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You Read My Mind

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Vancouver-based/Kelowna-bred band Ladyhawk are back with their third studio album No Can Do (via indie label Triple Crown Audio Recordings of Canada). Apparently its the bands’ most assertive and soul stirring record yet and great timing too, as I’ve been waiting a while to hear new music from this camp.

Check out “You Read My Mind”.

Ladyhawk “No Can Do” Tour Dates

Oct 16-Victoria BC @ 9one9 w/ Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers
Oct 18-Edmonton AB @Wunderbar w/Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers
Oct 19-Saskatoon SK @ Amigo’s w/Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers
Oct 20-Calgary AB @Broken City w/Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers
Oct 21-Kelowna BC @ TBA w/Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers
Oct 24-Hamilton ON @ Casbah w/Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers
Oct 25-Toronto ON @ Horseshoe w/Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers, special guests Fiver
Oct 26-London ON @ APK Live w/Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers
Oct 27-Welland ON @ The Rex w/ Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers
Nov 01-Vancouver BC @The Biltmore w/Shotgun Jimmie

“DG Gold Paint” by Rain Over St Ambrose

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Rain Over St. Ambrose is a band formed by East Coast artist Cory LeBlanc. His father passed away a week after telling Cory that he’d rather see him be the frontman of a band, rather than the drummer. So, this once drummer for artists Jon McKiel and Ruby Jean & The Thoughtful Bees has taken his fathers advice and turned in his sticks for a guitar; the result being a 3 song, self-titled EP out on April 19th. Full of crunchy guitars, honest lyrics and memorable hooks, Rain Over St. Ambrose make my ears turn east while bringing back good old-fashioned rock n’ roll fun.

Song: DG Gold Paint. For fans of Constantines, Eamon McGrath, Ladyhawk.

I turned 30 this weekend. And I’m handling it pretty well so far. To celebrate this, I could find no better way than organizing a dodgeball tournament, then going out drinking with my friends, teammates and opponents. And at one point late in the evening, at the Ukula Store on College, my mind told me this song playing in the background (even though I know it wasn’t). It fit the moment; I remember it being loud and I had a head full of booze. That song in my head was I Don’t Always Know by Ladyhawk.

Their new record comes out March 4 on Jagjaguwar, its called Shots. Canadian tour posted, US dates on the way.
It was interesting to read that this record was recorded over a period of two weeks in an abandoned farm house behind the shopping mall in the band’s childhood hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia. I spent 6 days in that town there a couple years back. Ate Calamari for the last time ever in a restaurant that turned out to be a strip club. But thats another story.