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Today, Pondercast and Killbeat are pleased to present the 11th installment of our podcast series, PonderBeat, a playlist of our artists curated by Laurie Brown.

For Episode 11, Laurie begins with two tracks which both share the common theme of finding courage, whether it be to stand up for who you are in Kyla Charter’s “Qwyn” or to face your own struggle with religion in Jordan Klassen’s “Ash Wednesday”.

Our Spring episode of PonderBeat features some very summery sounding selections with Scott Hardware’s “Summer” and Helena Deland’s “Swimmer”, however both tracks don’t necessarily focus on flora and fauna. Both explore past relationships; in Hardware’s case it’s his relationship with nostalgia, while Deland writes about her relationship and journey with her mother.

Yves Jarvis takes us on a trip of a different kind with “Prism Through Which I Perceive” while Katie Tupper wonders “How Can I Get Your Love”, perhaps an apt question to ask while exploring relationships through a pandemic. Speaking of relationships, leave it to Donovan Woods to get right down to the details in “Leave When You Go” with help of Ralph.

For Cassidy Mann, Laurie says it’s easy to see why she would be the first signee on Donovan Woods’ label, End Time Music. Similar to Woods’, Mann’s songwriting focuses on small, real moments, particularly in “Election Night”.

In The Weather Station’s “Marsh”, songwriter Tamara Lindeman also references an election night, however her track captures that feeling, much like the tension of awaiting an outcome, of hanging in the balance, teetering on the edge.

And to wrap up the playlist, Laurie has selected Sam Weber’s “Money” and adds a reminder that the arts were hit hard these last few years. Buy some music maybe?

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For Season 5 the Pondercast team is bringing you something entirely new yet a little reminiscent of times past. Pondercast Radio uses an innovative hack of streaming technology to bring you a once a month ‘radio show’ which you can stream at any time. The show will include a new playlist of music and Laurie’s introductions for your dining and dancing pleasure. Think of it like The Signal, just a little more technologically advanced.

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PONDERBEAT EPISODE 11
Kyla Charter - Qywn
Jordan Klassen - Ash Wednesdsay
Scott Hardware - Summer
Helena Deland - Swimmer
Yves Jarvis - Prism Through Which I Perceive
Katie Tupper - How Can I Get Your Love
Donovan Woods - Leave When You Go
Cassidy Mann - Election Night
The Weather Station - Marsh
Sam Weber - Money

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DONOVAN WOODS NEW EP OUT TODAY, SHARES NEW SINGLE FEATURING RALPH

LATEST LP, WITHOUT PEOPLE, EARNS JUNO AWARD NOMINATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ROOTS ALBUM

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Today, the JUNO Award winning, and once again nominated, singer-songwriter Donovan Woods has released the Big Hurt Boy EP via his own End Times Music, which includes the latest single, “Leave When You Go” feat. Ralph. Woods will head out on tour across Canada this spring in support, with U.S. dates in the works. Full tour dates can be found below.

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Woods was in on the joke when he named Big Hurt Boy. Riffing on a lyric from a Martin Simpson song (“Never Any Good”), the six-song collection explores how our failures — and our fixations on them — not only shape but enlighten us. “I write about them again and again, just hoping people will still be interested. So the title is poking fun of myself, that I’m theoretically this big sad guy who keeps getting dumped and writing fucking songs about it,” he notes. Or you could think of it this way: Woods’ deep curiosity about the human condition is why we so clearly hear our own stories in his. The details differ, the characters change, but at their core, Donovan's songs are for and about everyone.

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With this record, Woods looked to capture more of an ‘undone’ quality, wanting to “get back to the feeling that my early recordings had,” notes the winner of the 2019 JUNO Award for Contemporary Roots Album (for Both Ways). And yet, while Big Hurt Boy was recorded largely live, harnessing the electricity of a roomful of musicians laying down tracks in the studio, the collection brims with some of the luminous production touches Woods has been adding to this repertoire lately, such as on “I Won’t Mention It Again”, which opens featuring just Woods on banjo and vocals, before fading into a spectral backdrop of electronic textures and layers of lush harmonies.

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Woods released a first taste of Big Hurt Boy, “I Hope You Change Your Mind” co-written with David Hodges (Maren Morris, Carrie Underwood, Ed Sheeran), this past autumn, an understated tearjerker on tune. The tracked wrapped a transformative year for Woods, which included a duet with GRAMMY Award winning singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan on “IOWA”, a foray into anthemic dance pop as the featured vocalist on Dabin & Nurko’s “When This Is Over”, and the release of a deluxe edition of his acclaimed 2020 album Without People, which recently earned a JUNO nomination for Contemporary Roots Album.

Along with his work as an in-demand songwriter, whose work has been recorded by the likes of Tim McGraw (“Portland, Maine”) and Lady A’s Charles Kelley (“Leaving Nashville”), and co-writes with a diverse group of songwriters, such as Tom Douglas, Lori McKenna, Brandy Clark, Ashley Monroe, Dustin Christensen, Femke Weidema, Steve Robson, and Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies), a budding truth about Woods has emerged: as respected as he is as a solo artist, he’s evolving and upending our expectations of how his music sounds. His songs have grown more dimensional, emboldened by new sonic landscapes, reminding us that classic songwriting transcends genre.

