SAM CASH & THE ROMANTIC DOGS PREMIERE VIDEO FOR "(YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN"

August 24, 2016

SAM CASH & THE ROMANTIC DOGS PREMIERE VIDEO FOR "(YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN"

TONGUE-IN-CHEEK VOWS OUT NOW VIA CAMERON HOUSE RECORDS

“an album for long summer drives down wide open highways, with the windows cranked all the way down” Exclaim!

“a set of crisp, smartly crafted power-pop flecked with Costello-style new wave” Sun Media

“El Camino guitar crunch … a killer shot of last-call Americana” The Georgia Straight

“catchy hooks and clever lyrics” VUE Weekly

“World class” Beatroute

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After a summer full of shows to the east coast and back with the likes of July Talk, Zeus, Sam Roberts, Arkells and more, Sam Cash & The Romantic Dogs are returning to The Horseshoe Tavern on September 9 with Ferraro and fans can head over to Exclaim! to win tickets. To celebrate the Toronto band are revealing a live performance video of Carole King’s “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.” “I like the idea of doing covers that people don’t normally do, and that audiences wouldn’t expect, “explains Cash. “This song often gets stuck in my head—and there’s just so much power in a room full of both men and women shouting “you make me feel like a natural woman”, at the top of their lungs.”

Out now on Cameron House Records, Cash’s latest record Tongue-In-Cheek Vows perfectly captures that moment when a young artist and his cohorts find their collective voice and suddenly realize that there are no limits to what they can accomplish together. The album is Cash’ third album and the second with the Romantic Dogs. It follows the group’s acclaimed 2013 debut, Stand Together, Fall Together, an album that earned more attention than even Cash was hoping for, given how spontaneously it was made. While the rambunctiousness that drew fans and critics to that album is on full display, Cash chose to take more time to develop Tongue-In-Cheek Vows. Working in tandem with producer and bona fide Canadian alt-rock legend Ian Blurton (Change Of Heart, C’Mon, Public Animal), Cash and the Dogs have served up 11 tracks brimming with lyrics as razor-sharp as the performances driving them. Those who have followed Cash’s development to this point are sure to be stunned by the self-awareness and insight into the human condition embedded in songs like the album’s first focus track “Tossing & Turning” as well as “That Was The Summer” and “Carmen,” from which the album’s title was drawn.

Those who have been around long enough will undoubtedly hear echoes of Cash’s father Andrew Cash, part of Toronto’s original punk rock community and later one of Canada’s most respected singer-songwriters. Yet, from the time Sam launched his own music career in his late teens, he’s forged his own uncompromising path toward establishing a name within the Toronto underground rock scene.

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ROYAL CANOE REVEALS NEW SONG FROM UPCOMING ALBUM, PREPARES FOR NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

August 23, 2016

ROYAL CANOE REVEALS NEW SONG, “LOVE YOU LIKE THAT,” FROM UPCOMING ALBUM

SOMETHING GOT LOST BETWEEN HERE AND THE ORBIT OUT SEPTEMBER 16 VIA NEVADO MUSIC
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 8

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PRE-ORDER SOMETHING GOT LOST BETWEEN HERE AND THE ORBIT HERE

“Royal Canoe are back and better than ever” - Baeble Music

“feel-good dance music for the weird kids." - NPR

“Working with famed producer Ben Allen, the sextet refined their sound, shifting their focus to rhythmic and percussive dexterity without sacrificing the soulfulness that made Believers’ ‘Bathtubs’ a hit.” - Flood Magazine

Photo Credit: Jaclyn Campanaro

Yesterday Royal Canoe premiered the “rhythmic, percussive, synth-heavy goodness of “Love You Like That” via Baeble Music from its upcoming release Something Got Lost Between Here And The Orbit, due out September 16 via Nevado Records. Prior to that the band premiered the track "Living A Lie" via Flood Magazine which came hot on the heels of the video for the album’s first single, “Somersault” via NPR Music who said “Listening to the hypnotic rhythm of Matt Peters' vocals, you can parse the same wackiness that made bands like Alt-J, Simian Mobile Disco or even fellow Canadians Think About Life so singular.”

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Never ones to stray from the road for too long the Winnipeg sextet wrapped up a string of summer tour dates with Plants & Animals and are now ready to jump back in the van to promote the highly anticipated release of Something Got Lost Between Here And The Orbit. A whole autumn full of tour dates that takes Royal Canoe to every corner of North America begins September 8. All performance dates can be found below.

After two years of writing and recording between tours, Something Got Lost Between Here And The Orbit surfaced with a unique and intensified voice. It was co-produced and mixed by Ben Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, Deerhunter), who concentrated their sound-crafting attention on two fundamental elements: drums and vocals. Royal Canoe has always had an intensively rhythmic heart and that is more the case than ever. Their lyrics grow organically out of an addictive percussive flow and the unique topography of each track. Reinforcing their vocal and percussive core allowed them to be more adventurous with experimentation; more determined in their ongoing pursuit of the elusive musicality that can be found in collisions between digital and analogue worlds. In addition to their their usual buffet of synthesizers, effects pedals and homemade samples, late nights lead to to rabbit-holes of attaching contact mics to water bottles to play them like percussion instruments and convoluting synths through beluga whale field recordings.

