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Everything Everybody's Telling You Is Not True

Summer days weigh on every molecule of your body. Just heat and humidity and unpaid loans and street chatter and cheap food and phoned-in love affairs and unnecessary bar bands and hazy illusions of grandeur and all the things that just weigh on your body every single day for sixty days when good people should be doing good things for one another, arms wrapped around each other's shoulders, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air, fists in the air...I would give up on everything with everyone if it wasn't for Jim. Hold steady.

Click to Stream and Download Jom Comyn's "Balcony" EP

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Summer Time Bronzer

Psst...
Psst...
Hey, come closer...
No, closer still...
I have a special secret...
Just for you...
...
(Bronze Leaf)
Pass it on

Click to Stream and Download Bronze Leaf's hotly anticipated full length, "Bread Crumbs"

Cross Canada Tour dates to be announced soon.

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Happy, Birthday Tentacles

Photo by Lando Speers

Down to the ghost words
Sharpening our bodies like knives
Rest assured of a certain end
In the waking hours we are thin wolves with no collars - surviving on the scraps of each other
Between impossible things, our sacred tryst caught on the lives of uncomprehending others.

Stream and Download "Birthday Tentacles" the Bronze Leaf | Likewise Vultures digital split

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You disappear but everything is coming out all right

Delicate. Effervescent. Humbling.
Set in a place far, far away, the debut album of Jom Comyn holds us in our familiar yearnings of greatness and guides us to lose ourselves and to reach for those fleeting sparks. All of us owe Jim Cuming a rousing cheer for the lessons he has taught us in honesty. All of us need reminding of how to be courageous.

Stream and Download "From Far, Far Away"

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All we have is our HEALTH

Two years ago I was hanging out backstage trying to divulge the secrets of the Smell from the drummer. I knew some amazing stuff was coming out of L.A but I never expected it to be a futurist version of the lost art of math rock. So tech.

One year ago kids finally caught on. So much so that it felt like I was on the set of Teen Spirt - bodies flailing, rowdy crowd surfing, just capital "M" melee onstage and off. But the music we were moving to wasn't all melodic at all, oh it was dancey and poppy. No at the core it was actually just was noise, unadulterated fuzzed out noise.

HEALTH are the future of punk. dance. No, they are simply the future.

I just wish I could be there to see them trip out on Desi.

Oh followup: two years ago i gave the drummer the first Desi cd, one year ago Cherk got high with him and tonight they're playing with them.

If you miss this show all I can say is have fun loving in the past.

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Never Slept

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You heard this Ennio Morricone record yet? of course you haven't, it doesn't exist. On your planet. That's what you can expect from Sombre Reptiles, music blog of Listen Records' Kris Burwash. Remember Alien Nation? Think of those dudes flashing forward to a 3rd generation weirdo alien kids making music in Mumbai...that's what Kris would turn you on to.

The Big Sandwich is electronics, straight-up. No question Markus Vuorensola can easily out-name you both 20 n0-wave live bootlegs and flying lotus beat tapes but dude knows blips and bloops to boot. no skronk electro here. Real, please.

CJSR superstar Aaron Levin's Weird Canada is the home of n0/new-school:freakbeat/psych/kooky.
Think Headphone-Bedroom.
This be all for the love of the basement.

listenrecords.net
sombrereptiles.tumblr.com
bigsammich.blogspot.com
weirdcanada.com

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Joe, Joe, JoeJoeJoeJoeJoe Joe!

Old Ugly is a cool new Edmonton label started up by swine-flu tattoo snackpack swagger jack backpacker spitter, The Joe. Peep game y'all, the label features not only raps but Joe's already on some d-i-versifying with fantastic stuff like Flora and Doug Hoyer's "Bike Month"

olduglyco.com

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European Campaign

photo courtesy painteverything

Eamon McGrath takes on Europe this fall. Along the way will he be playing with Millions, the new project from ex-members of Small Brown Bike.

Complete schedule after the jump.

myspace.com/millions
million's label seventh rule

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Record Labels Named After Cities

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On the topic of Tyler Butler, please check out Labrador City Records the brainchild of T-But and Lil' Layne L’Heureux

wordpress/labradorcityrecords
myspace.com/labradorrecordsedm

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Gentlemen Thieves of Hearts

Girls, get your swoon on, it's Tyler Butler and Jom Comyn. Underwear need not apply.

