Thirty-eight(38) songs (should be 41 but there's a longstanding issue with SoundCloud) occupy the 23rd edition of the 2018 Weekend Showcase. Many of them are song-of-the-year candidates. Learn more about the artists and bands here:  http://therevue.ca/2018/06/16/weekend-showcase-4-23/

Weekend Showcase 4.23

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US/CAN: www.explodinginsoundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-distant-fist-unclenching

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TOUR DATES:
02/06 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom w/ Porches., Frankie Cosmos &amp; Sheer Mag
02/23 - Manchester, UK @ Gulliver's
02/24 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
02/25 - London, UK @ Old Blue Last
02/27 - Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast
02/28 - Bristol, UK @ Start the Bus
03/01 - Brighton, UK @ Green Dore Store w/ Alex G
03/03 - Paris, France @ Espace B
03/04 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix Bar
03/05 - Haarlem, Netherlands @ Patronaat
03/06 - Zeewolde, Netherlands @ Where The Wild Things Are Festival
03/07 - Berlin, Germany @ Bang Bang Club
03/13 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott LP release w/ Palehound, Lair & Cloud Becomes Your Hand
03/14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Silent Barn LP release w/ LVL UP, & Cloud Becomes Your Hand
03/15 - Harrisonburg, VA @ Crayola House w/ Ava Luna
03/16 - Raleigh, NC @ Neptune's w/ Ava Luna
03/17 - Atlanta, GA @ The Cleaners w/ Ava Luna & Warehouse
03/18 - New Orleans, LA @ Siberia w/ Ava Luna & Native America
03/19-3/22 - Austin, TX @ SXSW

Tiger

Hibou - Hide Away

Based on the provided documents, here is a description for the record "City Lights" by Long Living, produced by Century One Records.

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**Long Living - *City Lights***

[cite_start]On their debut record, *City Lights*, Long Living delivers a collection of songs that are both melancholic and deeply introspective[cite: 6, 7]. [cite_start]The album is a masterful showcase of a sound that is calm and steady, characterized by subtle harmonies that add depth without over-complication[cite: 4, 5].

[cite_start]The music is best described as slow, melancholy alternative or indie rock[cite: 6]. [cite_start]It is defined by a dynamic guitar sound that avoids harsh or raspy tones, a preference the band maintains throughout their work[cite: 25]. [cite_start]The instrumentation is intentionally minimal, allowing the simple melodies and emotional lyrics to carry each song[cite: 73]. [cite_start]The tracks feature a clean electric guitar with rich reverb and delay, creating a spacious, ethereal soundscape[cite: 11]. [cite_start]The acoustic guitar provides a solid rhythmic and harmonic foundation, while a deep, anchoring bass and soft, subtle drums round out the rhythm section[cite: 10, 13, 14, 15].

[cite_start]The album's centerpiece, "City Lights," captures a mood that is both reflective and hopeful[cite: 41]. [cite_start]The electric guitar work, with its shimmering reverb, evokes the sparkle of the city itself[cite: 42]. [cite_start]This song, along with the others on the record, tells stories of being alone in a crowd, of quiet longing, and of finding a personal rhythm amidst the chaos[cite: 44, 148, 149, 153, 154].

[cite_start]*City Lights* is a product of Century One Records—a Laurence Mehlhorn group of companies—and is the perfect soundtrack for late-night drives, quiet contemplation, and anyone who has ever felt like a solitary spark on endless concrete streets[cite: 155, 156].

Everything

Happy Cassette Store Day! We’ve decided to celebrate by giving one of our favourite EP’s of recent times a proper physical release, it is of course Comfortably Swell, the debut EP from Brighton brother and sister duo Penelope Isles.

Originally self released on their own Wavey Head label, Comfortably Swell is seven tracks of wonderfully varied melodic beach pop. I often find it quite a struggle to write about music that I love so dearly, but thankfully our pal Ross has already done a pretty great job of describing what makes this release so special.

"Opening slowly with each listen, the way the group engage is in their apparent ease in writing such compelling melodies. Each chorus swells with emotional value; the gentle delivery of their vocals producing the most stirring effect. Lily sings with an innate ability to evoke child-like curiosity, ‘Apple Juice‘ full of wonderment in it’s loose and adventurous moments, ‘The Loop‘ dwells on love’s disorientating nature as guitars sweep and mingle in swelling distortion, while ‘Tea‘ dreams nostalgically of the coast, patters of synth topped with another heart-wrenching chord progression through it’s chorus.

It all builds around an empathetic belief in the reminiscent romance of growing up and it’s influence on what’s happening in the very present. ‘Bad Head‘s introduction is of wishful thinking and a proactive need for change; “I’m trying to act my real self / but I don’t think it’s working.”. A plea for difference and positivity opens the record to the colourful remembrance of youth, ‘Apple Juice‘s comfort and buoyancy in simplicity is the complete antithesis; “I think I’m the better swimmer / after only two weeks” Lily’s lyrics are convivial in their simplest form, yet are penned by an irrepressible melancholy, trying to hold onto the happiest of memories that allow at least a moment of escape, “grab your bucket and spade / before the memory fades“. "

If it had been left to me I would’ve just gone for the much less eloquent description of “Comfortably Swell is the sound of your favourite Beach House and Deerhunter records spinning round inside a tumble dryer full of glitter and that one good Melody’s Echo Chamber album.

