CHARLIE HOUSTON RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE “BUBBLY”

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“... casts back to timeless memories of fumbling early romance—first kisses, messy breakups, and short-lived flirtations are all soundtracked by weightless indie pop and R&B stylings”
 – Under The Radar

“It’s a striking debut, an unguarded, ultra-personal tapestry—stories of heartbreak and struggle, sung in her soothing, signature voice” – SPIN

“‘Things’ is an unadulterated look at youthful insecurities and unrequited affection. Over a somber but punchy backdrop, she delivers an evocative performance that is ripe with honesty” – EARMILK

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Canadian indie pop artist Charlie Houston returns after a banner 2022 with "Bubbly", the groovy, bouncy, and for lack of a better word, bubbly track about sex. "Growing up I feel like I didn't understand the concept of pleasure", reflects Houston. "This is because what one finds pleasurable is directly linked to one's sexuality. As a teenager, I was trying to be something I'm not, finding pleasure in things that I knew I didn't like. It wasn't until university where I really started acting like the person I knew I was, and therefore finally experiencing the kind of pleasures I wanted. 'Bubbly' is a sort of cheeky anthem to me finally feeling comfortable in my own pleasure." 

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The single follows Houston's 2022 sophomore EP, Bad Posture, and the collaborative single "Wide Awake" with ODESZA from their Grammy-nominated album The Last Goodbye. Houston joined ODESZA on their massive North American studio tour, and supported JUNO Award-winning Artist of the Year Charlotte Cardin on tour across Canada. 

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THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS SHARE NEW SINGLE, “ANGELCOVER”, FROM UPCOMING LP

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NEW LP, CONTINUE AS A GUEST, OUT ON MARCH 31, 2023 VIA MERGE

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TOUR DATES BEGIN THIS SPRING

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The New Pornographers are debuting their new track “Angelcover” in anticipation of their forthcoming album Continue as a Guest, their first for Merge Records, due March 31. 

“I pictured this one as a weird little George Saunders-esque sketch, a snapshot,” explains frontperson A.C. Newman. “I found myself a lot more concerned with performance and/or delivery, changing melody and phrasing to get a better performance, less concerned, less precious about the original melody or lyric that I wrote. With that in mind, I had the idea of angels visiting me in the night with the message that ‘melody ain’t got nothing on delivery.’ Kind of a fever dream, where feelings take on their own personality and shape.”

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The band previously shared the record’s first single, “Really Really Light” alongside a Christian Cerezo-directed video. In celebration of the new album, The New Pornographers are set for a run of North American shows this spring, with support from Wild Pink. The dates include two sold out nights at Chicago’s Thalia Hall, as well as further performances at New York’s Brooklyn Steel and Boston’s Royale. Full tour dates can be found below.

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MORE ABOUT CONTINUE AS A GUEST
Newman began work on Continue as a Guest at his Woodstock, New York home over the course of a year, after the band had just finished touring behind 2019’s In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights. During the writing and recording process, he discovered new lyrical, artistic and sonic approaches experimenting with his own vocal register. 

The 10-track record is produced by Newman and features compatriots Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, and Todd Fancey as well as contributions from saxophonist Zach Djanikian and co-writes from Dan Bejar (Destroyer) and Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz, Sad13). 

The album tackles themes of isolation and collapse, following the ambivalence of day-to-day life during the pandemic and the endless pitfalls of living online. But Newman says that Continue as a Guest’s title track also addresses the continually rolling concerns that come with being in a band for so long. “The idea of continuing as a guest felt very apropos to the times,” he explains. “Feeling out of place in culture, in society—not feeling like a part of any zeitgeist, but happy to be separate and living your simple life, your long fade-out.  Find your own little nowhere, find some space to fall apart, continue as a guest.”

The New Pornographers have previously released eight studio albums, including their classic debut, Mass Romantic, reissued in 2021 to celebrate the 21st anniversary of its premiere. Their latest, In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Alternative Chart, #6 on the Billboard Rock Chart and #15 on the Billboard Album Chart. It was hailed as “infectious” by NPR, while Rolling Stone praised “the Canadian power-pop crew keeps cranking out songs where the hooks-per-minute ratio is almost unseemly.”

