Catch This: SummerWorks Music Series 2012
As with every year, the SummerWorks Performance Festival always boasts quite a sweet line up of musical acts and this year is no different. Taking place from August 9 – 19, the arts festival has booked some of our favourite local acts, some with intriguing art collaborations as well. Take a look at the full line up below:
Watch: Purity Ring – “Belispeak”
Canadian electro-pop duo Purity Ring is still a relatively young band but since forming less than two years ago, they’ve signed to 4AD Records, collaborated with fellow Canadian dream-pop band Braids and are about to embark on a tour this summer with The Dirty Projectors. Their new album, Shrines, comes out July 24. Here’s a new video for their single “Belispeak”; watch below:
Catch Purity Ring at Wrongbar on June 14, as part of NXNE.
Watch: Patrick Watson on Tiny Desk Concerts
For those who missed out on Patrick Watson’s show at the Danforth Music Hall on Tuesday, you have two options: catch him at Massey Hall on Dec. 6 with The Barr Brothers or watch the following clip of the Montreal band performing on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts. One requires some waiting while the other is a click away. Choice is yours.
Read my review of Tuesday night’s show at The National Post!
Listen: Stream Metric’s Synthetica online now
Can’t wait until June 12th to listen to the new Metric album? Well you’re in luck – the band is currently hosting a hide & seek game on their website which will lead to an early stream of their latest album. Synthetica is the follow-up to 2009′s Fantasies and for those in Toronto, Metric will be performing a live session for 102.1 The Edge at Sugar Beach on Monday, June 11th at 8PM. Oh, and it’s free! Free Metric for everyone!
Click HERE to play “Synthetica Hide & Seek”, in order to find the early stream of the album.
Listen: Paradise Animals cover Bonnie Prince Billy
Toronto four-piece Paradise Animals recently covered Bonnie Prince Billy’s “Wolf Among Wolves”, giving a nod to one of the band’s main folk influences while infusing their own spin of electronic ambience to the track. The band, now complete with new drummer Morgan Doctor (The Cliks, Andy Kim, Bob Wiseman), will be performing at this year’s NXNE at the Young Lions Music Club showcase (at the El Mocambo on June 15th) alongside Teenage Kicks, Paper Lions, Dwayne Gretzky and more.
Listen to “Wolf Among Wolves” below:
Listen: Stream the new Japandroids album
Stereogum has already named Japandroids’ Celebration Rock the fourth best album of the year (so far) and many people have named lead single, “The House That Heaven Built” one of the songs of the summer so for those dying to hear the Vancouver duo’s new album, NPR is currently streaming the whole thing online.
Click HERE to listen to Celebration Rock (out June 5) and catch them live at the Horseshoe on June 23!
The Singing Lamb shot this video of “Fire’s Highway” live at POP Montreal last September:
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