The Last Dinner Party – Nothing Matters
Jayhawks – Bitter Pill
MJ Lenderman – Knockin
Wilco – Evicted
Jasmine Sandlas – Patt Lai Geya
James Clarke Institute – A Kinder You
Louwop – No soy de aqui, no soy de allá
Trans Canada Highwaymen – Pretty Lady
OMBIIGIZI – Eagle Man/Changing Woman
The Last Dinner Party – Nothing Matters
I have my sentence now at last, I know just how you felt
I dig my fingers in expecting more than just the skin‘Cause we’re a lot alike, in favour, like a motorbike
Nothing Matters The last Dinner Party
A sailor and a nightingale dancing in convertibles
A new band whose first single Nothing Matters reached No. 8 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart dated Sept. 23. Another COVID band, the members came together in 2019 as three members were starting university – lead singer Abigail Morris, bassist Georgia Davies and vocalist/guitarist Lizzie Mayland.
More from Billboard
CHARTBREAKER: THE LAST DINNER PARTY IS ‘NOT F–KING AROUND’ FOLLOWING ITS DEBUT HIT
The rock group’s “Nothing Matters” came from an all-hands effort in the act’s local scene and continues to build at adult alternative radio.
Although British rock band The Last Dinner Party scored a top 10 alternative hit with their debut single, for the five women that comprise the group, they’d been preparing for this moment for years. Just before beginning university in 2020, lead singer Abigail Morris, bassist Georgia Davies and vocalist/guitarist Lizzie Mayland crossed paths and became fast friends, bonding over musical interests. (Morris and Davies attended King’s College London; Mayland at Goldsmiths.) “We would go to gigs all the time, researching and thinking about starting a band,” Morris explains. “We were very intellectual about it for a long time.”
MJ Lenderman – Knockin
A terrific song, Pitchfork is able to mention Bob Dylan, John Daly the golfer, and of course MJ Lenderman.
The John Daly reference (just another fragment in a depressing landscape) led me to this crazy video apparently at the Thailand Golf Championship.
and from Pitchfork
MJ Lenderman’s new single unfolds like a private joke, or some weird take on Chekhov’s gun: Mention a cover of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” in the first verse, and you must sing a line from it by the end. Over some rangy open chords on distorted electric guitar, Lenderman remembers golf legend and self-proclaimed “crazy man” John Daly’s version of Bob Dylan’s hit, which Daly sometimes performed live, often while wearing a stars-and-stripes jacket. In the song, Daly singing Dylan is just another fragment in a depressing landscape, a place where you can only hear bird calls “coming from the rafters of the hardware store” and where love looks more like mutual codependency: “You’re all I need, babe/Yeah, you’ve heard that one before.”
Jasmine Sandlas – Patt Lai Geya
Great song, an incredible number of downloads for Patt Lai Geya – 1.5 million followers on Youtube, this song has been downloaded over 500,000 times! Also 2.9 million followers on Instagram
On her Instagram account, she talks about being an American-Punjabi female singer
Jasmine Sandlas’ recent post is a tale of every woman who speaks her mind and is called rude
For some reason, I’ve been called RUDE a lot in my life. I realised that when you speak your mind and stand up for yourself, it’s hard for people to control you. That’s kinda rude of us I guess, especially as women. As a woman, I should always behave properly so that everyone around me is comfortable and having a good time. As a punjabi woman, I should speak softly so I don’t offend anyone. Growing up, I’ve seen most women live their life suppressed and depressed. These words are new but the feeling is an era old.
she has also done a TED Talk – good to take this in
Louwop – No soy de aqui, no soy de allá
Luis Segura, aka Louwop – Segura a veteran musician, having toured extensively with the Latin hip hop collective Los Poetas. Around the time the group disbanded Segura relocated from Toronto to Lindsay, drawn to the less hectic pace of Kawartha Lakes.
A side project Louwop is performing with Derek James of the Strombellas
Another grab from Frequencies and Big City Small World. A Toronto artist that you can learn more about here:
Identity as an immigrant growing up in Canada is not often explored in music yet it is an integral part to what makes our communities so beautiful! Residing in the Kawartha Lakes outside of Toronto has given Louwop a chance to share his story as an entrepreneur with an independent cafe serving Salvadoran coffee. In Toronto Louwop curated two events pre-Covid for his Pa’lante nights at Basement 254 which featured international Latinx artist such as Rebel Diaz (Chile/NYC), Equis (Ecuador) and local Juno nominated and winners New Tradition (Toronto) and Boogat (Montreal).
