TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL ANNOUNCE CANADIAN TOUR, UNVEIL “HOLY HELL” FROM THEIR UPCOMING LP

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TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL, THE ‘SUPERGROUP’ OF HALEY BLAIS AND SAM LYNCH, DEBUT ALBUM, ANGEL SO BAD, OUT AUGUST 28, 2026 VIA BIRTHDAY CAKE RECORDS

TOUR DATES COMMENCE AUGUST 2 | FULL DATES LISTED BELOW
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LISTEN TO TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL’S INTERVIEW
WITH TOM POWER ON CBC Q HERE

“Both artists are adept at encompassing poetic contradictions and double meanings in their respective solo work, so it comes as no surprise that even the song's titular question…has multiple interpretations, each more rife with possibilities than the last and set free against the expansive open plain of their voices entwined atop dreamy acoustic guitar, featherlight piano and craning pedal steel.” - Exclaim!

“Both Vancouver musicians are experts in smart indie rock that sounds extremely sweet while the lyrics cut deep. That’s true in their partnership, True Mountain Laurel, as well.”
- The Georgia Straight

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Born out of late-night harmonies, shared voice memos, and a long-standing friendship rooted in mutual admiration, Haley Blais and Sam Lynch formed the supergroup True Mountain Laurel. Having already shared the album’s title track, today they are sharing another new single from their debut collection of songs, Angel So Bad. 

“Holy Hell” explores the stories we tell ourselves to keep believing in someone. What do we cling to when certainty disappears? The song sits in the complicated space between devotion and doubt, and makes light of the cyclical, sometimes haunting nature of hope.

“‘Holy Hell’ had to go through a bit of a metamorphosis in its initial stages before we realized we needed to stop lying to ourselves and just make a bluegrass song,” the duo explains. “At the heart of TML there’s a love of country music, and this is our homage to a genre we’ve admired for so long.”

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MORE ABOUT ANGEL SO BAD + TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL
A tender, dust-swept exploration of all the feelings that fall through the cracks, Angel So Bad is equal parts folk reverie and country yearning, while the project pulls from their respective solo careers. Sam’s poetic introspection and Haley’s razor-sharp lyrical intimacy blend into something softer, stranger, and wholly their own.

What began as casual writing sessions in between Sam and Haley’s respective tour cycles has slowly transformed into a collaborative ritual: trading lines and melodies over coffee and recording scrappy voice note demos at the end of the day. The songs emerged not from pressure or plan but from a desire to make music the way they first fell in love with it — no clocks, no ego, just two voices in a room.

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Influenced by artists like Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, and early 2000s Canadian singer-songwriters, the project is less about genre and more about feel. Acoustic guitars, brushed drums, pedal steel, and the occasional jangly piano support lyrics that feel diaristic without being confessional: capturing the ache of growing older, the strangeness of still wanting more, and the joy of finding home in another person’s voice.

There’s a looseness to these songs that feels intentional. Where Sam’s solo work leans cinematic and atmospheric, and Haley’s leans into the clever and orchestral, here they meet in the middle: warm, minimal, and a little bit rough around the edges. Live, the project takes on an even more intimate form without setlists or rigid arrangements. Just two friends singing the truth as they feel it that night.

LISTEN TO TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL’S INTERVIEW
WITH TOM POWER ON CBC Q HERE

PRE-SAVE ANGEL SO BAD HERE

TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL PERFORMANCE DATES
8/2/2026 Filberg Fest, Comox, BC
8/8/2026 Pleasant Day Festival, Vancouver, BC
9/15/2026 Emmanuel United Church, Waterloo, ON
9/16/2026 Mills Hardware, Hamilton, ON
9/17/2026 Harmony Hall, Gormley, ON
9/19/2026 4th Stage NAC, Ottawa, ON
9/22/2026 Hugh's Room, Toronto, ON
9/28/2026 The Carleton, Halifax, NS
9/29/2026 Trailside, Charlottetown, PEI
9/30/2026 The Cap, Fredericton, NB
10/2/2026 Frolic and Folk Pub, Iona, NS
11/3/2026 Modern Love, Calgary, AB
11/4/2026 The Artesian, Regina, SK
11/5/2026 Side Stage, Winnipeg, MB
11/6/2026 Amigos, Saskatoon, SK
11/7/2026 Double Dragon, Edmonton, AB
11/8/2026 Communitea Café, Canmore, BC
11/10/2026 The Old Fire Hall Tavern, Rossland, BC
11/11/2026 The Hub on Martin, Penticton, BC

