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Music Video: DenMother Paints a Less Permanent Image of Death on ‘Is it Greener?’

The universe is a big, complicated place, life is rarely as straight forward as you’d expect, and if we were ever to tear the veil between the realms of the living and the dead, Halloween 2020 seems like a fairly likely time for it. Rather than pulling out the plot from Ghostbusters II, DenMother has released a video for “Is It Greener?” which suggests that life, instead, is cyclical, repeatable, and full of lesson. Continue reading Music Video: DenMother Paints a Less Permanent Image of Death on ‘Is it Greener?’

New Music: Adyn Townes’ Battered Heart Rounds the Corner ‘In Frame 1A’

Dating a musician must be an interesting proposition. It brings all the same challenges of any modern relationship along with its unique wrinkles and if/when it ends—you may end up immortalized in song. Adyn Townes brings us four new songs that are bound to make past lovers’ ears burn. Continue reading New Music: Adyn Townes’ Battered Heart Rounds the Corner ‘In Frame 1A’

Music Video: Mear Pioneer the Burgeoning Genre of Halloween Carols with ‘Soft Chains’

Music videos seem to have gone the way of the dodo, or at least swing dancing, but every once-in-a-while someone drops something that is so beautifully composed, shot and written that you have a suspicion the art form may make a comeback. The Toronto-based duo Mear has just created such a moment with their video for “Soft Chains”. In support of their upcoming release of the same name, this team, made up of Greg Harrison and Frances Miller, have with their crew of fellow dreamers, constructed a piece of work that feels like it’s pulled straight from the memory banks of everything you ever loved about music and music videos. Continue reading Music Video: Mear Pioneer the Burgeoning Genre of Halloween Carols with ‘Soft Chains’

Music Video: Maybe Babs is Haunting and Haunted on ‘Simple Life’

With the leaves on the ground and the cold sweeping through, Maybe Babs gives us a solemn snapshot of this Autumnal mood with their new video for their single, “Simple Life.” Self-described as “Appalachian emo” and a former half of electronic group Vogue Dots, songwriter Babette Hayward weaves unique layers into folk sensibilities here. Emerging from Maybe Babs’ residency at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, “Simple Life” paints a vivid picture: of loneliness, of longing, and of loss. Continue reading Music Video: Maybe Babs is Haunting and Haunted on ‘Simple Life’

Single: Tomato/Tomato Make a Folksy Nostalgic Nod to the Innocence of The Beatles and The Beach Boys on ‘Chasing Rainbows’

From their upcoming and fifth album, It’ll Come Around, the new single from Tomato/Tomato lays out an ever so slight shift in tone for the duo. Yes, it is inexhaustibly cheerful, but as 2020 would have it, they’ve had to set aside the rambling ways of a band on the run, for a bit of nostalgic woolgathering and a gleeful pursuit of the inane on “Chasing Rainbows.” Continue reading Single: Tomato/Tomato Make a Folksy Nostalgic Nod to the Innocence of The Beatles and The Beach Boys on ‘Chasing Rainbows’