FOXWARREN RELEASE NEW SINGLE / VIDEO, “DEADHEAD”, FROM UPCOMING LP

FOXWARREN’S SOPHOMORE ALBUM, 2, OUT MAY 30 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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Foxwarren – Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis – release the new single/video “Deadhead,” the final preview from their new album, 2, out this Friday via Arts & Crafts. Following “Yvonne,” praised by AV Club as “an understated kind of gorgeous,” “Deadhead” sees Foxwarren on a quest for levity. The song seamlessly moves from an MF Doom-like pitch-shifted sample to a line-dance guitar lick to honeyed country-rock harmonies of the titular band all in three minutes. There are darting flutes, mangled electronics, and meticulous snippets of rhythm, all expertly placed to illustrate the song’s emotional tumult. ‘I won’t stop dancing,’ as Shauf sings, is exactly the feeling the song evokes. 

The song’s eccentric video was directed by Joe Cappa, who explains: “I bought a bunch of wigs and medieval costumes and sort of came up with the premise of the video as I was dressing the puppets. When I put the blonde wig and mustache on the main character it really spoke to me. Those legs on the flute playing baby are my 10 month old son’s.”

“To all the deadheads, we say 'don't stop dancing.'” — Foxwarren

“Deadhead” exemplifies the unique approach Foxwarren took in creating 2. After touring their lauded 2018 self-titled debut, the band dropped the familiar band-in-a-room routine. Instead, in their own home studios across four provinces, all five members would upload song ideas, melodic phrases, or rhythmic bits to a shared folder. In Toronto, Shauf would then plug these into a sampler and construct songs from the fragments supplied by his bandmates, leaning into classic hip-hop techniques and musique concrète alike as unlikely lodestars. Foxwarren would convene at weekly online meetings, offering long-distance suggestions about which way a song might shift. The result is mesmerizing and uncanny, an album that traces two sides of a relationship through 37 minutes of collage art that aspires to “sound best blasting out your car window,” as put by Shauf. 

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By himself, Shauf has already had a stellar career, his reputation built by the sweet melodies and uniquely imaginative and precise storytelling found on 2016’s The Party through to 2023’s Norm. Foxwarren, especially here, is a crucial part of that ongoing process, but 2 represents something even more significant—five friends now nearing the end of their second decade making music together, pushing against what they’ve learned how to do in order to venture somewhere new. It is the sound of friends who trust each other, cutting themselves loose from their past and their preconceptions to have some fun with a sampler and the very idea of songs.

Last month, the band announced an expansive North American tour, their first since 2019. A full list of shows is below and tickets are on sale now. Additionally, Foxwarren 2 Listening Parties are taking place beginning today through May 30th at record stores around North America and Europe. For cities, record stores and further information, visit foxwarren.hq.  

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FOXWARREN TOUR DATES:
Wed. Aug. 6 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Gallivan Center #
Fri. Aug. 8 - Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Festival Pavilion #
Sat. Aug. 9 - Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square #
Sun. Aug. 10 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo #
Sat. Sept. 13 - Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Fairmount
Tue. Sept. 16 - Detroit, MI @ El Club
Wed. Sept. 17 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Fri. Sept. 19 - Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room
Sat. Sept. 20 - Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room
Mon. Sept. 22 - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
Tue. Sept. 23 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
Wed. Sept. 24 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
Thu. Sept. 25 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
Fri. Sept. 26 - Kingston, NY @ Assembly
Sun. Sept. 28 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
Wed. Nov. 26 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre
Fri. Nov. 28 - Regina, SK @ The Exchange
Sat. Nov. 29 - Saskatoon, SK @ Coors Event Centre
Sun. Nov. 30 - Edmonton, AB @ Midway Music Hall
Mon. Dec. 1 - Calgary, AB @ The Palace Theatre
Thu. Dec. 4 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
Fri. Dec. 5 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos 
Tue. Dec. 9 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Thu. Dec. 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether

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 2 TRACKLIST
1. Dance
2. Sleeping
3. Say It
4. Listen2me
5. QuiteAlot2
6. Strange
7. Havana
8. Yvonne
9. Deadhead
10. True
11. Round&round
12. Dress
13. Wings
14. Serious
15. Again&

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HIS HIS RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE, “NO TRESPASSING!”

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Today, Toronto-based alt-folk musician His His (Aidan Belo) is sharing his first new music since 2024’s Good Gold Cassette EP. “No Trespassing!” is a song Belo wrote “after being in my hometown and reading obituaries in the town paper. In elementary school, after school, my friends and I would cut through this old man’s backyard in order to get to the library. Growing up, not many people had internet at home but the library had computers and internet so most of the kids in town would race there after school to get a computer to play Runescape or Age of War.

“Rightfully so, he would wait on his back porch every day to catch us trespassing, cutting through his backyard. It drove him nuts, the expletives and yelling were constant and cutting through the yard became a game to us. As I got older (and worked at my dad’s restaurant in town) I actually got to know him and was a very nice man who had been widowed for some time. After hearing of his passing, I felt inspired to write a song about him.”

