ROSE COUSINS SHARES HER VERSION OF ANNIE LENNOX’ “COLD”

ROSE COUSINS UNVEILS HER TAKE ON ANNIE LENNOX’ CLASSIC “COLD” 
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Today, acclaimed multi-JUNO Award winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rose Cousins returns with her take on Annie Lennox’ “Cold”. This has been a classic Canadian winter - unbelievably cold, with the beauty of freshly fallen snow and ice shimmering all around. For Rose Cousins, a classic winter at home in Halifax left her feeling nostalgic for the musical touchstones of her youth. Among the songs Rose felt drawn to was "Cold" by Annie Lennox, from her iconic 1992 album, Diva. "Cold" takes on a new tenderness and warmth with Rose, alone at her piano. 

"Annie Lennox is so brilliant and it's been a cold winter,” explains Cousins. “She's epic and so is this nostalgic song from 1992 (and my youth). Who doesn't love longing and winter combined? Undeniable."

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MORE ABOUT ROSE COUSINS
On her latest record, Conditions of Love - Volume 1, Rose Cousins held our hands as she guided us on a journey through the "conditions of love." Ever the emotional explorer, the acclaimed, Nova-Scotia-based folk artist sought truth, in all its imperfection, in the depths of our most complicated of emotions: love. 

Co-produced with trusted friend and longtime bandmate Joshua Van Tassel, Conditions of Love – Volume 1 saw 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. 

Conditions of Love – Volume 1 has been nominated for the JUNO Award for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year award at the 2026 JUNO Awards, taking place March 29, 2026, in Hamilton, ON.

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 Rose’s earlier 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, 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, Bruce Cockburn, Josh Ritter, Kathleen Edwards, Joe Henry, Aoife O’Donovan and Anais Mitchell, and her music has fittingly underscored scenes from notable TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Fire Country, Station 19 and Batwoman along with several independent films. 

PRAISE FOR ROSE COUSINS

“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!

“Cousins’ triumph is finding a new way to express the feelings that go deeper than words, and making love come out the winner, even when it’s hard.” No Depression

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March 13-20 - Cayamo 2026 - (Caribbean cruise w/ Jason Isbell + etc)
April 2-4 - Ottawa, ON @ Redbird
April 7 - London, ON @ Aeolian Hall
April 8 - Paris, ON @ Dominion Telegraph Event Centre
May 7 - Northampton, MA @ The Parlor Room
May 8 - Groton, MA @ Groton Hill Music Center
May 12 - Cambridge, MA @ Arrow Street Arts

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GORD DOWNIE, THE SADIES, AND THE CONQUERING SUN SHARE NEW VIDEO, LIVE ALBUM OUT TOMORROW

LIVE AT 6 O’CLOCK, OUT FEBRUARY 27 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

FEATURES COVERS OF NEIL YOUNG, THE WHO, STOOGES, ROKY ERICKSON, THE GUN CLUB & FUCKED UP

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“One hell of a collaboration" - Paste
“Scruffy punk diatribes and haunted earthenware roots-rockers” - The Toronto Star
“Sounds like a struggle. Sounds like shots were fired. Sounds good loud” - The Globe And Mail
“When the five of them are on the same page, there’s an intimidating energy” - Exclaim!

Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun released their debut self-titled album in 2014, a triumphant ten song barnburner that clashes the late Gord Downie's indelible poetry with the brash, inspired playing of The Sadies, whose resume already included albums with Neko Case, Jon Spencer, John Doe, and Andre Williams, to name a few. Not a one-off, but a brotherhood, Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun struck a punk-addled chemistry verging on possessed, compelled by Downie's peerless words, unbridled charisma, and the unencumbered playing of Mike Belitsky, Sean Dean, Travis Good, and the late Dallas Good. The summer tour of that album blazed a trail of indescribably fiery performances of the album, riddled with incendiary covers of punk & psych rock greats, a rare intensity now captured on the concert album, Live At 6 O'Clock.

