NIA NADURATA SHARES MUSIC VIDEO FOR “PRACTICE”, DEBUT EP OUT NOW

NIA NADURATA SHARES MUSIC VIDEO FOR “PRACTICE”

DEBUT EP STILL LIVING WITH MY PARENTS OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

WATCH / SHARE “PRACTICE” (MUSIC VIDEO) HERE

On her debut EP, Still Living With My Parents, Nia Nadurata captures the coming-of-age whirlwind with humour and candidness. Opening with "Practice," the anthemic pop kiss-off to an ex, Nadurata breezes through heartache: "Steal my taste, take my style and my mom's leather jacket," she sings, letting him know he won't do better in a new relationship. It's an infectious opener that colourfully plays with many of the EP's themes of love and identity, with each subsequent track slotting perfectly into place, like a puzzle. CBC Music

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Step into the world of rising indie pop vocalist NIA NADURATA with her debut EP Still Living With My Parents - a musical journey through the highs and lows of emerging adulthood. The EP celebrates the chaos of youth, while tenderly acknowledging the profound challenges of finding your place in a world that seems to be moving forward without you. 

Today NADURATA shares the music video for single “Practice”. Currently the #1 song on CBC Music, the witty but heartfelt pop tune explores the painful realization that the person you nurtured and shaped has taken your best parts and moved on to someone new.

"Being so involved in the visual process allows me to properly show where my heart was at when creating the music,” says the songwriter about the music video. “To me, the beauty of being an artist is that the creation of an idea doesn’t have to be limited to just writing the song. 

When writing the music I want the lyrics to be open to interpretation and for everyone to feel differently based on their own experiences. But with the music video I’m able to showcase exactly how I was feeling and show where my heart was at when making the song.

WATCH / SHARE “PRACTICE” (MUSIC VIDEO) HERE

NIA NADURATA has had a performance mindset since childhood. NIA has been cultivating her soulful, indie, Pop and R&B sound to make you fall in love with your most vulnerable years. Her music captures a time when the world and our thoughts tortured us or soothed us, creating songs for her future audiences. While working behind the scenes as a songwriter and vocalist alongside artists such as Russ, Nonso Amadi, Amaal, and Boslen, NIA has been preparing her very own debut EP. Released on January 3, the EP showcases the depth and maturity of her sound. Highlighting her upbringing and coming of age, the project mirrors the sounds of Amy Winehouse, Alaiyah, Taylor Swift, Carol King, Dijon and Billie Eilish. 

WATCH / SHARE “SOUVENIRS” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “COULD’VE BEEN” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “BOO HOO” HERE

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STILL LIVING WITH MY PARENTS TRACKLIST
01 Practice
02 boo hoo
03 i think i like your girlfriend
04 can we NOT!
05 Souvenirs
06 Trauma Bond

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HOUSEWIFE ANNOUNCES NEW EP, SHARES EUPHORIC NEW SINGLE

HOUSEWIFE ANNOUNCES NEW EP, GIRL OF THE HOUR, OUT MARCH 7, 2025 

WATCH / SHARE “WORK SONG” HERE
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PRE-SAVE GIRL OF THE HOUR HERE

“slow-burning, glittery alt-pop” - THE LINE OF BEST FIT

“Housewife is a revelation…A glorious combination of Blondshell, Julia Jacklin and soaring US songwriter charm, it’s an emphatic introduction to an artist already screaming “future favourite”. - DORK

“crunchy alt-rock and melancholy new wave influences with pure pop bliss and ascendent choruses.” Exclaim!

