DONOVAN WOODS REIMAGINES HIS AWARD-WINNING BOTH WAYS WITH ACOUSTIC COMPANION ALBUM

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On May 3, Donovan Woods will release The Other Way via Meant Well, stripping down his JUNO Award winning masterwork Both Ways (Contemporary Roots Album of the Year) to its acoustic essence.

The Other Way brims with inspired interpretations that are intimate yet startling in their urgency. For a producer, Donovan enlisted ace guitarist Todd Lombardo, who recently played most of the guitar work on Kacey Musgraves’ GRAMMY winning juggernaut Golden Hour. Donovan gave Todd artistic license not only to change the chords and song structures but to overhaul the arrangements.

Today, Donovan shares the reimagined version of “Truck Full Of Money”, one of the most dramatically reimagined cuts off The Other Way. Rolling Stone says of the track, “In its original form, ‘Truck Full of Money’ was almost a study in contrasts — it married dramatic, sweeping production to Toronto-based Woods’ meditation on the frequently lonely, unhealthy aspects of a touring musician’s life and the yawning gaps that exist between the few minutes of glory on stage. His new acoustic rendition is slowed down, with 12-string guitar replicating the soaring string melody from the original and mandolin providing some subtle rhythmic counterpoint to Woods’ vocal melodies."

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"Truck Full of Money (Acoustic)" is off of Donovan Woods' forthcoming album, "The Other Way" - an acoustic re-imagining of his award-winning album "Both Ways." Available May 3, and limited edition CD and vinyl bundles are on-sale through Donovan's web store: https://donovan-woods.myshopify.com/. Made possible with the support of Ontario Creates.

Tenille Townes, a rising country star signed to Columbia Nashville, also joins Donovan on The Other Way via the tender duet “I Ain’t Ever Loved No One”, their voices entwining like a flip side to Tammy Wynette and George Jones.

“It’s always been an interesting idea to me, especially when you’re an artist like me who inherently disappoints some people anytime your sound gets bigger,” Donovan explains. “But a really good song is a good song in any arrangement. It’s like a beautiful hardwood floor. You can put any furniture in there, and it’s going to look good.”

The Other Way comes on the heels of Donovan’s first JUNO Award win; the release of “Go to Her”, his first song of 2019, which The Fader called a “heart-wrenching story of being away from a loved one”, and his five-part Live At Southern Ground Studios video series, which American Songwriter said “captures Woods’ soulful passion, studied craftsmanship.”

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THE OTHER WAY TRACKLIST
01 Good Lover
02 Another Way
03 Burn That Bridge
04 Truck Full Of Money
05 Our Friend Bobby
06 I Ain’t Ever Loved No One (feat. Tenille Townes)
07 I Live A Little Lie
08 Easy Street
09 I Don’t Belong To You
10 Read About Memory
11 Great Escape

PERFORMANCE DATES
Jul 6 - Hamilton, ON - The Arboretum
Jul 12 - Vermillion Crossing, BC - Kootenay Park Lodge
Jul 27 - Canso, NS - Stan Rogers Folk Festival
Aug 24 - Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON - Jackson-Triggs Niagara Amphiteatre

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IN THE VALLEY BELOW SHARE NEW VIDEO, “BLUE SKY DRUGS”

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THE PINK CHATEAU FULL-LENGTH ALBUM + MOTION PICTURE OUT APRIL 26 RELEASE ON ARTS & CRAFTS

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LIVE PERFORMANCE + FILM SCREENING TOUR ACROSS THE U.S. ON NOW

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In The Valley Below has shared the video for “Blue Sky Drugs” – a hand-clapped, electro-glam stomp, like a future-shocked Fleetwood Mac – in conjunction with the kick off their audio immersive The Pink Chateau Alamo Drafthouse tour where they will perform the album/score live in front of the film, broadcasted over headphones. The Pink Chateau album and its motion picture companion will be arriving April 26 on Arts & Crafts.

Discussing the single, In The Valley Below stated, “Blue Sky Drugs is inspired by old cheeky country duets. We learned every song from Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty's cassette tape Making Believe, one time when we were staying at a cabin in northern Michigan.”

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This video is for mature audiences only. It contains nudity and sexual content. If that's not your thing, we suggest you scroll down and just listen. "Blue Sky Drugs" is out now! Add it to your playlists: https://ffm.to/blueskydrugs This video is a scene from our visual album "The Pink Chateau' Tickets to the immersive film screening/live band performance now available in select cities!

