AUSTRA  SHARES NEW SHORT FILM - CHIN UP BUTTERCUP : THE MOVIE

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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN TODAY - FULL DATES LISTED BELOW

NEW ALBUM, CHIN UP BUTTERCUP, OUT NOW VIA PINK FIZZ

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“Simultaneously euphoric and melancholic” - Exclaim!

"An impressive leap forward... The sweet spot between uplifting dance music production and sobering, shadow-dappled indie sensibilities."  - Pitchfork  

“Austra has returned with some of her most captivating songs yet.” - CULT MTL

“Austra proves that healing, like pop music, works best when you don’t hold back.”
- RANGE Magazine

“A bittersweet breakup album inspired by the euphoric sounds of 90s Eurodance.” - The Grind

“An inspiring and ultra-innovative collection of tracks that blend electronic and techno sounds with Stelmanis’s powerful, striking vocals.” The Montreal Gazette

"Joyous, optimistic drunk-in-love dancefloor revelry." - Stereogum  

“Downright euphoric” - FLOOD

“It’s an ode to feeling everything all at once.” - Reverie Magazine

“Transcends the broad umbrella of pop’s subgenres” Northern Transmissions

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After releasing her first album in five years, Chin Up Buttercup—praised by Pitchfork as “a graduation, a moment where years of steadily expanding Austra’s sound has led to a monumental payoff”—Austra, the pop project of Canadian vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis, returns today with a short film, Chin Up Buttercup: The Movie. 

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Written by and starring Stelmanis, and directed by Hedia Maron, the short film expands on the emotional world of the album through new visuals, behind-the-scenes footage from the album’s photoshoots, and poetic voiceovers. Featured tracks include “Amnesia” and “Chin Up Buttercup,” as well as an acoustic live snippet of “The Hopefulness of Dawn,” offering a deeper entry point into Chin Up Buttercup.

Stelmanis comments: "I had planned to make a video of some sort using bts footage, and with the help of director/editor Hedia Maron, the idea spiraled into a wild no-budget movie making adventure."

The release of Chin Up Buttercup: The Movie coincides with Austra’s 2026 tour of North America, the EU, and UK, kicking off with three sold-out shows in Ottawa, Montreal, and Brooklyn. Tickets are available at austra.fyi, full dates can be found below.

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Stelmanis, a classically trained musician and opera devotee with four previous albums and a Canadian Screen Award under her belt, has been singing dramatic arias about tragedy for years. Her secret? She didn’t really know what that devastation felt like. She only experienced it off stage in early 2020 when her long-term partner dropped a bombshell. “I was completely blindsided … the person I loved woke up one day, told me she wasn’t happy, and I basically never saw her again,” Stelmanis says. She confesses to feeling very at odds with the world, like nothing made sense. The album’s name is a reference to the societal pressure to just paste on a smile and keep going. Stelmanis and co-producer Kieran Adams took inspiration from the Eurodance sound of Madonna’s landmark 1998 album Ray of Light, produced by William Orbit, and emerged with a mix of hypnotic dance floor anthems and elegant melodies to soothe your broken heart. 

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AUSTRA 2026 TOUR 
1/9: Club Saw - Ottawa, ON *SOLD OUT*
1/10: La Sala Rossa - Montreal, QC  *SOLD OUT*
1/11: Baby’s All Right - Brooklyn, NY *SOLD OUT*
1/12: Baby’s All Right – Brooklyn, NY
1/13: Beachland Ballroom & Tavern - Cleveland, OH 
1/14: The Magic Bag - Ferndale, MI 
1/16: Sleeping Village - Chicago, IL 
1/17: 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN 
1/20: 29th Street Ballroom - Austin, TX 
1/21: Club Dada - Dallas, TX 
1/23: The Roxy Theatre - West Hollywood, CA 
1/24: The Independent - San Francisco, CA 
1/26: Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR 
1/27: Madame Lou’s - Seattle, WA 
1/29: The Rickshaw Theatre - Vancouver, BC 
1/31: The Great Hall - Toronto, ON  *SOLD OUT*
2/6: Foro Indie Rocks - Cuauhtémoc, MX 
2/7: C3 Rooftop - Guadalajara, MX 
2/28: Sala Villanos - Madrid, ES 
3/1: La Nau - Barcelona, ES 
3/3: L’Epicerie Moderne - Fezyin (Lyon), FR 
3/4: La Maroquinerie - Paris, FR 
3/5: Le Grand Mix - Tourcoing, FR 
3/7: Botanique - Rotonde - Brussels, BE 
3/8: Mojo Club - Hamburg, DE 
3/9: Hotel Cecil - Copenhagen, DK 
3/10: Slatkyrkan - Stockholm, SE 
3/12: Kesselhaus - Berlin, DE 
3/13: Hydrozagadka - Warsaw, PL 
3/14: Subzero - Prague, CZ 
3/17: Technikum - Munich, DE 
3/18: Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld (CBE) - Köln, DE 
3/19: Melkweg - Amsterdam, NL 
3/21: Stereo - Glasgow, UK 
3/22: The White Hotel - Salford, UK 
3/23: Village Underground - London, UK 
3/25: The Workman’s Club – Dublin, IE 
3/26: Flux – Vienna, AT 

