Riviera Détente avec Henry Michel : vos membranes se dilatent.
Des conversations, de l'improvisation et de la bonne humeur sous le soleil et dans l'insouciance. 

Grammy-nominated indie-pop band Lucius released their highly anticipated new self-titled album on May 2 via Fantasy Records—their most personal and purposeful work to date. Their fourth studio album, Lucius finds the band returning to their roots with eleven new songs written and recorded without seeking outside influence—their first time doing so since their 2013 debut. Produced by Lucius’ Dan Molad, the record explores topics such as relationships, grief and life’s complexities, with a unique vulnerability only made possible due the familial nature of the band. Known for their engaging live performances, Lucius has been featured on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” PBS’ “Austin City Limits” and “The Kelly Clarkson Show" and has toured across the world. This spring, the group will return to the road with their extensive “Gold Rush Tour." Throughout their acclaimed career, Lucius’ Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe have also become some of the most sought-after collaborators in popular music due to their “otherworldly” vocals (Los Angeles Times). The duo has recorded and performed with artists such as Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, John Legend, The Killers and Harry Styles, including appearances on the Grammy stage and NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Lucius is Laessig, Wolfe, Molad and Peter Lalish.

Persons is an experimental music group based in Hamilton, Ontario. Persons are Jackson Darby, Katie McDonald and Benita Whyte.

Persons aim to challenge audience perception while indulging the inevitability of rhythm, rhyme and repetition. Through offbeat techniques and wild-card artistic decisions, Persons combine the novelty of quirk with the accessibility of song, subverting popular music styles such as rap, dance and house music. The visual component of Persons plays an important role in their live sets, allowing for exploration of movement and space while referencing notions of theatricality, performativity and excess.  

Persons began in Montreal as a solo venture by Darby under the moniker Nick Persons and has grown to include live drumming, dancers and guest instrumentation. The current configuration of three vocalists and one producer is a sample-filled, laptop and synth-based musical experience featuring driving beats, energetic dancing and performative antics.

For booking or other inquiries:
personalpersonalrecordsrecords@gmail.com

Ipecac Recordings is the brainchild of Greg Werckman (former label manager for the legendary punk label, Alternative Tentacles, employee for Mercury Records for a record 15 minutes, currently operating Pick-A-Winner Management) and Mike Patton (former frontman for Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, currently of Fantômas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom).

Werckman and Patton had been scheming for years (in between video games) about starting their very own label, waiting for just the right moment to unleash their master plan. Ipecac Recordings is not about to make music biz history and execute a revolution (although one is surely needed) or bore you by waxing poetic about their original musical philosophies. But if we have to adhere to a "mission statement," how about the notion of being an honest, artist friendly label run on a shoe string with no outrageous promotional or production costs. This label is a home to Mike Patton's eclectic musical collaborations as well as a place where bands we admire have the freedom to release music they might not be able to, or want to, release on other labels.

Bagarre Générale is like running naked in the forest shooting into the air with an assault rifle and two or three acids dissolving under the tongue.

As if Keelhaul and High On Fire, under a Zeuhl crisis took out the brass as brandishing a machete.

Or as if lustful ghosts of Mahler and Mussorgsky began to sodomize young math-metal ephebes. Bagarre Générale plays epic, massive and unreal music where brass mix with guitars to deliver a terrific sonic magma backed by a relentless rhythm section.

Contact: general.labagarre@gmail.com

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