat ourselves alive, and somehow, we still can’t wake up.”

The accompanying visual, adapted from the National Film Board of Canada short, Caterpillarplasty, is a grotesque sci-fi satire that lifts plastic surgery and trans-species body dysmorphia to another level. Re-edited for “Tarantino” by acclaimed director David Barlow-Krelina, the short film is a powerful and sardonic take on how society’s unrelenting obsession with beauty has spiraled out of control. This video will get under your skin.

Usher discovered the short film while perusing the internet after “Tarantino” was completed: “When I saw the long version of Caterpillarplasty it fit perfectly with the vision for the song. The endless desire to remodel and upgrade ourselves, hoping the remaking of our appearance will somehow solve our existential turmoil.”

“When David Usher first got in touch with me about making a Moist music video using footage from Caterpillarplasty, we started making connections between the film and his work in AI and with digital humans. I had initially conceived of the film in a way that relied heavily on music to set the emotional tone of the piece, so it was a great pleasure for me to reimagine the timing and the flow to an entirely different vibe.” – David Barlow-Krelina

Founded in 1993, Moist’s debut album, Silver, propelled the band to prominence with the uniquely powerful alt-rock anthems “Push”,” “Silver”, and “Believe Me”. Like Silver, Moist’s follow up records, – Creature (1996) and Mercedes Five and Dime (1999) – went on to achieve multi-platinum sales (over 1.3 million albums worldwide) and yielded more chart-topping hits including “Resurrection”, “Tangerine”, “Gasoline”, “Breathe”, and “Underground”. Moist also made its mark internationally: touring extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, and parts of Asia; appearing on the Top of The Pops in the UK; as musical guests on a pilot for a new show out of NYC called The Jon Stewart Show; and even being lampooned by Beavis and Butthead on MTV. The two-time JUNO Award winners also received numerous accolades for their music and their no-holds-barred approach to touring; and shared stages with international superstars such as Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hole, Green Day, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, as well as virtually all their Canadian contemporaries.

Catch Moist live November 2021 as part of the Saints and Sinners Tour – featuring alt-rock contemporaries The Tea Party, Headstones and Sloan. More details here.

STREAM “TARANTINO” HERE

Moist acknowledge and thank the National Film Board of Canada and David Barlow-Krelina for the exceptional use of Caterpillarplasty.

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More about David Barlow-Krelina:

Born in 1988 in Ottawa, David Barlow-Krelina graduated from Concordia University in film animation and computation arts. His first independent film Bless You (2013) was an online hit and screened at the OIAF, The Animation Show of Shows etc. Mixing classical animation and modern CGI to tell experimental narratives, David’s joy of animating is in the ability to create glimpses into new and unusual universes that function by their own unique logic.

For more about David Barlow-Krelina, please visit:

http://www.davidbk.com/
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Caterpillarplasty

Written and Directed by David Barlow-Krelina
Produced at the NFB by Jelena Popović. NFB Executive producer: Michael Fukushima
Fusing elements of Kafka and Kubrick, Caterpillarplasty is a prescient, grotesque sci-fi satire that lifts plastic surgery to another level.

EPK – https://mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/caterpillarplasty/
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlseTkThRfY
Vimeo – https://vimeo.com/362160902
NFB – https://www.nfb.ca/film/caterpillarplasty/

More About National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) produces groundbreaking animation at its studios in Montreal and at NFB centres across Canada, as well as via international co-productions with many of the world’s leading auteur animators. The NFB is a leader in developing new approaches to stereoscopic 3D animation and animated content for new platforms. The NFB has created over 13,000 productions and won over 7,000 awards, with NFB animation accounting for 7 of the NFB’s 12 Oscars, as well as 6 grand prizes at France’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival, 4 Palmes d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and 2 Golden Bears at Berlinale. To access this award-winning content and discover the work of NFB animators, visit NFB.ca, download its apps for mobile devices or visit NFB Pause.

More info: https://www.nfb.ca

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OTTAWA’S WE WERE SHARKS SHARE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO FOR “BRING ME DOWN”

January 15, 2021 by admin

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Bring Me Down, We Were Sharks

“With a wonderful combination of frantic guitars, rollicking drums and more than a handful of catchy as hell vocal refrains, it’s a short, sharp and rather savage slice of modern pop-punk majesty.”
– Rock Sound

(January 15, 2021 – Toronto, ON) – Ottawa pop-punk group We Were Sharks, have released a brand new single, “Bring Me Down” today via Known Accomplice. Give it a spin here, and watch the video now premiering on Rock Sound. “Bring Me Down” follows the release of the band’s previous single “Shameless.” Both come off a larger body of work due out later this year.

