CHARLIE HOUSTON SHARES TOMBOY ANTHEM, “SKIDAY”

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PRAISE FOR CHARLIE HOUSTON’S BIG AFTER I DIE

"Buzzy pop songs that recall Billie Eilish as much as they do Le Tigre, Charlie Houston's Big After I Die is a punchy collection of sapphic love songs and bruising kiss offs. Slyly strange but never lacking pop hooks, songs like "Slut for Excel" (is that a Talking Heads sample bubbling in the background?) and "Pink Cheetah Print Slip" are bursting with personality and major songwriting chops. Get used to the name Charlie Houston." Exclaim!, Most Anticipated Albums of 2025

 "Since releasing her debut 5-song EP I Hate Spring in 2021, Houston has toured with ODESZA, Charlotte Cardin and The Beaches, earned millions of streams and landed a Spotify billboard in New York’s Times Square. Clearly one to watch." Billboard Canada, Anticipated 2025 Albums

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Charlie Houston is entering a new chapter, one that feels less like a reinvention and more like a return to self. After several genre-blurring releases and a debut album that showcased her range, Charlie has landed on a sound she calls ‘Tomboy Pop’, a raw, instinct-driven fusion of contrasts.

The ‘tomboy’ identity has long been a throughline in Charlie’s life. Growing up queer, she moved through the world with a bold, unfiltered confidence. As she got older, that identity became something more complicated, shaped by outside expectations and assumptions. With this new sound, Charlie looks to reclaim the word on her own terms.

That reclamation begins with the new single “SkiDay”, which she describes as “a sex positive tomboy anthem. Lyrically it's about finding it kind of hot when someone treats you like a little bitch, sonically though it showcases the confidence required to admit that."

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MORE ABOUT CHARLIE HOUSTON
Last year, Charlie Houston released her debut album, Big After I Die, a captivating 9-song journey through the uncertainty and beauty of self-discovery during life’s transitional phases. Since the release of the album Charlie has been nominated for a JUNO Award for Underground Dance Single Of The Year for her track “La Vérité” alongside Jesse Mac Cormack, and Brö; and opened for The Beaches at NXNE. The album also saw the track “Lewps” featured in the remake of I Know What You Did Last Summer.

CHARLIE HOUSTON ON TOUR:
May 14, 2026 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape - Folklore Rooms
May 14, 2026 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape - Hope & Ruin
May 15, 2026 - Brighton, UK  - The Alternative Escape - North Laine Brewhouse
May 15, 2026 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape - Canada House
May 16, 2026 - Paris, FR - Supersonic's Block Party - Supersonic Records
May 18, 2026 - Bristol, UK - The Croft
May 19, 2026 - London, UK - Footsteps Festival - The Grace
May 20, 2026 - Liverpool, UK - Kazimier Stockroom
May 22, 2026 - Glasgow, UK - The Hug and Pint

MORE PRAISE FOR CHARLIE HOUSTON

“Sometimes the words don't come immediately — after all, asking someone to be that vulnerable isn't easy — and it can take all night before you feel ready. But when that moment happens, let's hope that it can sound and feel as sweet as this indie-pop ode to young love. CBC Music on “All Night”

“... casts back to timeless memories of fumbling early romance—first kisses, messy breakups, and short-lived flirtations are all soundtracked by weightless indie pop and R&B stylings”
 – Under The Radar

“It’s a striking debut, an unguarded, ultra-personal tapestry—stories of heartbreak and struggle, sung in her soothing, signature voice” 
– SPIN

“‘Things’ is an unadulterated look at youthful insecurities and unrequited affection. Over a somber but punchy backdrop, she delivers an evocative performance that is ripe with honesty” – EARMILK



"Already with a collaboration with ODESZA and an opening slot on Charlotte Cardin’s tour under her belt, Toronto’s Charlie Houston is ready to unleash her debut album on the world. Inspired primarily by a tough breakup and finding her analyzing themes of codependency and growth, Houston’s songs exist in-between acoustic folk and dreamy, hazy indie-pop. In a post-Chappell Roan world, it feels like Houston has the same combination of total authenticity and playful pop." RANGE, Frequency Forecast 2025

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JACOB BRODOVSKY SHARES “COLORADO LOW” FROM UPCOMING ALBUM

JACOB BRODOVSKY’S NEW ALBUM, TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED,
DUE OUT JULY 10, 2026

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PERFORMING AT WINNIPEG FOLK FESTIVAL

“Jacob Brodovsky spins mundane observations with imaginative insights, using lyrical richness and splashes of humour to paint in pensive musings and quirky, comforting colour” — Exclaim!

