BASEMENT REVOLVER ANNOUNCE NEW EP, SHARE VIDEO FOR FIRST SINGLE

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Hamilton’s Basement Revolver continue to set their sights on forward motion with the release of their upcoming six-song EP. Wax And Digital - slated for release October 18, 2019 via Sonic Unyon - evolves beyond the bedroomy sound of the band’s previous releases while losing none of its intimacy. Along with the EP announcement, the band has shared the title track.

“Wax and Digital” is the EP’s most vivid romantic statement. Singer Chrisy Hurn says of the song: “‘Wax and Digital’ is about me and my husband, the music that we love together, and how that music has shaped our relationship. In a broader sense it is about how culture informs our lives - even though culture changes rapidly and is temporary, we will always have certain things to hold on to, like music, to look back on and feel sentimental about. I hope that people take away a sense of nostalgia within their own lives, from the things that have helped them to fall in love, or that people think about the things that they have lost, but with thankfulness. Life is a crazy mess, but it’s beautiful and confusing and poetic, may we never forget the things that help us to make some sense of it.”

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The upcoming EP follows a successful 2018 that saw the band released their acclaimed debut LP, Heavy Eyes, via Sonic Unyon and Memphis Industries affiliate label Fear Of Missing Out. They have now expanded to a 4-piece, with the founding trio of guitarist-vocalist Chrisy Hurn, bassist Nimal Agalawatte, and drummer Brandon Munro, adding second guitarist Jonathan Malström to further augment and intensify their emotionally charged dream-pop. With her mind on her upcoming marriage, Hurn wrote this collection of songs in a period of change. The EP looks back at her religious upbringing that she has - for the most part - since left behind, and gazes ahead at the person she hopes to become.

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WAX AND DIGITAL TRACKLIST
Wax and Digital
Master’s Degree
Concussion Pt. 2
Have I Been Deceived
Romantic At Heart
What Are You Waiting For

TOUR DATES
Sep 19 - Hamburg, DE - Reeperbahn
Sep 20 - Hamburg, DE - Reeperbahn
Sep 22 - Offenbach, DE - Herbstfestival (Hafen 2)
Sep 26 - Montreal, QC at POP Montreal
Oct 5 - St. Catharines, ON at Cicada Fest

PRAISE FOR BASEMENT REVOLVER

"Alvvays goes shoegaze. Dreamily drift between featherlight fizz and gutting, rueful riffing."  - Total Guitar

"A patchwork quilt of The Maccabees' softly stummed builds and
the melodic force of Alvvays." - DIY

"Wonderfully tender compositions full of weight." - Gold Flake Paint

"Fuzzy dream-pop melodies." - The Line Of Best Fit

"Lush with dulcet reverb." - The Fader

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PONDERCAST EPISODE 47 : STORY TIME WITH THE MOTH

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Episode 47 marks the start of Season 3 of Pondercast! In this episode Laurie Brown joins forces with another podcast, The Moth, to talk about storytelling. The Moth has been encouraging real people to tell their real stories in front of an audience for 22 years. If you haven’t listened you should..right after you listen to this episode.

Whether you believe it or not - you have a story that deserves to be told. What is it? How would you tell it? We hope this episode inspires you to tell yours. The world needs more stories. Thanks to The Moth for sharing a story with us, and for taking the time to sit down with Pondercast.

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On September 14, Pondercast host Laurie Brown and JUNO Award Nominated electronic composer and musician Joshua Van Tassel will explore how city-dwellers merge with their natural surroundings during a live podcast recording that takes visitors on a virtual journey to the moon and back with Moon Merge. The evening will feature performances by Choir! Choir! Choir!, Bernice and a special silent disco set by Rich Aucoin.

The Bentway is an innovative public space project underneath Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway and have now announced its Fall 2019 programming calendar under the theme Second Nature. From September to November 2019, The Bentway will bring together artists, community activists, urbanists, scientists and innovators to explore ways urban dwellers can reconnect to the natural world. Tickets can be found here.

Pondercast is powered by listeners. If you’d like to share the musical love, you can start by sharing this episode. If you feel like that’s just not enough, please consider becoming a patron of the show via the Pondercast Patreon here. Patrons receive a behind the scenes look at Pondercast, first notice of new episodes, and access to monthly Ponder Playlists. 

And if you’ve ever wondered how Laurie, Joshua, and Ty actually make a Pondercast episode, they’ve given a peak behind the curtain with a new video.

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Of course, the best way to learn about new episodes and stay in touch while you are up in the clouds is through the Pondercast Newsletter. Sign up here. 

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Recently, Killbeat Music partnered with the team at Pondercast to bring you Ponderbeat, a series of special episodes featuring selections curated by Brown from some of Killbeat’s latest releases. The fourth episode of Ponderbeat is live now, featuring music from Ada Lea, Begonia, Close Talker, FET.NAT, River Tiber, Tamino and more.