In addition to a renewed sonic focus, Something Got Lost... brings an emotional clarity. But it’s a particular kind of clarity: one you experience when what’s most clear is that you’re really unsure about what’s happening with your life or, unsure about what happened to the life you once took for granted, while you were off experiencing stuff, being busy, accomplishing things. Life, and especially the life of musicians, tends to be shaped by an ebb and flow of leaving and returning, cycling between an extroverted, transient mode of being and one of introversion and staying put. Within the broader cycles, even our most important relationships can shift, morph and drift, no matter how much we try to hold them steady.

Almost three years have passed since the release of Royal Canoe’s sophomore album Today We're Believers. Those years were full. The band played 200 shows, which included tours with the likes of Alt J and Bombay Bicycle Club, and stops at major festivals like Bonaroo, Iceland Airwaves, and Osheaga. The hard work paid off; Today We're Believers received critical acclaim, was nominated for Alternative Album of the Year at the JUNOs, and won Best Independent Album at Western Canadian Music Awards.

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LISTEN TO AND SHARE “LIVING A LIE” HERE

SOMETHING GOT LOST BETWEEN HERE AND THE ORBIT TRACKLIST

Somersault

Walk out on the Water

Living a Lie

Checkmate

Love You Like That

I Am Collapsing So Slowly

Holidays

Out of the Beehive

Bicycle

How Long Is Your Life?

BB Gun

ROYAL CANOE TOUR DATES

09.08 - Guelph, ON @ Brass Taps Pub

09.09 - Waterloo, ON @ Maxwell’s

09.10 - Hamilton, ON @ Hamilton Supercrawl

09.15 - Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre

09.17 - Lethbridge, AB @ Love & Records Festival

09.18 - Bozeman, MT @ The Filling Station

09.19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court

09.23 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Hi Hat
09.24 - Davis, CA @ Sophia's Thai Kitchen
09.25 - San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar
09.28 - Portland, OR @ Holocene

09.29 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern

09.30 - Vancouver, BC @ Imperial

10.01 - Victoria, BC @ Lucky Bar

10.03 - Rossland, BC @ The Flying Steamshovel

10.05 - Calgary, AB @ Marquee Beer Market & Stage

10.06 - Red Deer, AB @ Bo’s Bar and Grill

10.07 - Edmonton, AB @ UP+DT Festival

10.08 - Saskatoon, SK @ The Capitol

10.18 - Kingston, ON @ The Mansion

10.19 - Quebec City, QC @ L’Anti

10.20 - Fredericton, NB @ Capital Complex

10.21 & 10.22 - Halifax, NS @ Halifax Pop Explosion

10.26 - St. Catharines, ON @ L3

10.27 - Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace

10.28 - Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod Beeblebrox

10.29 - Montreal, QC @ La Vitrola

10.30 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Showcase Lounge

11.01 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott

11.02 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle

11.05 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge

11.07 - Columbus, OH @ Rumba Café

11.09 - Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
11.11 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews

11.12 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry

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DONOVAN WOODS ANNOUNCES 'THEY ARE GOING AWAY' EP, PREPARES FOR EXTENSIVE NATIONAL FALL TOUR

August 18, 2016

DONOVAN WOODS ANNOUNCES THEY ARE GOING AWAY, PREPARES FOR EXTENSIVE NATIONAL FALL TOUR

CELEBRATED SONGWRITER RELEASES NEW SONGS FROM HARD SETTLE, AIN’T TROUBLED SESSION
THEY ARE GOING AWAY EP OUT SEPTEMBER 23

NATIONAL TOUR DATES WITH JOEY LANDRETH BEGIN OCTOBER 13

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When you listen to Donovan Woods, you can hear the craft of songwriting being carried forward: Stripped down, but never simple; direct yet poetic; new and timeless. The music is delivered with confidence, and in an evocative voice that you wouldn’t expect from someone as young, approachable, or humorous as Woods.

His acclaimed fourth album Hard Settle, Ain’t Troubled received a 2016 Polaris Music Prize nomination and three original songs intended for that project have now surfaced on a new digital EP, They Are Going Away, made available through Woods’ own label Meant Well and with thanks to Canada’s historic Massey Hall. There’s a distinct sense of motion throughout the narratives. In “What They Mean,” – a fan favourite from live performances - Woods responds to a curious child in the backseat who is listening carefully to the car radio. “It’ll Work Itself Out” shows someone who is traveling furiously to outrun problems. “Drove Through Town” provides a backdrop for the big issues, from living up to expectations to escaping a dead-end relationship.

Woods, who is an exceptional acoustic guitarist in his own right, says these songs didn’t make the track listing for Hard Settle, Ain’t Troubled because he didn’t want to rush the lyrics or force them to be finished. A fourth selection, “Empty Rooms,” is about moving on from a relationship—when that’s not such a bad thing. Although it’s new, Woods felt it was a comfortable fit.

