KELLIE LODER SHARES NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING LP, ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES

LISTEN / SHARE “THE MONTH OF MAY” HERE
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TRANSITIONS LP OUT APRIL 19, 2024

TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 4, 2024 - FULL DATES LISTED BELOW

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Today, Kellie Loder is sharing the final advance single, “The Month Of May”, from their upcoming album, Transitions, out April 19. "I love saying the title to this song out loud just as much as I love singing it,” says Loder. “Artists, and lots of other people, are big feelers. We can't stow our emotions on shelves or pack it in bags and just not look at it. We have to feel it even if it means being sad through the summer because our hearts got broken in the month of May".

LISTEN / SHARE “THE MONTH OF MAY” HERE
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MORE ABOUT KELLIE LODER AND TRANSITIONS
There is something truly captivating about JUNO Award nominee and the ECMA 2023 Songwriter and Fan’s Choice Entertainer of the Year Kellie Loder. Their lyrical brilliance is honest and vulnerable in ways that make the music feel deeply personal lending to their unmatched songwriting prowess, and distinctive blend of folk, Americana, and indie pop influences. Inspiring profound emotion among audiences with their heartfelt songs, playful charm and exhilarating live show, Loder is nothing short of, “a bona fide entertainer,” (theindependent.ca)

WATCH / SHARE CROWD SOURCED VIDEO FOR “WHEN WE KISS” HERE
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Loder’s new album, Transitions, follows on the heels of their award-winning release, Benefit of The Doubt (2018), offering a stunningly crafted masterpiece of original songs with stories of love, heartbreak, life, and transitions. “When It Comes to You”, the lead single charted in the coveted #1 spot on CBC Music’s Top 20 and the chart’s #1 most voted for song of 2023, gives listeners a glimpse of the pure authenticity of one of Newfoundland’s most promising and celebrated songwriters. As spoken by Howie Mandal and Simon Cowell (Canada’s Got Talent), Loder has a bright future ahead, and one thing is for certain, Kellie Loder is a towering talent about to explode on the world stage.

WATCH / SHARE “CAN’T GO BACK” HERE
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Loder’s signature sound coupled with their magnetic stage presence has earned them notable accolades including multiple East Coast Music Awards, placing first-runner-up on Canada’s Got Talent (2022), and co-writing with household names such as Alan Doyle, Steven Page, The Good Lovelies, and Grammy award-winning musician and producer, Greg Wells alongside many others. The empowering anthem, “Fearless” was used as the music soundtrack behind the CBC’s Tokyo Olympics coverage and in the Superpower Dogs IMAX Trailer narrated by Chris Evans (Captain America/Avengers). Their groundbreaking video and compelling song “Molded Like A Monster” was recognized with the 2021 ECMA Video of the Year Award and the MusicNL Ron Hynes Songwriter of the Year Award. Loder has toured with Donovan Woods, Serena Ryder, Joel Plaskett, and more. Watch for 2024 tour dates in support of Transitions to be announced soon.

WATCH / SHARE “WHEN IT COMES TO YOU” (LYRIC VIDEO) HERE
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TOUR DATES
Apr 4 - Arts and Culture Centre, St. John’s, NL (w/ Amelia Curran)
Apr 5 - Gordon Pinsent Centre for the Arts, Grand Falls - Windsor, NL (w/ Nichole Tubrett)
Apr 6 - Arts and Culture Centre, Corner Brook, NL (w/ Sherman Downey)
Apr 9 - J.R. Smallwood Arts and Culture Centre, Gander, NL (w/ Sherman Downey)
Apr 11 - Trinity Hall, Winterton, NL (w/ Courtney Wicks)
Apr 12 - Eastlink Events Centre, Clarenville, NL (w/ Sherman Downey)
Apr 13 - St. Gabriel’s Hall, Marystown, NL (w/ Sherman Downey)
Apr 19 - Iron Rock Brewing, Labrador City, NL
May 4 - ECMA Export Showcase Delta Hotel, Charlottetown, PEI
May 5 - ECMA SOCAN Songwriters Circle, Charlottetown, PEI
May 8 - deCoste Centre, Pictou, NS
May 9 - Marigold Cultural Centre, Truro, NS
May 10 - St. Matthews Church, Halifax, NS (w/ Brett Matthews)
May 11 - Opera House, Lunenburg, NS (w/ Irish Mythen)
May 12 - Union Street, Berwick, NS
May 26 - Small of My Heart Songwriters Circle, Civic Centre, Port Hawkesbury, NS
July 19-20 - Food, Firs and Fiddles Ground Festival, Gunners Cove, NL
Aug 17-18 - Bear Creek Folk Festival, Grand Prairie, AB

