BRENDAN CANNING ANNOUNCES CANADIAN TOUR DATES

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Brendan Canning, co-founder of the seminal alt-rock collective known as Broken Social Scene, is getting set to head out on tour in support of his latest record, Home Wrecking Years, out now via Arts & Crafts. Tour dates beginNovember 18 with more dates being announced shortly.

Aside from Canning the rest of the touring band is filled out by Greg Calderon, Mike Calderon, Graham Jones, Kevin Kane, and Dani Nash. “This is the band that is mostly responsible for how the songs on Home Wrecking Years came to be,” says Canning. “I love playing with this crew and I'm glad these dates came together so we could rock this shit one more time for all the fine people in the neighbourhoods.”

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Canning’s other band, Broken Social Scene, recently played their first full shows in a few years at Pitchfork Festival in Chicago and Panorama Music Festival in New York City, treating fans to old favourites, new music, and a couple tracks played from Canning’s new collection. Broken Social Scene has announced they are back in the studio working on the follow-up to 2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record.

BRENDAN CANNING TOUR DATES
Nov 17 - Montreal, QC – Café Cleopatre | M4MTL
Nov 18  - Kingston, ON - The Grad Club
Nov 19  - Ottawa, ON - Zaphods
Nov 24 - Hamilton, ON - The Casbah
Nov 25 - Toronto, ON - Garrison

ACCLAIM FOR HOME WRECKING YEARS

“an expertly assembled selection of baroque-pop gems” Spin

“a fascinating detour... experimental by being straightforward" Consequence Of Sound

“low-sun vistas with an easygoing joy” The Globe And Mail

“Home Wrecking Years is the return to that pure, unified pursuit of
ensemble bliss." Under The Radar

"This is feel-good music." Exclaim!    

“a sometimes eerie, sometimes comforting fog of familiarity" Popmatters

“enjoyably eclectic and laid back” Sun Media  

“truly some of Canning’s most accomplished songwriting to date” Flood Magazine

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DIAMOND MIND REVEALS CANADIAN TOUR DATES, SHARES NEW VIDEO

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Diamond Mind are getting to set to release their debut LP, Heavy Metal Sunshine, in a few short weeks, and now the Edmonton three-piece are preparing support the album with a string of tour dates across Canada beginning October 20. Today, they are sharing the video for “Horseless Coach”, an album single which The Fader called “triumphant" and "an eerie journey through the desert."

Shot guerilla style in the failing light of Edmonton’s autumn, the video attempts to reflect the song in its tones both cartoonist and bleak. "Casting the band members as three figures in an interplanetary shakedown, this video tells the story, in brief, of an extra terrestrial’s first lonely visit to Earth,” says Diamond Mind. “We follow along as the beauty and absurdity of human culture passes through his naive lens while in the background insidious forces - an unwelcoming committee - conspire to cut the visit short.”

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“Horseless Coach” was “largely inspired by the life of Frankie Dwyer Rowe and her experiences as a child in Roswell, New Mexico during the summer of 1947,” says Liam Trimble. “She and her father, the city’s fire marshall, unwittingly became key figures in a deep and enduring mystery when a fire in the sky, four mysterious corpses and a fistful of memory metal attract the unfriendly attention of an austere and uncompromising authority. The song is an imaginative retelling of a chase from city to city and across vast deserts -- of a wild and unearthly drama."

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Due out October 7 via Wyatt Records, Heavy Metal Sunshine draws from many diverse wells – pop, noise, soul, all with an eye to the baroque, and continues to expand into new territory. The album was captured at Edmontone Studios by Jesse Brandon Northey, mixed by Renny Wilson at Value Sound, and mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering.  

Throughout their past three EPs Diamond Mind have won audiences with the unique character of their songs, recorded in environments ranging from attic bedrooms to storied, established studios. The songs on Heavy Metal Sunshine echo this varied topography, ranging in content from intimate, confidential entries, elaborate pseudo-histories and haunting character sketches.

