CHXMERAS’ NEW EP OUT TODAY, SHARE NEW VIDEO

EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC DUO CHXMERAS NEW EP, SECOND SIGHT, AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE TODAY

CANADIAN TOUR DATES CONTINUE JUNE 17

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Out today, CHXMERAS new EP, Second Sight is about “standing face-to-face with the wild, furious, anything goes, free-for-all, freefall present moment that we’re all living through.” CHXMERAS are a transatlantic collaboration between UK/Canadian musician Paul Finlay from the North East of England and Vancouver-based nêhiyaw/Denesuline musician Jarrett Martineau from Treaty 6 territory. Together, they weave immersive soundscapes with angular dub, experimental techno, mutating noise, and bit-crushed beats into a genre-blending, otherworldly experience. “When we set out to make this record, we didn’t know where we would end up, but we knew that we wanted it to sound and feel like the chaos and anxieties that are swirling all around us.”

To celebrate the EP’s release, they are sharing the new video for “Second Sight” which was “the first song we wrote for the album and it embodies the energy and relentlessness of the entire record,” says the band. “From the opening syncopated kick drums to the swarming synths, and rubbery bass stabs, it's a fast-moving, elastic track that bounces from dissonance to harmony, from staccato sounds to four on the floor techno. But it's also a turning point in the story. It's somehow one of the optimistic things we've made. It channels a precognitive sense that you might just survive the storm...the feeling that, even as you're hurtling through the fallout, and don't know where you're going, that you might just make it. The song holds onto the idea that even somewhere down the dystopian fury road of our burning world, you might just get to the other side. And ‘Second Sight’ holds onto that glimmer and premonition of another world that's worth fighting to try and reach.”

WATCH / SHARE “SECOND SIGHT” HERE

MORE ABOUT CHXMERAS
CHXMERAS released their debut album, Terminal City, in 2024 on Virtua94 Records. Hailed by RANGE Magazine as “a multilayered cinematic masterpiece", the album charts a sonic passage through the echoes and ruins of late-stage capitalism, environmental degradation, and urban decay. Using modular synths, drum machines, live efx, field recordings, film samples and live improvisation, CHXMERAS take listeners into a hallucinatory landscape where fractal paths, lost futures, and the disorienting present collide. 

WATCH / SHARE “MAELSTROM” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “SUBLIMATION” HERE

CANADIAN TOUR DATES
June 17 - Sled Island Festival - Calgary, AB
June 25 - Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival - Montreal, QC
June 27 - Vancouver International Jazz Festival - Vancouver, BC
July 27-28 - Shambhala Music Festival - Salmo, BC 

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SECOND SIGHT TRACKLIST
01 Sublimation
02 Armour Up
03 Formline
04 Maelstrom
05 Second Sight

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DEBBY FRIDAY SHARES VIDEO FOR “LIPSYNC” FROM UPCOMING LP, THE STARRR OF THE QUEEN OF LIFE

DEBBY FRIDAY’S NEW ALBUM, THE STARRR OF THE QUEEN OF LIFE,  AVAILABLE AUGUST 1ST, 2025 VIA ROYAL MOUNTAIN RECORDS (CANADA) AND SUB POP (WORLDWIDE)

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Debby Friday is sharing the red-hot official video for “Lipsync,” a new electro-rap single from The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life, her forthcoming sophomore album, available August 1st, 2025, worldwide through Sub Pop and in Canada from Royal Mountain Records.

Co-directed with frequent collaborator Kevan Funk, the striking “iron forged in fire” visual also stars Debby Friday and was shot in 30 minutes at Toronto’s historic Massey Hall.

The electro rap track “Lipsync” follows the release of dance pop single “All I Wanna Do Is Party” and the anthemic and salacious jam “1/17,” and is another fantastic entry in The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life’s universe. 

