September 1, 2017—After an initial tour overseas last fall, JOYFULTALK will return to Europe next week to take part in Copenhagen’s Sonic Festival. Now in its sixth year, Sonic invites a number of composers, sound artists, and performers to participate in the festival with the only stipulation being they use some sort of amplification and/or electronics. The duo will then travel…
September 1, 2017—After six years, Sleepless Nights are back with a new single, Crystal Mountains, and the announcement of a new EP. In case you aren’t familiar, in the mid-aughts Sleepless Nights carved out their reputation as one of thehardest working bands on the East Coast of Canada. By their final tours in 2009, when the group was put on indefinite hiatus, Sleepless Nights were playing an entire new, unreleased…
August 18, 2017—While streaming remains a contentious issue within the music industry, we’ve got some good news to report on the subject from from our sister label Backward Music. As part of the compilation Backward Music vol.1, Tim Crabtree‘s song ‘Renamed’ now has more than 1 Million streams through Spotify. For an instrumental composition, this is quite a feat. The song begins with ambient guitar swells that soon transition to a chopped piano…