Our playlist this week is all about new songs on our radar this month. Spotify has their Release Radar playlists and we have an OurBasement Release Radar playlist. This has become a monthly thing as there always seems to be enough new tracks each month for a full playlist. The songs on the playlist today have mostly been released since our last Release Radar in mid December. Some were released with an album and some are singles in advance of an upcoming album. You will find multiple genres of music on there, even a few country tracks I allowed on the playlist.
I was excited about many tracks on the list, like Rich Aucoin’s release called Release. He was letting people get a sneak peak of the video and hear the track before it was officially released. You could send him a message on messenger and get the link for the video that is posted below or get the track by sending him a text to the number he shares at shows. It was a fun interactive way to get some interest generated. The song and video are gorgeous.
There were new tracks from Suuns, Jeremy Fisher, Young Galaxy along with more new tracks from Galaxie, U.S. Girls, Bahamas, and Wet Secrets which made me very happy. And Melted Wings is on Spotify now! I also shared some of the new tracks from my province of Saskatchewan from artists Etienne Fletcher, formerly of Indigo Joseph, Bombargo from Saskatoon, The Wolfe who were Searchlight finalists last year and local sweetheart Belle Plaine. I love sharing the music of our local talent. Do you know some local talent in your area that we should know about? Please share!
Another track I want to feature this month is the dark electro pop “Sun Don’t Shine” by Toronto-based Kayobe. After receiving critical acclaim for electronic recordings under different monikers, Kayobe is Kevin O’ Brien’s first solo project. With production experience in the realms of pop, hip hop, jazz and electronic music, Kevin has been generating buzz in the Toronto scene as a sought-after songwriter and producer. “Sun Don’t Shine” was inspired by dark electronic/hip hop influences and features Olive B. on vocals. The track comes off Kayobe’s debut Hidden EP which is set for release this January.
I was also excited to hear Born Ruffian’s new single “MIss You”. It is a rousing track from their upcoming new album Uncle, Duke & The Chief which will be released on February 16th via Paper Bag Records. Pre-order here.
“I found this old voice memo on my phone from 2015 called ‘I miss you so much baby’,” says the band’s Luke Lalonde. “It was just the chorus of ‘Miss You’ with vocal and piano, very early 60s vibe. I guess I just heard it on the right night when I had a guitar at hand and the rest of the song came very quickly. I think the narrator is a mix of pure ego and emotional suffering. He thinks the people walking by him on the sidewalk actually care about him, or are paying attention to him. This guy is sort of full of himself but he’s proud of his pain and his longing, he feels like it elevates him somehow and he wants to show it off.”
Born Ruffians’ new album, Uncle, Duke & The Chief, feels brashly defiant in its embrace of old-school rock ‘n’ roll aesthetics. In lieu of mouse-clicked studio trickery, it invites you to bask in the natural reverb of the handclaps, tambourine rattles, and booming drum beats bouncing off the studio walls. It is a record less concerned with what sounds hip than what feels good. Uncle Duke & The Chief was produced by Richard Swift (Foxygen, Tennis, Nathaniel Rateliff).
Now go listen to the playlist and share the love of our talented Canadian artists and the music they make!
Good morning!
Good morning 😀
Hello
I have added a bunch more tracks to the playlist this morning. Coeur de Pirate, Lindi Ortega, Royal Wood and more!
Hello hello! Thanks for the Release Radar playlist Darbar! It’s providing a nice soundtrack as I fight with Excel this morning
Great Janet. I have faith that you can beat it!
even if Excel wins, the soundtrack will be good!
I’m one of those strange people* that likes playing with spreadsheets
*possibly the only person
You aren’t the only one Garf. There are others out there! I doubt I am one but I can see the appeal.
I would often make World Cup Wallchart spreadsheets where you only had to enter the results and it would work out the rest
Nice! I have not used spreadsheets enough to even know if that is difficult or not but I am going to go ahead and assume it is.
not really, just a lot of if formulas
but most of those are just the same formula copied and pasted with a little tweaking sometimes
Spreadsheets are math(s’) sexytime, by the sounds of it.
Winterruption is going on here in Regina again this weekend. My theatre adventure is interfering with my music appreciation these days. I missed the Begonia/Close Talker/Bears in Hazenmore show last night. I will be getting to the Tom Wilson/Mariel Buckley/Belle Plaine show tonight. I am doubtful that I will make it to the Mo Kenney/Lindi Ortega/Megan Nash show tomorrow night but I would really like to. There are more shows at other venues as well. So many shows so very very little time!!
Spreadsheets, and understanding math formulas are definitely not my thing. Garf, if you’re not careful I might end up asking you for help!
Darbar, the show tonight sounds great, I hope you enjoy it!
I am sure I will thanks! 😀
@Janet, feel free to ask any time
@Garf – I have a master list of 4400 ID numbers that are found on 50 different sheets in the workbook. I’m trying to find the number of times each ID shows up in one of the sheets.
@Janet, that sounds like you need to use a pivot table
@Garf – I was afraid you were going to say that….
@Janet, I would do it for you but I am not sure your boss would like that
Tell Tom HELLO and we are reading his book.
@Garf – I really appreciate the offer, and it’s for my dissertation, so my boss won’t mind. I’m going to keep trying, but can I keep your offer in reserve if I get stuck?
@Russ – I would if he came out. He is playing the same venue I saw him at before and he didn’t come out and I was too chicken to knock on the back door.
@Janet, just give me a shout if and when you need me
For your listening pleasure.
http://smarturl.it/Deezer_Leif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=304&v=RGC3PE1esmY
Thanks, Garf!
Have a great weekend everybody!!