TERRA LIGHTFOOT SHARES NEW SINGLE, “HIGHER & HIGHER”

Today, Terra Lightfoot returns with her first new music of the year. “Higher & Higher” was written with Tyler Chester in “the sunshine in his backyard in Los Angeles,” says Terra. “I don’t know if I’ve ever released a co-write before, but I think this song is special. The beauty of this time in the world is that we are all feeling a little more free to do things we’ve never done, and that’s what “Higher & Higher” is all about. We recorded in LA with a crack band; Sam Weber on acoustic, Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes) on drums and Tyler on piano and organ. I sang my heart out and played my trusty SG. To bring it all together we had it mixed by my producer Gus van Go in Toronto.”

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Terra is currently on tour throughout Canada with Colin James in support of her JUNO Award Nominated album Healing Power. Full tour dates can be found below and be on the lookout for more new music in the very near future.

MORE ABOUT TERRA LIGHTFOOT
The infectious single is only the latest in what fans will agree has been a remarkable career. And to describe her decade-plus musical evolution as astonishing is something of an understatement. Along the way, Lightfoot's marathon tours have touched down in eight countries across four continents (including support slots for Bruce Cockburn, Blue Rodeo, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Posies, The Sheepdogs, and Willie Nelson). She also conceived, created, curated, produced and co-headlined The Longest Road Show, an all-female touring revue. In October 2020, Lightfoot released Consider the Speed, recorded by Grammy Award winning producer Jay Newland at Memphis' legendary Royal Studios. In early 2022, Lightfoot launched her own label, Midnight Choir, with a cover of Leadbelly’s “Where Did you Sleep Last Night?” and fan-favourite original composition, “Sleepyhead”, covered by Sarah Blackwood of Walk Off The Earth. 

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TOUR DATES WITH COLIN JAMES
Feb 20 - Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
Feb 21 - Regina, SK @ Casino Regina
Feb 22 - Saskatoon, SK @ TCU Place
Feb 24 - Prince Albert, SK @ EA Rawlinson Centre For the Arts
Feb 26 - Tsuut'ina, AB @ Grey Eagle Event Centre
Feb 27 - Edmonton, AB @ Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Mar 1 - Vancouver, BC @ The Orpheum 

PRAISE FOR HEALING POWER

“One of Canada's best all-around musicians... an amazing tour de force,  the complete package” - CBC Music

“Canada’s Terra Lightfoot has a huge voice and a big and gutsy guitar tone to match“ - Guitar Player

“Cuts like lightning to a tree” - The Globe and Mail

“One of today’s brightest emerging rock artists” - Twangville

“Drawing from rock, soul and blues, Terra Lightfoot is a monster talent” - PopMatters

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ROSE COUSINS REVEALS NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING LP

ROSE COUSINS’ NEW ALBUM, CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1, OUT MARCH 14, 2025 VIA NETTWERK

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2025 CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN MARCH 29

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“On her new album, Conditions of Love - Vol. 1, Rose Cousins returns to her own first love — the piano — to craft 10 testaments to the human heart in all its glorious, inane complexity. The record delivers Cousins' trademark capacity for wry wit and emotional gravitas, but her archness never serves as a way to keep a distance between herself and her lyrics. Cousins knows how to find the light in the dark, she knows survival, and she's crafting whole worlds here."
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“Rose Cousins is here to tell us about love. Vol. 1 of that treatise promises more of Cousins's deftly rendered, soul-inflected pop music. Light as air but deep as space, lead single "I Believe in Love (and it's very hard)" makes a simple declaration sound like the bravest thing you could ever admit.” Exclaim!, Most Anticipated Albums of 2025

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Today, acclaimed multi-JUNO Award winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rose Cousins shares another new song from her upcoming Conditions of Love - Vol 1, which arrives March 14, 2025. “That’s How Long (I’ve Waited For Your Love)” is a poetic analogy for a seemingly unquantifiable length of time; the length of a longing. What are the ingredients of waiting?

“The concept of time endlessly fascinates me,” explains Cousins. “I keep looking for how the heart experiences ineffable amounts of time. How longing can last forever and loss can speed time up but also grind it to a halt. Love pulls us into the present and presence. It’s incredible how something we can’t see has such a deep influence on how we feel.”

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MORE ABOUT CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1
On her new album, Rose holds her listeners’ hands as she guides them on a journey through the "conditions of love." Ever the emotional explorer, the Nova-Scotia-based artist seeks truth, in all its imperfection, in the depths of humans’ most complicated of emotions: love. The journey results in a striking clarity, and it’s the gift of that clarity that brings on surprising tears.  