The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life is available to preorder from Sub Pop and Royal Mountain. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in the US, MegaMart 2 in the UK and EU, Royal Mountain in Canada and your local record store will receive the following limited color vinyl versions: the Sub Pop Loser editions on Graphite (US) and Bio Light Blue (EU/UK), and Royal Mountain’s edition on White (Canada) (All vinyl colors whilst stock lasts!). 

Debby Friday is currently on tour supporting SPELLLING in the EU/UK and will return to Canada on August 3rd in Montreal at Osheaga Festival. Full tour dates below.

WATCH / SHARE “ALL I WANNA DO IS PARTY” HERE
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DEBBY FRIDAY TOUR DATES
Thu. Jun. 12 - Brighton, UK -  Dust *
Sat. Jun. 14 - Brussels, BE - Botanique -Rotonde *
Mon. Jun. 16 - Berlin, DE - Lido *
Wed. Jun. 18 - Bern, CH - Dampfzentrale *
Fri. Jun. 20 - Paris, FR - Petit Bain *
Sat. Jun. 21 - Paris, FR - Fête de la Musique
Sun. Aug. 03 - Montreal, QC - Osheaga Festival
Sat. Nov. 14 - Mexico City, MX - Corona Capital

* w/ SPELLLING

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DEBBY FRIDAY

"The Toronto-based vocalist and producer Debby Friday won the Polaris Music Prize for her sharp 2023 debut album, Good Luck. She returns with the euphoric electro-pop single ‘1/17,’ a dance-floor confessional that shows off yet another side of her multifaceted talent. “I swear you’re a sign,” Friday sings in an airy atmosphere punctured by percolating synths. The track builds layer atop gauzy layer until it explodes in a burst of club-ready catharsis." - The New York Times

"The song brings back some of that old PC Music feeling. It’s a euphoric, unapologetically cheesy trance-pop confection. As synth-bloops whirl all around her, Friday chants, “Poetry and nude selfies, love the way that you know me.” It feels like it’s heading toward a climactic beat-drop…the drums do eventually arrive, and that moment is awesome. Friday co-directed the bare-bones ‘1/17’ video with Kevan Funk, and it makes a great case for her as a performer." STEREOGUM

“Last time we heard a single from Debby Friday, the Toronto artist was commanding girls to the dance floor on a minimal club track co-produced by Detroit rascals HiTech. She’s in a totally different headspace on the hyperpop ballad ‘1/​17,’ singing about love and sensuality over bubbling synths which eventually give way to a euphoric trance finale.” THE FACE

 “It’s a banger” [“All I Wanna Do Is Party”] BROOKLYN VEGAN

“...fully three-dimensional in intent and tone, it finds Debby Friday severing herself from the past. Carnal and exultant…”  [“All I Wanna Do Is Party”]  CLASH

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THE STARRR OF THE QUEEN OF LIFE TRACKLISTING:
1. 1/17
2. All I Wanna Do Is Party
3. In The Club feat. HiTech
4. Lipsync
5. Alberta
6. Higher
7. ppp (Interlude)
8.  Arcadia
9. Leave.
10. Bet On Me
11. Darker The Better

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JULIANNA RIOLINO ANNOUNCES SOPHOMORE ALBUM, SHARES NEW VIDEO

JULIANNA RIOLINO’S SOPHOMORE ALBUM, ECHO IN THE DUST, OUT OCTOBER 24, 2025 VIA MOONWHISTLE RECORDS

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SUMMER TOUR DATES BEGIN JUNE 27

"twangy, deliriously catchy blast of power-pop" – The New York Times on All Blue

"Channels Judee, Dolly and Emmylou on a lustrous, emotional country-rock set"
Uncut on All Blue

“All Blue strikes near-universal chords through simplicity and clear sentiment…a shining reminder that blue comes in radiant hues” – Exclaim!

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Julianna Riolino considers her own growth on her sophomore record, Echo In The Dust. By Riolino’s own admission, Echo In The Dust is different from her debut, All Blue. She breathes new confidence into her work. The Southern Ontario musician is soft as she is tough on these songs; seeing the benefit of laying down armour and splitting her heart open so that we may get a glimpse of our own.

