Blog List 08.01.2016

"Discovery" is the first single off the new upcoming LP from Seafair due in early 2015.  "Discovery" will be available for download in December, 2014. 

Discovery

Engineered and mixed by D. James Goodwin at the Isokon (Woodstock, NY). "The Runaway" engineered and mixed by Aaron Bastinelli in Brooklyn, NY. 

All songs written by Regret the Hour: 

Nate McCarthy - Lead vocals, rhythm guitar 
Ben McCarthy - Lead guitar 
Anders Fleming - Drums 
Sam Oatts - Bass, flugelhorn 

In Memoriam J.M.Y. (1996-2012) 

*Title from Thomas Wolfe's "The Far and the Near"

Distance

4. Inferno

The first single off of Rae Spoon's new album Armour
Out Feb 19, 2016
http://www.coaxrecords.com/store/rae-spoon-armour-2016/

I Hear Them Calling

@MichaelCalfan - Nobody Does It Better is out now!

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Nobody Does it Better

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Laser - Disconnect
@LaserTheBand

Buy Now @ https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/night-driver/id1064274927 

Written By: Lisa Lobsinger
Produced By: Paul Pfisterer & Martin Kanick

℗ © Foreseen Entertainment
For Licensing & Sync or other info contact foreseenent@gmail.com
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This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

Night Driver

Disconnect

Laser - Disconnect

From our debut album "American Appetite" out 1/29/16 on Harvest Records.

Listen on Spotify: smarturl.it/Harriet_Spotify

American Appetite

Bring Me When You Go

Jennifer O'Connor cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In the Dark" 
Vocals & Guitar: Jennifer O'Connor
Bass Guitar: Tom Beaujour
Drums: Jon Langmead
Cover art: "Decades of Blades" by Andrea Sloan

I have always approached my life and seen the world through the lens of music - and more specifically through songs. It began for me as a little kid listening to the radio on my walkman and saving up my allowance to buy a single each week at the department store when I’d go shopping with my mom. I’d bring it home and I’d play it over and over alone in my room and think about the lyrics or absorb the bassline and dance to the drums - or whatever it was about the particular song that got me. I would dream about the world - the one that existed in the picture that the artist created in the song and the one that my mind created from the information that the artist gave me. And always - it would calm me or make me feel protected or make me feel good or it would be a friend to me in my sadness if that was what I needed at that moment.

This song, one of the biggest songs of the 1980s, is a perfect pop song and it’s always been one of my favorites - I have the 45 hanging over my desk. I know that Bruce wrote it at the very end of the recording process for Born In the USA because the label wanted a hit - but I've always felt it to be a pretty heavy song despite it’s pop bounce. Full of desire and expectation but also resigned and desperate feeling. At it’s heart though, I hear it as a call to arms. It is defiant and brave. It says, “I feel all of these things and yet I’m going to keep going anyway, keep trying." Which is kind of how I have felt most of my life - things work, then they break, then I try to fix them and whether or not I can, I keep going anyway. And I think that feels like a good message for right now. What else is there to do really?

For me, music was and is multi-purpose - it offers so much. I’ve surrounded myself with it for as long as I can remember and it’s culminated with me being a musician, running a record label and now a record store too. This is not a coincidence. These are the things that make me feel productive, good, purposeful, and yes, even safe. My wish is that you can do the same - whether it is with music or books or cooking or writing or sports or whatever helps you to understand this world, be productive, and feel more safe in this moment that we are in.

And I hope you enjoy the song!

Much love and happy holidays to you and yours,
Jennifer

Jennifer O'Connor - Dancing In The Dark

New Year

Comprised of brothers Nate McCarthy (lead vox/guitar) and Ben McCarthy (lead guitar) with childhood friend Anders Fleming (drums), and recent addition Tim Emmerick (bass), Regret the Hour cut their teeth playing live in New York City and their hometown of Nyack, New York before even finishing high school. By their senior year the band amassed tens of thousands of plays on YouTube fueled by their DIY demos and air-tight live show. This grass roots support funded their first full-length record, "Better Days," which they tracked in a now demolished plastics warehouse. 


Tragically, during those recording sessions, the band lost their beloved friend and bassist, Jesse Yanko, to stage-four soft tissue cancer at the age of 16. After a period of mourning the band released "Better Days" in 2013. With the help of a few temporary bassists, they resumed live shows with a renewed vigor and half of the proceeds from record sales have since gone to cancer research.


Following their freshman year of college, the band returned to the studio to record their upcoming EP, "The Far and the Near." For the sessions they connected with engineer D. James Goodwin (Kaki King, Devo, Norah Jones, the Bravery) and arranger/orchestrator/bassist Sammy Oatts (Hudson Hank, Jesus on the Mainline, James Levy and the Blood Red Rose, Guy Berryman of Coldplay). In those sessions, the band crafted an artistic statement that shows their profound growth into adulthood.


Regret The Hour's sound swirls with chiming guitar melodies reminiscent of early U2, and a heavy, yet subtle rhythm section gaining frequent comparisons to The National and The War on Drugs. The band's energy and reputation as a live act has earned them packed nights at NYC's finest venues, including Music Hall of Williamsburg, Rough Trade, Mercury Lounge, and the Gramercy Theatre, as well as appearances alongside punk legends The Misfits, rock n' roll hall of famer Dave Mason, and indie pop sensation Best Coast. The band is currently working on a new, full length record in Brooklyn, NY.

Distance

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