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MORE ABOUT HIS HIS
Aidan Belo is a nostalgic person. Not so much in the sense of thinking everything was better in some way-back-when, but in the sense of carrying a deep curiosity toward the past, and an acute tuning to the strange, unfathomable mystery that is time passing. There’s a Portuguese word that helps to explain this: saudade. “That’s what the wives of sailors would use to describe this feeling while their husbands were gone at sea,” explains Belo. “There’s no direct English translation but it’s like longing, melancholy, nostalgia, all those things bundled up. I want to evoke those kinds of emotions.”

So when he started his alternative and experimental folk project His His in the fall of 2020, it was natural that the past (and all its constituent parts) was a character, an aesthetic, and a guiding principle of the project. Belo constructed a makeshift studio in an old barn located on his family’s farm in Schomberg, Ontario, a tiny farming community an hour north of Toronto where Belo’s father landed after immigrating from Portugal. Belo began recording there using a Tascam Portastudio 4-track cassette recorder, and over the next year, he released a string of singles and a debut EP, 2021’s appropriately named Garden Songs. 

The works introduced His His to the world, and announced Belo as a unique, moving artist: The music he creates has roots in folk, indie, lo-fi, and bedroom music communities, and yet it’s Belo’s approach to the orchestration, recording, and mixing of these parts that makes the sound of His His so special. The compositions are at once intimate and foggy, lived-in but distant, like cherished cornerstone memories that get blurrier with each year. When you hear warbles and smears, audible artifacts of the interaction of analog materials, they are not digital reproductions of a feeling—they are the genuine item.

Belo continued releasing music through 2022 and 2023, selling out his hometown debut show at Toronto’s Monarch Tavern and touring the U.S. and Canada with coveted appearances at POP Montreal and SXSW. With more than 1 million streams across streaming services and features on Spotify Editorial playlists like Fresh Finds Folk, plus regular rotation on SiriusXM and CBC Radio, Belo released his second EP, Good Gold Cassette, on Victory Pool Records.

Good Gold Cassette is a profound deepening of His His’ vision, and an immediately lovable, lush, and exploratory record. Inspired by his father’s life and community—as well as the Supertramp Breakfast in America tape that played on repeat in his dad’s pickup truck—the collection opens with a collage of found sound and strumming, a scene-setting that unfolds into “Get-Go”, a warm summer morning of a song that’s gone as soon as it’s arrived. “My Friend Wants to be a Freemason” and “Good Gold” wheel forward on beautifully saturated drum grooves, instant lo-fi indie classics, and swaying closer “Outside” introduces omnichord to the palette. The layered richness of “Cabra” is a particular point of pride for Belo. Belo recorded the vocals and guitars to his Tascam before bouncing the files to his computer, where he built them out. “It’s very simple and minimalist,” he explains. “I used to play in a shoegaze band, so that was the opposite approach: the more layers, the better. A lot of the time, the song can get obscured by that.” At the end of the digital process, Belo sends the tracks again through another reel-to-reel cassette deck for a mix before mastering, completed by his friend and mastering engineer Gavin Gardiner. 

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TWO HOURS TRAFFIC NEW EP OUT TODAY, TOUR DATES BEGIN NEXT WEEK

TWO HOURS TRAFFIC RELEASE FIRST NEW SET OF SONGS IN A DECADE
I NEVER SEE YOU ANYMORE EP - OUT TODAY

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Today, Two Hours Traffic releases their first collection of new music in a decade, I Never See You Anymore. While the band took their final bow in 2013, a quiet reunion some years later saw the Charlottetown group, comprised of Liam Corcoran, Andy MacDonald, Nick Doneff, and Derek Ellis, soon finding themselves playing together again, first occasionally, then more often, until new songs began to emerge naturally. Now, twelve years since their last release, Two Hours Traffic make an unexpected but welcome return with their new EP, I Never See You Anymore. 

To celebrate the occasion, the band are sharing “Andy Magoffin”, the song that sparked the EP’s title. “We wrote ‘Andy Magoffin’ after the EP was essentially finished and liked it so much that we recorded it quickly in our hometown and finished it just in time for the release,” says MacDonald. “It also gave us the title for our EP, I Never See You Anymore, which applies to our friend (and hero) Andy Magoffin, as well as so many other amazing people and places we don’t see anymore, since we stopped touring full-time.”

“Back in the early days of the band, we randomly caught a Two Minute Miracles video on MUCH’s The Wedge one Friday night,” explains Corcoran. “The song was called ‘Rayon Queen in a Nylon Dream’ and it just hit us like a ton of bricks. In less than 3 minutes, we were presented with a roadmap to what we wanted to sound like: a simple song structure that was giddily catchy/poppy, but with a unique lyrical voice that wasn’t concerned with making obvious sense to anyone. We started to cover ‘Rayon Queen’ shortly after hearing it, and we started listening to their albums on repeat. 

“Then one night in Kingston we were on a bill with Miracles’ mastermind Andy Magoffin who was playing solo that night. We surprised him by playing ‘Rayon Queen’. I think it meant a lot to him to see these green kids from PEI covering his song. We’ve been friends ever since that night.

