Sean nicholas savage

My favourite Arbutus

Saturdays at work

A Tribe Called Red	https://soundcloud.com/a-tribe-called-red
Andy Stott	 https://soundcloud.com/adhocfm/andy-stott-numb
ANGO	https://soundcloud.com/angomusic
Antwon	https://soundcloud.com/antwondominguez
AroarA	https://soundcloud.com/aroara
Assacre	https://soundcloud.com/popmontreal/assacre-gayer-than-god
Azari + III	https://soundcloud.com/azariandiii
Bernie Worrell	https://soundcloud.com/bernieworrell
Blue Hawaiii	https://soundcloud.com/bluehawaii
Cate Le Bon	https://soundcloud.com/controlgroupco/cate-le-bon-what-is-worse
Chance the Rapper	https://soundcloud.com/fishy-tunes-net-1/chance-the-rapper-juice
The Coathangers	https://soundcloud.com/workit/the-coathangers-hurricane
DENA	https://soundcloud.com/denaftb
Diana	https://soundcloud.com/dianasound
Disclosure	https://soundcloud.com/disclosuremusic
Doldrums	https://soundcloud.com/doldrumss
The-Drum	https://soundcloud.com/the-drum
Dusted 	http://totallydusted.bandcamp.com/
Each Other	https://soundcloud.com/eachotherssongs
EMPRESS OF	https://soundcloud.com/empressof
Fat Tony	https://soundcloud.com/fadermedia/big-baby-gandhi-f-fat-tony
Fear of Men	https://soundcloud.com/fearofmen
Fielded	https://soundcloud.com/fielded
Grown Folk	https://soundcloud.com/grownfolk
Haerts	https://soundcloud.com/haertsmusic
Holy Balm	https://soundcloud.com/holy-balm
Homeshake https://soundcloud.com/homeshake
Hundred Waters	https://soundcloud.com/hundredwaters
Iamsu! ) The HBK Gang	https://soundcloud.com/thehbkgang
John Talabot	https://soundcloud.com/john-talabot
Karneef + The Life	https://soundcloud.com/club-roll-music/05-05-karneef-bring-you-back
Lanterns  https://soundcloud.com/lanternusa
Le1f	https://soundcloud.com/le1f
Lunice	https://soundcloud.com/lunice
Mac Demarco https://soundcloud.com/capturedtracks/mac-demarco-ode-to-viceroy
Majical Cloudz	https://soundcloud.com/majical-cloudz
Mozart's Sister	https://soundcloud.com/merokrecords/mozarts-sister-mozarts-sister
NZCA/LINES	https://soundcloud.com/nzcalines
Phèdre	https://soundcloud.com/phedre
Poolside https://soundcloud.com/poolside
Psychic Twin	https://soundcloud.com/polyvinyl-records/psychic-twin-strangers
Rhye	https://soundcloud.com/fadermedia/rhye-open
Rockie Fresh	https://soundcloud.com/rockie-fresh
Roomrunner	https://soundcloud.com/fandeathrecords/roomrunner-spinning
Ryan Hemsworth	https://soundcloud.com/ryanhemsworth
SAVAGES	https://soundcloud.com/pop-noire-radio/savages-husbands
Sean Nicholas Savage	https://soundcloud.com/arbutus-records/sean-nicholas-savage-gemini-heart
Sheer Agony https://soundcloud.com/sheer-agony
Sinkane	https://soundcloud.com/sinkane
Solange	https://soundcloud.com/terrible-records/solange-losing-you
Solar Year	https://soundcloud.com/solaryear
Strange Names	https://soundcloud.com/strangenames
SUUNS	https://soundcloud.com/secretlycanadian/suuns-edies-dream-official
The Underachievers	https://soundcloud.com/nickraymondg/the-underachievers-herb
TORRES	https://soundcloud.com/torres-23
Valleys	https://soundcloud.com/kaninerecords/valleys-seventeen
Wax Idols	https://soundcloud.com/waxidols
Waxahatchee	https://soundcloud.com/don-giovanni-records/peace-and-quiet
Young Galaxy	https://soundcloud.com/paper-bag-records/young-galaxy-fall-for-you-1
Zebra Katz	https://soundcloud.com/zebrakatz

SXSW 2013 - POP Montreal Band Crushes

09-12

oleanderhawk 2013

FADER MoMA PS1 Warm Up Mix: XXYXX

Debut single off Sean Nicholas Savage's "Bermuda Waterfall" (May 13th, 2014)
Order here: http://tinyurl.com/pdoum2o

Naturally
the pink sun came up and i started to cry
five billion year old fire in my eyes
she kisses the sea goodbye like you and i
but now take a look at my world
of all the boys and the girls, you’re the friend
i keep running through my memories to find again
and you come naturally to me
someone so beautiful coming so easily
five billion zombies roaming the street
i can’t touch them, they can’t reach out and touch me
and you know sacrifices must be made to get high
so i’m taking my time
i’d like to tell you the truth, that i need you to come tonight
but i wont even try
you come naturally to me
and both the pleasure and the pain had a hand in it
and all the bodies and the souls understand it

