RAE SPOON SHARES NEW TRACK, “MONEY”

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MENTAL HEALTH DUE OUT AUGUST 16 VIA COAX RECORDS

TOUR DATES BEGIN AUGUST 9

"Spoon stares down the abyss and walks away alive, celebrating that survival with a wonderfully vital blend of electronic beats, rock-band dynamics, and uplifting brass." - The Straight

"Spoon is well known for their insightful and introspective lyrics, and their new album is initiating the conversation that we need to be having about mental health." - Femme Art Review

"Mental Health is just eight songs long, but it promises to trace Spoon's personal journey with their own mental health, covering everything from insomnia to intergenerational trauma in the best way possible: incredible indie pop from one of the country's
most underrated artists." - CBC Music

“Rae Spoon is one of the most important musicians working in Canada today.” – Now Magazine

“The mark of a gifted songwriter is the ability to create the most emotion with the fewest notes. Rae Spoon is a master of restraint, conveying both hope and hurt at once through
simple melodies.” – Exclaim!

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Today, non-binary musician Rae Spoon is sharing another new track from their upcoming LP, Mental Health. “Money” is about “the least talked about aspect of the mental health system which is that it’s almost impossible to receive positive treatment without personal money,” says Spoon. “The mental health epidemic is due to a lack of allocation of funding by governments. I wrote it about the cycles that occur when people don’t have resources.”

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Mental Health is the tenth full-length album from Rae Spoon and is the culmination of eighteen years of releasing records and touring internationally. Rae is known for giving a voice to perspectives that are not as often heard. Due out August 16 on Coax Records, the album traces their personal journey with mental health through eight indie-pop songs. From inter-generational trauma to losing people to suicide the issues raised are more than surface deep and ask hard questions about how to cope with mental pain. The album was recorded at the Noise Floor on Gabriola Island with members of the Pack AD and fuses rock drums and guitar with Rae’s enigmatic voice.

LISTEN AND SHARE “I CAN’T SLEEP” HERE

This summer Rae, will take to the road to support Mental Health with a run of tour dates throughout Canada. Full tour dates can be found below.

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TOUR DATES
Aug 9 - 11 Regina, SK - Regina Folk Festival 
Aug 14 Vancouver, BC - Fox Cabaret w/Kimmortal and LAL
Aug 15 Victoria, BC - Victoria Event Centre w/Kimmortal and LAL
Aug 16 Seattle, WA - Woodland Theatre w/LAL
Sep 5 Halifax, NS - Rad Storm w/Kimmortal  
Sep 6 Ottawa, ON - Pressed w/Kimmortal
Sep 7 Toronto, ON - Gladstone Ballroom w/Kimmortal  
Sep 10 Montreal, QC - Casa Del Popolo w/Kimmortal  
Sep 11 New Westminster, BC - House Concert 
Sep 12 Vancouver, BC - Fringe Bar
Sep 13 Edmonton, AB - Aviary w/Wares
Sep 14 Calgary, AB - The Eddy w/Wares
Sep 25 Montreal, QC - Pop Montreal w/Gigi French

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MENTAL HEALTH TRACKLIST
01 Go Away
02 Shame
03 I Can’t Sleep (Feat. Becky Black)
04 Blaring (Feat. Northcote)
05 Again
06 Money
07 Inheritance
08 There’s No End

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WALRUS SHARE NEW VIDEO, ANNOUNCE CANADIAN TOUR DATES

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TOUR DATES WITH THRUSH HERMIT AND WINTERSLEEP BEGIN SEPTEMBER 17

COOL TO WHO LP DUE OCTOBER 18 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

"Walrus sound like one complete organism...No one part is taking away from anything else, and they all move well together." - Exclaim!

"Unrelenting guitar grooves and a smattering of psychedelia." - Stereogum

"Walrus bring about a magnificent explosion of noise and heat." - Consequence Of Sound

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Halifax garage-psych quartet, Walrus, one of Canada's best-loved touring acts, are today announcing a new run of tour dates throughout Canada in support of their forthcoming second album Cool To Who, which is due for release on October 18, 2019 via Outside Music. The string dates sees the band supporting Thrush Hermit and Wintersleep. Full tour dates can be found below.