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Rose shares, “Love feels great and makes us ridiculous. It's tiring and intense, joyful and devastating. Falling in love, being in love and staying in love are all such different things. Being human is emotionally complicated enough without attempting to relate to another who is just as complex, and in the most vulnerable of arenas: romance. Love is wondrous and absurd (and very hard). Humour helps.” 

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Co-produced with trusted friend and longtime bandmate Joshua Van Tassel, Conditions of Love - Vol. 1 sees Rose return to her first love, the piano. “Piano is where I feel the most connected. It’s the best partner in expressing the emotion I’m mining,” she shares. She first introduced the upcoming body of work with the gorgeous, piano-driven ballad “Forget Me Not,” followed by the slow-burning, nostalgic “Borrowed Light,” and the uplifting, “I Believe in Love (and it’s very hard),” which Rose has called the cornerstone of the upcoming album.  

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Rose Cousins’ songwriting plumbs the depths of the human condition. Her work has garnered her two JUNO Awards (2013’s We Have Made a Spark & 2021’s Bravado), two Canadian Folk Music Awards, eleven East Coast Music Awards and one Grammy Award nomination (2018’s Natural Conclusion), along with praise from the likes of the CBC, No Depression, LA Times, Associated Press, Billboard, Folk Alley, and NPR, who raved “Cousins’ disarmingly fluid vocal tone has the ability to convey the most internalized feelings without an ounce of fuss.” Over the years, she has shared stages with Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jann Arden, Kathleen Edwards, Joe Henry and Anais Mitchell, and her music has fittingly underscored scenes from notable TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Fire Country, Batwoman and Heartland. 

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ROSE COUSINS CANADIAN TOUR (MORE DATES TBA)
March 29 - Fredericton, NB @ Wilmot United Church
April 1 - Sherwood Park, AB @ Festival Place Theatre
April 2 - Calgary, AB @ National Music Centre
April 3 - Saskatoon, SK @ The Basement
April 5 - Winnipeg, MB @ West End Cultural Centre
April 7 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
April 8 - Kingston, ON @ The Broom Factory
April 9 - Peterborough, ON @ Market Hall Performing Arts Center
April 11 - Toronto, ON @ Masonic Temple - The Concert Hall
April 12 - Hamilton, ON @ The Westdale
April 13 - Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre
April 16 - Charlottetown, PE @ Confederation Centre Of The Arts
April 17 - Halifax, NS @ Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
April 18 - Moncton, NB @ Capitol Theatre (Moncton)
April 19 - Saint John, NB @ Imperial Theatre
June 13 - St John's, NL @ Majestic Theatre

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CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1 TRACKLIST
01 To Be Born (overture)
02 Forget Me Not
03 I Believe in Love (and it’s very hard)
04 Denouement
05 That’s How Long (I’ve waited for your love)
06 Needed You
07 Wolf and Man
08 K’s Waltz
09 Borrowed Light
10 How is this (the last time)

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JOLIE LAIDE ANNOUNCES NEW LP, CREATURES, SHARES FIRST SINGLE / VIDEO

JOLIE LAIDE’S NEW ALBUM, CREATURES, OUT APRIL 30, 2025 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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“Jolie Laide…is a kind of travelogue that traces the line between freedom and empty aimlessness: a child’s oceanside liberty that becomes an adult’s existential terror.” - Pitchfork

“It is self-evidently brutal…But it is beautiful, too, the unadorned music – just her and an acoustic guitar – luminous and clarion…” - The Guardian

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Creatures, out April 30, 2025 via Victory Pool Records, is the lush, sprawling new album from Jolie Laide, a band who came together under some cool circumstances and have grown into a vibrant, unpredictable unit, revealing new dimensions for a group of seasoned musicians and writers. Their story is both the closing of a decades-old circle and one of the evolution of a quasi supergroup.

Comprised of revered American indie singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia (who has amassed a stunning and critically acclaimed discography of unique, darkly melodic albums), and Jeff MacLeod, Clinton St. John, and Morgan Greenwood (also of the band Florida BC), Jolie Laide planted its roots some two decades ago through a mutual connection. The lion's share of Nastasia's solo albums were masterfully recorded by the late, great Steve Albini, and in the mid-00s, MacLeod and St. John's old band The Cape May had just finished recording their album Glass Mountain Roads with the veteran engineer. Nina was next in line for the studio. A night of commiserating in the studio led to Albini’s suggestion that The Cape May become Nastasia’s touring band for her upcoming North American and European tours and this pairing turned into a fruitful collaboration and a longstanding friendship.

Today, they share the first single from their new album, “No Shape I Know”. The song “takes place in a holding cell in a not too distant dystopian future,” says St. John. “Those in the cell are at odds with accepting that their inaction lead them to this place. Their overlords are always watching, listening – a looming threat.”