LARKK SHARES SHADOWY NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING ALBUM, ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES

DANIELLE MCTAGGART’S (DEAR ROUGE) DEBUT LP AS LARKK, CINDERS, OUT FEBRUARY 13, 2026

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“Cinders is an intensely personal, piano-driven exercise in vulnerability. The instrument and the artist's voice are the foundational bedrock, as McTaggart casts aside the electrifying fringe- and sparkle-laden trappings of rock 'n' roll to transform before our very eyes and reintroduce herself without artifice.” Exclaim!, 2026 Most Anticipated Albums

CANADIAN TOUR DATES COMMENCE FEBRUARY 19, MORE PERFORMANCES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

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Today, Larkk shares another new single from her upcoming debut album, Cinders, out February 13, 2026. Larkk is Danielle McTaggart (Dear Rouge) in a new form, born from her desire for deeper artistic exploration. Following recent singles “Devastation’ Bliss”, “Caverns”, and “First Kiss” and a sold out Vancouver performance in November, “Cuckoo” pulls you into a shadowy dreamworld—moody, mysterious, and awash in cinematic depth. It unfolds like a spiritual vision, rising into a beautiful storm of strings and orchestral colour. A bold step in McTaggart’s transformation, “Cuckoo” transcends genre to offer a sound that feelsotherworldly—haunting, poetic, and profoundly transportive.

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MORE ABOUT LARKK
Danielle McTaggart is an artist in transformation. Best known as the powerhouse voice behind the JUNO Award-winning duo Dear Rouge, she has spent years captivating audiences with electrifying performances and chart-topping hits. Now, Danielle McTaggart has stepped forward as Larkk — a transformation that embraces intimacy and introspection, trading the high-energy pulse of indie rock for raw, poetic vulnerability.

After years of touring with acclaimed acts like Metric, Phantogram, and The Beaches, she felt a pull to connect on a more personal level — with herself and with listeners. 

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For Larkk, this music exists in the space between the past and the future - an evolution of both sound and spirit. It’s more than a new chapter; it’s the creation of an entirely new language of storytelling. Larkk weaves together music, movement, painting, poetry, and expansive artistic expression — each element intertwining to capture the beauty and ache of being human. It’s a deeply immersive world where emotion drives form, and vulnerability becomes a powerful source of connection.

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CINDERS TRACKLIST
01 Cinders
02 First Kiss
03 Share Of Dreams
04 Cuckoo
05 Caverns
06 Interlude
07 Devastation’s Bliss
08 The Moon The Bed
09 Oceans (reprise)
10 Stars Ain’t Colliding

LARKK ON TOUR
February 19 - Calgary, AB - Lantern Theatre
February 20 - Sherwood Park, AB - Festival Place (w/ Dear Rouge)
March 05 - Chilliwack, BC - Chilliwack Cultural Centre


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WINTERSLEEP SHARES “STRANGER NOW” FROM UPCOMING ALBUM, WISHING MOON

WINTERSLEEP RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM, WISHING MOON, OUT MARCH 27, 2026 VIA DINE ALONE RECORDS

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2026 U.K. & EUROPEAN TOUR DATES COMMENCE APRIL 10, CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN ON MAY 9. TICKETS ON SALE NOW - FULL DATES BELOW

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Today, Wintersleep are sharing the second single from their upcoming album, Wishing Moon, their eighth full-length album and first record since 2019’s In The Land Of. It’s no easy thing to sustain a band for more than 20 years. To come together and nurture an artistic project across two decades is a statement of belief: in oneself, in one’s bandmates, in the profound connections produced by the creative process, and in the richness of the world around us—since all art is a result of having noticed what it feels like to live here, and the drive to make sense of that feeling. 

Canadian indie-rock veterans Wintersleep belong to this group of artists. At this stage in their career, the celebrated band’s five members—principal vocalist and guitarist Paul Murphy, guitarist Tim D’Eon, keyboardist Jon Samuel, bassist Chris Bell, and drummer Loel Campbell—are possessed of a deep gratitude and humility that accompany any creatives who get to make a life-long go of making art with the people they love. But there are still wonderful mysteries and shadowy corners of experience that they have yet to uncover.

“Stranger Now” sets “the thematic lyrical tone for the album—touching on ideas of the ‘super-powers,’ we all have within us, the things inside you that you know are there but sometimes need the right tools, people, or moment to access,” says Murphy. 

“This song was a joy to make,” explains Murphy. “The first in the demo batch that felt like a real progression from our last record and like the beginning of something new. It started with this killer, quintessentially-Tim riff. Loel had an amazing beat and production vision for it. I wrote the first verse melody and lyrics and the pre-chorus and chorus came pretty immediately after that. One of those guitar parts that you could sing a lot of different things over because it has so much to it harmonically.”

