SAMEER CASH SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “NOTHING AT ALL”

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"like these songs are being played in the middle of a group hug from the people who fight with you everyday for a better life." - Dominionated

“On This City, Sameer Cash is vulnerable as a person, and as a musician stunningly and achingly on point.” - Canadian Beats

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Today, Sameer Cash is sharing the video for “Nothing At All” from his recent album, This City, out now via Postwar Records. The last video shot in a series of 8, filmed over the course of a week at Jonas Bonnetta’s (Evening Hymns) Port William Sound, Cash “had the ambitious idea to attempt to shoot three music videos and six live videos, and I was trying to film performances in any spare minute we had between shooting music videos. This was the last day we were up at the Port William Sound — My tiny honda civic packed to the brim with guitars and camera equipment, we had a few minutes to spare and the sun was in the right place and we got this impromptu performance — the least stylized of them all, but perhaps the one with some energy. Special thanks to guest vocalist Aurora Shields.”

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Written in between bar shifts and soundchecks and recorded in a garage behind a Chinese restaurant in downtown Toronto, produced by Matthew Bailey, engineered by Chris Stringer (Timber Timbre), mixed by D James Goodwin (Kevin Morby, Craig Finn) and mastered by Philip Bova Shaw (Feist, Andy Shauf), This City is the result of the kind of heartbreaking, and redemptive work that compels us to be better.

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Sameer Cash was raised on a diet of Rock & Roll records and Hindu fairy tales. His father, born to a large Catholic family in Scarborough, Ontario, left the suburbs to follow the ungovernable religion of 1980’s post-punk. Cash’s mother, born among the mango trees of Kenya, by way of India, clung to her own upbringing through childhood memories and her mother’s cooking, seeking comfort and closure through many Canadian Prairie winters. Cash was born into an amalgamation of communities, converging at the point of least resistance: music (his father wrote and toured the world in various bands from the 1980’s to 2010’s, and his mother became a music manager, now in the industry for the past 30 years).

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These threads of identity are embedded in the delicate and powerful 9 songs that make up the debut album from Sameer Cash. This City is an album about family and place, about friendships and how they get frayed. ‘When it gets too much, stay in touch with your mother and your high school band,’ he sings near the end of the album.  

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There are intimate moments of quiet fortitude (“Driveway Moment”, “Easily”), rollicking blasts of glory (“Stay In Touch”, “Paralyzed”), and honest narratives on life and work in the city – a genre Cash has christened “gentrification ballads” (“This City”, “$3000”).  This City is an ambitiously understated album that’ll soak you in melancholy and leave you out to dry in the sun.

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While surely a forerunner for one of 2020’s most exciting releases, Sameer Cash’s This City is a journey you’ve been telling yourself you need to make but just haven’t gotten around to. Now you Can. Don’t worry though, Cash has done all the heavy lifting. All you have to do is push play.

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LOWELL REVEALS SOULFUL POP-R&B BALLAD “LEMONADE”

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GOLD + DOUBLE PLATINUM-SELLING SONGWRITER (JOJO, DEMI LOVATO, CHARLIE PUTH, BÜLOW, MADISON BEER)

"Lowell is no ordinary pop chanteuse" - The New York Times 

“Her music is sweet, but with an intentional, inseparable grit.” - NPR

"irresistible pop hooks" - Rolling Stone 

“Equal parts art-punk brat and sex-positive icon, Lowell challenges conventions of modern pop music, using her songs to confront issues like LGBTQ and women’s rights” - Stereogum

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Lowell has experienced an entire career’s worth of music industry ups-and-downs in an astonishingly short period of time. Her journey from dropping out of college and working as a stripper to finding her footing as the go-to songwriter for platinum selling pop stars will be fodder for an incredible book one day, but freshly earned double platinum (“Not A Love Song” by Bülow) and gold (“Selfish” by Madison Beer) certified plaques and a new solo album on the way, Lowell’s in no rush to write her story. It’s only just beginning. And if she’s learned anything from the last decade, it’s that when life hands you lemons…

Today, Los Angeles/Toronto based singer-songwriter Lowell releases “Lemonade”, a modern piano ballad that pulls as much inspiration from ‘70s singer-songwriters like Carole King and Randy Newman as it does Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey. The new stripped-back single about toxic positivity feels timeless, like it was pulled out of a collective memory, but with a big F-bomb in the hook and a prominent Migos-esque triplet flow in the pre-chorus, it couldn’t be more contemporary. Having spent so much time in the pop world recently, Lowell chose to present these songs how they were written, in their most essential state and most simple essence.