“The songs are about coping with loss, and wholesale changes, that sort of thing,” he says. “The title I suppose is trying to get at the temporariness of everything. Time speeds up when you get older, that’s an observable fact. It starts to feel like you’re always chasing some ineffable thing. It’s why your dad often had a slightly bewildered look in his eyes.”

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Woods was raised in the small city of Sarnia, Ontario, to the sounds of country music, with a healthy dose of folk and pop, a combination that instilled in him a strong belief in the power of a memorable melody, the importance of everyday language and the impact of a well-crafted song. While amassing a catalogue of rousing and well-received music of his own, he has worked with some of the top songwriters in North America to craft cuts for performers ranging from Alan Doyle to country stars Billy Currington and Tim McGraw.

It’s not that Woods makes music that is a product of both country and folk; it’s that his songwriting shows how distracting the line separating the two can be. Whether they’re written about big ideas or seemingly minor incidents, broken promises or the hint of romance, Woods’ stories affect listeners deeply. As he dissects the downward spiral of a small town (“They Don’t Make Anything in That Town”) you feel for the folks left behind. A subtle string arrangement adds a delicate layer that underscores the song’s spare tone and language.

The offbeat rhythm of “On the Nights You Stay Home” elicits the excitement of a hoped-for big-city quiet night in, while faced with the terrifying number of opportunities to inspire jealousy. Rewriting history to confront a breakup (“We Never Met”) is a new twist on telling the story of a relationship. And “What Kind Of Love Is That?” which topped the CBC Top 20 charts, shines a light on the complications of caring for someone in trouble.

Given Woods’ songwriting successes you can’t help but ascribe the dark vision of “Leaving Nashville” to an active imagination, but the details contained in the lyrics make you wonder about his source material. Woods wrote “Leaving Nashville” with aspiring Nashville songwriter Abe Stoklasa. Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley recorded it for a solo album. In time, their hard luck story of a hopeful but downtrodden talent in Music City helped Woods land a songwriting deal with a major publisher, Warner/Chappell.

Throughout Hard Settle, Ain’t Troubled and its companion EP, They Are Going Away, what is clear is that Donovan Woods possesses a compelling voice made to tell stories – his stories, and ours. Although it gently rises just above a whisper, it cannot be ignored.

After a cross-Canada tour earlier this year with Matt Andersen and festival and club appearances all over North America, Donovan Woods is preparing to head back out on the road for a run of Canadian headline dates. Joining him will be Joey Landreth from the JUNO-Award Winning band The Bros. Landreth. The tour begins October 13 and all dates are listed below.

WATCH “THEY DON’T MAKE ANYTHING IN THAT TOWN” HERE

ACCLAIM FOR HARD SETTLE AIN’T TROUBLED

“wistful songs that tug at the heartstrings of anyone who's had feelings about partners, ex-partners, where you're from, where you shouldn't have gone” - NOW Magazine NNNN

“a gentle, honest collection of melancholic observations and hushed tunefulness” - The Globe And Mail

“By balancing such fringe and mainstream elements so effortlessly, Woods looks poised to finally bring those disparate camps together. … he does it time and again” - Exclaim!

“a knack for taking huge, universal feelings and distilling them into simple, poignant moments” - Noisey

“a penchant for penning some of the most heartbreaking songs you’ll ever hear” - Winnipeg Free Press

“well crafted, beautiful” - CBC Music

THEY ARE GOING AWAY TRACK LISTING

What They Mean

It’ll Work Itself Out

Drove Through Town

Empty Rooms

DONOVAN WOODS TOUR DATES

August 21 – Highline Ballroom – New York, NY*

August 23 – Eagleview Summer Concerts On the Square – Exton, PA

August 24 – City Winery – Chicago, IL*

September 23 – Cultivate Festival – Port Hope, ON

October 13 – Simcoe Street Theatre – Collingwood, ON^

October 14 – Imperial Theatre – Sarnia, ON^

October 15 - Heartwood Concert Hall - Owen Sound, ON^

October 19 – Molson Canadian Studio – Hamilton, ON^

October 20 – National Arts Centre Studio – Ottawa, ON^

October 21 - The Grad Club - Kingston, ON^

October 22 - O Patro Vys – Montreal, QC^

October 26 – Centre In The Square – Kitchener, ON^

October 28 – Trinity St. Paul’s Church – Toronto, ON^

November 1 – The Park Theatre - Winnipeg, MB^

November 2 – Artful Dodger – Regina, SK^

November 3 - Festival Hall - Calgary, AB^

November 4 - The Almanac - Edmonton, AB^

November 5 – Communitea – Canmore, AB^

November 6 - Flying Steamshovel - Rossland, BC^

November 7 – Bozzinis - Chilliwack, BC^

November 10 – Lucky Bar – Victoria, BC^

November 11 - Fox Cabaret - Vancouver, BC^

November 12 – Dream Café – Penticton, BC

November 16 – Bassment - Saskatoon, SK^

* w/ Buffy Sainte-Marie | ^ w/ Joey Landreth

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