Plenty more news floating around. If you have any, please send it to eastcoastnoise@gmail.com Watch for an interview with New Brunswick’s own Hot Toddy later this week.
Sloan returns with Parallel Play
I’m a week late, but this is certainly worth noting. Perhaps the biggest rock band to venture from the lil’ ol’ East Coast, Sloan returns once more with another album of poppy, sometimes quirky, but always melodic and catchy rock. The Nova Scotia band’s eighth full-length release, Parallel Play, is the follow-up to their fantastic, sprawling Never Hear The End of It (2006). While NHTEOI was 30 tracks, Parallel Play is merely 13, but from what I’ve heard so far, it’s classic Sloan. I haven’t had a chance to soak up the album too much, but expect a review soon. In the meantime, sample some tunes on the band’s myspace page.
The Peter Parkers born on a burial ground?
I’m not sure what the album title means just yet, but Moncton, N.B.’s own The Peter Parkers are making their return early next month with We Were All Born On A Burial Ground. The noisy psych-rock band’s latest effort was produced by the virtual encyclopedia of Moncton music, Kyle McDonald (who has also produced music by HOPE and The Motorleague among others). The band (Stephane Doucet, Remi Cormier, Errol Girvan, Cam Murphy, Chasity Alward) will hold a release party in Moncton on Friday, July 4, at The Paramount with Halifax’s The Sleepless Nights opening.
J.P. Cormier drops new disc
As mentioned a few weeks back on the site, Cape Breton multi-instrumentalist J.P. Cormier released his latest disc, The Messenger, this week. Featuring 14 brand-new tracks, it’s Cormier’s first album to focus on him singing (instead of performing instrumentals or tribute songs) since 2001’s, Now That the Work is Done.
Radio station promotes Saint John talent
East Coast Noise was contacted by a radio host in Saint John, N.B. interested in interviewing local musicians for her radio show on local university radio station CFMH (107.3 FM in the Saint John area). Amanda Ryall is interested in interviewing Saint John bands/artists as well as other East Coast talent, so if you’re interested, drop her a line at portcitytalent@gmail.com The station can be streamed online at Shoutcast. Search by CFMH and it should pop up as “University Radio”.
Canada Day celebration features plenty of talent
In more Saint John news, the Port City will host what sounds like a spectacular Canada Day celebration on Monday, June 30. East Coast bands In-Flight Safety, Les Paiens, Hey Rosetta! and Jeff Morris will perform along with some comedy acts and a late-night jam with The Scientists of Sound. Everything gets underway at Market Square Boardwalk at 6 p.m. For more, see here.
Film festival seeks Atlantic Canadian bands
The 28th Atlantic Film Festival is being held in Halifax from September 11 – 20. At the festival, as part of the Inspired Music Program and under the guidance of Norwood Cheek, veteran filmmaker and director of over 70 music videos, 10 Atlantic filmmakers will pair with 10 up-and-coming Atlantic bands with less than one week to create the ultimate music video. For complete details, click here.
Correction
In my last update, I noted that a Newfoundland radio station, K-Rock, was seeking East Coast music for a new show, The East Coast Sunday Showcase. I mistakenly wrote that it was a Cape Breton radio station when in fact, the station is based in Corner Brook, N.L., the site of the 2009 ECMAs. I fixed the error already, but wanted to note the correction again so everyone catches it. The East Coast Sunday Showcase on K-Rock will air from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. on Sundays starting mid-July up until and possibly after the 2009 ECMAs.
For those artists/bands interested in having their music aired on the show, send two or more CDs to the ECMA office:
ECMA – EAST COAST SUNDAY SHOWCASE
Confederation Centre of the Arts
145 Richmond St.
Charlottetown, PEI
C1A 1J1