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Jacob Brodovsky, the award-winning indie-folk songwriter, based in Treaty 1 Territory, is sharing another new song from his upcoming record, Tell The Kids We Tried, produced by Gavin Gardiner and Champagne James Robinson (MOONRIIVR). “Colorado Low” is the “oldest song on the record,” explains Brodovsky. “I wrote it in early 2016 when I had just moved back to Winnipeg from Toronto. I remember feeling underwhelmed by the Winnipeg winter and missing the snow drifts that I remembered from childhood. On the radio they kept referencing this impending ‘Colorado Low’ that would bring in the winter and I wrote this song about hypothetical characters waiting for winter, while also pondering my own decisions about coming back home and trying to settle back into life in Winnipeg after half a decade away. 

“I recorded this song 3 times in various bands over the last ten years and never really felt like I nailed it. I abandoned it many times, but for whatever reason every time I set out to make a record this song always crept back into the track listing. I re-wrote a few lyrics to make it a bit more applicable to my life now, and knew as soon as James pulled out the 12-string to track this song that we would be keeping it this time.”

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MORE ABOUT JACOB BRODOVSKY & TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED
In some cases, songwriters discover their writing is premonition only after living through the experiences their past-self penned. In 2025, Jacob Brodovsky lived through a loss of community that, at the time, he didn’t realize he’d foretold while writing his upcoming sophomore LP, Tell The Kids We Tried.

He began recording with a group of trusted friends and heroes. He brought a batch of songs to producers Gavin Gardiner and Champagne James Robinson, only to quickly discard many of them in favour of brand new songs stemming from a ‘Song Every Week’ songwriting challenge that the Winnipeg music community takes part in every Winter.

Without time to edit or really even think about them, these eleven songs revealed themselves to be more vulnerable and personal than previous work. With the help of John Mark Baron (Begonia, William Prince), Jason Tait (The Weakerthans, Bahamas), Keiran Placetka (Leith Ross, William Prince, Bros. Landreth), Charlotte Cornfield, Dominique Adams (Leith Ross, Madeleine Roger), and Taylor Jackson, they recorded live to an 8-track tape machine, quickly capturing the true expression of each song and being forced to commit to creative decisions in the moment. 

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After spending the vast majority of his life in the Jewish Summer Camp world, including becoming Co-Executive Director with his wife of the popular local community camp they met at over 25 years ago, political tensions forced him to walk away from both what he thought was his life’s work, and the community he grew up in just days after the birth of their second son. Many tracks like “Kids”, “Beneath It All”, “It’s Alright”, “Lack Thereof”, and “Older, Too” foreshadowed the upcoming loss of community that Jacob would experience while his child was being born. 

The political and personal impacts live in each song, sharing the sense of loss and confusion Brodovsky felt through the process. At the same time, the collection of songs shares more hope than disappointment. With a close listen, many songs show the importance of finding true community, seeing good in tough situations, and learning to feel less allergic to growing up and getting older. 

On one level, the album is a clear message to Jacob’s former campers and staff. On another level, telling the kids we tried is directed at his own two children, hoping for understanding as to why he’s raising them in a world that’s getting harder and harder to believe in.

Finally, it’s a reminder for all of us as we try to carve space for kindness and community in an increasingly bleak time. Please, tell them we tried.

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TOUR DATES
May 28-31 - Ymir, BC - Tiny Lights Festival
Jul 09-12 - Winnipeg, MB - Winnipeg Folk Festival
Aug 14-17 - Ear Falls, ON - Trout Forest Music Festival

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TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED TRACKLIST
01 Past Mistakes 
02 Colorado Low
03 Kids
04 Restaurant
05 Older Too
06 Intermission
07 Lack Thereof (with Dominique Adams)
08 Downer
09 Beneath It All (with Charlotte Cornfield)
10 Winters (with MOONRIIVR)
11 It's Alright (with Dominique Adams and Taylor Jackson)

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ELLEN FROESE SHARES ANOTHER SINGLE FROM UPCOMING LP

ELLEN FROESE’ NEW ALBUM, SOLITARY SONGS, OUT MAY 6, 2026 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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WESTERN CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN JUNE 13

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Today, Saskatoon songsmith Ellen Froese is sharing another new single from her upcoming album, Solitary Songs, due out May 6 via Victory Pool Records. On “Practicing My Wink”, Froese relays her tongue-in-cheek quest to perfect the flirtatious move (it’s ‘harder to do than you think’!). Disarming anxiety with goofiness, Froese playfully twisting her goal of being super cool and likeable into an ode to self-discovery through trust and friendship. Froese knows that, regardless of what the mirror dictates, ‘I got my pals and they know all the about / The way that I always have been’.

