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The Trews’ ‘Permission’ is a Promise to Never Compromise Artistic Freedom Featuring Rich Robinson on Guitar

No one has been itching to get back onto stages more than The Trews. They’ve recently managed a stripped-down tour across Ontario and a performance of the national anthem at the Ottawa Senators gave vs. the Toronto Maple Leafs, but even that isn’t enough to satiate their craving for big crowds. Their new single, “Permission” from their upcoming album Wanderer, is the latest in a  series of untimely releases that boldly declare that the band live to perform.

Fortunately for them, they’ve just announced a bunch of cross-Canada tour dates. Continue reading The Trews’ ‘Permission’ is a Promise to Never Compromise Artistic Freedom Featuring Rich Robinson on Guitar →

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Sasha’s Ambulance’s ‘Aquarius Moon’ Means Belonging But Not Together

“Aquarius Moon,” the newest single to be released by Prince Edward Island’s Sasha’s Ambulance, is a dream-pop lesson in incompatibility.  The song is a reminder—mid-breakup—that between happily-ever-after and rejection is a whole galaxy of almosts: people you carry along in your heart for the rest of your life, even if you’ve recognized that being together isn’t the right path. Continue reading Sasha’s Ambulance’s ‘Aquarius Moon’ Means Belonging But Not Together →

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Like A Motorcycle Double Down on the Season’s Greetings With a Cover of The Screamers’ ‘122 Hours of Fear’

On October 13, 1977, Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737-230c jetliner travelling from Palma de Mallorca, Spain to Frankfurt, Germany, was hijacked by four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Over the course of the 122 hour-long ordeal, 86 passengers were taken as hostages, the captain, Jürgen Schumann, was murdered, the plane was flown 10,000km, finally arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia, and conclude with the German counter-terrorism group, Grenzschutzguppe 9, recapturing the plane, killing three terrorists in the process.

A year later, Los Angeles-based technopunks The Screamers would release “122 Hours of Fear,” a song outlining the experience of the hijacking, sung from the perspective of one of the hostages. Forty-three years later, Halifax’s Like A Motorcycle have revisited the single to introduce their new sound, along with a new drummer. Continue reading Like A Motorcycle Double Down on the Season’s Greetings With a Cover of The Screamers’ ‘122 Hours of Fear’ →

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Justin Fancy Sings About Never Looking Back, No Matter How Pretty Their Blue Jeans Are, on ‘Beauty Queen’

Sometimes, a situation will call for ripping off the proverbial bandaid and just dealing with whatever fallout comes after. Other occasions, however, suggest leaving the bandaid on. Wrap it well and tight. Bury it in soft peat. Resolve yourself to never, under any circumstances, giving it so much as a glance. Forget it exists altogether.

That seems to be the case for Justin Fancy’s “Beauty Queen,” a song about the kind of heartbreak you don’t want any air getting at, and the best way to handle that is never looking back. At least until some of the sting has gone out of it. Continue reading Justin Fancy Sings About Never Looking Back, No Matter How Pretty Their Blue Jeans Are, on ‘Beauty Queen’ →

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Lawrence Maxwell Offers Advice for a Broken Heart on ‘Better You’

Lawrence Maxwell has prepared some notes from the school of hard knocks and offers them up with some soft-spoken country in the hopes that you might better yourself without having to endure the experience. Or, more accurately, so that you don’t have to foolishly endure that experience more than once.

The two-time Music PEI Award-winner’s latest single, “Better You” is a gentle reminder that matters of the heart are best taken slowly.  When things go sour, there are more than a million ways to find new variations of your past mistakes if you’re not prepared to spend a moment or two reflecting on them.

Continue reading Lawrence Maxwell Offers Advice for a Broken Heart on ‘Better You’ →