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CONTINUE AS A GUEST TRACKLIST
01 Really Really Light 
02 Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies 
03 Cat and Mouse with the Light 
04 Last and Beautiful 
05 Continue as a Guest
06 Bottle Episodes 
07 Marie and the Undersea 
08 Angelcover 
09 Firework in the Falling Snow 
10 Wish Automatic Suite 

TOUR DATES
April 19—Asheville, NC—Salvage Station*
April 20—Atlanta, GA—Variety Playhouse*
April 21—New Orleans, LA—Tipitina’s*
April 22—Houston, TX—White Oak Music Hall*
April 23—Dallas, TX—Studio at The Factory*
April 25—Austin, TX—Paramount*
April 26—Oklahoma City, OK—Tower Theatre*
April 27—St. Louis, MO—Sheldon Concert Hall*
April 28—Omaha, NE—The Waiting Room*
April 29—Kansas City, MO—The Truman*
April 30—Denver, CO—Gothic Theatre*
May 3—St. Paul, MN—The Fitzgerald*
May 4—Milwaukee, WI—Turner Hall*
May 5—Chicago, IL—Thalia Hall [SOLD OUT]*
May 6—Chicago, IL— Thalia Hall [SOLD OUT]*
May 8—Cincinnati, OH—Memorial Hall*
May 9—Columbus, OH—Newport Music Hall*
May 11—Detroit, MI—El Club*
May 12—Toronto, ON—Danforth*
May 13—Burlington, VT—Higher Ground Ballroom*
May 14—Norwalk, CT— Wall Street Theater*
May 15—Boston, MA—Royale*
May 17—New York, NY—Brooklyn Steel*
May 18—Philadelphia, PA—Union Transfer*
May 19—Washington, DC—9:30 Club [SOLD OUT]*
May 20—Washington, DC—9:30 Club*
May 21—Saxapahaw, NC—Haw River Ballroom*

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DOUG PAISLEY REVEALS “REWRITE HISTORY” FROM UPCOMING LP

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DOUG PAISLEY’S NEW LP, SAY WHAT YOU LIKE, PRODUCED BY AFIE JURVANEN, SET FOR RELEASE MARCH 17, 2023 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

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“Produced by Bahamas' Afie Jurvanen, Say What You Like's 11 songs were distilled from more than 250 unrecorded tracks written by Paisley over the last decade. Folding folk, country and pop sensibilities into Paisley's sterling writing, it's another showcase of the songwriter's carefully wrought universe.” EXCLAIM! (Most Anticipated Canadian Albums ‘23)

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Doug Paisley’s new song, “Rewrite History”, all started with a century-old guitar. “I do believe certain songs can only be found in certain instruments,” says Paisley. You see, he wrote this song on a friend’s 100-year-old guitar, and in listening to the woody, softly-strummed chords underneath Paisley’s sweetly-sung verses, it’s not too difficult for one to buy into his theory. 

“Rewrite History” is one of eleven new songs from Paisley’s upcoming album, Say What You Like, out March 17th via Outside Music. Producer Afie Jurvanen brought in a wealth of new grooves, vibes, and tones for the whole of Say What You Like, but on “Rewrite History” in particular, his BAHAMAS bandmate and Toronto-based recording artist Felicity Williams brings Paisley’s musical fate full circle. “When I heard Felicity sing on the recording, I thought the idea and the story and the song might just have been made for her to sing her part,” he says. Williams’s soft layers of vocals do, in fact, meld with the song in a way that could be scientific proof of musical predestination. 

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Say What You Like is Paisley’s first release since 2018’s Starter Home which landed on The New Yorker’s Ten Best Albums of the Year and a step in a brand new direction as the first release with Paisley’s new record label Outside Music, a welcoming, Canada-based home for a Canadian artist who’s long been signed to U.S.-based labels. 

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Culled from 250 unrecorded songs spanning a decade of unregulated creativity, the Canadian songwriter’s Say What You Like is a snapshot of an artist functioning at his best and highest level—honest, exposed, searching, and yet comforting in his ability to communicate the universal in the struggles of the individual. And, with the help of Jervanen it manages to be groovy too. One gets the sense from these songs that Paisley simply must write. “As a songwriter these days,” he reflected earlier this year, “there’s very little to gain and very little to lose so I am working only from the heart, there’s no other motive.” And on Say What You Like, it shows.

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About Doug Paisley: Since the release of his self-titled debut fifteen years ago, Doug Paisley has earned accolades for unflinchingly self-reflective songs delivered with simplicity and beauty. Though Paisley has always collaborated with topnotch Canadian musicians including luminaries like Garth Hudson, Leslie Feist, and Mary Margaret O’Hara, his records have drawn poignancy also from moments where the listener hears Paisley as he most often hears himself: unadorned and alone with his guitar. The critical response to Paisley’s sophomore release, Constant Companion, underlined this quality. MOJO, naming the album one of the top ten of 2010, found in its “rare kind of purity” evidence that “an anti-star is born.” While Rolling Stone deemed it to be a “nearly perfect singer-songwriter record,” UNCUT described it as “sure-footed and ageless…uncluttered, sad and unerringly lovely.” The “quiet and contemplative” nature of Paisley’s last record, Starter Home, continued this trend, earning it a place in The New Yorker’s top ten albums of 2018.  

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SAY WHAT YOU LIKE TRACKLIST
01 Say What You Like
02 Sometimes It’s So Easy
03 Wide Open Plain
04 Rewrite History
05 Almost
06 If I Wanted To
07 I Wanted It Too Much
08 Make It A Double
09 You Turn My Life Around
10 Holy Roller
11 Old Hometown

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