JACQUES GREENE RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLES FEATURING CADENCE WEAPON

LISTEN AND SHARE “NIGHT SERVICE” + “SILENCIO” FT. CADENCE WEAPON

FIRST NORTH AMERICAN LIVE SHOWS IN TWO YEARS

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Today, producer Jacques Greene is pleased to present new singles, “Night Service” and “Silencio” both featuring Cadence Weapon.  

“Night Service” is the most direct banger since his breakthrough, “Another Girl”. Originally teased in a mysterious YouTube upload by Greene in 2018 where he showcased an hour of new music, “Night Service” was heavily requested in the comments, and has been in-demand ever since.

“Rollie and I have known each other for years,” says Greene. “Finally making music together for his last full length felt long overdue and ever since we’ve met up in Toronto and made a bunch of stuff. ‘Night Service’ and a few others felt... different. To the point where there was a moment when we wondered whether we should fully form a band and pursue this ‘vibe’ we’d stumbled upon. It’s always felt quite special to me and so does ‘Silencio’. It’s a pleasure to finally share them with the world. A love letter to the club.”

Cadence Weapon adds, “After working together on two songs from my 2018 album Cadence Weapon, Jacques Greene and I continued working on music whenever we'd hang out. ‘Night Service’ is the result. The song is inspired by our personal nightlife experiences in Montreal and the enduring history of underground dance music in New York, specifically Larry Levan and Paradise Garage, as he was one of the first DJs to make the connection between religious devotion and club music.”

LISTEN AND SHARE “NIGHT SERVICE” + “SILENCIO” FT. CADENCE WEAPON

(“Night Service” art by Vincent Tsang, director of Montreal skate company, Dime)
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Since the dawn of dance music there have been parallels drawn between the church and the club, with the steady thrum of “the one” in Gospel music inspiring early house, typified in Larry Levan’s mix of “Stand On The Word” by The Joubert Singers. For 40 years of dance music we’ve become accustomed to house, prog, and trance offering ascendant experiences to those looking to God as a DJ. Now more than ever, the idea of finding salvation in gritty, marginal, underground-spaces makes perfect sense. Greene is a producer who has always basked in wide cathedral reverbs on vocals, set amongst hardware synthesisers tugging back and forth on the threshold of melancholy and euphoria. A producer who brought 1200 people to rave in the esteemed East London church, St John of Hackney, “Night Service” is a song that perhaps was always on the cards. 

TOUR DATES
Oct. 17 - Berlin, DE @ Burg Schnabel
Oct. 18 - London, UK @ St. Pancras Old Church
Oct. 18 - Manchester, UK @ Warehouse Project (DJ set) (late show)
Oct. 23 - Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
Oct. 25 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
Oct. 26 - Montreal, QC @ Ausgang

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TOM WILSON’S LEE HARVEY OSMOND SHARES NEW VIDEO, ANNOUNCES SUMMER & FALL TOUR DATES

WATCH AND SHARE “COLOURS” HERE

MORE TOUR DATES (PERFORMANCES & READINGS) ADDED FOR THIS SUMMER / FALL

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE LONG-LISTED LP, MOHAWK, OUT NOW VIA LATENT RECORDINGS

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Today, Lee Harvey Osmond (aka Tom Wilson) shares the new video for “Colours” from his Polaris Music Prize long-listed LP, Mohawk. The video pairs Wilson’s track with scenes from Hard To Be Human, the film from director Valerie Buhagiar. On the song, Wilson says : “The colours roll down our skin after the sweat and blood are soaked into our clothes and all our heroes have turned to dust. We listen for the sound that will bring us into the new day...the sound of a thousand mothers from a thousand summers. A lazy heat that conjures up hope for hard living and tells the untold stories of every Hank William’s railroad train that has crashed.”

WATCH AND SHARE “COLOURS” HERE

This fall, Wilson heads out on the road for a run of tour dates, some supporting Mohawk with performances and some featuring readings from his acclaimed autobiography, Beautiful Scars. Full tour information can be found below.

When Wilson created the moniker Lee Harvey Osmond he wasn’t entirely certain if this was a new stage name or merely a provocative handle for the musician/artist collective assembled by producer Michael Timmins to record a collection of Tom Wilson songs that would become A Quiet Evil. This was the first of four albums bearing the featured artist Lee Harvey Osmond. The Folk Sinner was next, followed by the break through Beautiful Scars. It was during this time between releasing Beautiful Scars and recording Kings and Kings with Blackie and The Rodeo Kings that Wilson went public with his recent discovery. He was not exactly the person he thought he was. 

In his 50s, Wilson learned that the parents who raised him were not his birth parents; that, in fact, he was adopted and that his biological mother and father were Mohawk from the Kahnawake reserve, just outside of Montreal. Grappling with this newfound sense of himself plunged Wilson into a quest for his heritage and his truth, and led to the writing of his bestselling autobiography, Beautiful Scars (Doubleday Canada). The book is a colourful and truthful tale of this quest, and his life’s tribulations and successes along the path.

“It is a story of finding your way home,” he says. “It’s a story of adoption, of growing up thinking you’re a big, sweaty, Irish guy, and finding out at the age of 53 that you’re a Mohawk.”

WATCH AND SHARE “MOHAWK” LYRIC VIDEO HERE

WATCH AND SHARE “FORTY LIGHT YEARS” HERE

Under the steady hand of producer Michael Timmins, the musician collective Lee Harvey Osmond revives the origins of ‘Acid Folk’ with appearances from old friends Ray Farrugia (percussion), Aaron Goldstein (steel guitar), Jesse O’Brien (keyboards) and introduces Anna Reddick (bass). The expanded use of Darcy Hepner’s brass and baritone sax and brilliant harmonica flashes from blues veteran Paul Reddick and Wilson’s son, Thompson Wilson, sound as guideposts behind the moody grooves of Wilson’s literary recital. Suzie Ungerleider (Oh Susanna) provides the perfect backing vocal ingredient for Wilson’s baritone. 