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DIAMOND MIND TOUR DATES
Oct 20 - Calgary, AB - Broken City - Alberta Release Show
Oct 25 - Windsor, ON - The Phog Lounge
Oct 26 - Toronto, ON - The Burdock
Oct 28 - Montreal, QC - Brasserie Beaubien
Oct 29 - Ottawa, ON - Avant-Garde Bar
Oct 31 - Sudbury, ON - Speakeasy
Nov 3 - Thunder Bay, ON - The Foundry
Nov 4 - Winnipeg, MB - The Handsome Daughter
Nov 5 - Saskatoon, SK - Vangelis
Nov 6 - Lethbridge, AB - Attainable
Nov 8 - Kelowna, BC - Fernandos Pub
Nov 9 - Vancouver, BC - Astoria
Nov 19 - Edmonton, AB - Venue TBA - Release Show

**More dates to be announced**

HEAVY METAL SUNSHINE TRACKLIST
Diamond Mind
Horseless Coach
Hades Proper
The Janks
Front Page Of The End Times
Tell It To The Sky
Blind Hills Chapel
Heavy Metal Sunshine
No Problem Radio
Webster’s (feat. Samantha Savage Smith)

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TASSEOMANCY SHARES NEW SINGLE “MISSOULA”

TASSEOMANCY, AKA TWIN SISTERS SARI AND ROMI LIGHTMAN, TO RELEASE DO EASY, NOVEMBER 18 THROUGH A JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN OUTSIDE MUSIC AND HAND DRAWN DRACULA

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TASSEOMANCY, aka twin sisters Sari and Romy Lightman, have unveiled new single “Missoula”, taken from their upcoming album, Do Easy, due out November 18 through a joint venture between Hand Drawn Dracula and Outside Music. They say of the track, “‘Missoula’ is a song for the roaming and an ode to the Unknown. There are so many transient people on the planet today, both fleeing and voluntarily in motion. I can’t speak for their experience, but as an artist, I find myself moving often. There is the desire to stay, the urge for going, and the split feelings of being a floating, uprooted bag of mostly water. ‘Missoula’ has a repetitive hebraic melody at its centre, coming from a lineage of wandering Jews. A nod to one of my favourite Pentangle recordings, Let no man steal your thyme."

The song features vocals by Romy Lightman and Sari Lightman, Johnny Spence on synth, Evan Cartwright on drums, accompanied by the saxophone of Brodie West.

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Genesis P-Orridge and Kathy Acker believed William Burroughs to be a vibrant beam of clarity. P-Orridge, a disciple of Bouroughs, referred to “The Discipline of D.E. as a smooth hand of magic”. Romy of Tasseomancy stumbled upon the Discipline of D.E. (Do Easy), a short story outlining a don't-bust-a-gut Buddhist philosophy and “like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest”, she was deeply touched and set out to find the easy way.

For the seasoned loners, stoners, and lackadaisically laid, Do Easy was written as a dead-beat anthem for a generation who was told that anything is possible after the possibility slows. Written in Toronto and Montreal, the album was created as a lamp shade of hope; of soft survivalism. Serene, strange and magnetically sung, it honours its free-thinking forebears without being weighed down by them, creating immersive worlds of loving allusion.

Soft synths and crystalline harmonies merge hypnotically on “Dead Can Dance and Neil Young”, an invitation to ‘fade into folk song’. If folk song this is, it’s folk of great idiosyncrasy, where vocoded chorales provide atmospheric shading and alto-saxophones drift like cigarette smoke from a David Lynch dream-film. Between the new age synth of “Claudine & Annie”, the ambient swoon of “29 Palms”, Kate Bush-like prog-psych of “Missoula” and gently lapping title-track, Do Easy plays like pop from a parallel world.

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Sisters Sari and Romy Lightman are former members of queer cold-wave band, Austra. Channelling their former forays in psychedelic folk into a kind of lushly accessible, warmly experimental dream-pop along with bandmates Johnny Spence and Evan Cartwright, they explore manipulated sounds, all with mood in mind. Assisted by friends Brodie West (alto-sax), Ryan Driver (flute), Simone Schmidt (voice of a young Neil Young), and Alex Cowan (Blue Hawaii) that exploration reaches full bloom on Do Easy, the sound of a band hitting their richly imagined, luxuriously executed stride. And, wealth of evocative references included, making it all sound easy.

DO EASY TRACKLIST
1. Dead Can Dance & Neil Young
2. Claudine
3. Jimi Infiniti
4. Missoula
5. Wiolyn
6. 29 Palms
7. Do Easy
8. Do Easy Reprise
9. Gentle Man
10. Emergency
11. Eli

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