“When our Andy, MacDonald, came to us with the idea for this song it made a lot of sense to us to look back and pay homage to the old days of our band on this new EP. In the second verse we move on to Sackville New Brunswick - to the now closed George’s Roadhouse. We played there loads of times in our early years, and we’d also drive over to see bands occasionally. In the song, we reference a particularly legendary Constantines show that was an end-of-semester night advertised to the students at Mount Allison University. It feels appropriate to end the song with the honest refrain of ‘I Never See You Anymore’ - this applies to so many wonderful people who we got to know on the road. Hopefully we see at least a few of them again in the years ahead.”

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MORE ABOUT TWO HOURS TRAFFIC + I NEVER SEE YOU ANYMORE
I Never See You Anymore follows the Polaris Music Prize shortlisted Little Jabs (2007) which was included on some of the most iconic TV show soundtracks of the era (The Office and The O.C.). This new six-song EP blends the experiences and influences of their early years with the maturity and clarity of a band shaped by another decade of life. The title, I Never See You Anymore, is reflective of encountering the bittersweet realities of no longer being a touring band, as bassist and producer Andy MacDonald explains. “Every time we made our way across Canada, and even on our trips to Europe, Australia, and the US, we’d run into friends and musicians we couldn’t wait to see,” he recalls. “Once we split up, it slowly dawned on us that we wouldn’t be seeing most of these people regularly again.” 

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Recording the EP was a collaborative and organic process that unfolded naturally throughout 2024. Sessions took place at various friends’ studios on PEI, as well as at Fang Recording, Joel Plaskett’s studio, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. “Writing and recording this EP was such a pleasure because we weren’t beholden to any timelines,” MacDonald reflects. “We were able to slowly pick away at the songs and refine them.” 

“It takes a village to make a Two Hours Traffic record,” says Corcoran, referring to a village seemingly populated by some of Eastern Canada’s most acclaimed musicians. The process began with sessions at Greg Alsop’s (Tokyo Police Club) studio in Charlottetown. From there, bass and guitar were tracked at Plaskett’s studio in Dartmouth, followed by vocal recording in Hope River, PEI, at Mark Geddes’ studio, The Hold. Outside of these sessions, longtime collaborator Dan Griffin contributed synths and keys that subtly tied the songs together. 

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The newest member of the band, Nick Doneff, played a key role in the process, adding layers, working on rough mixes, and keeping things organized. “When we decided to record the sixth song, ‘Andy Magoffin’, Nick was in the engineer’s chair,” Corcoran notes. Reflecting on the band’s democratic approach, Corcoran praises MacDonald for stepping up to produce the project and guide them through the long and winding process. “Andy took on the task of making the executive decisions, ensuring that we retained our identity while also creating something fresh,” Corcoran says. 

The new songs seem to embrace the ethos that first brought them together: direct, melody-driven songwriting with an emotional core, but now with a refined maturity. While I Never See You Anymore carries echoes of Little Jabs’ infectious hooks and Foolish Blood’s polished confidence, it also leans into a warmer, more dynamic sound shaped by the band’s years apart. There’s a looseness in the arrangements, a sense of ease that comes from playing without expectation. Lead single, “Keep It Coming”, reflects this spirit. Written during a challenging year, the song became a mantra about staying present and trusting in resilience. “A reminder not to worry about every little thing in the future,” says MacDonald. 

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For Two Hours Traffic, “the old days” seemed to be a time of constant evolution, navigating lineup changes and shifting priorities, both creatively and personally. Their 2009 album Territory saw them stepping into a more expansive, textured sound, pushing beyond the bright immediacy of Little Jabs. By 2013’s Foolish Blood, they had refined their songwriting even further, balancing their knack for hooks with a newfound confidence. Those years that followed were full of all the growing pains, joys, and struggles that come naturally to a young band under a spotlight. Reflecting on that time, Corcoran says, “I get the feeling that we were still trying to prove ourselves.” 

Now, with I Never See You Anymore, Two Hours Traffic are less focused on proving themselves and more on staying connected to the music they love. As MacDonald puts it, “Everyone in the band is ultimately in love with the process of writing and recording music. It’s been a part of our lives since we were teenagers, and we’re all still at it. Whether it’s Two Hours Traffic, Liam and Nick’s solo work, or Golden Cinema, we’re all still picking away. I don’t see it stopping anytime soon. We’re hooked.” 

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May 28 | Toronto, ON – The Rivoli (w/ Rockford)
May 29 | Hamilton, ON – Mills Hardware (w/ MOONRIIVR)
May 30 | London, ON – Rum Runners (w/ Pro Wrestling The Band) 
May 31 | Guelph, ON – Sonic Hall (w/ MOONRIIVR)

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I NEVER SEE YOU ANYMORE TRACKLIST
01 Keep It Coming
02 Leave Tonight
03 On The Spot
04 Moon Baby
05 Not A Day Goes By
06 Andy Magoffin

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