“Practicing My Wink” is a “fun little rock 'n roll song that's both an homage to my best pals and how they lift me up, and also a glimpse into my insecurities,” says Froese. “I had the idea of 'Practicing My Wink' when I noticed that I found myself charmed whenever someone winked at me. It's like a little knowing signal that makes the receiver feel special, and I wanted to get better at it myself!”

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MORE ABOUT SOLITARY SONGS
Solitary Songs finds Ellen Froese meditating on a strange chapter of her life. “It’s been a weird year—lots of life changes, maybe some ego-death,” she says. Between an ADHD diagnosis and cutting back on some vices, her perspective—as a musician, a lover, a human being—has changed.

The follow up to 2022’s For Each Flower Growing (produced with the Sheepdogs’ Sam Corbett), Solitary Songs showcases Froese singing songs that sound like dusted-off country classics with wry, down-to-earth lyricism. One moment, Froese is confessing, ‘I’m scared of getting old / But more than that, I’m scared of living without your love’; the next, she’s reeling from a false-start fling, ‘stray cattin’ along’ with a freshly purchased ‘strawberry watermelon turbo-powered vape’. There are no sacred cows in Froese’s world, with blunt humour meeting heartache while the band plays on.

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“This record is the outcome of facing non-stop anxiety with songwriting,” Froese says. “I was oscillating back and forth between feeling stuck and feeling like, ‘fuck it, I need to zoom out and have some fun.’” This tension makes Solitary Songs captivating; Froese, chastises herself for overcomplicating things, even if it may be for self-preservation, singing ‘don’t look hard, Ellen’. But she does look hard, turning over the complications—the ex-lover, the rough weather, the lonely hotel bed—meditating on her deeper desires; as her honeyed voice sings, ‘what I seek now is a methodology for peacefulness between my heart and mind’.

Breaking down the role ADHD has played in her life, Froese’s fight against “the damn dopamine hunt” is tracked across Solitary Songs. “If something is intriguing to me, it becomes my entire reality for that time,” Froese explains. Froese excels at self-deprecatingly depicting her own fixations (she muses at one point, ‘I’m thinkin’ and I’m drinkin’ up ways to make you mine’).

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Album highlight “Windy Was The Weather” finds Froese tossed and turned by the fickleness of connection. Over bittersweet strums, Froese recalls a tryst with a ‘siren of beauty’. Exhibiting a wisdom far beyond her years, Froese laments the volatility of our bodies and minds, with the caveat that there is some pleasure in the uncertainty of ‘a rose, both thorny and soft on my neck’. Whipping up a gust of strings and horns, this stirring waltz feels as timeless as autumn itself.

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Friendship is at the heart of Solitary Songs, which sounds like how it was made: a big hangout with friends, trying to make one another smile. Recorded at RecHall studios in Saskatoon, Solitary Songs was created through jubilant, off-the-cuff collaboration, with the band riffing arrangements while Froese penned new verses in the control room.

At this point in her career, with 4 full-length albums and many international tours under her belt, Solitary Songs showcases Froese digging for the feeling of “just making music for the joy of it, like when I was a kid.” And as far as quitting the dopamine rush and finding self-acceptance goes? “I guess the journey up to wellness has peaks and valleys, but it does start to level out,” Froese muses. Indeed, Solitary Songs sees Froese’ flirting with self-acceptance while figuring things out; trying to be “happy in the confidence of a solitary song,” and getting your friends on board for some cheeky country-folk tunes. And nobody does those quite like Ellen Froese.

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TOUR DATES
Jun 13 - Lethbridge, AB - The Owl
Jun 14 - Penticton, BC - The Hub
Jun 17 - Kelowna, BC - DunnEnzies
Jun 18 - Vancouver, BC - The Heatley
Jun 19 - Nanaimo, BC - The Globe Theatre
Jun 25 - Edmonton, AB - The Aviary
Jun 26 - Regina, SK - The Artesian
Jun 27 - Saskatoon, SK - Amigos

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SOLITARY SONGS TRACKLIST
01 Solitary Song
02 Wondering When
03 Don’t Look Hard
04 Windy Was The Weather
05 Practicing My Wink
06 Tide Pool
07 Bellflower Blue
08 Closed Game
09 Living Without Your Love
10 Solitary Song (Slow Version)
11 Lucille Mulhall

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