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After leaving stripping and escaping a manipulative manager, Lowell was tapped by producer Martin Terefe to create her debut EP featuring collaborations with members of Coldplay, A-Ha and Mew. The EP caught the attention of indie label Arts & Crafts, who released her 2014 debut which prominently addressed her feminist politics and time spent as a sex worker. Critically adored, but commercially under-appreciated, she put her solo career on hold and moved to LA to focus on songwriting where she quickly began working with ascendent pop artists like Hailee Steinfeld, JoJo, Demi Lovato, Lennon Stella and Charlie Puth. 

Continuing her multidisciplinary artistic trajectory, Lowell co-wrote Bloodthirsty, a 2020 Canadian horror feature film about a young vegan indie singer, who finds herself turning into a werewolf under the pressure of recording her anticipated second album. The film features several new songs, including “Lemonade”. It was accepted into Frontieres at Cannes and will premiere at both Fantastic Fest in Austin TX (the US’s biggest genre fest) and Fantasia in Montreal (only 10 films accepted world wide). 

“Lemonade” is the first single from an album that’s due in early 2021.

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THE WEATHER STATION RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE & VIDEO, “ROBBER”

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The Weather Station - project of Tamara Lindeman - marks her bold return with a new single/video, “Robber”, and an accompanying self-directed video. It’s her first new music on Next Door Records (Canada) and Fat Possum (Rest of the World) and her first since her acclaimed 2017 self-titled album, “that sounds as fleshed-out and powerful as the world it contains” (Pitchfork). 

Though “Robber” features Lindeman’s unmistakeable delivery, the song illustrates a sophisticated turn in sound. A full minute passes before the entry of Lindeman’s voice, gentle, conversational, intoning; ‘I never believed in the robber.’ A jagged music builds, with stabbing strings, ample saxophone, and several layers of percussion, and the song undulates through five minutes of growing tension, seesawing between just two chords. For “Robber,” Lindeman pulled together the full 7 piece band and assigned different people to opposing teams; one team of order and straightness, the other of chaos and improvisation. 

“I think in my life I’ve been pretty naive, always tried to see the good in everyone (still do), always tried to make do with what is and not think of what can’t be (still do),” says Lindeman.  “But those attitudes are dangerous when applied at a societal level, especially at this moment in time. I think we’re all in denial a bit, about where we are, and what is happening, because it’s easier on some level, easier to try and make do with what’s missing than to see what’s missing.  I think it’s hard to believe in the robber, hard to even see the robber; it’s easier to try and make love to or glamourize the robber. It hurts too much otherwise. To put it straight; there are real human people who are literally robbing us and all future generations of all of everything that matters, right now. But we literally can’t see that as a society, because for one thing because we’ve been taught not to value what is taken, and for another because we’ve been taught to glamourize and love the taker.  We love to love the taker.  We don’t know how to see the victim of the taking.” 

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The accompanying video is Lindeman’s first venture into directing. It was made in one day in the forest on the property where Lindeman grew up, shot by Jared Raab. “Throughout the video is a thread of denial, of people performing their roles even when nothing seems to make sense, and nothing is quite right, and we are quite literally lost in the woods; which feels like a pretty perfect summation of our year so far,” says Lindeman. “From an emotional and mood standpoint, I wanted the video to feel like how 2020 does to me; steeped in a sort of omnipresent unease and a threat of distant violence, even as life goes on, performers perform, dancers dance, food couriers seek addresses. The threat is felt only by some characters, while others are curiously unaffected, seeming not even to notice. I wanted to capture the disorientation of participating in capitalism and performance in general, where it can feel like power and co-option, self actualization and violation, sometimes all at once.”

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