OMBIIGIZI – Eagle Man/Changing Woman
I didn’t know that Eagle Man/Changing Woman is a Buffy St. Marie song. Here from their Bandcamp page is what they wrote about their musical experience and the writer of the song. OMBIIGIZI has performed as Zoon and Status/Non-Status, respectively
“Ombiigizi started as a desire to create a stronger cultural connection that Daniel and myself had felt was missing from our lives as indie rock kids prior to forming. In many ways we both felt isolated from our communities and were using music as a part of our guide forward. Now, our time together as a band to this point has been a whole new experience of ourselves as Anishinaabe people and truly powerful and uplifting to share as collaborators. So, when it comes to the legacy of indigenous art, we could not think of any other artist to cover than Buffy. Her song Eagle Man/Changing Woman is a curiosity to us and a place of origins to the individual growth we have both come to as artists, as sober beings and as collaborators. We seek to consistently evaluate and make positive change in our relationships; with our identities, with our people and connections, and especially those closest to us. Buffy has been part of that guidance to us and oh so many others. We just heard she is retiring from live performance and wish her well and share this in honour of her positive influence and legacy.
You can hear their rndition here
Their song was on the Exclaim! best music of the week for September 8
But truly, doing anything can feel cinematic with the right soundtrack, and this week’s best new Canadian music is here to foot that bill, including new tracks from Metric and Terra Lightfoot, as well as OMBIIGIZI covering Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “Eagle Man/Changing Woman.”
Jayhawks – “ Bitter Pill’ from 2020 album XOXO
The Jayhawks are a Minnesota band that has been kicking around since the late 1980’s. They took a break in in 2004 and returned to recording and performing in 2009. “Bitter Pill” is taken from their last full length release (the 11th) in 2020. The trademark Jayhawk’s sound is still intact.
Pitchfork liked the album.
Wilco – “ Evicted” from Cousin
Like The Jayhawks, it’s hard to believe Wilco has been a band for for practically thirty years. The present line up has been intact since 2004. Since 2202’s landmark album Yankee Foxtrot Hotel, many critic have reviewed each subsequent album applying the law of diminishing returns. The new release Cousin however, has remedied this: https://burnwoodtonite.blogspot.com/2023/10/wilcos-best-in-years.html
The Guardian also loved Cousins. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/28/wilco-cousin-review-a-band-rediscovering-their-experimental-side
Performing “Evicted” on Jimmy Kimmel, Wilco!
Stepping into the past, here’s Wilco looking quite younger on Austin City Limits in 1999.
James Clarke Institute – “A Kinder” You from Under the Lampshade 2023
James Clarke Institute is for lack of better term, a power pop group from Oakville Ontario. If you hear shades of the Beatles, Badfinger or Tom Petty, you are not mistaken. “A Kinder You” is the first single released from the impending Moe Berg produced album, Under The Lampshade.
Check out the website https://www.clarkinstitute.com/ and an excellent profile in The Oakville News https://oakvillenews.org/oakville-culture-and-lifestyle/james-clark-institute-performs-european-uk-tour/
Trans Canada Highway Men – “Pretty Lady” from Up coming lp Explosive Hits Vol. 1
The Trans-Canada Highwaymen are Moe Berg (The Pursuit of Happiness), Chris Murphy (SLOAN), Craig Northey (Odds) and Steven Page (Ex-Bare Naked Ladies) . and they are going on tour to perform their hit songs and share road stories of the mixed bag of excitement, dread, inspiration, emotional torture and unconditional support that is being a band. The guys basically formed in 2016. https://exclaim.ca/music/article/chris_murphy_introduces_his_new_supergroup_the_trans-canada_highwaymen
Now 7 years later, they are having some fun releasing an album of 70’s AM radio hits. The album cover and title are an obvious salute to the K-Tel albums of the time. https://exclaim.ca/music/article/trans-canada_highwaymen_cover_can-rock_classics_on_new_album_explosive_hits_vol_1
The selected track here is the Lighthouse classic, “Pretty Lady” which was released when these old fellas were entering Grade 10. It’s a great faithful version of the original.
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