Bermuda Waterfall

Naturally

Sean Nicholas Savage - Naturally

Our debut album "When It Was Now," is now available on iTunes- smarturl.it/atlas

Subscribe for more new music on YouTube- bit.ly/W8yTQS
iTunes - www.smarturl.it/atlas
Facebook- facebook.com/atlasgenius
Twitter- twitter.com/atlasgenius
Tour Dates- atlasgenius.com/tour

Lyrics to Trojans:
Take it off
Take it in
Take off all the thoughts of what we've been
Take a look
Hesitate
Take a picture you could never recreate
Write a song
make a note
for the lump that sits inside your throat
Change the locks, change the scene
Change it all but can't change what we've been

Your trojan's in my head

It's ok if it's gone
The thoughts that you had that it was the one
And oh what is left?
For all those times is that what you get?
Oh regardless
The walls get painted anyway
Oh you're guarding
The gates, but it all got away

Your trojan's in my head

Take it off
Take it in
Take off all the thoughts of what we've been
Take a look
Hesitate
Take a picture you could never recreate
Write a song
make a note
for the lump that sits inside your throat
Change the locks, change the scene
Change it all but can't change what we've been

About Atlas Genius-
The members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius do things a little differently….They set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band 3 years before they even played their first live show as Atlas Genius. For two years, they devoted their days to constructing their dream studio and spent their nights performing songs by The Police, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones at local pubs to pay the bills. “We really got down and dirty with dry walling and literally laying the floorboards, and at the same time we were taking a couple of days a week to focus on writing songs,” recalls Keith Jeffery, Atlas Genius’s vocalist/guitarist. "We had a lot of song ideas and it was important to us to have our own studio where we could experiment and hone in on our sound," adds brother and drummer, Michael Jeffery. The studio was designed and outfitted by the brothers with the help of their father (who comes from a music and engineering background). Once the studio was complete, the first song that Atlas Genius finished was a song called “Trojans,” which they wrote, recorded and produced in collaboration with their friend, keyboardist Darren Sell. After many weeks tweaking the song, Michael insisted that the song was ready to be heard outside of the studio walls. Within an hour, “Trojans” was on the Triple J Unearthed Website, SoundCloud, and for sale via TuneCore on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify worldwide.

“We had begun to think that music was a pipedream and we had all gone back to university to pursue more realistic careers,” says Keith. “We’d had such a long slog of playing late nights and working all day, and it felt like we didn’t really have anything to show for it.” But then, in the midst of cramming for their Fall 2011 semester final exams, Neon Gold discovered “Trojans” on the Triple J Unearthed Website and wrote a post praising “Trojans” as a song sure to “invade your head, all dressed up in a clever disguise of earnest vocals riding a hooky riff.” Checking the band’s email account for the first time in over a month, the band found that dozens of record labels, publishers, lawyers, booking agents and management companies from all over the world had contacted them.

“We were trying to focus on school, but it was just impossible,” recalls Keith. “So we said, ‘There’s something going on here. Let’s get back to the music.’” The band added manager, Jonny Kaps from +1, to their extended family to navigate all of the interest as the band focused on writing and recording more songs.

Quickly named an iTunes Single of the Week in Australia and New Zealand, “Trojans” reached #4 on Hype Machine by the end of May. In August, SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s Alt-Nation discovered the song on a blog and decided to give it some spins. There was an immediate reaction from listeners, and in September, “Trojans” was placed into heavy rotation, where it maintained a top-five position on the listener-generated Alt-18 countdown and peaked at number one for 4 consecutive weeks in January 2012. “Trojans” began selling over a thousand tracks per week on U.S. iTunes and soon climbed to 45,000 sales - all with zero promotional efforts from the still-unsigned Atlas Genius.

“Knowing we had this audience that was waiting on new songs, we had a much greater sense of purpose than we had before,” says Keith. “It was really exciting to know that there were people who wanted to hear more of our music.” Although labels were clamoring for the band to come to the U.S. and play a series of showcase gigs, Atlas Genius turned down those offers in favor of staying in Adelaide to keep writing and recording new songs. In February 2012, after months of communicating with numerous labels via Skype, the band chose to travel to the US in order to make their label decision.

“We’d never been to America before,” says Keith. “We flew in at night and saw this sea of lights, and it really became apparent to us how massive the U.S. is. It was pretty intimidating - like ‘How do we fit into all this?’” In April 2012, the band returned to the states having made their decision to sign with Warner Bros. Records. “We felt a connection with them,” notes Keith. “Everyone there feels very creative and dedicated to the music.”

The band’s first release from their new label home, the EP Through The Glass (produced, engineered and mixed by the band), came out in June of 2012. With Through The Glass completed, Atlas Genius then holed up in its studio and worked on writing and recording its first full-length album, while at the same time rehearsing for their first ever tour. The tour started in August 2012 and led to three more tours back to back taking them thru to the end of the year. Thus, their full-length debut was finished up between tour dates and got completed just before Christmas 2012. When It Was Now is set for a US release on February 19th, 2013, with an international release to follow soon after.

