April 15, 2016— Currently touring Adult Lullabies, a 5-song companion to his landmark 2015 release, The Forgettable Truth, Michael Feuerstack will bring his band to The Maritimes for a series of shows later this month. April 28 – Fredericton, NB: Wilser’s Room // tickets April 29 – Moncton, NB: Northrup Frye Literary Festival // info April 30 – Halifax, NS: The Seahorse // tickets May 01 – Sackville, NB: Bordertown Festival @ Vogue Cinema …
March 29, 2016—“Nova Scotia’s eerie electronic trio JOYFULTALK trip out to the wilderness.” – AUX Juxtaposing lush wilderness with a digital humanoid, the video for JOYFULTALK’s song Buschbabies explores narratives of love and searching. A glittering figure emerges from the Bay of Fundy, searching the wilderness for an elusive spiritual entity as time stretches and slows, and perception and memory intertwine. Watch…
March 15, 2016— Building on the success of ‘Bluegrass Brunch’ events in New Brunswick over the past few years, Alan Jeffries is taking the show to Nova Scotia with his quartet for two performances later this month in Berwick and Riverport. The return to Berwick is the band’s first performance in town since the infamous acoustic performance at the Union Street…
March 15, 2016— Paper Beat Scissors’ huge winter tour came to an end this past weekend. The two-month run took Tim Crabtree through six countries, including his first appearances in Spain and Portugal. If you aren’t able to make it to one of the shows, you can watch a new song via “Whispering” Bob Harris’ (BBC2) new video series ‘Under…
February 23, 2016—One year after his landmark album, The Forgettable Truth, Michael Feuerstack is back with 5-song companion EP called Adult Lullabies. Mostly recorded in the same sessions as The Forgettable Truth by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem in My Heart) at Montreal’s Hotel 2 Tango, these songs feature the same core band of Pietro Amato, Peter Xirogiannis, and…
January 7, 2016—Tim Crabtree is hitting the winter roads overseas from late January to March for an extensive run of solo Paper Beat Scissors shows that will take him into southern Europe for the first time. This tour will shine light on the quieter, more intimate moments of the new album Go On, labelled by critics as a…
January 7, 2016—Lately, you may have heard us talking about Backward Music, our experimental sister label, a little more often. Backward began releasing instrumental music from artists such as NYC’s ambient/classical ensemble Bing & Ruth and Toronto producer/percussionist Joshua Van Tassel, in late 2012 and has since grown to include the psychedelic dance music of Double Tooth, a cinematic album from Canadian guitarist Dean…
December 31, 2015— We released A LOT of music these past twelve months. Five albums, four singles, an EP, and a sampler to be exact. The results were overwhelmingly positive with airplay on NPR, BBC, CBC, and various internet stations around the world, a Daytrotter session, guesting on CBC’s q program, a feature in the Globe & Mail, charting on CMJ stations…
December 18, 2015—Selling ice cream in Northern Canada during the winter?!? Is this a metaphor for the state of the music industry or a continuation of Michael Feuerstack’s sadsack humour present in his previous videos for Clackity Clack & Scorekeeper? Draw your own conclusions by watching the new video for the 2014 song ‘Out of Season’ featuring vocals by Devon Sproule. Produced for the 48 hour Film…
December 18, 2015—The Shivering Songs Festival is extremely pleased to add Mo Kenny, Marine Dreams, Mathias Kom, and a slew of local artists to an already impressive initial lineup for its 2016 edition: Joel & Bill Plaskett, Shane Koyczan, Les Hay Babies, Jenn Grant, The Weather Station, Michael Feuerstack, literary guest Sheree Fitch, The Burning Hell, Andrew Sisk, Quiet Parade, Fortunate Ones, Alan Jeffries and The Olympic Symphonium. Now celebrating its sixth year, Shivering Songs runs January…
November 11, 2015—In advance of her fall tour Gianna Lauren has released ‘Windows’, the new single that follows ‘Mistakes’ which premiered on NPR‘s ‘All Songs Considered’ program this past April. “a quiet, moody ballad in which Lauren’s voice floats sweetly atop echoing guitar strums. Things take a turn once the rest of her band joins in, as anxiously…
November 11, 2015—“We are honoured,” says Gypsophilia guitarist Ross Burns. Over the weekend, the genre-bending septet picked up a few awards: ‘Group Recording of the Year’ & ‘Jazz Recording of the Year’ from Music Nova Scotia ‘Best Jazz Artist / Band’ from The Coast After a decade together, thousands of kilometres on tour, and five albums including this year’s marvelous Night…
October 8, 2015— From the mouth of Tim Crabtree:After landing in Paris, a quick 6-hour nap in the Orly airport Starbucks and a ferryride across Hamburg harbour we hit the Reeperbahn Festival last Wednesday. We’ve had a few days to, ahem, relax in Berlin since, and I’m writing this from the train to Munich where we’re heading…
September 2, 2015—During his June tour through the USA & Canada, Michael Feuerstack made a stop outside of Chicago to record a solo session with the good people at Daytrotter in Rock Island, Illinois. In case you are unfamiliar, Daytrotter is a website that hosts live sessions of artists performing their songs in a stripped-down studio environment. Since their beginnings in 2006, they have…
September 2, 2015— After more than seven months without shows, The Olympic Symphonium have announced a run of intimate performances around the Maritimes in early October. The Fredericton folk quartet will travel around PEI and New Brunswick for a series of four acoustic concerts in small venues and houses. These shows will be an opportunity to reflect on their…
August 14, 2015—“Go On is a stunning achievement” – NOW Toronto “Go On is a demonstration of Crabtree’s unique ability to use classical and electronic elements to blur the lines of folk music and leave you breathless.” 8/10 – EXCLAIM! “defies categorization. The most definite expectation you can have is of music that’s textured, beautiful, nearly magical.” – CBC MUSIC “Go On is sure to become…
August 7, 2015— CBC Music is premiering the new Paper Beat Scissors album in advance of the August 14th release and calls the album “textured, beautiful, nearly magical…a confident, stunning collection.”Listen here.About the new album – Go On “With the focus still on Crabtree’s haunting voice, [he] treads new paths. Full of stirring sounds, layered vocals and subtle string and…
August 7, 2015— In case you aren’t familiar, Michael Feuerstack has been producing a show called Mind Parade over the past two years. As an ongoing conversation about creativity, the series hosts various artists across different disciplines in order to get deep into the mind of how something is made.During their summer tour, three members of Gypsophilia dropped…
July 17, 2015—Lawless, the second single from Paper Beat Scissors’ upcoming sophomore album Go On, is now available and the stunningly beautiful new video is being premiered by Rolling Stone. A meditation on the ways we can delude ourselves and others without realizing, the song was engineered by Dean Nelson (Beck, Bat for Lashes) in London, Ontario and…
June 30, 2015— With Go On, the follow-up to his internationally-acclaimed self-titled debut, Paper Beat Scissors once again masterfully maneuvers between grandiose chamber pop, aching experimentation, and cinematic sonic landscapes. Shifting from hypnotic loops to full brass arrangements, screaming lap steel to stripped-back acoustic guitar, the album teems with meticulously crafted and carefully plotted layers. At the centre…