OH SUSANNA SHARES NEW LYRIC VIDEO

OH SUSANNA ANNOUNCES TORONTO PERFORMANCE, SHARES NEW VIDEO

WATCH AND SHARE “WALKED ALL THE WAY HOME” LYRIC VIDEO HERE

A GIRL IN TEEN CITY, DUE OUT MAY 26 VIA STELLA RECORDS

PERFORMING LIVE AT TORONTO’S MONARCH TAVERN JUNE 1

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With only a few weeks remaining until the release of Oh Susanna’s (aka, Suzie Ungerleider) upcoming album, A Girl In Teen City, the acclaimed songwriter is sharing the new lyric video for album cut “Walked All The Way Home”.

"As a teenager, I spent many nights walking home through the rain,” says Ungerleider. “Of course I thought I didn't want to walk home alone in the rain so I would curse my circumstances. But the neon and the streetlights of Vancouver would shine on the puddles and wet sidewalks making the solitary walk quite magical. So I guess 'Walked All The Way Home' is a song about the discovery that foiled plans can sometimes lead to a beautiful unexpected experience that resonates more deeply in your memory than the disappointment you initially felt."

To celebrate the release of A Girl In Teen City, Oh Susanna will perform at Toronto’s Monarch Tavern on June 1. Tickets for the show can be purchase here.

WATCH AND SHARE “WALKED ALL THE WAY HOME” LYRIC VIDEO HERE

Due out May 26 via Stella Records, on A Girl In Teen City, Oh Susanna discovers what it means to be undone by love, the exuberant freedom under the cover of night, and music bursting with riotous rebellion. “Trying to find out who she is while trying to be something she isn’t,” says Ungerleider. “Falling in love, getting drunk, having her heart broken, hanging out with friends in bedrooms, basements and parking lots, sneaking into shows in burnt out warehouses, watching the waves, walking home over bridges and railroad tracks in all that endless rain.” Like a coming of age novel, A Girl In Teen City, is both piercingly specific and exhilaratingly familiar. No matter where you grew up, or where you live, the songs will bring you home.

A Girl In Teen City reunites Ungerleider with producer Jim Bryson. The pair collaborated on her previous release Namedropper, an album featuring the songs of Canada’s top songwriters written specifically for Oh Susanna to interpret. This time, with the urging by her friend and co-conspirator, Bryson, she embarked on a time machine to visit her teenage self in a sleepy port town that she thought no one had ever heard of.  

From cheeky rock pop to quietly beautiful love songs, A Girl In Teen City reflects Oh Susanna’s songwriting breadth. Her brilliant vocals float through the sensuous instrumentation to create a cinematic soundscape. The album finds Ungerleider working with longtime friends and musicians Eli Abrams on bass, Cam Giroux on drums, Gord Tough on guitar, and Jim Bryson on guitar and keyboards. Guest harmony vocalists include Holly McNarland, Gabrielle Giguere, Ungerleider’s sister Jessie and niece Sofia.

The JUNO Award nominated and Genie Award winning Canadian songstress began performing as Oh Susanna in the mid-1990s, crafting a persona that matched the timeless qualities of her music, sounds that drew from the deep well of early 20th Century folk, country and blues, yet rooted in her finely-honed storytelling skills.

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A GIRL IN TEEN CITY TRACKLIST
01 Flashlights
02 Wolf Boy
03 Lucky Star
04 My Boyfriend
05 The Darkroom At The School
06 Getting Ready
07 Tickets On The Weekend
08 Walked All The Way Home
09 Waiting For The Blossoms
10 Thunderbird
11 Puget Sound
12 My Old Vancouver

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GREG MACPHERSON’S FIGURE WALKING SHARES NEW VIDEO

WATCH AND SHARE “SUBMARINE” HERE

OUT TODAY VIA DISINTEGRATION RECORDS, THE BIG OTHER, THE DEBUT ALBUM FROM FIGURE WALKING, THE NEW BAND FROM POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE NOMINATED SONGWRITER GREG MACPHERSON

SPRING TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 28. MORE DATES TBA

“a debut that commands attention from a duo of long-time collaborators: ten songs built around Rob Gardiner's uncompromising percussion and Greg MacPherson's powerful and sometimes dissonant six-string” - Exclaim! 9/10

“...dub-oriented grooves and flashes of serrated post-punk guitar stutters, there’s an exchange of wiry and rhythmic, which works to console the tension of political and social commentary, deliberately setting the tone for you to get up and move.” - BeatRoute

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Today, Figure Walking celebrate the release of their debut album with the new video for “Submarine” and the addition of Western Canadian tour dates to their current spring and summer tour route. Full tour dates can be found below.

Directed by Winnipeg actor and photographer Kristian Jordan and Figure Walking drummer and Film Master’s candidate Rob Gardiner the video for “Submarine” captures “the treacherous aftermath of winter, the beauty of Spring - the ugliest season - and the murky tension of painfully average people living as well as we can under circumstances outside of our control,” says Greg MacPherson. “So many mothers, sisters, and daughters suffer violence and oppression from the men closest to them. ‘Submarine’ relates that suffocating reality to the waters and winters of Winnipeg.”

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Figure Walking is the two-piece of Polaris Music Prize nominated songwriter Greg MacPherson and drummer Rob Gardiner. Based in Winnipeg, infamous as Canada's coldest, most racist city, they have taken social criticism and justice to heart with The Big Other.