Today they are also sharing the video for their new single, “Played Out”. Whilst visually tipping hat to the band’s affinity for wrestling, “Played Out” sonically angles towards the band’s garage-rock temperament, cutting a groove laced with doom-laden riffs and billowing guitars. Thematically, the track looks to document the feeling of negative repetition, a topic tackled within the video: “Even though you know it’s no good for you, and the feeling is played out compared to what it used to be… you do it anyway.”

Director, Jeff Miller, adds, “The ‘Played Out’ video is like time traveling through my wrestling fandom. I started editing music videos to bootlegged wrestling clips when I was in the 7th grade, and that sparked a full on career as a music video director/editor. When Walrus said they wanted a video for ‘Played Out', their only stipulation was that it was somehow pro wrestling related and it was like everything had come full circle.”

WATCH AND SHARE “PLAYED OUT” HERE

Formed in 2012 by two brothers, Justin (vocalist and guitarist) and Jordan Murphy (drums), alongside two friends in Truro, Nova Scotia, the band cut their teeth in music via the traditional route of heavy touring. Intense bouts of gigging saw the quartet earn a reputation, not only for their live shows but also for the way they treat the process - on one occasion managing to get banned from Avis Rental Car. Walrus, have been the recipients of some great tutelage along the way, they were signed to Dan Mangan’s Madic Records for their first album which garnered them some immediate attention and most recently, they supported The Sadies across their North American tour.

WATCH AND SHARE “COOL TO WHO” HERE

TOUR DATES
Sept 17: Quebec City, QC - L’anti
Sept 18: Kingston, ON - Mansion
Sept 19: Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern
Sept 20: Watsons Corner, ON - Hollowfest 
Sept 21: Barrie, ON - Fox Lounge / Troubadour Festival 
Sept 25: Fredericton, NB - The Fredericton Playhouse ** 
Sept 26: Moncton, NB - Tide & Boar ** 
Oct 3: Oshawa, ON - Oshawa Music Hall # 
Oct 4: Midland, ON - Midland Cultural Centre # 
Oct 26: Halifax, NS - Marquee / Halifax Pop Explosion $
Nov 1: Sackville, NS - Thunder & Lightning 
Nov 2: Saint John, NB - Pepper’s Pub
Nov 8: Truro, NS - Engine Room Pub 
Nov 9: Charlottetown, PEI - Baba’s 

** w/ Thrush Hermit
# w/ Wintersleep
$ w/ Diet Cig

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COOL TO WHO TRACKLIST
1. Breathe
2. Cool To Who
3. Half Smoke
4. Marcel
5. Mr. Insecure
6. Played Out
7. Ballad Of Love (Or Something)
8. Out For A While
9. Bored To Death
10. Anymore

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RICH AUCOIN SHARES VR 360 VIDEO FOR “THE PAST”, ADDS MORE TOUR DATES

WATCH AND SHARE “THE PAST” 360 VR VIDEO HERE

DEATH TOUR DATES BEGIN OCTOBER 9

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“A bold talent, his grasp of sonics is interlinked with a desire to express something, to challenge both himself and those around him.” - Clash Magazine

"’The Middle’ is an extremely earnest, charming-as-hell reflection on the self at the midpoint of life and death." - Noisey

"This is an anthemic collection of head nodding and foot tapping electro-pop" - PopMatters 

"Easily one of the most mesmerizing tracks we've heard so far this year." - CBC Music (2018)

“Aucoin, a characteristically ambitious artist” - Paste Mag 

“The Past” 360 VR Video Screen Shot

Today, Rich Aucoin shares the 360 VR video for “The Past” from his latest critically acclaimed LP, Release, an album that grapples with the concept of mortality by using Alice in Wonderland (1951) as a metaphor for the journey. “The Past” is about “letting go,” Aucoin tells Indie88. “The lyrics ‘don’t look back, was I always wrong?’ are repeated throughout. ‘It’s come out of my love, it’s coming for me’ is regret chasing one down until it kills them if they live with a sense of living in the past and/or with their regrets and mistakes letting them oppress you with trauma instead of working through those feelings and traumas to move forward and be uncontrolled by them. Alice is making a pivotal choice to move forward and not go back the way she came as she goes deeper into herself and her wonderland.”

Musically, “The Past” is entirely made Aucoin’s vocals and body with no instruments. “All the drums and percussion were made from my mouth or clapping. I pitched down my voice for the bass as well as creating the vocal pads and vocal melody lines.”