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ANGEL SO BAD TRACKLIST
01 Angel So Bad
02 Holy Hell
03 Bird Of Prey
04 East Of Anything
05 Sunny
06 I Love You, Nicole
07 Angel Reprise
08 The Trial

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GIZMO UNVEIL “PANTONE 312” FROM UPCOMING LP

CHARLOTTETOWN ROCKERS GIZMO DEBUT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, ALL YOUR WORSHIPS, OUT OCTOBER 2, 2026 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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“Gizmo balance '90s slacker rock with mud-caked power-pop, and "Gift Shop"
is a testament to that.” - Stereogum

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Today, Charlottetown slack rockers Gizmo are sharing another single from their upcoming album, All Your Worships, out October 2 via Victory Pool Records. Gizmo's debut full-length, comes roaring out of the gate, picking up right where 2023’s livewire Buddy System EP 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. 

The album’s closing track, “Pantone 312” is a wistful blend of folk and Midwest emo built around conversational storytelling. More intimate than the album's guitar-forward anthems, it offers a quieter glimpse into the emotional core of All Your Worships. It was written “about 10 hours before I arrived at the first studio recording day for All Your Worships,” explains Julien Kitson. “The song’s first lyric and melody came to me in September 2024, but I couldn’t reach a final product until 5 months later, which includes lyrical nods to David Berman and The Rankin Family. We couldn’t squeeze in time to bring it to life during the album sessions, which led to myself and Loel (Campbell) taking it on in his home studio on a muggy April day. The final product became the album’s closer and a new favourite of ours in our live set.”

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MORE ABOUT ALL YOUR WORSHIPS
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 a frenetic live show.

To record their debut album, All Your Worships, 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. They pulled 12-hour days, sleeping at the studio and capping off nights with drunken music listening sessions. The group bonded over their overlapping tastes, able to share a common language when referencing sounds and direction. Edkins and Campbell mixed the record, with Greg Obis (Stuck, Clearance) providing the finishing touches at Chicago Mastering Service.

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The material was hashed out at rehearsals and live shows from 2022-2025, with the band taking a more collaborative approach to composition. This is in stark contrast to Buddy System, largely written solo by frontman Julien Kitson. This time around, each member brought songwriting contributions — bassist Spencer Swaine and guitarist Patrick Stephen take up lead vocals on their tracks “Crystal Palace” and “Faulty Straight Edge Downfall”, respectively. This does not diffuse a clear sense of direction, though. The lyrics take a stream-of-consciousness, observational approach to themes of heartache and coming of age, all topped off by a whip-smart deployment of non-sequiters, inside jokes, and maritime colloquialisms. 

The arrangements further compound this unified vision; crisp acoustics, warped offset riffs, melodic basslines, and the laserpoint precision of drummer Daniel Hartinger merge to create an underlying sonic palette. This cohesion is what makes the record's diversity work — standout tracks like "Antiques Roadshow”, “Celestial”, and album closer “Pantone 312” are disparate on the surface, but all unmistakably Gizmo. All Your Worships is a 10-track mission statement from the rare breed of band that arrives fully-formed, confidently settling into their first LP and suggesting a myriad of possibilities for the future.

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MORE ABOUT GIZMO
Formed in Charlottetown 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 Music PEI 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.