“‘Divorce’; sees the Toronto-based artist paint a vivid picture of someone whose world has fallen apart due to a break-up, via the mediums of mournful vocals, pensive grunge riffs, and palpable pop hooks.” - DIY MAG

“an addictive alt-pop anthem with shades of nostalgia and melancholia from a promising new talent.” - RECORD OF THE DAY

“ -Child of my own Divorce- That’s the most brilliant lyric I’ve ever heard….The lyrics are incredibly smart.” - LOS ANGELES TIMES

“‘King of Wands’ finds Fry once again showing off their layered songwriting and infectious melodicism, hitting on a careful combination of rollicking indie rock guitars and earworm hooks.” - UNDER THE RADAR MAGAZINE

“Toronto-based rising star Brighid Fry under her musical moniker consistently delivers pop-tinged indie-rock productions that weave through everything from messy situationships to climate change in empowering yet grounding tones.” - EARMILK

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After a prolific 2024 with widely-praised releases “I Lied”, “Wasn’t You”, “Life of the Party” and “Divorce”, Housewife (Brighid Fry) is kicking off the New Year with the announcement of eagerly-awaited new EP Girl Of The Hour accompanied by the release of new single “Work Song”.

Due for release on March 7, Girl Of The Hour follows 2022’s EP You’ll Be Forgiven continuing the sprawling indie-pop energy Housewife has become known for. New single “Work Song” shines as one of the more anthemic moments on the new collection, broadening her inventive progression once again.

Speaking about the new release, she said, “‘Work Song’ is about feeling unsatisfied with yourself and where you’re going. I have really high expectations of myself but also have really unhealthy habits and so oscillate between being a workaholic and being burnt out. I wanted to poke fun at myself, while still processing it as a valid issue in my life. This song is for anyone else out there with executive functioning issues who sometimes feel like a hot mess.”

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MORE ABOUT HOUSEWIFE
Filled with curiosity and questions of identity, Toronto’s Brighid Fry (she/ they) makes the sort of indie-leaning, exploratory music that it’s taken several years of early success and subsequent growth to reach. First breaking through in her teens as one half of Moscow Apartment, the duo swiftly won a Canadian Folk Music award for their self-titled debut EP before changing their name and then becoming a solo project in 2022. As Brighid hit her twenties and stepped front and centre, the material that she was writing became increasingly more self-aware and personal, too.

Still only 21, Brighid credits her liberal upbringing as helping to make this process of both artistic and self-discovery as seamless as possible. Having recently been diagnosed as autistic, she jokes that her neurodivergence was on display and understood from the first moments music entered her life as a child when, unlike most three-year-olds, she became obsessed with classical composers and begged her parents not just for a kid’s violin, but also a collection of busts of Bach, Beethoven and co. When the classical music fixation gave way to more contemporary tastes, she would join her family at the folk festivals they regularly attended, playing her first non-classical performance at a Greenpeace fundraiser.

As well as offering Brighid an early introduction to the community that music can provide and the climate activism that would go on to become a big part of her life (in 2021, she helped to set up the Canadian branch of Music Declares Emergency), her family also provided a completely accepting place to explore her wider identity. As a “third generation queer”, she’s felt confident and comfortable with her own bisexuality since the age of 12. “My parents are bisexual; my grandma’s a lesbian; I grew up going to Pride so I never had a teary coming out,” she notes. In the two years since Housewife’s previous EP You’ll Be Forgiven, meanwhile, Brighid has spent time understanding that she is non-binary. “It took longer to figure that bit out, but I’ve never struggled with my identity,” she says.

On new EP Girl Of The Hour, then, Housewife is addressing these facets more than ever - be that on the friend crush dilemma of first single “I Lied” or the musings on social perceptions that run through “Life of the Party”. But although these six tracks of earworm grunge-pop are a real time document of an artist growing and changing - figuring out some vital parts of themself along the way - the predominant vibe is one that’s playful and inquisitive. “Sometimes your friends are hot and that can get more complicated when there are no hard lines on what you are,” Brighid suggests. “That’s how my queerness ends up coming out in my music.”

BUY / STREAM “LIFE OF THE PARTY” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “LIFE OF THE PARTY” (LYRIC VIDEO) HERE

“Wasn’t You” laces fuzzy guitars with a relatable tale about fancying someone you wish you didn’t. “My problem with being bisexual isn’t about being attracted to women, it’s being attracted to men,” Brighid laughs - an idea intertwined with an acute awareness of the gender imbalance of prospective partners who “have been raised and socialised in a completely different way than me, and don’t have to deal with sexism and misogyny in the same way I do.”

