Mixing soaring vocals, sweet harmonies, and sultry strings, complemented with an infectiously high-energy stage presence is the essence of 2014 Canadian Country Music Association® (CCMA®) Discovery Series winners The Lovelocks (MDM Recordings Inc. / Universal Music Canada), a female roots-country duo comprised of Ali Raney and Zoe Neuman.  Celebrated by RocketHub as "crowd funding pioneers in the world of country music in Canada", this business-savvy duo has raised over $65,000 dollars to date, funding the recording of their debut EP and the forthcoming album Born to Love (release date: March 4, 2016).

Gearing up for the release of their second album, The Lovelocks released their second single, “Home Sweet Home” to Canadian radio on December 25, 2015, to imminent fan-fuelled festive success. Their new single has dazzled Canadian country music fans, becoming the #1 selling single by a Canadian country artist (week of January 26, 2016)!   Co-written by The Lovelocks (Ali Raney and Zoe Neuman), Gavin Slate (The Tragically Hip, Doc Walker, Barenaked Ladies), Travis Wood, and produced by Grammy award winner Ben Glover, and JUNO award winner Mitch Merrett, “Home Sweet Home” also made it to #2 on the top 50 Canadian viral list on Spotify, gaining 100,000 plays within the first month of the release. The single also achieved a spot in the top 20 Country Singles iTunes chart, with The Lovelocks being the only Canadian artist in the top 20 at that time.  The video for “Home Sweet Home” recently debuted on CMT Canada (February 5, 2016), and was directed by Ben Knechtel, who also directed the music video for Carly Rae Jepsen's “Call Me Maybe”. 

  Speaking of their forthcoming album, the EP is a proud result of creative collaboration with numerous notable talents, including 2016 Academy Award® nominee and songwriter Phil Barton, and once again collaborating with Ben Glover and Mitch Merrett. The Lovelocks share, “We have poured our hearts into creating our new album, Born to Love, which is a collection of love songs in all of its iterations.  Wherever our listeners are at with love and relationships, we hope they find a few favourites that speak to them.”

Celebrated by BlogTO as “one of the top 5 alt-country bands to watch in Toronto”, The Lovelocks are a dynamic duo, just two city girls who LOVE country music. Their sound is commonly described as a mixture of The Dixie Chicks go Lumineering with a Mumford & Sons-ian alt-country, roots-inspired approach filled with authentic, 'roots-country' sound with lots of acoustic instrumentation, including the fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and dobro.  Describing the sound of their current single, “This song is so much fun to perform live! “Home Sweet Home” is about two people, maybe friends, partners, or lovers, chasing dreams together, about being loved and loving well, and being ‘home’ to someone in a way that’s really fun and carefree.  Essentially, wherever you are with that person, then that [place] is ‘home’.  This song is the perfect soundtrack for life's next big adventure!”  


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