When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Or, in the case of Andre Pettipas and the Giants, remake your past releases. Their new album, Covid Cuts, has the band reimaging their past hits while making the best use of their time in quarantine. Continue reading New Music: Andre Pettipas and the Giants Revisit their Hits on ‘Covid Cuts’
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Single: Calm Baretta Usher in a Fresh Batch of Cool with ‘Dusted’
Calm Baretta has returned with their special brand of catchiness in almost a year with a brand new hit that eludes definition in terms of genres and time. It is the best of ’80s Synth Wave hits and ’10s Indie Pop. “Dusted,” as the band explains, is about the chemistry of love and how it can impact you emotionally, physically and psychologically so deeply in its infancy. Continue reading Single: Calm Baretta Usher in a Fresh Batch of Cool with ‘Dusted’
Single: Damhnait Doyle and Stuart Cameron Cover Emmylou Harris’ ”Till I Gain Control Again’
Damhnait Doyle and her Heartbroken bandmate Stuart Cameron has released the first single from their upcoming album, Songs From Our Dads, a collection of songs from which the pair can trace back the musical influences that their fathers, John Allan Cameron and Clar Doyle, had on their lives and careers. “‘Till I Gain Control Again” arrives just in time for this weekend’s celebration of Father’s Day. Continue reading Single: Damhnait Doyle and Stuart Cameron Cover Emmylou Harris’ ”Till I Gain Control Again’
Single: Danny MacNeil Revisits a Lurching Anthem of Comradery on ‘Ten Hour Day’
Cape Breton confessional folk artist Danny MacNeil revisits “Ten Hour Day,” a song about burning the candle at both ends while making sure we find time for important people in our lives. With a version previously released in 2018 (which featured The Stanfields’s Dillan Tate on guitar), MacNeil leapfrogs from lyric to lyric as he describes the now-forgotten challenges of an over-full social calendar. Continue reading Single: Danny MacNeil Revisits a Lurching Anthem of Comradery on ‘Ten Hour Day’
Music Video: Sleepless Nights Capture Isolation and Anxiety in a 4:3 Frame for ‘Greatest Hits’
Music videos aren’t the sort of thing you’d expect to see a sequel from. Those little bubbles of music tend to exist in their own little space and time. Given that we’ve spent most of this year isolating inside of our own bubbles, “Greatist Hits” the latest music video from Sleepless Nights, feels like we’re all that much more connected to it. Or we desperately want to be connected to it. And if we can’t live vicariously through this character embarking for an extrabubble activity, we may have to resort to fan-fiction. Continue reading Music Video: Sleepless Nights Capture Isolation and Anxiety in a 4:3 Frame for ‘Greatest Hits’