Last week saw the team up of Winnipeg powerhouses Royal Canoe and 3PEAT for a new project dubbed RC3PO.
“Mo’ Bing” is the latest song from the collaboration, which resulted in a 4-song EP, featuring some of Royal Canoe’s distinctive beats, underneath rapping from 3PEAT’s Steve, Egg, and Dill The Giant.
Check out the video below!
Photo: Leeor Wild
I’ve been eagerly anticipating the debut full length album from Begonia, and now it’s been announced: Fear comes out September 13, and we’ve got the first taste of it with the lead single, “Hanging On A Line”.
She says the song is about “seriously falling in love in the club. Sometimes anything seems possible when you're slightly intoxicated and there's a sub bass vibrating through your body. Amidst all this there are two extra underlying messages; try to be a good person and remember to stay hydrated.”
You can also catch Begonia TODAY at 3:45 for a free show at the Vancouver Art Gallery, as part of the Vancouver Jazz Fest!
Photo: Maya Fuhr
Okay, so I’m a little late on this new one from The Darcys, but “Better Days” is the newest in a string of singles from the band, hopefully leading up to a new album (though nothing official is announced… yet).
Sure to be a staple on all summer jam playlists, singer Jason Couse says “For us, ‘Better Days’ is about trusting that even in the darkest moments, better days lay ahead. We want everyone to know that we’ve been there, that we all face moments of sadness, fear, regret and frustration, but these experiences allow us to grow. We hope this song encourages people to keep their heads up, to stay optimistic and to take care of themselves.”
Take a listen below!
photo by Vanessa Heins
Sure this was our Song Of The Day back in April, but when you see the new video for “Record Shop” by Said The Whale you’ll know why I wanted to highlight the tune again!
After winning the Viewer’s Choice Award from the Prism Prize for their video for “UnAmerican” (which was already nuts, with 2,250 separate pieces of paper, and all done by hand), the band and director Johnny Jansen got even more ambitious…
Read about the new video for “Record Shop”, and how it was created with 129 spinning vinyl records shot in sequence and no visual effects, under the video below:
“The idea for this video was based on the first widespread animation device called a Phenakistiscope introduced in 1833 (similar to the more widely-known Zoetrope). The device was a disk with a series of pictures showing sequential phases of an animation. As the disk spins, the user would look through evenly spaced slits on another connected disk to see the pictures animate before their eyes. This similar effect can be achieved by looking at the spinning disk through a camera with the proper frame rate and shutter speed. The idea was to use this effect to create an entire music video on a 45rpm record player using a series of spinning vintage records.
Through a lot of trial and error and countless hours of experimentation, we developed a system to create a connected sequence of animated records that would actually sync up with the music. Once we figured out that process, we then had to produce 129 12-inch stickers, each with their own stroke information that would allow a machine to cut out the edges around the subjects on the stickers so we could see the unique vinyl texture on each vintage record. From there, we spent hours peeling off and discarding the extra sticker material cut by the machine. We then filmed each record at multiple angles spinning for approximately 1.3 seconds and then combined them all to create the final video you see today.”
photo by Tonje Thilesen
I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of my plethora of Rich Aucoin merch…(hey, it’s on sale now, get some!) and the vinyl version of his incredible album Release.
In the meantime we have another incredible video from him for the song “The Base”, directed by Mike Bromley.
It’s the lead off song for the album, a very quick 1min and 37 seconds, and the video features Rich, wet in a suit in the ocean (again), and stunning views of the shores of Halifax (again).
Do yourself a favour and listen to the new album (click here), and go see Rich on tour (dates that have been announced so far).
Ten years ago today. May 31, 2009. That was the day of the very first post from 3am Revelations appeared on the internet. First there was a introductory blurb, and then a show recap from The Dears at Richard's on Richards from the night before.
Even if you haven't been following for seven years, you may know that The Dears are one of my all time top 4 favourite bands, so I was very happy to be leading off the new blog with their amazing live show (plus, the opening acts were Jets Overhead and Black Diamond Bay; that;s one hell of a lineup!)
So what better way to celebrate those tenyears than with a classic from that very band. From the album that got me into the band, No Cities Left, one of my favourite songs (and videos): "22: The Death of All The Romance".
(PS: the above was the first logo for 3amR. The llama never made it into the final version. Don't ask.)
“Tallboy” is the latest single from Vancouver’s TANGLERS, off their new album Tangled In Time which came out earlier this month.
Vocalist/guitarist Ross Macnab says the video is about "a person who feels out of place and isolated from society. The character is struggling to get through a normal day, feeling like nothing is meant for them. Thinking long and hard about their place in the world and where they are going to end up, It also touches on the importance of human connection and the lack thereof at some points in life."
Photo Credit : Rachel Pick
It’s been a while since we last heard from Jordan Klassen (2017 to be exact), but this week he released a brand new song, “Virtuous Circle”.
A beautifully heartwrenching song, Klassen said it was written “at a time in my life where I felt surrounded by a lot of death primarily; a death in my family, broken relationships, personal instability, and a seemingly endless streak of career disappointments. The song is a plea of hope that what feels like a vicious circle could invert into a virtuous one.”
Have a listen below.