MORE TOUR DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

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TRANSITIONS TRACKLIST
01 The Month Of May
02 Please Make Up Your Mind
03 Can’t Go Back
04 Honey I’m Scared
05 Gross With You
06 When It Comes To You
07 Where Do We Go
08 Eyes For You
09 When We Kiss
10 Take It From Me

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KROY SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “JOLIGENTIL”

JUNO AWARD WINNER AND TWO-TIME POLARIS-LONGLISTER FROM MILK & BONE, RETURNS WITH NEW VIDEO FOR “JOLIGENTIL” 

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Embracing the loneliness that comes after the fireworks and examining the power dynamics present in intimate connections, the new single from KROY, “JOLIGENTIL”, is a powerful, vulnerable journey through love and murder. KROY is the stage name of singer, songwriter and composer Camille Poliquin, the Montreal singer-songwriter and half of JUNO Award-winning duo Milk & Bone. KROY’s deeply personal approach to music and her bold pop explorations have seen her accumulate millions of streams and has been described as a visionary artist and Montreal’s queen of electropop, known for her soaring voice, synth-pop melodies and brooding lyrics. 

The track arrives with a video from director Gerardo Alcaine who says of the video, “As soon as we sat down and Camille started talking about the KROY universe, I knew I was in for a treat. ‘JOLIGENTIL’ is so moody and textured that it drives you to immediately think visually. We created moodboards separately and ended up with almost identical references. There was so much empathy in the collaboration which rendered communicating our ideas effortless. We surrounded ourselves with a small but extremely dedicated team, and it shows in the final result. In ‘JOLIGENTIL’, we find a KROY in an anxious, paralyzed state at someone else’s mercy. She becomes a sort of lab experiment in constant observation. We explore a contrast of certain detachment, dissociation of the self vs  self-examination. We see her being the target of an external voyeur but also we see her looking at different versions of herself.”

“What a dream to work with this team,” says Camille. “When I met Gerardo to discuss the video, I knew I was in good hands. I tend to have a very clear idea of the visuals that will be part of my world, and I immediately felt that I would be able to express myself freely in our creative process. I've always been obsessed with security cameras (I actually have them in several rooms in my apartment) and I thought it was a simple but visually precise way of conveying the meaning of the piece.”

“I'm alone. I was left alone. But the traces of what was done to me will never truly leave me. And I feel exposed, like a deer in the headlights of a car at night. I'm on the stage, I'm in the screen. I’m alone. My wounds are gaping, but only the sharp eye can recognise them. And only the valiant heart knows not to take advantage of them.”

WATCH / SHARE “JOLIGENTIL” HERE
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BLOODMOON is a sampler of four songs from KROY’S upcoming album MILITIA due out in June. Created by a sad girl who loves a lot, and sometimes too much, BLOODMOON is a journey through euphoria and anxiety, echoing the hypnotic rhythms also found on her acclaimed debut album SCAVENGER, praised by critics (Rolling Stone, Nylon, FADER, Complex, Noisey).

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MORE ABOUT KROY
Camille Poliquin released her first songs under the alias KROY in 2014 and was quickly dubbed the next Montreal indie pop sensation. A year later, she began to create music with Laurence Lafond-Beaune, forming the minimalist electro-pop duo Milk & Bone, and together they spawned three critically acclaimed albums and one EP: Chrysalism (2022), Little Mourning (2015), Deception Bay (2018) and DIVE (2019).

In the fall of 2016, KROY released her debut solo album SCAVENGER. With hypnotic electro rhythms and lyrics dominated by stories of impossible love, the album draws inspiration from spacey trip-hop and inventive modern pop. SCAVENGER’s whirlwind of synths has garnered praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Nylon, FADER, Complex, Noisey and more. Reflecting KROY's polished black-and-white imagery, the cover won a prize at the 2017 Grafika Awards. The album’s success has also allowed KROY to perform throughout Canada and abroad, including New York and Paris, Le Printemps de Bourges, Austin (SXSW), Hamburg (The Reeperbahn) and Montreal (Osheaga). In 2020, the musician collaborated with prolific Belgium-born producer Apashe on the single “Rain”.

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To express her forward and varied interests, Camille likes to say that, much like Seinfeld’s George Costanza, she could’ve become a marine biologist or an architect had she not turned her attention to music. On top of the success of KROY and Milk & Bone, the musician, who completed studies in orchestral composition, has crafted music for two Cirque du Soleil shows and several feature films with Laurence Lafond-Beaune, including the theme song for King Dave for which the pair earned a nomination at the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards. Camille has also written the original music for the 2019 documentary Sisterhood, and KROY songs have been selected to create the right feeling in key scenes of multiple major international TV shows. Throughout her career, Camille has won a JUNO Award (2019), a Félix Award (2019), and has been twice long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize (2015 and 2018).