The band has also shared a visualizer for “Stranger Now” directed by boy wonder and featuring Tony Morrone. “Tony is an actual videographer, from a different generation who I really like,” says boy wonder. “I wanted to make a video about a day in the life of Tony, as if he were me, a guy making indie music videos on the streets. Tony is me and I am Tony!”

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MORE ABOUT WISHING MOON
Recorded at producer Nicolas Vernhes’ (The War on Drugs, Spoon) studio in the Mojave Desert near Pioneertown, the collection of 12 songs evidences a renewed vitality and energy: The band’s branches of prog-, indie-, folk-, and alternative-rock are in full bloom, stretching skyward with grateful, open, curious hearts. 

Wishing Moon crackles with the energy of that sort of reinvigoration. The opening title track throbs with a Wurlitzer electric piano before bass and drums set off at a steady clip, setting a dreamy kraut-rock scene that builds, slowly, to a crescendo of hammered keys and soaring guitars while Murphy cries on the chorus: ‘Temperamental, I’m alive, I’m alone/Transcendental, I’m alive, I’m alone’. “Stranger Now” follows, with heavy desert-rock chording and sand-smoothed fuzz leads. (D’Eon attributes the record’s atmosphere and macabre grooves to the Mojave, famously channeled in the ominous, titanic riffing of bands like Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age.) “The band’s always at its strongest when there’s a fundamental groove that’s rolling along,” remarks Campbell. “I just felt a natural gravitation when we got into the room, like this propulsion and relentlessness. There’s a certain meditation within the grooves.”

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“Wait for the Tide” recalls pre-Wintersleep days, even, when Murphy and D’Eon created post-hardcore and prog-rock chaos in their high school band Kary. “My Mind Always” centers on a hypnotic, off-kilter acoustic riff, an unsettling, stoned sway of a love song. “Abyss” is an alt-rock endtimes anthem, feeling like it’s ready to pull apart at the seams at any moment despite its major-key gallop: ‘We’re living in the abyss now/In the life affirming bliss!’ Murphy sings. 

For Murphy, the record demonstrates a band that still takes chances. “We wanted to shake it up and do something more challenging,” he explains. That desire is partly why they chose to work with Vernhes, a producer they’d never created with. “We needed that energy of not knowing,” he continues. “I remember thinking that it should be uncomfortable, because it’s like getting in touch with who you are again, individually and as a group. Songs are really intimate things, and getting a song right on a record is a really intimate process. I think of collaboration with producers as a mirror, and felt especially in this case, it revealed a lot. Most importantly, I think Wishing Moon just has this living, breathing quality.”

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WINTERSLEEP ON TOUR
Friday, April 10, 26 Newcastle, UK - Little Buidings
Saturday, April 11, 26 Glasgow, UK - King Tuts
Sunday, April 12, 26 Manchester, UK - Deaf Institute
Monday, April 13, 26 Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hounds
Tuesday, April 14, 26 London, UK - The Lower Third
Thursday, April 16, 26 Paris, FR - Supersonic
Saturday, April 18, 26 Amsterdam, NL - Upstairs @ Paradiso
Sunday, April 19, 26 Cologne, DE - Garagen
Tuesday, April 21, 26 Hamburg, DE - Molotow
Thursday, April 23, 26 Berlin, DE - Mikropol
Saturday, April 25, 26 Zurich, CH - Bogen F

Saturday, May 9, 26 Saint John, NB Imperial Theatre
Sunday, May 10, 26 Moncton, NB Capitol Theatre
Monday, May 11, 26 Fredericton, NB The Playhouse
Thursday, May 14, 26 Windsor, NS Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia
Saturday, May 16, 26 Halifax, NS Marquee Ballroom
Thursday, June 4, 26 Victoria, BC Capitol Ballroom
Saturday, June 6, 26 Vancouver, BC Hollywood Theatre
Sunday, June 7, 26 Kelowna, BC Revelry Food + Music Hub
Wednesday, June 10, 26 Edmonton, AB The Starlite Room
Thursday, June 11, 26 Calgary, AB The Palace Theatre
Friday, June 12, 26 Saskatoon, SK The Capitol Music Club
Saturday, June 13, 26 Winnipeg, MB Park Theatre
Wednesday, June 17, 26 London, ON London Music Hall
Thursday, June 18, 26 Hamilton, ON Bridgeworks
Friday, June 19, 26 Toronto, ON Masonic Temple - The Concert Hall
Saturday, June 20, 26 Ottawa, ON The Bronson

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WISHING MOON TRACKLIST
01 Wishing Moon
02 Stranger Now
03 I Got A Feeling
04 Wait For The Tide
05 My Mind Always
06 Gale
07 After You
08 Abyss
09 Redrawn
10 You & I
11 All Eyes
12 Like A God

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