Scene and Heard with Stuart Derdeyn talks to Chris Duncombe about The Washboard Union (http://thewashboardunion.com). The Vancouver-based country act has just released its debut album In My Bones on Warner/Slaight and is burning up the kilometers this summer playing everything from the Calgary Stampede to the Big Valley Jamboree. The band plays at CBC studios on Friday. Also featured new music from Mac Demarco, John Howard, Fake Shark Real Zombie, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, Bert Jansch and Sweet Cobra
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Gigs of the Week:
The Washboard Union: Some Day and Maybe It’s the Moonshine (taken from In My Bones (Warner/Slaight)
– Check the six-piece crew live somewhere soon at thewashboardunion.com
High On Fire: The Falconist (taken from Luminiferous ( Relapse Records)
Tonight at the Rickshaw Theatre playing tunes form its latest album is Matt Pike’s crew High On Fire. Raging, blazing and never boring.
Mac Demarco: The Way You’d Love Her (taken from Another One (Captured Tracks
http://www.capturedtracks.com/artists/mac-demarco-2/
– Just out this week is the latest from Brooklyn-based Edmontonian DeMarco following up his raved about Salad Days. It’s another collection of disarmingly up front tunes about his insecurities and more. He’s at the Commodore Ballroom on Saturday, October 31.
Top Spins:
Fake Shark, Real Zombie: Cheap Thrills (from upcoming album on Light Organ Records)
http://www.lightorganrecords.com/artists/fake-shark/
– singer Kevvy, guitarist Louis Wu and badass bassist Tony Dallas hooked up with Mounties man Steve Bays for the latest from the band and it’s a hooky piece of work
John Howard: Intact Smiling (taken from John Howard and the Night Mail (Tapete Records)
http://www.tapeterecords.de/
– Always neat to see an artist who was forgotten get a second go around and this return from glam rock era singer Howard whose 1975 CBC album Kid In A Big World is considered a lost pub rock classic is a winner. His openly out status was a bit much for the time and had to wait for Tom Robinson to be glad about, but now he’s back with a crack backing unit featuring members of Paul Weller’s band, former Death in Vegas drummer and others.
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience: I Like Rain (taken from I Like Rain: The Story of the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience (Fire Records)
http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=artists&artistid=00000001037
– A freewheeling cult act on New Zealand’s brilliant Flying Nun Records showcases this band through its indie/corporate and aftermath career. It’s a load of fun listening of one that got away.
Bert Jansch: Blackwaterside (taken from Live at the 12 Bar (Earth Recordings)
http://bertjansch.com/news/live-at-the-12-bar-on-vinyl/
– One of the most influential of the UK folk revivalists, Jansch was key to Jimmy Page’s acoustic technique and influenced generations of folk blues pickers. Here he is captured in fine form live at a legendary folk club back in the 1990s. A big re-release and part of Earth Recordings Jansch catalogue reissue project. Hope they do the same for his late Pentangle mate John Renbourn.
Sweet Cobra: Far to Temp (taken from Earth (Magic Bullet Records)
https://magicbulletrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-cobra-earth
– Turn up the volumn and enjoy this Chicago stoner rock crew’s latest slab o’
noise.
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