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TAMI NEILSON SHARES NEW SINGLE, NEW LP COMING SOON

CANADIAN-BORN, NEW ZEALAND-BASED DYNAMO VOCALIST TAMI NEILSON GETS BACK TO HER FAMILY ROOTS 

WATCH AND SHARE “HEY, BUS DRIVER!” HERE

CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN NOVEMBER 16

NEW ALBUM CHICKABOOM! DUE OUT FEBRUARY 14, 2020 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

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No one forgets the first time they saw Tami Neilson. She can hush a room with an original song that channels the hurting spirit of Patsy Cline or the sensuality of Peggy Lee, or bring the audience to its feet on a rockabilly raver.

She’s an artist with real range, whose powerful voice can take on big ballads, golden-age country, heartfelt Gospel, soul-infused R&B, Western swing, even old-style rock ‘n’ roll. Tami encompasses them all and is a personality-powered cyclonic force of nature in stylishly retro attire, long lashes and a stacked-high beehive.

Previous media accolades come from both sides of the Atlantic, including Rolling Stone, which called her “a fire-breathing belter on her own terms” and the U.K.’s Guardian, which asserted that “her powerhouse voice recalls 1950s stars such as Wanda Jackson and Patsy Cline.”

Of her new album’s title, CHICKABOOM!, Tami explains, “I wanted to write an album of punchy little songs, popping firecrackers that, when stripped back to nothing but a guitar, percussion and two voices, would still go boom!” The new collection brings much personal and family history to the table. 

Of the song “Hey, Bus Driver!,” Rolling Stone notes that “instead of a somber lament, this is a lively plea to get back home as quickly as possible, with Neilson ordering the bus driver to put the pedal down as she lets loose with a powerful wail.”

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Tami grew up performing across North America with the Neilson Family Band, working alongside greats such as Johnny Cash, Tanya Tucker, and Kitty Wells. With her parents Betty and Ron (her late father a songwriter of considerable accomplishment) and two brothers Todd (drums) and Jay (bass), she spent years on the road learning her craft. This enabled Tami to explore her increasing vocal and emotional range and build a deep well of musical influences to draw upon when she started to write her own material.

Subsequently, Tami fell in love with a New Zealander, moved to the bottom of the world and began her solo career without the support of the family. Over many years she built a platform for herself through open-mic nights, playing soulless casinos and the dead-air time-slots at festivals, finding a small group of fellow travellers and supportive players, and then a series of increasingly impressive albums followed.

The early records saw her in a self-created territory between mainstream country and alternative country, a couple recorded around the kitchen table back home in Canada with brother Jay, who is now an acclaimed producer and songwriter. Then awards started coming in New Zealand for albums that added breadth to her “country singer” label: Best Female Artist, Best Country Album, Best Country Song, an APRA Silver Scroll (songwriting) award and Album of the Year nominations. Her Dynamite! album of 2014 received rave reviews in Britain’s MOJO and the Guardian named it a Top 10 Best Country Music Album. Tami’s songs appeared on the Netflix series Wanted and the terrestrial TV series Nashville.

Tami Neilson’s singing and writing is too big to contain, as HMV Canada noted: “There are singers and then there is Tami Neilson, for whom the word singer just isn’t big enough.”

The road has now led to CHICKABOOM!, which is something different again, and even more personal. “In the past year, I started to notice something,” she says. “The artists I would spend time with backstage at festivals, the ones I gravitated to the most and followed on social media – artists like the Secret Sisters, Shovels & Rope, Kasey Chambers, Brandi Carlile – they all had family performing with them. When you tour away from loved ones, it makes a world of difference to have part of your village with you on the road. Not to mention, nothing can come close to that special blend of blood harmonies and silent communication that only comes from being onstage with a person for over 30 years. Family has always been a huge part my music-writing, recording and creating with me, but I wanted family on this project and on the road with me again.” Brother Jay flew to Auckland, New Zealand from Toronto to record a selection of new songs that have unmistakable sibling magic and harmonies. “I don’t think he quite understands what he’s gotten himself into but now the album’s coming out it’s a bit too late. Sucker,” she laughs.

And if you’ve missed Tami before — on record or in concert — then you are in for a treat, and you might not quite understand what you’ve gotten yourself into either. 

TOUR DATES
Sep 10 - Nashville, TN - True Music Room at Cambria (11PM)
Sep 12 - Nashville, TN -WMOT/NPR World Cafe War Memorial Auditorium (2PM)
Nov 16 - Wakefield, QC - Blacksheep Inn
Nov 18 - Toronto, ON - Mod Club Theatre 
Nov 21 - Sorel Tracy, QC - Azimut Diffusion
Nov 22 - Quebec City, QC - Palais Montcalm
Nov 23 - Repentigny, QC - Centre D’art Diane Dufresne
Nov 28 - Knowlton, QC - Théâtre du Lac Brome
Nov 29 - Longueuil, QC - Theatre de la Ville
Nov 30 - Saint Therese, QC - Cabaret BMO

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