The Pink Chateau film is the story of a young woman who follows a beautiful stranger into the countryside. What unfolds is a series of sensual and intimate tales in the form of a silent film set to In The Valley Below’s new album. The film was written and co-directed by Angela Gail, and filmed in and around a palatial estate in rural Michigan. A dreamlike diorama of interconnected musical vignettes inspired by vintage French erotica and the faded colors of 1970s films, each song on the record serves as a portal through which the film’s enigmatic female protagonist confronts her most deep-seated desires. “It’s a story of sexual discovery and freedom from taboo,” Angela explains. “It’s a fantasy of an inviting place where female sexuality is a beautiful curiosity and not a shameful secret. Free from the story of the woman being a slut or victim if she is sexual.”

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For In The Valley Below hardship and passion are two sides of the same coin, and romance is the only defense against a world gone mad. Almost giving up on a music career when Angela found out she was pregnant, they emerged in 2014 with a hit single, “Peaches” off their debut album The Belt. Angela and Jeffrey Jacobs were swept up quickly into an unexpected whirlwind… a record deal with Capitol Records, invitations to perform on Letterman and Conan, tours with Albert Hammond Jr., Tricky, White Lies and the Cold War Kids, and festival dates from Austin City Limits to Reading & Leeds. After living on the road for several years, with child, bags were packed in LA and shipped to Grand Rapids, where a house was bought and a basement studio created.

Holing up last winter in their home studio, the resultant album, The Pink Chateau puts lie to our preconceived notions of how environment influences music. There’s a tendency to conflate an artist’s sound with their surrounding geography—be it the sun-dappled serenity of ‘70s Laurel Canyon folk-rock or the industrial pallor of Manchester post-punk. But The Pink Chateau is proof you can make sexy, urbane, tropical pop music in a Michigan basement in the dead of winter. When the duo invite you to “drink champagne in the pink chateau” on the album’s seductively funky title track, the message is clear:  paradise is wherever you want it to be.

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THE PINK CHATEAU TRACKLIST
01 Rise
02 Pink Chateau
03 Bloodhands (Oh My Fever)
04 Desperate Dance
05 Hold On Tight
06 Break Even
07 Sink Or Swim
08 Blue Sky Drugs
09 Control
10 The Beggar
11 Brass Ring

AUDIO IMMERSIVE CINEMA TOUR
04/09 – Brooklyn, NY @ Alamo Drafthouse
04/14 – Minneapolis, MN @ Alamo Drafthouse
04/16 – Kansas City, MO @ Alamo Drafthouse
04/17 – Dallas, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse
04/18 – Austin, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse
04/20 – Denver, CO @ Alamo Drafthouse
04/23 – San Francisco @ Alamo Drafthouse

Official Screening:
04/26 – Newport Beach, CA @ Newport Beach Film Festival

Full Band Performance:
04/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bardot/School Night

Official Screening:
05/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ School Night presents Neuehouse

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PUP ANNOUNCES MASSIVE FALL TOUR

FALL TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 11 WITH STOPS THROUGHOUT CANADA

ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM, MORBID STUFF, OUT NOW VIA LITTLE DIPPER / UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA

STREAM / BUY MORBID STUFF HERE

"Morbid Stuff just still sounds like friends having fun and making catchy, cathartic punk anthems for teens and almost-adults alike — offering a brief, but much needed respite from the hell that is everyday life...their strongest album to date." - Exclaim! (9/10)

"These guys are heroes." - NPR Music's Robin Hilton

"If you're gonna start a record, you might as well do it right. I just cannot get enough of this record. I think it's one of my favorite records of the year. Easily...musically it's explosive. It is huge." - NPR Music's New Music Friday Podcast

"'Morbid Stuff' is the angriest PUP has ever sounded. But it’s not a cry for help. It’s a cry of freedom, the sound of a band realizing that anger is liberating..." - Pitchfork (7.9)

"Morbid Stuff [is] another collection of explosively catchy anthem/tantrums...[PUP] still sound about as vibrant and youthful as a rock band can. It’s invigorating. It’s harrowing. It rules. Fuck with it." - Stereogum

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Hot on the heels of the release of their critically acclaimed new album, Morbid Stuff, on Little Dipper/Universal Music Canada, Toronto’s PUP are thrilled to announce a massive North American tour for this fall. Charly Bliss will support throughout Canada this October, while Illuminati Hotties will support on a handful of America dates.