Releasing February 27 via Arts & Crafts, Live At 6 O’Clock captures the electricity of Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun at their zenith. Featuring eight lightning strike performances selected from four festival sets – including covers of Roky Erickson, The Who, Neil Young, The Gun Club, The Stooges, and two originals from the debut album – Live At 6 O’Clock is a rare document of Downie and The Sadies’ legendary energy in supremely elevated punk rock form.

Today the band shares a video of "If You Have Ghosts", the fervent opening of 'Live At Six O'Clock,' a possessed and reverent take on the song originally performed by psych-rock visionary Roky Erickson. Captured in the thick of Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun’s 2014 summer tour, the performance finds the band locked in a feverish communion.

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Join members of The Sadies tonight Thursday, February 26 at 9pm ET for an exclusive Bandcamp Listening Party of Live At 6 O’Clock. 

“If this record is any good at all, it is for the love and support of our families and the company of good friends.” - Gord Downie.

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LIVE AT 6 O’CLOCK - TRACKLISTING
1. If You Have Ghosts (Roky Erickson Cover)
2. So Sad About Us (The Who Cover)
3. It Didn’t Start To Break My Heart Until This Afternoon 
4. Grey Riders (Neil Young Cover)
5. Generation (Fucked Up Cover)
6. Goodbye Johnny (The Gun Club Cover)
7. Demand Destruction
8. I Got A Right (Stooges Cover) 

THE SADIES ON TOUR 
Feb 28 - Brooklyn NY - Brooklyn Bowl
Jun 9 - Woodstock NY - Bearsville Theater w/ The Mekons
Jun 12 - Cambridge MA - Sinclair w/ The Mekons

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BYE PARULA ANNOUNCES NEW LP, SHARES NEW SINGLE “KISSBURN"

BYE PARULA’S NEW ALBUM, SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING, OUT JUNE 5, 2026 VIA SECRET CITY RECORDS

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ALBUM LAUNCH SHOW JUNE 11 AT SALA ROSSA IN MONTREAL
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SUPPORTING SAID THE WHALE IN TORONTO APRIL 18
AT LEE’S PALACE

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Bye Parula is thrilled to announce their brand-new album Something Out Of Nothing set for release on June 5, 2026 via Secret City Records in both LP and CD formats. While their early recordings captured musicians who had just met and were still getting to know each other through musical communication, Something Out Of Nothing reflects their growing friendship and increasingly intuitive interaction, which inspired them to broaden their aesthetic horizons while moving toward more introspective songwriting. The new album was produced by Robbie Kuster (Flore Laurentienne, Patrick Watson) and mixed by Warren Spicer (Unessential Oils, Plants and Animals) and features a team of collaborators, including Elisapie, Adèle Trottier-Rivard (Bibi Club), Morgan Moore, and François Lafontaine (Karkwa).

The first single, “KISSBURN”, is available now across platforms. Singer and Bassist Loïc Calatayud-Sola reveals the inspiration and meaning behind the song: “‘KISSBURN’ is told from the perspective of someone who is flirting with or pursuing a person they are obsessed with. This person is confident, perhaps sexy, perhaps ridiculous, perhaps both.” 

The band will be opening for Said the Whale in Toronto on April 18 and is also announcing an album launch show in Montreal, June 11 at Sala Rossa. The tickets will be available for sale on Friday, February 27, at 10 a.m., Summer festival dates will be announced shortly.

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Bye Parula, a trio of immigrants who found their musical match in Montreal, is composed of singer and bassist Loïc Calatayud-Sola (South of France), guitarist Sebastián Riquelme (Chile), and drummer Sergio D'Isanto (Italy). They became the most popular band in Canada, if only for about twenty seconds, every morning. That's when their 2023 single, “Still Got the Spirit”, was broadcast across the country on CBC Radio One, whose listeners recognized the song as the opening theme for the network's flagship arts and culture program, Q with Tom Power.