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Announcing itself via a series of earthy thumps on a floor tom, Creatures opens wide with Nastasia's unmistakable voice, at once disarmingly sweet and laser-sharp. Jolie Laide is an intriguing way to hear the singer, who developed a tight, focused approach over the course of her active solo career. Here, she embraces sounds that would have been out of place on one of her own albums; on opener “Cheyenne”, Nastasia's voice swims in a swirl of delay trails, enveloped by a storm of overdubbed toms, and Clinton St. John's instantly evocative voice provides the perfect foil. “Holly”, a character study of two strangers rambling through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, is awash in beautiful cascades of affected electric guitars, imbuing a gently psychedelic glow to the song's edges, while remaining grounded in a more familiar dusty, percussive rhythm.

This sonic sea change may have something to do with one of the key elements that initially birthed this band. In early 2020, Kennan Gudjonsson, Nastasia's partner and longtime musical collaborator took his own life. This tragic and dislocating event took place right before the world found itself similarly unmoored as the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking for solace, Nastasia and MacLeod leaned on their deep friendship and shared songwriting obsession, throwing themselves into the remote recording sessions that became their self-titled 2023 debut. Nastasia found liberation in her new “band” environs: no longer the sole focal point, and working with a new set of parameters for how her music could sound and exist in the world, Jolie Laide provided something of a revelation. 

Reflecting on the impressive scope of Creatures, MacLeod says, “the album plays like a mix tape”, citing its deep range (folk to spaghetti westerns to post-punk to sludge to electronic pop) of sonic approaches. Fittingly, as their name translates to ugly/pretty, the band’s stories find grace and beauty in the imperfect. Powerfully poetic, often anthemic, narratives soar over Greenwood and MacLeod’s layered multi-instrumental wizardry. Making good on that description, “Something For The Thrill” takes a mid-album left-turn, delivering a veritable rock song, complete with thick, hairy guitars, heavy drumbeat and brash, pissed-off sounding vocals. But within the menace, there is that sweet melodic aspect cutting the hard edge, and the song is once again a testament to these singers’ inspired pairing, with the duet being the through line of Creatures. Despite how different some of these songs feel to each other, and indeed to Jolie Laide's 2023 debut, the instantly recognizable voices of Nina Nastasia and Clinton St. John tie everything together.

The astute observer might notice a strong uptick in the electronic realm on Creature, most clearly in the album’s brilliant one-two of cautionary dystopian nightmares, with “No Shape I Know” and “Small Things”, boasting the album’s most wearily hopeful, soaring choruses. Indeed, the album is replete with warm synths and uniquely textured drum machine patterns, and largely attributed to producer and multi-instrumentalist Morgan Greenwood who was invited wholesale into the fold for some of their first shows in 2023. Greenwood (ex- Baths, Azeda Booth), who cut his teeth on Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin, was warmly encouraged to liberally apply his sensibilities to the record – as was producer/engineer Colin Stewart, who oversaw the production at his studio, the fabled Hive Creative Labs. “The majority of this record was written in the studio,” MacLeod says, “and Colin took on the traditional producer role, becoming essentially a fifth member, providing direction and ideas.”

Another album highlight, “Wharwolf” is a tour de force of ideas and shifting moods; beginning with intricately programmed drum sequences and a plaintive, bleak vocal from St. John, it crashes into an epic wall of guitars and propulsive drumming, before uncannily sliding into a glistening calm after the storm, Nastasia's reverb-drenched voice floating amidst sparse webs of guitar. The whole thing unquestionably hangs together, but it's a hell of a ride. MacLeod says that “the song was originally demoed in a fairly traditional manner,” but after the band opted for a more unique approach, “we completely dropped it to the studs and rebuilt it, spending days in the studio  tinkering,” and it paid dividends.

Elsewhere, “Murder Ballad”, while confronting the notion that ghosts might actually exist even if god doesn’t, skews closer to Florida BC territory. Fronted by St. John and continuing the long line of bands he and MacLeod have helmed (including The Cape May and Pale Air Singers), Florida BC has spent the last number of years carving their own niche, one that radiates a similarly unmistakable feeling as Nastasia's. But here, MacLeod's gently brushed, loping drums and St. John's signature emotive drawl are buffered by Nastasia's equally world-weary vocals, and one could be forgiven for asking “what took so long?” 

Looking back on the trajectory from Jolie Laide's self-titled debut to the brand new Creatures, it's anyone's guess where this group will go next. For fans of Nina Nastasia or the Florida BC band family, there's plenty of both of those things, but there's also a whole new, unified thing; with Creatures they're presenting it in widescreen. 

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CREATURES TRACKLIST
01 Cheyenne
02 Holly
03 Murder Ballad
04 Wharwolf
05 Dalton
06 Something For The Thrill
07 No Shape I Know
08 Small Things
09 Old Collapser
10 Saw The Wave

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