Tickets go on sale next Friday, April 19 at 10am local venue time. The band also has an exclusive ticket pre-sale starting Tuesday, April 16 at 10am local time; $1 from every ticket sold in the pre-sale goes to The Trevor Project, who focus on suicide prevenion within the LBGTQ community.  

WATCH PUP SLAY THEIR TV DEBUT ON LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS HERE

WATCH PUP PERFORM ON CBC q HERE

Musical guest Pup performs "Kids" for Late Night with Seth Meyers. " Subscribe to Late Night: http://bit.ly/LateNightSeth " Get more Late Night with Seth Meyers: http://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/ " Watch Late Night with Seth Meyers Weeknights 12:35/11:35c on NBC.

Formed in Toronto five years ago, PUP – comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladowski -- quickly became favorites of the punk scene with their first two, critically-beloved albums, winning accolades everywhere from the New York Times to Pitchfork, from NPR and Rolling Stone, and more. Now, with Morbid Stuff, PUP have grown up and doubled down on everything that made you love their first two records. It’s gang’s-all-here vocals, guitarmonies, and lyrics about death. Lots of them. Fitting to their ethos, their new album takes the dichotomy of fun and emotional wreckage in their songs and teeters between gleeful chaos and bleak oblivion while wielding some of the best choruses the band has ever written. It’s the most insightful, sweetest, funniest, sickest, angriest, saddest and most inescapably desperate collection of songs they’ve recorded to date.  If their self-titled record was the fuse and The Dream Is Over was the bomb going off, Morbid Stuff is your family sifting through the rubble, only to find you giggling while you bleed to death.

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MORE PRAISE FOR PUP + MORBID STUFF

"Along with the band’s songwriting, Babcock’s point of view has sharpened further and grown even more candid, grappling with his own depression and repurposing the band’s most crippling doubts into addictive hooks." - Vulture

"With 'Morbid Stuff,' the Toronto band made the best album of their career." - Noisey

""PUP’s third album Morbid Stuff is by far their best yet, and already one of the best punk albums of the year." - Brooklyn Vegan

"The beauty of PUP is that the band writes confident, catchy punk songs that are fueled, almost exclusively, by anxiety and indecision. On ['Morbid Stuff'], PUP offers up a new batch of songs that all play like stadium-punk anthems, but Stefan Babcock is still singing about every stupid thing he’s ever said or done. " - The A.V. Club

"['Morbid Stuff' is] the year’s catchiest, darkest, and overall best punk album" - Uproxx

"A refreshing, sarcastic antidote to fighting misery with the usual greetings card-meets-motivational poster sentiment, ‘Morbid Stuff’ secures PUP’s position at the top of the present-day punk rock pile." - NME (4/5)

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MORBID STUFF TOURPOCALYPSE

ALL NEW FALL TOUR DATES:
Sep 11 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall ^
Sep 12 - New York, NY - Terminal 5 ^
Sep 13 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live! ^
Sep 14 - Richmond, VA - The National ^
Sep 16 - Jacksonville, FL - 1904 Music Hall ^
Sep 17 - Tampa, FL - The Orpheum ^
Sep 18 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room ^
Sep 19 - Orlando, FL - The Beacham ^
Sep 21 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse ^
Sep 22 - Birmingham, AL – Saturn ^
Sep 23 - Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom ^
Sep 24 - St. Louis, MO - Delmar Hall ^
Sep 26 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room @ Old National Centre ^
Sep 27 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall ^
Sep 28 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall ^
Sep 29 - Grand Rapids, MI - Elevation at the Intersection ^
Oct 7 - Victoria, BC - Capital Ballroom +
Oct 9 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre +
Oct 11 - Calgary, AB - MacEwan Hall +
Oct 13 - Saskatoon, SK - Amigos Cantina +
Oct 14 - Winnipeg, MB - The Garrick Centre +
Oct 17 - Kingston, ON - The Ale House +
Oct 23 - Quebec City, QC - Imperial Bell
Oct 25 - Halifax, NS - The Marquee Ballroom (Halifax)
Oct 26 - St. John's, NL - Club One
Nov 6 - Amsterdam, NE - Melkweg Oz
Nov 7 - Cologne, DE - Luxor
Nov 9 - Copenhagen, DK - Loppen
Nov 10 - Hamburg, DE - Knust
Nov 11 - Berlin, DE - Bi Nuu
Nov 13 - Vienna, AT - Chelsea
Nov 14 - Munich, DE - Backstage Halle
Nov 15 - Milan, IT - Ohibo
Nov 18 - Paris, FR - Trabendo
Nov 21 - London, UK - Electric Ballroom
Nov 22 - Bristol, UK - SWX
Nov 23 - Birmingham, UK - Academy 2
Nov 25 - Leeds, UK - Stylus
Nov 26 - Glasgow, UK - The Garage
Nov 28 - Newcastle, UK - The Riverside
Nov 29 - Manchester, UK - Manchester Academy 2
Nov 30 - Southampton, UK - The Loft
^ with support from Illuminati Hotties
+ with support from Charly Bliss


