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

'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

Written by Catgod
Produced by Robin Christensen-Marriott
Artwork by Iman Mahdy
Photo by Lennon Gregory

Featured musicians: Robin Christensen-Marriott, Catherine Marriott, Patrick Boulton, George Purnell and Chris Barker

Keep My Promises

Double Negative (Release Date: September 14, 2018) 
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2sHXZ0u
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2sRVQib
Sub Pop Mega Mart https://u.subpop.com/Low-DoubleNegative

Low  http://chairkickers.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lowmusic
Twitter https://twitter.com/lowtheband
Instagram https://instagram.com/lowtheband/
On Tour http://www.subpop.com/tours/low

Sub Pop Records  http://www.subpop.com
MegaMart https://megamart.subpop.com/
Twitter  https://twitter.com/subpop
Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/subpop
SoundCloud  http://soundcloud.com/subpop
Podcast http://subpop.fm/

Low - Fly

And Nothing Hurt

I'm Your Man

See Through

See Through (feat. L1ZY)

Why Bonnie - Stereo

"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"

Virginia Wing 'Be Released'
Taken from 'Ecstatic Arrow' out 8th June

★★★★ Mojo ★★★★ Uncut ★★★★ Q ★★★★ Loud & Quiet

"Virginia Wing make music that triangulates leftfield jazz, ashram-dwelling new age, and warm synth-pop into something that feels calm and centred” Pitchfork

“Genuinely transcendent” Guardian

"Their best record to date, Ecstatic Arrow reminds us of the astonishing things you can do with pop music if you dare defy conventions." The Quietus
 
"One of the year’s most original and exciting records." Loud & Quiet
 
Our favourite records are the perfect counterbalance of the considered and the superficial. Whether it’s Madonna, Talking Heads or Holger Czukay - we enjoy these artists in the background with friends or profoundly and alone. 
 
Virginia Wing both understand and embrace this concept fully as they return with Ecstatic Arrow, an album which finds them in a place of renewed strength, optimism and clarity.
 
Recorded in Switzerland, in the family home of longtime friend and collaborator Misha Hering within the domesticity and gentle routine of communal life, the album represents a world as predisposed to solemn introspection as it is to blithe conviviality.
 
Ecstatic Arrow borrows from the heterogeneous terrain of The Flying Lizard’s Fourth Wall, the exuberant technology assisted pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra and the playful sophistication of Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s Press Colour, arriving at the evergreen intersection of pop music and conceptual art.
 
The resolute opener of Be Released and album centre point The Female Genius pair resonant Fourth World instrumentation with sonorous, loping drum patterns. Elsewhere, the sentimental march of single The Second Shift plays out like an after-hours ballad re-imagined by Wally Badarou and For Every Window There’s a Curtain is coloured by the blue-lit haze of an Eventide warped tenor saxophone.
 
Three albums in, the voice of Alice Merida Richards is more compelling and expressive than ever. The glacial deadpan of previous records has given way to a more candid, self-possessed delivery, showing an appreciation for the humour and tragedy innate in the downtown Arcadia of Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley or even Lynn Goldsmith’s Will Powers.
 
It’s with this voice that Richards outlines a simple ideality that fortifies the entirety of Ecstatic Arrow - inequality pervades, destructive behaviours are inherited and each subsequent generation has to reconcile the debts of its precursor - yet a space exists within ourselves and each other that houses a fact we must be reminded of - we have the ability to choose. Even in moments of frustration; the ascerbic eye-roll toward male entitlement, Glorious Idea or the world-weary Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, there persists a joy for living that refuses to be confined.
 
A depiction of a group finally at ease with itself, Ecstatic Arrow is a tribute to the internal momentum that quietly guides us toward our destination.

Live Dates
24 -25 Aug: Sea Change Festival, Totnes, UK 
11 Oct: Oslo, London, UK
12 Oct: Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow, UK
13 Oct: Now Wave, Manchester, UK

Pre-order link:
https://virginiawingmusic.bandcamp.com/

Virginia Wing - Be Released

I Know How To Speak

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

Used To You

Projectile Dysfunction - out now on Veta Records.

Spotify: https://rebrand.ly/spoti924c8 

Thanks to Dean Glover at Vibe Studios for working his magic.

Projectile Dysfunction

‘Ava’ appears on our second album, ‘I’m All Ears’, out now http://letseatgrandma.co.uk/im-all-ears

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CD - http://letseatgrandma.co.uk/im-all-ears/cd
Bundles - http://letseatgrandma.co.uk/im-all-ears/bundles

For all our live dates and to get tickets visit http://letseatgrandma.co.uk/#tour

Artwork - Yanjun Cheng

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With her head in her scars
Ava studies her palm
As she waits on the window seat
Pebble thrown overarm
Her face is stark in alarm
She says “what do you want from me?’

I said
Why’d you take it as final when you’re starting to spiral
Girl, why can’t you see?
You know I know you can do it
And I’ll help you get through this

Whether it’s
Once or twice or again
Again, no

Moonlight in the garden
Grass beneath your toes
Girl in shame says “they can’t see me like this”
“Well if you slip or stall, I’ll be holding holding your hands”
I’ll be holding your
Mmm, mmm, I

A couple summers have passed
And I can’t place the car
As walk past her balcony
Words long lost in this air
A little breeze in my hair
As I think what she might’ve been

I wonder where she’s been living
And is she’s still wishing for no-one to see?
I know I have accept this
But if she’d have let me

I’d be there
Once or twice or again
Again

Written and performed by Hayley-Jane Ayres, Jack Gaby & Mai Barnes
Produced, recorded and mixed by Jack Gaby
Photo by George Foster

This song was written and recorded on the stolen land of the Whadjuk Noongar people. We pay our respects to elders past and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.

Like Honey

Juanita Stein, the Howling Bells frontwoman turned solo artist, releases her second taster and brand new single, Easy Street, taken from her upcoming second album, Until The Lights Fade, which will be released by Nude Records on 31st August.

Juanita Stein 'Easy Street'

Hotel Lux - Berlin Wall

Old Rockhounds Never Die
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Sweet Teeth

'I Saw You' is out June 15, 2018 on Hit City U.S.A. & Strangers Candy. Artwork photo by Hayley Eichenbaum (http://www.hayley-eichenbaum.com). 

Vinyl & cassettes:
manyvoicesspeak.bandcamp.com

Mailing list: eepurl.com/dpjOYj

Instagram: @manyvoicesspeak
Twitter: @manyvoicesspeak
Facebook: www.facebook.com/manyvoicesspeak

https://manyvoicesspeak.com

Tank Town

I Saw You

Warm Milk

Chicano Batman & Miguel collaborate on this new rendition of the band's hit song "Black Lipstick" as part of Mitú's Túgether Series.

Black Lipstick feat. Miguel (Túgether Session)

We are not music snobs. We prefer music connoisseurs.

Weekend Showcase 4.23

The Revue