Out today via Disintegration Records, The Big Other accomplishes the rare feat of presenting big ideas on a foundation of dance beats, electric guitar, and storytelling. The jagged, arthouse post-punk of “Submarine” and “Spring Thaw” demand movement. “Blue World”, with its gauzy swells of aquatic guitar, thumping bass lines, and vivid soundscapes, is a hopeful anthem to reconciliation and possibility. “Singapore”, puts the average hot-blooded North American on a plain dropping into the Pacific, where lust and the no longer exotic combine in the celebrity image of Janet Jackson and a renewed 30 something romance.

If there’s a mission statement drilled into The Big Other, it comes at the surprise ending of “Funeral”, a swirling barrage of cheerleading gang vocals that command, “let’s just try to celebrate, dance until this all makes sense.”

In MacPherson and Gardiner’s own words, “Figure Walking is our attempt as artists to focus on who we are in the present and to take ownership of what we’re bringing into the world, with an eye on a better future.”

MacPherson is a G7 Welcoming Committee Records alumni whose music was never strictly ideological or easily categorized. His past two solo albums, Mr. Invitation and Fireball, have both been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize.

FIGURE WALKING TOUR DATES
Apr 28 - Guelph @ Van Gogh's Ear
Apr 29 - Kingston @ the Mansion House
Apr 30 - Toronto @ Trazac (5pm show)
May 2 - Hamilton @ Casbah (early show)
May 4 - Quebec City @ Alejandro's
May 5 - Trois-Rivieres @ Microbrasserie Le Temps d'une Pinte
May 6 - Montreal @Bistro de Paris
May 7 - Windsor @ Phog Lounge
May 18 - Kortrijk, BE @ TBA
May 26 - Copenhagen, DK @ Sorte Rene
May 27 - Braunshweig, DE @ Nexus
May 29 - Halle, DE @ Breite Straße Community Space
May 30 - Leipzig, DE @ Horns Erben
May 31 - Hamburg, DE @ Helter Skelter Bar
June 1 - Solingen, DE @ Waldmeister
June 2 - Kassel, DE @ Krug
June 4 - Kortrijk, BE @ TBA
Jun 21-25 - Calgary, AB @ Sled Island
Jun 30 - Saint John, NB @ Festival
Jul 1 - Saint John, NB @ Festival
Jul 26 - Saskatoon, SK @ Vangelis
Jul 27 - Edmonton, AB @ Buckingham
Jul 29 - Calgary, AB @ Nite Owl
Aug 10 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Good Will
*MORE DATES TBA*

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THE BIG OTHER TRACK LISTING
SIDE A
1. Sounds
2. Submarine
3. The Country
4. Summer Haze
5. Blue World

SIDE B
1. Victorious
2. Singapore
3.  Spring Thaw
4.  Funeral
5.  Call Me Up

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THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA STREAMS NEW EP AHEAD OF RELEASE

STREAM THE TIN SHOP EP HERE VIA CBC MUSIC

THE TIN SHOP EP, A COLLECTION OF TRACKS FROM SONGWRITER WILL WHITWHAM, DUE OUT MAY 5 VIA PHEROMONE RECORDINGS

SPRING TOUR DATES WITH JENNY BERKEL AND EAMON MCGRATH BEGIN MAY 4

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Today, The Wilderness Of Manitoba is sharing The Tin Shop EP ahead of its release date, courtesy of CBC Music. Due out May 5 via Pheromone Recordings, the recording strips back the layers of anthemic folk rock the band is known for to reveal the heart of Will Whitwham’s songwriting. Whitwham together with vocalist/guitarist Raven Shields will support the release with a string of tour dates throughout Spring with Jenny Berkel and Eamon McGrath. Full tour dates can be found below.

STREAM THE TIN SHOP EP HERE VIA CBC MUSIC

Since its inception The Wilderness Of Manitoba has continued to grow and evolve with every new release. Throughout it all founding member Will Whitwham has left his imprint on each and every sound the band has produced - from the chamber folk debut, Hymns of Love and Spirits, to the cinematic indie pop of Between Colours.

Now the sole songwriter of the outfit, Whitwham has written and produced The Tin Shop EP which represents yet another chapter in the ever evolving story of The Wilderness Of Manitoba. Four of the record’s tracks were recorded at a now closed down Toronto studio called The Tin Shop, an intimate space just down the street from Whitwham’s house. The EP’s title pays homage to a place and time which reflects the vibe of the tracks captured there. Whitwham was joined by Shields to record the half dozen songs that comprise The Tin Shop EP, one of which, “Nothing’s Ever Said,” was already featured in the US television series No Tomorrow.

Later this year, The Wilderness Of Manitoba will prepare to release their fifth studio album. The release features a full band and will be sure to further cement Whitwham as one of Canada’s most diverse and compelling songwriters.

TOUR DATES
May 4 – Toronto, ON - The Burdock Music Hall ^ Tickets / Facebook
May 5 – St. Catharines, ON - Niagara Artists Centre ^ Tickets
May 6 – Hamilton, ON  - Mills Hardware ^ Tickets
May 13 – Harrow, The Legion Hall ^
May 18 – Guelph, ON - Silence % Tickets / Facebook
May 19 – London,ON - The London Music Club % Tickets
May 20 – Ottawa, ON - Zaphod Beeblebrox ^ & % Tickets / Facebook

^ with Jenny Berkel
% with Eamon McGrath

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THE TIN SHOP EP
01 Nothing’s Ever Said
02 Brigden Fair
03 Across The Dark
04 The Silence Of Sound
05 Wild Wind
06 November (The Tin Shop Version)

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