Friday, Sept 18 @ Cafe LEVA

facebook event

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The Kids Are Alright

The coolest projects this year are on course to proton smash the earth into blackhole oblivion: SANS AIDS + MAKEOUT VIDEOTAPE @ The End of the World.

this is why i live for music.
because you will die at this show.
don't chump out and miss this.

myspace.com/makeoutvideotape
myspace.com/sansaids
facebook event

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Legendary Status

videos courtesy Jordan Phil Allan

Footage from the greatest basement show ever, watch Gobble Gobble perform "Meteor Eschat" and "Mountain of Flesh"

And click here to check out the other Gobble songs along with the Braids and the Champion City solo sets
www.myspace.com/braidsmusic

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Willkommen in Spreepark

Download and Stream the Willkommen in Spreepark 3 Disc Soundtrack featuring: Bayonets!!!, Michael Rault & The Mixed Signals, Field + Stream, Illfit Outfit and more!!!

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Castle Awesome Party

Aug 22: Gobble Gobble + Braids (ex. Neighborhood Council) at Castle Awesome. OMGZ!!!

Aug 21: Jom Comyn and Tyler Bulter at Leva. Swooncore.

click post for more details

Gobble Gobble Facebook event

Jom Comyn Facebook event

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We All Hear Forgiveness CD Release

Click entry for details
facebook event

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Cuming atcha

Check out Edmonton's finest independent music scene videographer Jim Cuming.
He's shot tons of live footage of 780 bands, some of which no longer exist. Man's a legend, nuff.

dailymotion.com/jomcom
youtube.com/jimbocumdog
vimeo.com/jimcuming

Click the entry to watch Eamon McGrath's cover of Death Letter by Son House.

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Cassettes Records

Check out Cassettes Records, the DIY CDR label that's home to Holzkopf, Eamon McGrath and more
http://cassettesrecords.googlepages.com

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The Hydeaway CD Newsletter No.1

Stream and download tracks from the Hydeaway CD newsletter featuring High Jinks, Michael Rault, Belgium, Holzkopf and more!

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Champion City Records Sampler

Listen to live tracks from Eamon McGrath, Hills Like White Elephants, Desiderata and Red Hot Daggers from the limited edition Champion City Records 2007 sampler

Also features a song from our pals Spreepark
spreeparktheband.com

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We All Hear Forgiveness

Rejoice! Brand new music from Arsh Khaira (of Portraits)
Stream and download his new album "We All Hear Forgiveness"

and check out his upcoming CD release show August 13, 2009 at McDougall United (thanks Janet!) performing alongside the wonderfully talented Bronze Leaf
myspace.com/bronzeleaf

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Be safe, be strong, be smart

Stream and download the Portraits "Self Titled" album and watch videos from an entire concert

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into the fold

Upcoming shows for Likewise Vultures & Eamon Mcgrath
and the premiere of RATKNUKKL and Baltimore

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Himalaya

Himalaya and all other Hills Like White Elephants CDs now up on the Champion City Webstore

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Tapes Tapes Tapes

Listen to all of the Hills Like White Elephants recordings, including the super rare "Paper Tigers Cas-single" featuring remixes from Westfalia and Artful Dodger

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Out on the Dusty Road

Eamon Mcgrath heads across Canada

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RHDs and Likewise Vultures available on new Champion City Webstore

Red Hot Daggers shirts and cds along with the Likewise Vultures Ep "Our Sacred Tryst" are now available on the new Champion City Webstore.
championcityrecords.com/webstore

You can stream all of "Our Sacred Tryst" online HERE

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Indie

July 11, 2010

Everything Everybody's Telling You Is Not True

May 02, 2010

Summer Time Bronzer

March 06, 2010

Happy, Birthday Tentacles

February 08, 2010

You disappear but everything is coming out all right

February 05, 2010

All we have is our HEALTH

September 24, 2009

Never Slept

September 15, 2009

Joe, Joe, JoeJoeJoeJoeJoe Joe!

European Campaign

September 14, 2009

Record Labels Named After Cities

Gentlemen Thieves of Hearts

September 08, 2009

The Kids Are Alright

September 04, 2009

Legendary Status

August 19, 2009

Willkommen in Spreepark

August 11, 2009

Castle Awesome Party

August 05, 2009

We All Hear Forgiveness CD Release

Cuming atcha

July 31, 2009

Cassettes Records

July 30, 2009

The Hydeaway CD Newsletter No.1

July 29, 2009

Champion City Records Sampler

We All Hear Forgiveness

July 24, 2009

Be safe, be strong, be smart

July 13, 2009

into the fold

July 01, 2009

Himalaya

June 28, 2009

Tapes Tapes Tapes

June 23, 2009

Out on the Dusty Road

RHDs and Likewise Vultures available on new Champion City Webstore

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