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TOUR DATES
Jul 17-19 - Guelph, ON - Hillside Festival
Aug 14-15 - Paris, ON - Paris Drinks Fest
Sep 11-13 - Hamilton, ON - Supercrawl
Oct 7 - Fredericton, NB - The Cap w/ Fucked Up & Cootie Catcher
Oct 8 - Moncton, NB - Tide & Board w/ Fucked Up & Cootie Catcher

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ALL YOUR WORSHIPS TRACKLIST
01 Antiques Roadshow
02 Celestial
03 Gift Shop
04 Kaleidoscope
05 Kissing Our Days Goodbye
06 Crystal Palace
07 Walking The Floor
08 Railway 2
09 Faulty Straight Edge Downfall
10 Pantone 312

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CJ WILEY ANNOUNCES UPCOMING EP, SHARES NEW SINGLE

CJ WILEY RETURNS WITH THE NEW EP, JUST CAN’T QUIT, OUT SEPTEMBER 9, 2026

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“CJ Wiley keeps things simple in order to get complex. Warm guitars, steady drums and lively bass — sometimes that's all you need to start a fire. Wiley's Boy Golden-produced debut lights all kinds of fires, an ever-shifting document of change and renewal” Exclaim!

“Songs about friendship are criminally underrated. “You still call me up when my heart is burning / To calm me down with a midnight sermon,” Toronto alt-country singer CJ Wiley sings on “Adelaide,” a remarkable song about chosen family, and “choosing to love and grow together instead of growing apart. Wiley’s debut album, “So Brand Now,” is filled with striking songs about love, identity and acceptance” The Toronto Star

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Today, CJ Wiley announces their new EP, Just Can’t Quit, and shares the second single from the upcoming collection. “backporch” is a song “about asking your partner to forget the world and just slow things down for a moment with you,” explains Wiley. 

“The EP reflects the lifecycle of a relationship and the idea that no matter how many times love kicks our ass, we always go back for more. Like some beautiful masochistic ritual we can't get enough of. Every love is different. Hits different, hurts different. I'm a very romantic writer and honestly useless without a muse. I wanted to capture what that feels like.”

The new track follows previous single “fluke” which is a song for the initial crush. While “backporch” is about the honeymoon period and trying to slow it down to just share a moment of bliss. “pet” is about the vulnerabilities of fully committing to another person and still craving affection despite both your flaws. The last song “wasp” talks about how breakups lead to estrangement, and when there’s no contact, things feel like it’s all rupture and no repair. 

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MORE ABOUT CJ WILEY
Already a mainstay in Canada’s music scene having opened for artists like Tokyo Police Club, Boy Golden, US Girls, Juliana Riolino and performed at festivals like Mariposa Folk Fest, Super Crawl Riverfest Elora and Tiny Lights.

They’ve also staked their claim as a leader in the queer community as the host of the Big Gay Night concert series as well as with their performances at Pride Toronto (2022, 2023 & 2025).

2025 marked the release of So Brand New, Wiley’s debut full length LP. The artist sojourned to Winnipeg to record with Boy Golden and that polished western resonance is obvious from the album’s first blasts. It’s a passionate, tongue-in-cheek statement of certainty in themselves, a down-and-dirty roots-rock revelation that burns in a firestorm of its own conviction. Wiley sings of starting fresh, loss, gender, and how expensive it is to be alive, carving out a decisive path for themselves on a highway into and over the horizon — and they’re bringing you with them.

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In support of So Brand New, they not only played shows across Canada but also ventured to the UK for The Great Escape and FOCUS Wales as their first international run of shows. 

Tearing through Toronto on a groundswell of gripping indie pop and slacker rock, non-binary singer-songwriter CJ Wiley doesn’t waste any time. Twirling guitars, a steady drum beat, crunchy bass; ballads twanged slightly country, anthems skewed slightly grunge; a message of love and anger, healing and rancour, Wiley’s musical project is urgent and undeniable.

CJ WILEY LIVE
August 16 - Toronto, ON | Wavelength Summer Thing

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JUST CAN’T QUIT TRACKLIST
01 fluke
02 backporch
03 pet
04 wasp

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