CURRENT TOUR DATES:
4/11/19 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club % ! **SOLD OUT**
4/12/19 - Glasgow, UK @ Cathouse % ! **SOLD OUT**
4/14/19 - Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire ! **SOLD OUT**
4/15/19 - Dunkirk, FR @ Les 4Ecluses !
4/16/19 - Brussels, BE @ AB Club ! **SOLD OUT**
4/18/19 - Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia ! **SOLD OUT**
4/19/19 - Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang ! **SOLD OUT**
4/20/19 - Cologne, DE @ MTC Club ! **SOLD OUT**
4/21/19 - Amsterdam, NE @ Upstairs @ Paradiso ! **SOLD OUT**
4/25/19 - Boston, MA @ Royale # ^ **SOLD OUT**
4/26/19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel # ^  **SOLD OUT**
4/29/19 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer # ^ **SOLD OUT**
4/30/19 - Pittsburgh, PA @ REX Theater $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/1/19 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/3/19 - Pontiac, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom $ ^
5/4/19 - Chicago, IL @ Metro $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/5/19 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/6/19 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater $
5/8/19 - Dallas, TX @ Trees $ ^
5/9/19 - Austin, TX @ The Mohawk $ ^
5/10/19 - Houston, TX @ Rockefeller's $ ^
5/11/19 - New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks $ ^
5/13/19 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/14/19 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle $ ^
5/15/19 - Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle $ ^
5/17/19 - Washington, DC @ The Black Cat $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/18/19 - Boston, MA @ Royale $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
5/19/19 - Sainte-Therese, QC @ Santa Teresa Festival
5/21/19 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom $ ^
5/22/19 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts $ ^
5/23/19 - Chicago, IL @ Metro $ ^ **SOLD OUT**
6/7/19 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall #  **SOLD OUT**
6/8/19 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall #  **SOLD OUT**
6/19/19 - San Diego, CA @ The Irenic + ^
6/20/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom + ^ **SOLD OUT**
6/21/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom + ^ **SOLD OUT**
6/22/19 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore + ^ **SOLD OUT**
6/24/19 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom + ^ **SOLD OUT**
6/25/19 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox + ^
6/27/19 - Boise, ID @ The Olympic + ^
6/28/19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue + ^
6/29/19 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre + ^
7/1/19 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf + ^
7/2/19 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom + ^
7/3/19 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory + ^
7/6/19 Ottawa, ON @ RBC Bluesfest
7/21/19 - Toronto, ON @ RBC Echo Beach ~
8/9/19 - Tolmin, SI @ Punk Rock Holiday
8/14/19 - Bellaria-Igea Marina, IT @ Bay Fest
8/16/19 - 8/18/19 - Grosspösna, DE @ Highfield Festival
8/17/19 - Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop
8/20/19 - Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade Bristol
8/21/19 - Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade Nottingham **SOLD OUT**
8/23/19 - Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
8/24/19 - Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival

# - with support from Diet Cig
^ - with support from Ratboys
! - with support from Milk Teeth
% - with support from Gender Roles
$ - with support from Casper Skulls
+ - with support from Beach Bunny
~ - with support from Twin Peaks & Charly Bliss
& - with support from BRASS
= - with support from Pkew Pkew Pkew
? - with support from The Drew Thomson Foundation

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