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The Weekend Showcase 3.22 edition is a pretty special one, featuring 53 dynamic songs. 

The artists and bands represent 12 countries, including: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States.

Learn more here: http://therevue.ca/2017/06/11/weekend-showcase-3-22/

Weekend Showcase 3.22

down deep

don't stop breaking my heart

from the album "Holiday for Sampler" – (Planam, 2013)

Giuseppe Ielasi / Andrew Pekler - Vegas

Sushi Chef

"Frucus Minus [The Flycatcher]" is the 3rd track on "The Moonlit Fables of Jack the Rider," released February 10, 2017. 

Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9E-x3eiPDM

Music and lyrics by Allan and Barb Vest
Produced, recorded and mixed by Allan Vest
Mastering by Wes Sharon at 115 Recording
Stem mixing by Matt Pence at The Echo Lab

(c)2017 doubleVee music [BMI]
Distributed by RED Distribution, 345 Hudson St., 6th Fl. New York, NY 10014
All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.

The Moonlit Fables of Jack the Rider

Frucus Minus [The Flycatcher]

It Changes is written by Annelotte De Graaf
Produced and recorded by Ben Greenberg
Mixed by Jez Williams

Guitars by Manuel van den Berg
Bass by Ronald Straetemans
Drums by Jaap Bontekoe
Synths and keys by Ella van der Woude

Artwork and photography by Nick Helderman

www.amberarcades.net

It Changes

Critter & Guitari Organelle + Montreal Assembly Count to 5 + Earthquaker Devices Dispatch Master

Mnemic

Head In The Sand

Clean Sheets

Sing Blue Silver

Hall Pass

Delicious and nutritious this riotous track about consumption and gluttony will have you swinging your bottle-shaped bod.
Lead single off Second EP "Hot Bodies"
Out 6th June

Hot Bodies

Coca Cola

"Lingering Eyes" track off the new album 'Lingering' from Sleep Party People out on Joyful Noise Recordings 06/02/2017.

Lingering

Sleep Party People - Lingering Eyes

In Undertow

Ariel Pink sets a serene but complicated scene for the next chapter in his curious career with “Another Weekend,” the first solo material heard since the prog-pop opus pom pom. Contrary to the lyrics of “Another Weekend” (and fortunately for both fanatics and the newly initiated), Pink is neither too shy or humble to have brought his singular style of pop music beyond the bedroom for the befuddled masses over the past two decades, but returned to the formative, familiar setting to craft what will surely live as another shimmering moment in an unrivaled canon.  Encapsulating the lingering euphoria of a regrettable weekend over the edge, “Another Weekend” speaks in morose volumes while whispering sweetly, the dichotomy of Pink’s pathos once again on display. Backed with “Ode To The Goat (Thank You)”, “Another Weekend” will be shared as a 7” single and through conventional music serving mechanisms on Wednesday, June 7.

Mexican Summer: smarturl.it/AnotherWeekendxOutp
Bandcamp: smarturl.it/AnotherWeekendxBC
iTunes: smarturl.it/AnotherWeekendiTunes
Amazon: smarturl.it/AnotherWeekendAmazon
Apple Music: smarturl.it/AnotherWeekendAppleM
Spotify: smarturl.it/AnotherWeekendxSptfy

Ariel Pink - Another Weekend

upcoming single from the debut PLVS VLTRA album due late May 2012

"Flowers to Bees" by PLVS VLTRA

Life is short, and Nathan Oliver is not going to spend it waiting.

After 15 years and three albums of brilliantly crooked rock, this onetime bedroom project of band namesake Nathan Oliver has quietly grown into one of the best kept secrets of the North Carolina music scene. And now with their fourth album, Thank You For Your Generosity, the Chapel Hill three-piece has returned with a journey through grief that is by turns contemplative, explosive and — because it’s still a Nathan Oliver record — fun as hell. As with prior outings, Thank You showcases Oliver’s catchy, pop-forward songcraft in the vein of Alvvays and The Love Language, though cut from a slightly more ragged cloth. Still present are his irresistible shout-along choruses and burrow-in-your-brain guitar hooks (Exhibit A: “Everybody’s Swimming”) set against the stop-start dynamics of influences like The Pixies and Enon.

But this album is something more.

Oliver began writing what would become Thank You after the death of his brother in late 2017. The pain, confusion and embrace of his brother’s optimistic spirit gave shape to this collection — the title of which is both a play on the formalities of grief and a genuine expression of thanks.  It opens with "Generous Seas,” a piece of instrumental scene-setting: waves of guitar washing over you in reverse, ringing in your ears, conjuring a state of rumination. Fade into “Isle of Youth,” a searching swirl punctuated by sharp melodic bursts.  Emerging from that place is “Everybody’s Swimming ,” a classic Nathan Oliver stomp that breaks into an exuberant pogo-stick chorus.

The album’s centerpiece, “Even If You Go,” is an aching letter across time, culminating in a stripped-down final verse that stops everything and lands in the gut. It’s a timeless song that feels like it’s always existed (attn: TV music programmers).

Bookending that song are “Air Control” and “Stand In Line,” two off-kilter rockers bursting with loopy hooks and acid humor.  And then comes the album’s climax, the tense, tortured “Runaway.” You might say it sounds a bit like The Strokes playing tug-of-war with Unwound — though any comparison fails to capture the song’s unique power, how it maps so closely to a feeling of desperate panic.

The denouement, “A Tangent In Time,” is more peaceful, though unresolved. 
Something of a cosmic dial tone carries you through its swaying “whoas,” marking a gentle goodbye to a past that’s never quite over.  

If Thank You sounds more organic and cohesive than past Nathan Oliver releases, that’s by design. Unlike Oliver’s usual practice of crafting in private and bringing to the band, the songs on Thank You were fleshed out and fine-tuned over months of rehearsal with band members Joe Caparo (bass, guitar, pianet) and Brad Porter (drums, percussion). Their chemistry predates Caparo and Porter’s addition to the Nathan Oliver lineup: The two have backed songwriter Brett Harris and played together in Some Army; and Caparo has played with Nathan Oliver since 2017, way back when live shows were a thing.

Recording began in October of last year at Mitch Easter’s Fidelitorium in Kernersville, N.C., with Missy Thangs (Reese McHenry, Wye Oak, Ex Hex, H.C. McEntire) in the engineer’s seat, and continued with additional tracking at Thread Audio in Raleigh. While touring is off the table at the moment, before long (2021?!) Nathan Oliver will return to the same stages they’ve shared with Neil Halstead, Bombadil and Des Ark.

We are not music snobs. We prefer music connoisseurs.

Sing Blue Silver

Nathan Oliver

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