The 360 VR video for “The Past” shot by Pete Macdonald and edited by AJ King, continues that theme putting the viewer inside a 3D cube made up of Aucoin's mouth on each of its six sides, with each mouth doing a part of the song which was all made from his mouth as well. The audio, spatialized by Kyle Varley, is set so that when one moves their phone or VR headset around to hear each of the parts of music, the part's volume increases as well so the viewer makes their own mix of the track. 

WATCH AND SHARE “THE PAST” 360 VR VIDEO HERE

Rich Aucoin has been bringing his joyous celebration of life show around the world for the past decade. With this new album and tour, Rich has focused on death more than his previous efforts We're All Dying To Live and Ephemeral in which themes of life and death were also addressed. His third album Release, originally called Death, acts as the conclusion in his first trilogy of albums. For these shows once and only, Rich and crew will perform the album in its entirety to the film Dark Side of The Moon / Wizard of Oz sync style. If you've been enjoying Release this summer and Rich's shows over the years, come out and get covered in parachutes and projections, confetti, and celebrations before his upcoming death in 2020. The Death Tour begins October 10, full tour dates can be found below. To get a glimpse of what to expect at the show, watch the Death Tour preview video captured by Southern Souls.

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Produced by Aucoin and drummer Joel Waddell, his music has seen acclaim across the board with previous releases (We’re All Dying To Live and Ephemeral) long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize (2012/2015). As part of a list of Rich Aucoin’s accomplishments, the music video for “Brian Wilson is A.L.I.V.E.” won the Prism Prize (2013), which he’s also been shortlisted for this year. Nominated for ten East Coast Music Awards including Album, Song, and Fan Choice Entertainer of the Year, with more than 2 million streams, Aucoin has built a reputation for his energetic live shows performing his music written in sync to old movies in the same manner as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon with The Wizard of Oz. Using projections to these films, he has brought his interactive performance to stages at Osheaga, The Great Escape, Les Eurockéennes, Les Vielles Charrues, Berlin Music Festival, Montreal International Jazz Festival, Hangout Music Festival, Art Basel Miami, Luminato Art Festival, Iceland Airwaves, SXSW, Pop Montreal and more. 

WATCH AND SHARE “THE CHANGE” HERE

WATCH AND SHARE “THE OTHER” HERE 

Born, raised and currently based in Halifax, Canada, Rich Aucoin has been fully immersed in music ever since he can remember, learning how to play almost any instrument he could get his hands on while also teaching himself production and home-recording. A philanthropist at heart, Aucoin has raised money for several charities with his music. He has cycled coast to coast twice for both Childhood Cancer Canada and The Canadian Mental Health Association/Mental Health America; cycling to each show. He has also crossed Canada for the Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation running a series of half-marathons. 

RICH AUCOIN TOUR DATES
Aug 9 - Hubbards, NS - Shore Club
Sep 9 - San Jose, CA - The Ritz*
Sep 10 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop*
Sep 11 - Arcata, CA - Hum Brews*
Sep 14 - Toronto, ON - The Bentway ‘Moon Merge’ 
Sep 17 - Edmonton, AB - Rec Room*
Sep 20 - Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club*
Sep 21 - Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall*
Sep 22 - Iowa City, IA - Gabe's Oasis*
Sep 24 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater*
Sep 25 - Grand Junction, CO - Mesa Theater*
Sep 27 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar*
Sep 30 - San Diego, CA - Casbah*
Oct 1 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo*

* with TWRP

DEATH TOUR
Oct 9 - London, ON - Call The Office
Oct 10 - Guelph, ON - e-Bar
Oct 11 - Toronto, ON - Longboat Hall
Oct 12 - Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory
Oct 17 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
Oct 18 - Chicago, IL - HVAC Pub
Oct 19 - Cudahy, WI - X-Ray Arcade
Oct 31 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
Nov 2 - Victoria, BC - Lucky Bar
Nov 7 - Charlottetown, PEI - PEI Brewing Company
Nov 8 - St John’s, NF - The Rock House
Nov 14 - Sao Paulo, BR - Breve
Nob 21 - Quebec, QC - La Source de la Martinière
Nov 22 - Montreal, QC - O Patro Vys
Nov 23 - Ottawa, ON - House of TARG
Nov 28 - Winnipeg, MB - Good Will
Nov 30 - Calgary, AB - Commonwealth

MORE TOUR DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

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