On the aforementioned “I Lied”, she addresses another hurdle of being bisexual over the sort of buoyant indie-pop that nods to fellow queer heroes MUNA. “I’m always interested in this idea that straight men and women can’t be friends, or that you can’t be friends with someone you could be attracted to,” Brighid notes, “because if you’re bi then well, shit! Can’t I have any friends?!” Meanwhile, for the melancholy heartbreak of “Divorce”, Brighid sought out fellow songwriter Hank Compton during a writing session in order to make “the most devastating shit” they could.

Largely moving away from the lighter folk of her early output and leaning into the more alternative influences that have been part of her life since attending a formative Girls Rock camp aged eight, “Life of the Party” fuses pop hooks with a grungey, cathartic musicality; a duality that fits the song perfectly. “People don’t pick up on the fact that I’m autistic automatically so they’ll think I’m this aloof, weird bitch,” Brighid says. “But then people also assume I’m this confident person who knows what they’re doing [because of my career]. I wanted to write a song about all these misconceptions about me and how hard it is to set people straight. People see me on stage and think that’s me, but it just never has been.”

WATCH / SHARE “DIVORCE” LYRIC VIDEO HERE
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“Matilda” is a song about losing her bike that’s also, of course, not just about losing her bike. “It’s about the aspect of needing to move on and dealing with loss that was informed by this other big loss in my life. But,” she notes, “I genuinely cried when I lost that bike.” 

On Girl Of The Hour, Brighid is fully leaning into the fresh territory she’s opened up as Housewife - from the newly limitless genre scope she’s allowing herself to explore to the increasingly personal, nuanced and curious topics that permeate the lyrics within them. More than ever, Brighid Fry knows herself and the result is a project that’s getting more confident in the idiosyncrasies of its own skin by the day. “Some people say that this music is political or it has very strong messaging and I think that’s great,” she says, “but really for me, it’s just a way to process life.”

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GIRL OF THE HOUR EP TRACK LISTING:
01 I Lied
02 Work Song
03 Life Of The Party
04 Matilda
05 Divorce
06 Wasn’t You

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BUSTY AND THE BASS ANNOUNCE NEW EP, SHARE FIRST SINGLE “I’M NOT HERE”

BUSTY AND THE BASS’ NEW EP, THE MANNEQUIN, DUE FEBRUARY 6, 2025 

CROSS CANADA TOUR DATES BEGIN FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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Alternative R&B collective Busty and the Bass return with new single "I'm Not Here". The mid-tempo synth-driven single is about giving yourself entirely to another person, even at the expense of one's self: ‘You love me but you don't understand that I'm in the palm of your hands’. Oscillating between sparse, exposed moments and expansive, layered soundscapes, the song marks a new sonic direction for the band as they gear up for their new EP, The Mannequin, set for release on February 6, 2025. The evolution of "I'm Not Here" continues their singular experimentation with soul, funk, jazz, and dance music, incorporating a more lush use of space, balanced with deep melancholic emotion, furthering the sensory experience of Busty and the Bass. 

“I’m Not Here” is “about being so hopelessly in love that you lose sight of your own self,” the band says of the song. “It’s about giving yourself entirely to another person but in a way that’s self-detrimental: ‘I’ll follow your lead, all of your wants and your needs. You love me but you don’t understand that I’m in the palm of your hands.’ It’s an unbalanced relationship dynamic where the other person holds all the power and you allow it to happen and do nothing to confront it.

“The track itself is something different for us. It’s really stripped down and exposed at times  with just vocals, bass and drums, followed by a total contrast of elements in the hooks, featuring Jordan Brown singing full-tilt and driving electric guitar accompanying him.”

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MORE ABOUT THE MANNEQUIN EP
The Mannequin is an EP that showcases the band's timeless evolution,oscillating between the soulful dancefloor mastery they are known for, and more sparse, exposed moments of expansive, layered soundscapes. The EP spotlights a new sonic direction for the band as they embellish their experimentations with genre and texture.

