Canadian Music Round-Up

Smallman Retrospective:

I’ve been working on a retrospective for Smallman Records since as you may already know, the label closed its doors last year. If you want the long story about why I'm doing this, head here. But all you need to know is that I’ll be sharing little chunks from my project in this space. Today's excerpt comes from Carpenter front man Daniel Sioui:

Sioui’s Favourite Thing:

“They had a diverse roster and no two bands sounded the same. They can’t be pigeonholed as one style. All the bands are different, all the bands are awesome.”

Sioui’s Least Favourite Thing:

“That they’re not putting out any more records. I don’t know, to me they’re sort of the history book of punk rock in Canada for the last almost 15 years. It will be impossible for another label to redo what they’ve done for the punk scene in this country. I feel like they don’t know the impact, but for a lot of people Smallman means a lot. We’ve even found people on tour with Smallman Records tattoos."

[button=http://smallmanrecords.com/mp3/Carpenter_ADifferentLife.mp3]Carpenter - "A Different Life"[/button]

Check Out The Previous Excerpts Too:

Layaway Plan
Guy Smiley
Choke/Passenger Action
Another Joe
Moneen
Sixty Stories
Selfmademan
Small Brown Bike/Broadway Calls/Misery Signals
The Reason
Comeback Kid/Sights & Sounds
Ghosts of Modern Man
Sylvie
Our Mercury
Daggermouth
Sick City

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In case you missed them during the week, here are the posts made about Canadian content:

The Artist Life Detail Their New Record

City and Colour Release Date

Death From Above 1979's Jesse F. Keeler Teams Up With Mortal Kombat

Fucked Up Detail David Comes to Life

Gob Studio Update

Lacerda Added to a US Tour

Lights Remix

Matthew Good Release Date

Mobile Break Up

The Motel Life Live Videos

Shad Canadian Tour

Silverstein Interview / Write a Song for Japan / Record Store Day 7"

Sparrows Recording Update

Sum 41 Interview / Album Stream

Teenage Kicks EP Info

Timber Timbre Music Video

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Additional News:

The Juno Awards are taking place this weekend.

The Latency are in the studio.

It looks like The D'Urbervilles have broken up.

Poirier started a label called Also Records.

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Additional Music and Videos:

MSTRKRFT posted a song called "Back in the USSA" here.

Chad VanGaalen released a new EP this week titled Your Tan Looks Supernatural. He'll be donating all the money to Japan relief efforts.

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Additional Tour Dates:

White Lung announced some new tour dates:

3/26 Vancouver, BC - Goody
4/1 Toronto, ON - Parts and Labour

4/2 Montreal, QC - Casa Del Popolo
4/4 Ottawa, ON - 443 Kent
4/5 Kitchener, ON - Pyrus
4/6 Toronto, ON - The Garage

4/8 Brooklyn, NY - The Acheron
4/9 New York, NY - The Cake Shop

5/7 Victoria, BC - Logan's

Same with D-Sisive:

3/25 Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern (JunoFest) *
3/26 Toronto, ON - HardRock Café –UMAC Showcase ^
4/1 Toronto, ON - CBC Studios (CBC Hip Hop Summit)
4/4 Montreal, QC - Le Divan Orange
4/14 Guelph, ON - The Bookshelf E-Bar (KAZOO!Fest)
4/21 Sudbury, ON - Cranky Joe's Roadhouse
4/22 Ottawa, ON - Barrymore's Music Hall %
4/23 Kingston, ON - The Mansion %
4/26 Windsor, ON - Phog Lounge %
4/27 London, ON - Call The Office %
4/28 Hamilton, ON - Casbah Lounge %
4/29 St Catharines, ON - L3 Night Club %
* with Said The Whale and Justin Rutledge
^ with Ghettosocks and Karl Wolf
% with My Son The Hurricane

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Reviews That Were Posted This Week:

Sum 41 - Screaming Bloody Murder (Thomas Nassiff)

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If you’d like to submit news for this round-up, email me at deborah.remus@absolutepunk.net or send me a PM with “Canadian Round-Up” in the subject line.

Love the Smallman Retrospective always a interesting read. Pumped for a lot of these upcoming records!
Carpenter is amazing

The Junos gala was last night as well....Shad won best Rap Album

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i love the fact that gob is still around!

Originally Posted by brent_ster

Love the Smallman Retrospective always a interesting read. Pumped for a lot of these upcoming records!
Carpenter is amazing

Thanks, glad to hear that!

Originally Posted by Deborah Remus

Thanks, glad to hear that!

No problem, thanks for taking the time to do the Retrospective and the round up, Canada has some great bands, sweet to be kept up to date in one convenient thread.