WATCH / SHARE “THE WOLF” LYRIC VIDEO HERE
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After a long wait and relentless requests from her fans, KROY returns to unveil the fruits of her lyrical and musical explorations with MILITIA. In the time between SCAVENGER and MILITIA, KROY expanded her multidisciplinary practice. In exploring her obsession with robotic arms, she found an indispensable ally (Jonathon Anderson) who has brought her to work closely with KUKA. In 2021, she presented ANIMACHINA at the Phi Centre — 7 videos premised on themes of surveillance, terror and animism, featuring her beloved robotic companion KUKA.  KROY continues her work with these robotic titans in parallel to her music.

Watch for more information on MILITIA soon.

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THUNDER QUEENS SHARE NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING LP

THUNDER QUEENS’ DEBUT LP, STRIKE ONE, DUE OUT APRIL 24 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

LISTEN / SHARE “ALL THESE PROBLEMS” HERE
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PRE-SAVE STRIKE ONE HERE

PERFORMANCE DATES CONTINUE NEXT MONTH

“Thunder Queens — the shit-kicking trio of Violet Bruneel, Lola Hayman and Clara Magnan — make music for staying alive. Their garage-adjacent tunes fold in elements of deep purple doom, scrappy punk and classic pop melodies, making debut album Strike One a thrillingly confident introductory statement. Equal parts reverent and forward-thinking, their larger-than-life energy is on full display with latest single "All These Problems." - EXCLAIM!

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Embark on a sonic journey of revelation in motion with Thunder Queens, the London, Ontario-based trio of Violet Bruneel, Lola Hayman, and Clara Magnan. On their debut full-length album, Strike One, Thunder Queens deliver a blend of doom-tinged grunge, onyx-toned punk melodies, and searing multi-part harmonies - all while creating a mesmerizing sound that is uniquely their own. 

Today, they’re sharing the new single, “All These Problems”, a song they wrote, “during a summer of protests that affected so many different communities including the black Black Lives Matter protests stemmed from the murder of George Floyd. We wanted to tell our perspective being teenage girls and dealing with problems in our lives. Our favourite lyrics are ‘all these problems may be hard, we just have to set the bar’ and it speaks to how our generation needs to step up and get involved if we want to see any change. It’s about repression, racism, and societal issues that are going to impact our futures. We want to influence people to care, pay attention and speak up. Anger about issues can be very inspiring for action and we channeled that energy for this song.”

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MORE ABOUT STRIKE ONE
The band are unafraid to be experimental and shapeshift, conjuring the playful vitality of Sheer Mag, ground shaking range of Black Sabbath, and the urgency of The Runaways. Their raw energy and poignant lyricism show a band that’s played together for over half a decade while still being on the cusp of earning a driver’s license. Over 11 tracks, each riff and lyric paint a vivid picture of a world they’re still discovering, from the gauzy bliss of a sun-drenched road trip to the urgency of our fractured political landscape. Thunder Queens fearlessly explore a spectrum of emotions and themes with the unmatched curiosity of youth and solidarity that comes from nurturing a foundation of sisterhood. 

Lola Hayman (drums, vocals), Violet Bruneel (guitar, vocals), and Clara Magnan (bass, vocals) became friends while searching for loonies under the pinball machines at Call The Office. In between eating ice cream cones and wreaking havoc on their skateboards, they formed Thunder Queens. 

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The band have nailed their songwriting formula down to a science. They build the bones of shapeshifting riffs, dream up tones and harmonies, and weave stories into their songs. Similar to scoring a film, they visualize a cinematic treatment aligned around places they can see and words they can’t shake. (Like, “All These Problems” which they wrote during a summer of political unrest). Their writing, performances, and tenacity have earned them coveted spots alongside acclaimed Canadian acts like The Beaches, Metz, The Dirty Nil, Ombiigizi, and Daniel Romano, and to perform at Pop Montreal, Up Here Festival, and Bitchfest. 

Strike One is the natural follow-up to their 2020 self-titled EP (Yeah Right! Records), expressing the hopes, fears, and joys, while also making razor-sharp observations on our culture. As they gaze at their surroundings, Thunder Queens remain clear-headed about the future, while continuing to push boundaries and stake their claim in the Industry.

PRE-SAVE STRIKE ONE HERE

PERFORMANCE DATES
Apr 27 - Guelph, ON - GAINFest
March 16 - Toronto, ON - Seescape - Bitchfest
May 3 - Toronto, ON - Collective Arts w/ Miesha and The Spanks & Roach
May 4 - London, ON - Palasad Social Bowl w/Miesha and The Spanks

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STRIKE ONE TRACKLIST
01 Breakout
02 All These Problems
03 Roadtrip
04 Bulldozer
05 Lo-Vi
06 Walking Away
07 Dead-End Friend
08 Fighter
09 Cymbals
10 Jumpin’ Around
11 Blood Moon

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