“Being in a band can be a surreal experience, especially being in one that’s existed for over twelve years,” the band explains of the EP. “It’s a chosen family of sorts, in this case, a boisterous group of brothers, an interpersonal constellation replete with neuroses, heartbreaks, dreams, triumphs, and meaningless inside jokes. Somehow the group holds itself together through the unforgiving economics of touring and streaming and everything else life throws at it. We think maybe it’s because of the camaraderie we’ve built over time, and maybe because of a shared idea of what we want to do: We want to make music that makes your ass move and that opens up your heart and that lights up your brain too. The Mannequin is our latest step toward that. 

“As artists, we see a landscape that’s dominated by flash and celebrity and surface appearance – getting big social media numbers and sponsorships and playlists as an artform unto itself, and maybe the most valued artform of this time and place. It reminds us of being a mannequin in a mall - an advertisement of what is supposed to be hot and cool now, with only an interchangeable, vague shape of a human under it. We called the EP The Mannequin as an indictment of that, while at the same time acknowledging that we too are playing the game – and breaking the fourth wall to say so. We want to appear glamorous too, but all we really care about is hanging out, making dope tracks, and putting on a crazy live show where we can connect with people.

“How did we make these songs? The details are always kind of fuzzy to remember. Living in at least three different cities means that any time we have together is precious, spent in frenzied hyperfocus, constantly bouncing between recording sessions of two or three of us at a time.  Chris Vincent (trombonist / bassist / producer), Alistair Blu (née Evan Crofton, vocalist / keyboardist), and Julian Trivers (drummer) made a bunch of demos. Alistair and Jordan Brown (vocalist) usually write the lyrics together. Scott Bevins (trumpeter) and Chris cut the horn parts. Chris learned how to play bass for this project and is playing all the bass parts. Chris also did all the recording engineering, and all the mixing – Chris is a madman. Each song sits in a related but not entirely similar stylistic world; There’s hints of 60’s folk psychedelia in “Over Under” alongside “Lucky (Song 7)”s nu-disco, an improvised instrumental jazz thing (Fourth Wall, Heads Talking) and “I’m Not Here”, a kind of downtempo funk rock tune with an anthemic falsetto hook by Jordan Brown, the Philly-based newest member of the group.”

PRE-SAVE THE MANNEQUIN EP HERE

MORE ABOUT BUSTY AND THE BASS
For the sprawling soul-funk collective, Busty and the Bass, collaboration has always been at the forefront of their art. Formed in Montreal over a decade ago, the band’s two studio albums, both produced by Grammy Award-winner Neal Pogue, have been praised in equal parts by tastemaker press (Complex, OkayPlayer) and established media (Billboard, American Songwriter). Over the years, they have collaborated with legends George Clinton, Macy Gray, Earth Wind & Fire, members of Slum Village, and exciting new voices like Polaris Music Prize winners Cadence Weapon and Pierre Kwenders. After an original member left the band during the pandemic, the collective expanded their ranks for the first time in years, invigorating the band with a newfound creative energy and approach. Along with these new voices come new ideas and influences that inspired the collective's most dynamic and expansive album yet, 2023's Forever Never Cares. 

TOUR DATES
Feb 7: Kingston - Broom Factor
Feb 8: Ottawa - Bronson Centre
Feb 12: St Catherines - The Warehouse
Feb 13: Hamilton - Bridgeworks
Feb 14:  London - Rum Runners
Feb 15: Toronto - The Great Hall
Feb 16:  Toronto - The Great Hall
Feb 28: Saskatoon - Louis’
Mar 1: Calgary - Commonwealth
Mar 2: Edmonton - Starlite Room
Mar 3:  Red Deer - Bo’s
Mar 5:  Kelowna - Revelry
Mar 6: Vancouver - The Pearl
Mar 7: Vancouver - The Pearl
Mar 8: Victoria - Capital Ballroom
Mar 14: Montreal - Le Studio TD

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THE MANNEQUIN EP 
01 Lucky (Song 7)
02 I’m Not Here
03 Over Under
04 Fourth Wall
05 Heads Talking (Outro)

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