On the new single, guitarist Jason Mooney shares, “Bring Me Down” is about a toxic person who injects themselves into your life, they try to be overly genuine when it’s so clear that they have a hidden agenda. Sometimes, it can be tough facing a person and calling them out for how they’re actually seen. Sometimes that person doesn’t even realize the negative impact they’re having on someone and “Bring Me Down” pulls back the curtain, becomes the call-out and tells this person that the charade is over.”

Mooney further explains, “The idea behind the ‘Bring Me Down’ music video was to bring in the new year with some laughs and some lighthearted pokes at the overzealous evangelical ‘healing magic’ powers. We all have problems that are definitely not solved by a simple palm to the forehead or whip of a jacket to absolve you of your woes. We decided to take it a step further and create the music video such that I was the empowered worship leader/healer, magically healing everyone around me (confidently).

We decided to take it a few steps further for our pre-save and launch a whole gag website (https://www.letushealyou.today/) with all links directed to the pre-save within that models after a cheesy/ridiculous website that some of these magic healers would potentially have created for their own marketing. We literally pulled the ideas from some of these other sites, which in itself is absolutely hilarious (highly expensive monthly membership tiers, questionable testimonials from healed members, insanely high priced merchandise items and intangible items for sale, etc.).

In addition to the website, we also created a 1-888 number to really authenticate the experience (voicemail boxes from the band members, “dial 5 to..” etc.). Our mission with this all is to have a unique and engaging pre-save campaign that is both lighthearted and mysterious. Our target is to have our friends, other bands, press and outlets sharing the website and the toll free number in a comical and ominous way.”

Based in Ottawa and collecting members from the far reaches of Eastern Canada, We Were Sharks continue to wield the full-force of Canadian alternative music. Through a penchant for blending melodic harmony with powerful dissonance they continue to produce infectious music. Even though these boys already have a lot of mileage under their belts, their book is far from written.

“Bring Me Down” is out now. For more information, please visit http://www.weweresharks.com/.

We Were Sharks is Randy Frobel (vocals), Jason Mooney (guitar), Colin Jacques (guitar), Matthew Sears (bass) and Will Plummer (drums).

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OTTAWA’S WE WERE SHARKS SHARE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO FOR “SHAMELESS”

November 16, 2020 by admin

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(November 13, 2020 – Toronto, ON) – Ottawa pop-punk band, We Were Sharks, have released a brand new single and video for, “Shameless” today via Known Accomplice in Canada. Stream the single here and watch the brand new video here.

This is the latest music from the group since their acclaimed 2018 breakout LP Lost Touch. On the tune, lead vocalist Randy Frobel shares, “‘Shameless’ is a hard look at how this generation looks for instant gratification and how we are willing to do anything for a quick ‘like.’ ‘Shameless’ is about how people are willing to sell their souls for 15 minutes of fame.” The track is the first from an upcoming project due 2021 – stay tuned for more.

We Were Sharks’ flippancy is a breath of fresh air in the face of a pop punk scene that’s very self-serious (and seriously lacking self). While many of their peers wax poetic about wearing their hearts on their sleeves, this group Ottawa band wears their wit in their moniker; they literally were a band called Sharks until legalities threatened to stop the party.

Based in Ottawa and collecting members from the far reaches of Eastern Canada, We Were Sharks continue to wield the full-force of the North American pop-punk music scene. Through a penchant for blending melodic harmony with powerful dissonance they continue to produce infectious music. Even though these boys already have a lot of mileage under their belts, their book is far from written.

“Shameless” is out now. For more information, please visit http://www.weweresharks.com

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We Were Sharks is Randy Frobel (vocals), Jason Mooney (guitar), Colin Jacques (guitar), Matthew Sears (bass) and Will Plummer (drums).

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LIKE A MOTORCYCLE SHARE NEW SINGLE “SATAN DOES THE NUMBERS”

November 11, 2020 by admin

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(Toronto, ON – July 10, 2020) – Back with another punchy and hard-hitting track, Like A Motorcycle shares, anthem of depravity, “Satan Does The Numbers.” Watch the lyric video here.

About the song, the band says “‘Satan’ is a tune about all the nefarious fuckery that goes on in the seedy-after-hour underbelly of the music scene. It is about the (relatable) impulse to shift responsibility onto literally anything outside of yourself to keep the party going. Acting likeno one’s in control when you know damn well you’re in the driver’s seat about to floor yourself, and maybe all your pals, off that friggen cliff.”

Much like everyone, 2020 has been a different sort of year for musicians, and although this Halifax foursome have had to slow down on the touring front, they are in no way slowing down. “Satan Does The Numbers” follows fast on the heels of previous 2020 tracks “Wide Awake” and “Idols.” This track of unrelenting churning of guitars seeks to explain our nihilistic side, exploring what it means to ignore all signs of danger and knowingly charge headfirst into a situation fraught with pitfalls. “The night is young and we’re still able to put our money on the table. Satan’s been doing the numbers.”