With the release of their second album in 2026, Bye Parula presents a mercurial mix inspired by the orchestral funk of Serge Gainsbourg, the wounded melodies of Elliott Smith, the cosmopolitan rhythms of the Talking Heads, and the artisanal R&B of Dijon, all imbued with a 1970s cinematic sensibility that blurs the line between sunny, fuzzy fantasy and urban sophistication.

This free and relaxed approach is immediately apparent in the first tracks of the album, linked by a common theme. “I Don't Know” and “KISSBURN,” with their swirling energy, falsetto choruses, and wah-wah guitar solos, plunge us into the heart of a disco seduction: the first track is sung from the perspective of someone who is being made almost uncomfortable advances by a stranger in love; the second takes the perspective of the determined suitor who relentlessly pursues his goal.

The hedonistic sounds of their second album can't mask the distress lurking beneath the surface: this album massages your shoulders with music while punching you in the gut with its lyrics. “English isn't my mother tongue,” explains Calatayud, "so on our first album, I was shy and tried to complicate things to make myself feel smart, in a way. And Robbie said to me, ‘No, you have to be simpler than that. You have to go for the emotion.’ I think that helped me a lot: knowing that I could just write simple, honest lyrics. It changed the way I wrote the lyrics for the second album."

Naturally, Something Out of Nothing’s most dramatic moments are also the most nakedly personal. On “Orange Blossom”, Calatayud pays tribute to his great-grandmother, who lived to 101, and whose spirit of perseverance continues to guide him through his own darkest hours—like, the one chronicled on “Burning Down the House”, a post-breakup elegy that he calls “the hardest song for me to write.” On both tracks, Calatayud belts out the choruses with such unrestrained intensity, you can practically see the tears welling up in his eyes.  

Meanwhile, the eerie Radiohead-esque atmosphere of “Home” draws us into the moment where Calatayud’s soul-crushing morning commute to his day job—a total of 1.5 hours on the Metro combined with an hour of walking, to be exact—led to a full-blown existential crisis, as a creeping homesickness had him questioning whether he wanted to stay in Canada. Likewise, the meditative Spanish-sung folk ballad “Miedo de olvidar” was inspired by all three members missing their moms, all of whom live far from the band’s Montreal home base.

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But perhaps the greatest gauge of Bye Parula’s increased confidence can be found in Something Out of Nothing’s most vulnerable song. In contrast to the polyrhythmic mojo heard throughout the record, “Needed” is strikingly simple: a hypnotic acoustic hymn that centres around a single lyric—’I don’t want to talk about it/ playing another little game with you, my love/ they say it’s only a matter of time’—that Calatayud repeats over the course of five minutes, his tone turning gradually more unsettled with each pass. The song was written collectively as D'Isanto was reeling from a difficult break-up with a partner, and for a group of guys who were barely knew each other when they first started playing together in 2020, “Needed” is a testament to the blood-pact bond they now share as bandmates, and as close friends who can lean one another in times of trouble. 

Something Out of Nothing is divided into two parts for the listener’s experience: “Songs to Listen to in a Standing Position” and “Songs to Listen to in a Sitting Position”. Two atmospheres that seem diametrically opposed yet are ultimately and intimately connected. Whether racing through the night or settling into dawn’s light, each track is woven from the same thread: love made alive by care. In this way, the album unfolds as a complete story. Its standing-position songs celebrate how love moves us, while its sitting-position songs reveal how love holds us. Together, they remind us of the necessity of both movement and stillness, of brightness and depth embracing the joy that lifts us and the pain that grounds us. Urging us to dance. Urging us to pause.

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SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING TRACKLIST
Side A - Songs to Listen to in a Standing Position

01 I don’t know
02 KISSBURN
03 I’m getting ready
04 Something Out Of Nothing
05 Home

Side B - Songs to Listen to in a Sitting Position
06 Orange Blossom (There’s a million reasons)
07 Miedo de olvidar (featuring Elisapie)
08 Quand vient le soir
09 Needed
10 Burning down the house

TOUR DATES
April 18 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace - Opening act for Said the Whale
June 11 - Montreal, QC - Sala Rossa – Album Launch Show

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