Max and I will be performing alongside our friends Sage and Mac from the Waning Light on New Year’s Eve.  All performers for the event will be covering songs by the Tragically Hip.  I (Dave) am co-hosting the event and members of Black Mountain, Bison, Needles/Pins, and Pride Tiger will be headlining the event.  All ticket sales will be donated to the Gordon Downie / Chanie Wenjack fund.  We have carefully picked out a killer setlist of old and new Tragically Hip songs to play.  Behold:

I’d like to extend a gigantic thank you to Innovative Music and Arts World for including “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Slums” among their top 30 records from 2017.  You can read their words about the list below:

Sorry if your album/single didn’t make my top 30 AOTY/Singles list (I still love your music). It was a tough decision, but these albums/singles definitely deserved it (in no particular order):

1. Sannhet – “So Numb”
2. Spotlights – “Seismic”
3. The Contortionist – “Clairvoyant” 
4. dälek – “Endangered Philosophies”
5. Sadistik – “Altars”
6. Astralia – “Solstice”
7. arms and sleepers – “Life Is Everywhere”
8. Kristoff Krane – “Kairos, Pt. 1”
9. Mogwai – “Every Country’s Sun”
10. Samoans – “Laika”
11. Quicksand – “Interiors”
12. Aesop Rock – “Bushwick (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”
13. Nikko Knight – “Darkness (Single)”
14. Chelsea Wolfe – “Hiss Spun”
15. To Destroy A City – “Go Mirage”
16. Nine Inch Nails – “Add Violence”
17. soup – “Remedies”
18. Behind the Shadow Drops – “H a r m o n i c”
19. THiS – “Hoc Est”
20. Onry Ozzborn – “c v p ii d” & “Black Phillip”
21. Sleep Maps – “No More Good Dreams”
22. Seven Nines and Tens – “Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Slums”
23. Living Phantoms – “Memory Palace”
24. And So I Watch You From Afar – “The Endless Shimmering”
25. Citizen – “As You Please”
26. Thavius Beck – “Technol O.G.”
27. HUNDREDTH – “RARE”
28. Conscious Mindz – “Unplug”
29. Ghostpoet – “Dark Days + Canapes”
30. Gonjasufi – “Mandela Effect”

In closing, cheers to the radio program Rocket From Russia for including us on their most recent episode along with many of our friends and peers based in our home, Vancouver.  The program made a deep dive and played our track “Voir Dire” from our first record “Habit 67”  read all about that below as well:

Episode #250, Lots of Local Music

Hello Hello Hello!

Few months ago I started a Spotify playlist called “Vancouver Punk”. This playlist of local music isn’t limited to punk rock, but limited to what is available in Spotify’s library. The goal of this playlist is to celebrate awesome local music scene we have in Vancouver and to help people discover those great local bands. I already have 150+ bands on the list right now and it keeps growing. Throughout making this playlist I discovered some new bands myself and in the first block of this episode I played those bands – Indications, NO LIARS, The I In Team, ViewMaster, Loans and Seven Nines and Tens.