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BIG HURT BOY TRACK LIST
01. I Won’t Mention It Again
02. Leave When You Go [feat. Ralph]
03. I Hope You Change Your Mind
04. Cheyenne
05. A Picture Of Us Smiling At A Party 5 Years Ago
06. No Time Soon

DONOVAN WOODS TOUR DATES // TICKETS HERE
04/20 – Sarnia, ON @ Imperial Theatre*
04/21 – Sarnia, ON @ Imperial Theatre*
04/22 – Meaford, ON @ Meaford Hall*
04/23 – Huntsville, ON @ Algonquin Theatre*
04/28 – Kingston, ON @ Sydenham Church^
04/29 – Kitchener, ON @ Centre in the Square^
04/30 – London, ON @ London Music Hall^
05/04 – Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre*
05/05 – Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre*
05/08 – Edmonton, AB @ Winspear Centre*
05/09 – Calgary, AB @ Jack Singer Concert Hall*
05/10 – Saskatoon, SK @ Broadway Theatre*
05/11 – Saskatoon, SK @ Broadway Theatre*
05/12 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre*
05/17 – Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre^
05/18 – Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre^
05/19 – Montreal, QC @ L’Astral^
05/27 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall~

With special guests:
* Cassidy Mann
^ Madi Diaz
~ Matt Nathanson

PRAISE FOR DONOVAN WOODS

"He’s got a knack for slice-of-life storytelling that blends heartache and hooks." - Rolling Stone

“Donovan Woods is no stranger to making music that tugs at the heart-strings.” - The FADER

“Woods' brand of folk-pop is both grand and unassuming.” – The Line of Best Fit

“Capturing the early optimism of new-found love, the singer pours his heart out for this emotional and moving tune.”  - Wonderland

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ABOUT END TIMES MUSIC
Founded by Donovan Woods and his long-time manager Michelle Szeto, the core of End Times’ mission is transparency and adaptability. In the world of streaming, the data is available. Artists should understand their expenses and their earnings as well as anyone they work with. It allows us to interpret and react to how, why, and where songs are being discovered. 

There are many pathways to success, and success looks different to everyone. Every artist and every project is unique and artists should be confident that the team built around them is being created thoughtfully and purposefully in service of their individuality. 

We’ll focus on songwriters, regardless of genre, and work together to make their music valuable by getting it to people who will use it and love it.

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ABIGAIL LAPELL SHARES NEW TRACK FROM UPCOMING LP

ABIGAIL LAPELL STUDIES THE HOPES AND HARDSHIPS OF IMMIGRATING TO A NEW WORLD ON NEW TUNE “LAND OF PLENTY”

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ABIGAIL LAPELL’S THIRD LP, STOLEN TIME, SET FOR RELEASE APRIL 22, 2022 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

TOUR DATES AT SXSW AND TREEFORT MUSIC FESTIVAL CONTINUE THIS WEEK

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There’s a deep level of empathy that only comes about when one has experienced or been impacted by similar situations. In the case of Canadian singer/songwriter Abigail Lapell, watching a ban on Muslim immigrants happen right before her eyes struck a generational chord with the woman who’s family escaped the Holocaust by immigrating from Eastern Europe to North America. Lapell took to her notebook and the resulting song, “Land Of Plenty”, presents a simple-but-striking look at the hopes and hardships of immigrating to a new world as the opening track from her upcoming album, Stolen Time. 

Its themes are both timeless and timely in its recurring, prayerful refrains, envoking the spirits of Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger. “When the Trump administration first brought in the Muslim ban, I remember watching something about it and just crying; it made me think of my whole family,” Lapell says. “They didn’t have an easy life here. You get here and you have no money, you have nothing to call your own, but you’re still rich. It’s not about romanticizing life in Canada, or ignoring the ills of our society. We were just raised with this idea, that as shitty as it is, it’s better than any other place or time in history. This is the land of plenty.” 

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MORE ABOUT STOLEN TIME
The upcoming Stolen Time strikes a balance between Lapell’s acoustic debut, Great Survivor, and her two rockier Chris Stringer-produced records, Hide Nor Hair and Getaway, while bringing a live-off-the-floor 70s folk-rock vibe and more structural experimentation to the table on songs that feel expansive in their scope—unhurried, psychedelic, and other-worldly. Lapell’s band underscores and meets the power of her vocals on songs like “Ships”, a wild sax solo seemingly enticing her higher and louder to meet the crashing waves. But many of Stolen Time’s standout tracks are solo acoustic guitar songs, backed by little more than Lapell’s harmonica, pump organ, or accordion. “Old Flames”, with Lapell’s melodic fingerstyle guitar mimicking flickering embers, is a bit of an answer song to Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire”, the swirling and woozy “Scarlet Fever” was inspired by an elderly relative’s tales of being quarantined as a child, and the aforementioned “Land Of Plenty” haunts with its folk-refrain statement on immigration, past and present.

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Stolen Time also marks the collaborative meeting of two important music communities for Lapell, who spent formative years in Montreal’s Mile End before returning to her hometown: From Toronto, Dan Fortin (bass), Dani Nash (drums, vocals), Christine Bougie (lap steel, guitar) and Rachael Cardiello (viola); and from Montreal Katie Moore (vocals), Chris Velan (vocals), Pietro Amato (French horn) and Ellwood Epps (trumpet); Nashville pedal steel player Fats Kaplin and Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee also play on the album.

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TOUR DATES
Mar 16 - Austin, TX - SXSW - Stephen F’s Bar
Mar 18 - Austin, TX - SXSW - Chess Club
Mar 19 - Austin, TX - SXSW - Second Play Stages @ Fairmont Austin
Mar 20 - Austin, TX - Rawhide Trail House Concerts
Mar 24 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest - Boise Co-Op
Mar 25 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest - Pengilly’s Saloon
Mar 26 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest - The Hideout
Mar 26 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest - Treeline city bus
Jun 25 - Hamilton, ON - Mills Hardware

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STOLEN TIME TRACK LIST
01 Land Of Plenty
02 Ships
03 Pines
04 Scarlet Fever
05 All Dressed Up
06 I See Music
07 Stolen Time
08 Waterfall
09 Sewage
10 Old Flames
11 I Can’t Believe

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