Wilson’s life has been an ongoing quest so it is perhaps inevitable that after decades immersed in poetry, literature and music he would turn attention to visual art, a language that transcends the verbal and the written. The packaging and visual elements of Mohawk incorporate Tom Wilson creations. In particular a painting of the same name from his collection Beautiful Scars: Mohawk Warriors, Hunter and Chiefs

He is still driven to ask questions, to seek meaning from the elusive mysteries hidden beneath the surface of everyday existence, to come to terms with his history, his identity; to aspire to higher truths and to understand his place in the world. “If I have 20 more years on this planet, I hope to keep becoming a Mohawk, because I can’t become a Mohawk the way my brothers and sisters and ancestors did.”

LEE HARVEY OSMOND TOUR DATES
July 1 Brampton, ON Canada Day
July 5 Orillia, ON Mariposa Folk Festival
July 6 Evanston, AB Pembina River Nights Festival
Sept 13 Bolingbroke, ON Althorpe Bolingbroke Community Hall,The Festival of Small Halls
Sept 14 Ottawa, On City Folk Festival
Sept 15 Toronto, ON Kensington Jazz Festival
Sept 28 Burlington, ON Burlington Performing Arts Centre
Oct 16 Brantford, On Gord Downie Legacy Concert SandersonCentre
Oct 17 Kitchener, ON Latent Artist Stage Centre In The Square
Oct 18 St. Catharines ,ON Gord Downie Legacy Concert First Canadian Performing Arts Centre
Nov 1 Uxbridge, ON The Book Drunkard Festival
Nov 20 Edmonton, ON Festival Place
Nov 23 Duncan, BC Cowichan Theatre
Dec 11 Niagara On The Lake, ON Words and Wine Festival

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PUP SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR “SIBLING RIVALRY”, ADD MORE NORTH AMERICAN DATES

WATCH AND SHARE “SIBLING RIVALRY” HERE

MORE FALL TOUR DATES ADDED THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA BEGINNING SEP 8

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE LONG-LISTED ALBUM, MORBID STUFF, OUT NOW VIA LITTLE DIPPER / UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA

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"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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Toronto’s PUP are psyched to release their newest video for the song “Sibling Rivalry”, one of the standout songs on their critically acclaimed, Polaris Music Prize long-listed, Morbid Stuff, out now on Little Dipper / Universal Music Canada. Animated by Martin MacPherson, the “Sibling Rivalry” video tells the story of lead singer Stefan Babcock’s camping adventure with his sister which – in typical PUP tradition – goes horribly, terribly wrong…

WATCH AND SHARE “SIBLING RIVALRY” HERE

Says Babcock about the video, “My sister and I go on pretty wild camping trips every year.  Each year they get crazier and crazier, because we’re constantly trying to out-dumb one another. This song is about a couple of those trips. In order to tell some of these very stupid stories, I’ve started drawing really shitty comics. I draw like a 5 year old, but I love doing it. There’s something liberating about diving headfirst into something you know is going to turn out like absolute trash. Luckily for me, my pal Marty is really creative and incredibly good at animation, and he really helped bring these stories to life in this video.”

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.

WATCH PUP PERFORM ON CBC q HERE

WATCH AND SHARE “FREE AT LAST” HERE

MORE PRAISE FOR PUP AND 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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THE MORBID STUFF TOUR-POCALYPSE

Jun 27 - Boise, ID - The Olympic
Jun 28 - Salt Lake City, UT - In The Venue
 **SOLD OUT**
Jun 29 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre **SOLD OUT**

Jul 1 - Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf  **SOLD OUT**

Jul 2 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom  **SOLD OUT**

Jul 3 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory  **SOLD OUT**
Jul 6 - Ottawa, ON - RBC Bluesfest
Jul 21 - Toronto, ON - RBC Echo Beach (with Twin Peaks, Cayetana, and Partner)
Aug 9 - Tolmin, SI - Punk Rock Holiday
Aug 10 - Zagreb, Croatia - Mochvara
Aug 11 - Budapest - Dürer Kert
Aug 12 - Prague, Czech Republic - Cafe V Lese
Aug 14 - Bellaria-Igea Marina, IT - Bay Fest
Aug 16-18 - Grosspösna, DE - Highfield Festival
Aug 17 - Hasselt, BE - Pukkelpop
Aug 20 - Bristol, UK - Rough Trade Bristol  **SOLD OUT**
Aug 21 - Nottingham, UK - Rough Trade Nottingham **SOLD OUT**
Aug 23 - Reading, UK - Reading Festival
Aug 24 - Leeds, UK - Leeds Festival
Sep 8 - Edmonton, Canada - SONiC Field Day
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 8 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre +
Oct 9 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre +
Oct 11 - Calgary, AB - MacEwan Hall +
Oct 13 - Saskatoon, SK - Coors Event Centre +
Oct 14 - Winnipeg, MB - The Garrick Centre +
Oct 17 - Kingston, ON - The Ale House +
Oct 22 - Montreal, QC - Théâtre Corona
Oct 23 - Quebec City, QC - Imperial Bell
Oct 25 - Halifax, NS - The Marquee Ballroom (Halifax) ** SOLD OUT**
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 17 - Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
Nov 18 - Paris, FR - Trabendo 
Nov 20 - London, UK - Electric Ballroom
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  **SOLD OUT**

^ with support from Illuminati Hotties
+ with support from Charly Bliss
* with support from AJJ
& with support from Potty Mouth

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