As anyone who arrived early at our Label Mates party in March or our 6th Birthday in August will attest, live, these songs take on a new form as they soar and swell. Despite their early billing both times, I think I can honestly say both times they have been my favourite band I’ve seen that day. We’re really excited for whatever they come up with next, but in the meantime we thought giving this amazing EP a bit more attention served as a nice stick in the ground.

Comfortably Swell

Penelope Isles - Bad Head

From 'GN'—available everywhere June 30, 2017 on CD, cassette, vinyl and digitally from Topshelf Records.

Order: http://tpshlf.co/TSR170
Info: http://topshelfrecords.com/roster/ratboys

Ratboys - Control

Lyrics:
Waking on your own it's just too bad
That every morning go I try to make those stacks
Well reelin' in the years just makes you sad
Say mea culpa's to yourself until you can't

Well I was born to the right of every score
And you are home to delight and nothin' more
We're singing glory to it all
Glory to it all

Well I'm in the background singin' songs
While you knew the secret art of getting what you want
It's hard to explain just how you got
To be my number one best lover of the 'aughts

Well I was born to the right of every score
And you are home to delight and nothin' more
We're singing glory to it all
Glory to it all

Super Sad Rom-Com

The Secret Art

'Stranger to the Pain' out June 8, 2018.
Buy Vinyl, CD, Digital: lnk.to/pllush

Stranger to the Pain

Pllush - Ortega

From Video Age's forthcoming album, ‘Pop Therapy.’

https://videoage.bandcamp.com

Video Age - Lover Surreal

And Nothing Hurt

I'm Your Man

See Through

See Through (feat. L1ZY)

"Shake," the first single off of The Rareflowers' new EP, self-titled EP out June 29th via Good Eye Records.

Spotify: bit.ly/Spotify-NewGeneration
Buy: bit.ly/iTunes-Rareflowers
Facebook: bit.ly/FB-TheRareflowers

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Comprised of brothers Jimmy (guitar, lead vox) and Kane Maraday (bass, vox) and joined by Aaron Gollubier (drums), New Brunswick, NJ-based group The Rareflowers craft an infectious blend of jangle and power-pop reminiscent of masters like The Cars and The Replacements. Following a self-released split single, the band now announces their signing to Brooklyn-based label Good Eye Records and their forthcoming debut EP.

Although the name may be new, the seeds of The Rareflowers were sown as early as 2013. Jimmy and Kane had left their previous band to join Aaron, who had also left his band, to experiment with multitrack cassette recording.

Flash forward to 2016 and The Rareflowers, performing under a different name, meet Matthew Molnar (Friends, Kissing Is A Crime) at New Brunswick basement show. Molnar would prove integral in the production of the EP with mixing done by Jarvis Taveniere of Woodsist Records. Born from the spirit of this newly formed partnership, The Rareflowers are already at work on a follow-up LP.

Stay tuned for more from The Rareflowers and be sure to follow them on their social outlets. "The Rareflowers" is out June 29th and is the seventh release from Good Eye Records.

The Rareflowers

Buy "The Rareflowers"

The Rareflowers - "Shake"

https://hypem.com/track/2rmgc/DAGNY+-+Used+To+You

Used To You

Judy's Lament

Trudy and the Romance debut album 'Sandman' is out now.

Listen and Buy - trudy.lnk.to/Sandman
Live Dates - www.trudymylove.com/tour

Produced and Mixed - David Pye 
Music - Trudy and the Romance 
Label - B3SCI Records

Sandman

Midnight's Blue Girl

Midnights Blue Girl

Recorded at The Hobby Shop Studio West in Highland Park, CA Produced by Trends and Andrew Murdock
Engineered by Marina Paiz 
Mixed by Andrew Murdock
Mastered by Mike Wells

Branches - Single

Branches

From Fran's debut album out 11/15 on Fire Talk.

Pre Order / Pre Save: ffm.to/franaprivatepicture

The trick is to make a confession entertaining. A Private Picture, the debut album by Chicago’s Fran, delivers a collection of extremely personal experiences that have been distilled and abstracted to the point that you can see yourself in their imagery, find analogs to your own emotional history in their scenarios –when you hear them, it’s a conversation. It’s therapy, if therapy was allowed to turn you on and make you shake what you got. At its core, Fran’s music is about sharing a truth -–telling it, confessing it, yelling it—in the service of human connection. Or, as Jacobson puts it, “I feel that I am a songwriter for the same reason I wanted to be an actor. I want to tell the truth. I want to challenge myself to get closer and closer to the core of an experience, an emotion- I want to say it, sing it, in a way that says exactly what it is. I cry when I write songs because I am constantly making discoveries, about myself, about the world, about the best way to convey and connect and get closer.”

A Private Picture

Fran - So Surreal

Indie label in the Hudson Valley. Lots of sounds, all of them Good.

linktr.ee/goodeyerecords

We are not music snobs. We prefer music connoisseurs.

The Rareflowers - "Shake"

Good Eye Records

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