Indie Music Filter: Best Of October 2017 (PLAYLISTS)
Best Of October 2017
Check out new music from Outsider, SEGO, The National, Geographer and many more. Something for everyone.
Pick your streaming service below and get listening.
Check out new music from Outsider, SEGO, The National, Geographer and many more. Something for everyone.
Pick your streaming service below and get listening.
“Sentimental Sins” as performed by Matt Mays for a Sonic Temple Session, from his his sixth studio album Once Upon a Hell of a Time…
There are so many great music festivals happening this summer that I just wish I would be able to attend. Case in point, the Pemberton Music Festival; a five-day festival taking place Wednesday, July 16 to Sunday, July 20 in beautiful Pemberton, BC (located near Whistler, BC) . With nearly 100 performances and six separate performance areas, including two main stages, two secondary stages, a dance tent and a comedy area, Pemberton Music Festival will be five glorious days of music, comedy, and camping on 300 clean, open acres in one of the most idyllic settings on Earth.
The stellar lineup includes the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Outkast, Deadmau5, Soundgarden, Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar, Metric with IMF favourites Justice [DJ Set], TV On The Radio, St. Vincent, The New Pornographers, Stars, Hayden, Matt Mays, Hey Rosetta!, Rich Aucoin and many more.
For the full lineup, go HERE. Tickets can be purchased for the event HERE.
Care of The Pemberton Music Festival, I’ve got two General Admission Tickets + Camping or Shuttle to give away to one lucky winner. There is only one way to enter. Email me at chris AT indiemusicfilter.com with “PEMBERTON” in the subject line with your full name in the body. Tell your friends in the west to enter! Deadline is WEDNESDAY, JULY 9TH at NOON (EST). I’ll notify the winner that day.
I like watching bands get better. And from these earlier posts, you can see that I’ve been watching this 5-piece band from Hamilton (with songs about factories) grow into a powerhouse live band with a great album to back it up. Charlemagne became Arkells and Arkells have come into their own.
This year the band signed a deal with Dine Alone Records (City and Colour, Attack In Black) and it seems to have steered the band in the right direction. They went into the studio and did two things very well. With the help of producer Jon Drew (Tokyo Police Club, Fucked up) not only were the older songs off the Deadlines EP rerecorded/modified and made better, 7 new songs were recorded to aptly capture this bands’ ability to grow as songwriters and break out of familiar molds from their previous work. No longer can one say that this band sounds just ‘Springsteenesque‘ or like another version of the Constantines. Sure, you can hear elements of each somewhere on this album, but there is no longer a one-word description of what they sounds like.
The record is bound together by bluesy rock-riffs, group-vocal choruses, memorable melodies and a dynamic mix of guitars, organ, bass, drums and sweat. The re-worked songs on the album start strong (Deadlines as a killer lead-off), remind us of classic ’80s OV beer commercials (Ballad Of Hugo Chavez), bring back the harmonica (No Champagne Socialist) and lend the drums from the Foo Fighter‘s My Hero (Abigail, my favorite song on the record). The new songs are hooky (Pullin’ Punches, John Lennon) and emotive (I’m Not The Sun).
All the songs flow into each other like a live show.
Catch this band on tour right now, currently supporting Matt Mays & El Torpedo across Canada. Great fit for a lineup, I’d just be concerned if I were the headliner. You never want your opener to rock the crowd harder than you plan to. Tourdates on their myspace page.
Here’s the 2nd track off the record. Enjoy.
Pullin’ Punches. If you like Eagle*Seagulls‘ Photograph, I’m pretty sure you’ll like this one.
[audio:http://www.indiemusicfilter.com/audio/pullinpunches.mp3]“I don’t care what happens in the video, as long as I get to drive a DeLorean…..”
that’s what I would have said if I was Matt Mays.
Check out the new video for Matt Mays‘ song Tall Trees, which we wrote about a while back. He’s on the road with a huge Canadian tour right now, check the new myspace for details.