HIS HIS SHARES FIRST NEW SINGLE OF THE YEAR, “CALLS ME MINE”

HALIFAX BASED SONGWRITER HIS HIS SHARES “CALLS ME MINE”,
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His His is the recording project of Halifax-based artist Aidan Belo, blending lo-fi folk and slacker rock into a sound that feels raw, intimate, and refined. Built on analog textures and understated performances, His His leans into restraint and clarity, delivering songs that are reflective, measured, and detail-oriented.

Today, Belo shares his first new music since last year’s ‘25 EP. “Calls Me Mine” was written “after I moved from Toronto to Halifax, leaving the city I’d lived in my entire life,” he explains. “Although no longer religious, I grew up in a very Catholic household, and that language and imagery still shape the way I write. The song uses those references to explore what we carry with us from our upbringing, even after we’ve moved on from the beliefs themselves.

“The song is about that in-between space: moving forward while still feeling shaped by where you came from. It leans on religious imagery alongside everyday details to reflect how those older frameworks don’t just disappear — they get recontextualized. There’s humour in it too, but it sits beside a kind of quiet uncertainty about identity, place, and relationships.”

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Recorded entirely to tape and cassette, “Calls Me Mine” blends indie folk and slacker rock with a warm, slightly worn-in sound. “The analogue process felt important to how the song holds together — nothing too polished, more like a document of a moment rather than a finished statement,” Belo continues. “At its core, it’s about being seen and known by someone while everything else shifts around you, and the small reassurance in hearing someone call you ‘mine’.”

Since debuting in late 2020, the project has quietly built a growing audience, amassing over 2 million streams across streaming, with support from Spotify editorial playlists, SiriusXM, CBC, and tastemaker press. Rooted in a cassette-forward, analog approach, His His emphasizes warmth, tape saturation, and subtle imperfections, resulting in a sound that is immediate, cohesive, and sonically distinct.

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FATHER OF THE YEAR SHARES DEBUT SINGLE, “THE FIXER”

FATHER OF THE YEAR, AKA SINGER-SONGWRITER CAMERON REED,
SHARES DEBUT SINGLE VIA 444%

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Everyone knows they need to change. It takes loving someone to make that knowledge unbearable. "The Fixer", the first single from Canadian singer-songwriter Cameron Reed's debut album as Father Of The Year, is the opening salvo of a record about marriage, masculinity, and the limits of love. 

For themes this personal, Reed arrives with unlikely background credentials. Previously known as Babe Rainbow, a Warp Records-signed electronic instrumental project whose work Pitchfork described as "overcast, suffocating sonic landscapes," Reed pivots with Father Of The Year into altogether more intimate territory, kitchen sink storytelling in the tradition of John Prine, Loudon Wainwright III, and Bill Callahan. The tradition has always made room for men who fall short. It hasn't often had to accommodate a generation of men who have the language to understand themselves completely and nothing to show for it. 

“The Fixer” opens with just guitar and hushed vocals, a man alone in a room acknowledging his limitations before the band has even arrived. It's a quiet, disarming entrance for a character who is anything but. When producer and multi-instrumentalist Christopher Vincent's arrangement fills in, organ, brass and strings built around a loose blues-inflected riff and a cool mid-tempo groove, it carries the warmth of 70s soul, a tradition that has also known what to do with a man who loves someone and fails.

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The character is immediately recognizable. He arrives defensive before anyone has said a word ("Don't accuse me of nothing"), fluent in his own dysfunction and entirely unable to apply it ("All I've got are my tools / But I can't build a thing / I'm a half-ignorant man"), and absolutely certain of his own authority. The tension at the heart of the song, the desire to help someone you love, is real and tender, but so is the arrogance that makes you ignore what the moment actually requires.

The grandeur peaks mid-song with a kind of magnificent self-delusion: "You'll address me 'Your Highness' / I'm the smartest man in the room / When you hear what I have to say / Then you'll believe it too / I'm a cold-hearted fool / Traits befitting a king." He knows he's the punchline. He delivers it anyway. “That’s what makes me a man,” Between each chorus, a weary sigh, "I'm the fixer," followed by the offer he can't stop making: "I can give you a hand."

“The Fixer” introduces a man at his most fortified, a man who can't stop offering solutions to problems nobody asked him to solve, and who has not yet learned to simply listen.

Father Of The Year is an unabashedly middle aged millennial project, belonging to a generation that has lived long enough to know what time costs, but enough of it left to try to change. 

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GIZMO RELEASE NEW SINGLE, “CELESTIAL”, ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES

CHARLOTTETOWN ROCKERS GIZMO SHARE NEW SINGLE, “CELESTIAL”, VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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Gizmo are Charlottetown rockers inspired by the guitar-damaged pop of 1990s American slacker bands and their contemporaries on Canada’s East Coast. A 120 Minutes band for the Gen Z set, they breathe new life into their vintage influences with a distinctive songwriting style and frenetic live show.

Today, they share the new single “Celestial”, out via Victory Pool Records, picking up right where 2023’s livewire debut EP Buddy System left off without skipping a beat. The new material finds the band mining similar sources but reaching new heights, imbuing their carefully considered, structurally ambitious power-pop songwriting with more unexpected twists and turns.

"I remember I was at the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market when Julien (Kitson) sent me a voice memo of the opening riff to what became ‘Celestial,’” explains bassist Spencer Swaine. “He wrote it on Halloween night and sent it to me, half-jokingly mumbling French because it sounded like Stereolab. This was in 2022. The final product ended up being a turning point for bringing new influences into the band and was the start of a new chapter for us.”

To record it, the band decamped to a converted community hall in Great Village, Nova Scotia with co-producers Alex Edkins (METZ, Weird Nightmare) and Loel Campbell (Wintersleep) in tow in Winter 2025. 

The group bonded over their overlapping tastes, able to share a common language when referencing sounds and direction. This helped flesh out the sound; while the music is informed by long-held aesthetic touchpoints like Guided By Voices and Pavement, keen listeners will hear the gothic jangle of R.E.M. and the jagged Americana of Silver Jews peeking through in spots as well.

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MORE ABOUT GIZMO
Formed in Charlottetown in 2021 by Julien Kitson, Daniel Hartinger, and Spencer Swaine, and joined by Patrick Stephen in 2021, their debut four-song EP Buddy System was released in August 2023. .Its guitar-driven melodies and catchy hooks quickly earned them a growing audience and won them Rock Recording of the Year at the PEI Music Awards. Following its release, the band signed a publishing deal with CYMBA Music Publishing and continued writing and refining new material in rehearsal spaces and on the road.

Early on, the band toured steadily, building a devoted fanbase through their live performances, sharing stages with acts like Wintersleep, Paper Lions, Cootie Catcher, and Two Hours Traffic, and playing festivals such as Sommo Festival, Project Nowhere, and Nowadays Fest.

In 2025, following a standout performance at Showcase PEI, the band signed to both Victory Pool Records and Noisemaker Management and quickly landed summer 2026 festival slots at Hillside and Paris Drinks Fest.

TOUR DATES
Jun 17 - Ottawa, ON - Club SAW
Jun 18 - Toronto, ON - The Baby G 
Jun 19 - Hamilton, ON - Mills Hardware
Jun 20 - Brantford, ON - Brandi’s 
Jun 22 - Kingston, ON - Broom Factory 
Jun 23 - Montreal, QC - L’Esco
Jul 17-19 - Hillside Festival
Aug 14-15 - Paris Drinks Fest

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