To fill the hours, the band also made their foray into game shows (yes game shows!) with the YouTube show “The Rock n Roll Roundup” where they challenge other bands to compete in a head-to-head trivia contest. Episode One is out now, Episode Two coming soon! Stay tuned for MUCH more from them this year!

Like A Motorcycle is a melee attack with a soundtrack. They deliver poignant earworms for their fellow disenfranchised rejects; working minimum wage jobs while dodging five-figure debt. Since their 2016 debut High Hopes they’ve been tested by just about every obstacle imaginable: navigating substance abuse, internal break-ups, health issues, and a former record label that nearly tanked them – all while having nothing to their name except the band that’s kept them together. Like a Motorcycle is Michelle Skelding (drums, lead vocals), Kim Carson (bass, vocals), KT Lamond (guitar, vocals) and David Casey (guitar, vocals).

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SAM ROBERTS BAND RETURN WITH NEW SINGLE AND LYRIC VIDEO FOR “ASCENSION”

November 11, 2020 by admin

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(Toronto, ON – July 10, 2020) – It’s been almost four years since the critically acclaimed and JUNO-nominated album TerraForm was released, and today Sam Roberts Band return with their brand-new single “Ascension”.

Watch the lyric video here (Directed/Animated by Martin MacPherson)

“Ascension” is a call to action, very suited for the times we’re living in. It is a song to motivate and climb above the chaos that surrounds us. This glittering rock song is set to inspire. “We’ll take the fight to the underground. We’ll take this song to the sky!” The track was produced by Gus Van Go who said this about the track, “As a producer, I wanted to approach this song with a more “punk” approach than is usually used for Sam Robert Band’s recordings. It felt right to me that the song should have a certain rawness and energy reminiscent of some of those British post-punk bands of the late 70’s and early 80’s, like Buzzcocks and Gang Of Four.” “Ascension” is the first release on the Band’s own Secret Weapon label and licensed to Known Accomplice.

Sam Roberts Band are also gearing up for their first in-person concert of the year, performing as part of the Ottawa Bluesfest Drive-in concert series on August 1st. Tickets can be purchased here.

While it’s been a few years since the last Sam Roberts Band full-length album, that doesn’t mean Sam hasn’t been keeping busy. He, alongside Chris Murphy (Sloan), Menno Versteeg (Hollerado) and Dave Monks (Tokyo Police Club) joined forces to create Canadian indie supergroup Anyway Gang and released their self-titled debut album last year. The release earned a #1 spot on the Canadian Alternative Charts and the #1 Socan award for the track “Big Night” (written by Sam). Early in the pandemic, Sam and his kids, under the name “The Isolation Jubilation Sensation” created a performance of “We’re All In This Together” online to celebrate front line workers. Watch that here.

Sam Roberts Band continue to deliver on their legacy of hit singles to take over the airwaves. Known for their energetic live shows, this legendary band have earned spots performing everywhere from Letterman and Conan to Bonnaroo, ACL, Lollapalooza and Bumbershoot, and alongside such giants as the Rolling Stones and AC/DC.

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HALIFAX’S LIKE A MOTORCYCLE SHARE VIDEO FOR LATEST SINGLE “WIDE AWAKE”

November 11, 2020 by admin

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Idols, Known Accomplice, Like A Motorcycle, Wide Awake

(Toronto, ON – May 15, 2020) – Halifax foursome Like A Motorcycle recently announced their signing to Known Accomplice, Cadence Music’s rock imprint, and shared their first single on the label IDOLS.” Today they’re back with their heavy-hitting and punchy track “Wide Awake”. Filmed entirely in quarantine in guitarist KT’s apartment, the video is shot on a green screen. The video reflects a world that has drastically changed due to the current pandemic and shines a light on what might happen when people are not constrained by a daily routine designed for the benefit of capitalism but able to truly have the choice to live a life of their own design.

Check out the video HERE.

Reflecting on what the track digs into, Kim says, “Although ‘Wide Awake’ was written some time ago, its sentiment rings true now more than ever. ‘Wide Awake’ is about waking up between a past stained with unhealthy choices and a future of bleak dystopian uncertainty. Where do we go when leaving the past means potentially losing everything we’ve worked for? Can we break vicious cycles and bad habits without losing the people and things that comfort us? How does change and its uncertainty make us feel?

STREAM “WIDE AWAKE” HERE

Like A Motorcycle is a melee attack with a soundtrack. They deliver poignant earworms for their fellow disenfranchised rejects; working minimum wage jobs while dodging five-figure debt. Since their 2016 debut High Hopes they’ve been tested by just about every obstacle imaginable: navigating substance abuse, internal break-ups, health issues, and a former record label that nearly tanked them, all while having nothing to their name except the band that’s kept them together. Like a Motorcycle is Michelle Skelding (drums, lead vocals), Kim Carson (bass, vocals), KT Lamond (guitar, vocals) and David Casey (guitar, vocals). Stay tuned for much more from LAM this year.

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