The debut captures Atlas Genius’s singular combination of sophisticated musicality and warm, wistful spirit. Infused with a classic sensibility, each of the songs would fit seamlessly if somehow slipped into a long-treasured mixtape. On the shimmering “Symptoms,” for instance, taut keyboard riffs mesh with urgent acoustic strumming before the band bursts into a gently frenetic, guitar-drenched chorus. Meanwhile, “Back Seat” blends its pulsing bass throb with a sweetly infectious beat and tender vocals that alternately soar and sigh. And on “Trojans,” Atlas Genius begins with a restrained guitar melody and vocal (“Take it off, take it in/Take off all the thoughts of what we’ve been”) before giving way to the handclap-accented, harmony-soaked refrain and lush yet kinetic bridge.

“It’s still surreal,” says Keith of all that’s happened over the past 18 months. “I think when we were very young, we had hopes that something like this might happen one day,” he continues. (Thanks largely to encouragement from their Beatles fanatic parents, who encouraged the brothers to begin playing music by age 14.) “But then you grow up a bit and it seems less and less likely. So when we put ‘Trojans’ out, we figured it would be a success if maybe a hundred people heard it. We don’t want to force our music onto anyone. Our goal is to write songs that we love and we hope they connect with other people too.”

Trojans

Buy on iTunes

Body Go!

The Human

Flow Child - The Human

Onda Vaga - Inspiración

Reckless (With Your Love)

From Sean Nicholas Savage's album "Movin Up In Society" 2010 Arbutus Records 

Movin' Up In Society

Gemini Heart

Sean Nicholas Savage - Gemini Heart

Nancy Sinatra - 01 - Summer Wine (w Lee Hazlewood)

From Sean Nicholas Savage's "Flamingo"
Arbutus Records (2011)

Other Life

Chin Chin

Sean Nicholas Savage - Chin Chin

Vocals by ANGO
Production by ANGO with JACQUES GREENE
Mixed and Mastered by MIKE DIN

DOWNLOAD LINK: http://youshouldknowango.tumblr.com/post/17606559510/download-ango-no-ordinary-love

NO ORDINARY LOVE

Blondes - Pleasure (Andy Stott Remix)

Bad Girls - The Remix out July 3rd on iTunes.  Production from Switch, Danja, and Leo Justi with features from Missy Elliott, Rye Rye, and Azealia Banks.  Limited edition gold usb necklace with all remixes, exclusive photos from the video and more available for pre-order: http://bit.ly/KikVnI

Bad Girls

Bad Girls (Switch Remix) [feat. Missy Elliott & Rye Rye]

'Blame It All On Love', released 20 October 2023 on Counter Records: https://poolside.lnk.to/biaolSo

"Pacific Standard Time" out July 9th 2012 and stream the album on KCRW here http://bit.ly/LsGbJg
http://poolsidemusic.com
http://twitter.com/poolside
http://facebook.com/poolsidemusic
http://youtube.com/poolsidedaytimedisco

Poolside - Why You Wanna

From TOPS' "Tender Opposites"
Arbutus 2012

Tender Opposites

She's So Bad

TOPS - She's So Bad

BRNS-Here Dead He Lies

In solidarity with Idle No More and Chief Theresa Spence.

Follow on Twiiter #idlenomore ; 
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23idlenomore&src=hash

Wab Kinew: Idle No More Is Not Just An Indian Thing
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/wab-kinew/idle-no-more-canada_b_2316098.html

Chelsea Vowel: http://apihtawikosisan.com/2012/12/11/the-natives-are-restless-wondering-why/

Sample credit: Black Bear (Tribal Spirit Records)
Photo credit: Blaire Russel
Download our album for free: www.electricpowwow.com 

The Road

A Tribe Called Red - The Road

From Blue Hawaii's "Untogether"
Release March 4/5th 2013

Pre-order here: http://arbutusrecords.com/?shopp_product=blue-hawaii-untogehter
iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/try-to-be-single/id597945706?uo=4

Untogether

Try To Be

Blue Hawaii - Try To Be

From Doldrums' "Lesser Evil"
Arbutus Records 2013
Release Date: Feb 26th

Lesser Evil

Anomaly

Doldrums - Anomaly

Blue Hawaii - In Two (Clouds Rennuredalb Mix)

From Sean Nicholas Savage's "Other Life" 
Released May 28th, 2013 - Arbutus Records
Pre Order here: http://tinyurl.com/c8xkrkx

She Looks Like You

Sean Nicholas Savage - She Looks Like You

From Sean Nicholas Savage's "Spread Free Like A Butterfly"
2009
Arbutus Records

Spread Free Like A Butterfly 

Heartwish

Sean Nicholas Savage - Heartwish

Spread Free Like A Butterfly

Dreamers Die Hard

Sean Nicholas Savage - Dreamers Die Hard

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Arbutus is an artistic community based in Montréal, where punk ethos and pop music collide. Beginning as a DIY loft space, Arbutus Records developed to cultivate and promote the music associated with the space with a strong emphasis on friendship and collaboration.