Out October 24, 2025 on Riolino’s own MoonWhistle Records, the songs on Echo In The Dust consider relationships of all sorts as the foundation for her awakening into a different creative self and person in this world; working through loss, grief, habits, and decisions she once made, seeking clarity in the past before leaving it to move forward. The adage “you don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been” rings especially true on this album. 

Today, Riolino is sharing the album’s first single, “On A Bluebird’s Wing”, which she describes as “a cyclical celebration of inner and outer growth. What is it to be human? To love? To yearn? To falter? To learn? We must celebrate the good with the bad and forgive ourselves for our past mistakes. Feeling the freedom of self in song and spirit. Turning your corner, and letting you grow. At long last, winter has faded and spring is on the wing of tomorrow! Smell a flower, twirl with the wind, let love be the lesson and begin again?”

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MORE ABOUT ECHO IN THE DUST
“What I'm talking about on Echo In The Dust are universally felt: you can have a romantic relationship, friendship, or professional relationship and start to identify as you grow and learn the toxic parts that can exist in all of those,” Riolino explains. “You think, ‘why do I feel bad? Why is this happening again?’ But I'm allowing this to happen because I haven't told myself I deserve better. This record helped me learn to accept and love myself. To put myself first and stand on my own two feet.”

After non-stop touring for other projects she has since left, and wrapping up live promotion for All Blue, Riolino began recording for this new album in 2024 at Gold Standard Recorders in Toronto. While she played guitar, she also tapped her regular collaborators, Matthew “Roddy” Kuester to play bass and guitar, Peter Landi on drums, Thomas Hammerton on piano and synth, and producer of the album Aaron Goldstein on pedal steel. On top of that, a whole host of other instrumentalists rounded out the sound of the album including Alex Edkins (Weird Nightmare, Metz) on guitar for “Full Moon”, “Like a Rembrandt”, and “The Less I Know”,  and Nashville’s Sean Thompson on guitar for “On A Bluebird’s Wing”.

The songs on All Blue, Riolino says, had the privilege of being played and workshopped in front of a crowd but the songs that make up Echo In The Dust were written before, during, and after her debut in moments of confusion and clarity. These songs are like journal entries; attempts at deciphering what she wants out of her relationships and creative life in music. She transports us into big feelings layered with guitar twangs, vivid pedal steel and walloping horns, anchored by her tender vocals as though she embodies Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt in one person. 

Echo In The Dust builds on the alt-country elements of All Blue. Yet, no algorithm can contain Riolino or what moved her this time around. She cites Roy Orbison, The Roches, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy),” and doom metal bands like Om as influences on the album. 

“It's kind of punk, it's rock n’ roll, it's still kind of country. It's more rocking than All Blue. It's an amalgamation of everything going on in my mind.”

What makes Riolino a compelling performer and songwriter on this record, and in her career, is how she inhabits past sensations and feelings, reliving and reviving them again to release. While a lot of these experiences are composites and memories, stitched together into 11 tracks, the impressions are of a real, vivid journey through an immense experience of rediscovery toward intuitive knowing. 

Riolino needed to unravel before she could clarify who she is now and who she’ll be next, and the result is Echo In the Dust, a beautiful sonic result of what it’s like to stay out of one’s own way. 

PRE-SAVE ECHO IN THE DUST HERE

TOUR DATES
June 27-29 - Wells, BC - ArtsWells Festival
July 18-20 - Dawson City, YK - Dawson City Music Festival
July 25-26 - Richards Landing, ON - Go North Music Festival
Aug 8-10 - Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Folk Festival
Sept 20 - Cambridge, ON - Fest2Fall

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ECHO IN THE DUST TRACKLIST
01 Like A Rembrandt
02 Smile
03 Full Moon
04 Seed
05 Be Good To Your Mother
06 It’s A Shakedown
07 Running
08 Let Me Dream
09 On A Bluebird’s Wing
10 I Wonder
11 The Less I Know

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