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here is esther grey’s luscious new song “fried blood” from PENTAGON BLACK COMPILATION NO. 1—out today on montréal’s pentagon black label. an in-depth conversation about this radical release can be read over at chart attack or in french at brbrtfo. go out to a show and get one! esther grey is playing... KITCHENER mar 11 @ open sesame w whoop-szo, i smell blood, beatrix GUELPH mar 18, kazoo! show @ the making box w cousins and joyfultalk

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This is Pentagon Black Compilation No. 1, and it’s a double-sided 20x30″ newsprint poster/song download we’re putting out today along with 22 other DIY-enthused Canadian bands. Surprise. Buy the poster, use download code on its back, get the music. 

We’re talking original new songs by: Sam Coffey & the Iron Lungs (Toronto), Beef Boys (Peterborough), Beat Cops (Montreal), the Yips (Ottawa), Kappa Chow (Sackville), Esther Grey (Guelph), I Smell Blood (London), the Lonely Parade (Peterborough), Century Palm (Toronto), Heathers (Montreal), Oromocto Diamond (Quebec), Whoop-Szo (London), Usse (Saint John), Child Actress (Calgary), Bonnie Doon (Ottawa), TV Freaks (Hamilton), Teledrome (Calgary), Phern (Montreal), the Famines (Montreal), Strange Attractor (Sudbury), LAPS (Fredericton), Couleur Dessin (Montreal), Haunted Souls (Saskatoon).

Want to listen? Get a copy for $10 at the launch party in your town (the Montreal one is 19 March at Brasserie Beaubien) or order a copy of the poster online via thefamines.bandcamp.com, where you can also hear our track. Sound alright? More details later. Keep good. 

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post tour pocket dump 

ESTHER GREY and CUPCAKE DUCTAPE have returned home safe and sound after an east-coast sprint with shows in montreal QC, halifax NS, and sackville NB. THANK YOU to stereophonic festival and all our fun and very generous friends, new and old, who helped out along the way. still no moose sighting. XO

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a hallowe’en trick from esther grey—featuring the shadow dancing of katie ewald and lindsay roe!

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sneak peek of LRL13—new tape from BADMINTON RACQUET being launched tonight at hillside festival!!! listen to tümor or be very sorry. very very sorry....

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a GIRLS ROCK CAMP is starting up in guelph!!! we’ll be partnering up to record the camp bands and do a super cool release. currently, kazoo! fest is applying for an oak tree grant to get the idea off the ground. you can help by giving a nomination—a quick story or statement about why this initiative is important and/or why kazoo! is important to guelph’s creative community. also, anyone interested in getting involved with the camp, send steph a note at [email protected]!  *badass logo designed by gillian wilson!

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CUPCAKE DUCTAPE is possibly the newest band in guelph. CUPCAKE DUCTAPE is unstoppably fun “sparkle punk”. CUPCAKE DUCTAPE is lanny of ALANNA GURR AND THE GREATEST STATE and steph of ESTHER GREY. their tape, GET OVER IT (LRL12) was released at kazoo!’s 9th birthday party earlier this month. the first batch of tapes feature hand-drawn cupcakes with glitter-glue icing. yum yum!

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presenting... CUPCAKE DUCTAPE!

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here is a 2-song video of FAMILIAR FIENDS from their ZZZ show last weekend. this new-to-guelph troop will be gracing the jimmy jazz on saturday of kazoo! fest with tough age and new zebra kid.

also TYSON AND THE TREPIDS (YTR) play silence on thursday of the festival with family video and jeffrey lewis and the jrams. BADMINTON RACQUET (YTR) play ebar on wednesday with tyvek and absolutely free.

happy kazoo to you.

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tyson and the trepids’ 130 king EP (LRL11) is streaming over on exclaim! have a listen. to be released next thursday at kazoo! fest.

The poppy Waterloo, ON band formed back in the early aughts under the leadership of Tyson Brinacombe, with his bandmates consisting of the inhabitants of "Trepid House" — a now-defunct house located at (you guessed it!) 130 King St. in their hometown. The new EP pays homage to the former address and features songs from the band's archives that have been recently revisited and reworked with the added bonuses of extra musical experience and a sense of nostalgia.  

long live 130 king (in our hearts)!

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our friends, the wonderful copoc family (paul, sarah, the kids, and many animals), moved from brantford to guelph and we are very happy to have them. they have this amazing band—FAMILIAR FIENDS! and hot damn, you need to know this band!

since the big move, the lineup has changed, and our own tyson and danny now form the fiendish backline. little room labs will be releasing monster on tape and compact disk (LRL10), to be dubbed this evening lovingly in limited runs of 30 in each format. art by drew taylor & text / design by roan bateman (former fiends drummer). you can get a copy tonight in brantord at the train station ZZZ show, or hold onto your hat till kazoo! fest!

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this year's STAY OUT OF THE MALL mini-fest (which benefits the canadian cancer society toward leukaemia research) features amazing lineups—including two little room labs bands!

THURS, DEC 11 (@ silence): JENNIFER CASTLE JOHN SOUTHWORTH SHOPKEEPER

FRI, DEC 12 (@ eBar): METZ WEAVES BADMINTON RACQUET

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a dreamy video from our friends at arts & craft videography for tyson's song "follow me" off the album casio fiasco.

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lost of good stuff is cooking' up this fall! SHOPKEEPER are getting ready to head out east on the BIRDKEEPER TOUR in support of their Terror Blessed LP (LRL09 co-presented by label fantastic!) with great friend BIRD CITY. beautiful album art by yvonne weiss. keep an ear out for them in ontario, québec, new brunswick, nova scotia, and newfoundland! dates listed on exclaim! 

BADMINTON RACQUET will be playing some shows this november with new orleans duo CADDYWHOMPUS on the ontarian leg of their extensive north american romp. dates listed at new noise!

lastly, devil's night saw the release of the ESTHER GREY pinball session. dan cooper says: Their songs are full of dark, meandering guitar lines and catchy surf imbued hooks on tracks like ‘No Good’, which was previously unreleased. There’s a similarity to Deer Hoof’s Satomi Matsuzaki in Yates' vocals... until they take it to a slower, more witchy place on ‘Night Calls.' you can listen here.

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artwork by nathan campagnaro and kyle coveny (badraq side) and hugh mater (babelabe side)

the BADRAQ/BABELABE split 7-inch (LRL08) is being born tonight at silence (46 essex st) and LRL's the flu will also be there, infecting the place with their contagious sound. thanks to our friends over at pinball sessions, CFRU, and eleven for presenting the show!

currently these two hot tracks are being streamed at exclaim! and both badminton racquet and baby labour are splitting title of "artist of the month" down at missed connection records. 

some love for the 7-inch from poland's idioteq: Badminton Racquet and Baby Labour have honed their craft... their almost 7 minute long 7” is a bleary tear of drums and guitars in synchronistic harmony one moment and completely fuzzed out effect laden weirdness the next.

upcoming BADMINTON RACQUET (*) / BABY LABOUR (^) dates: 10/03 Guelph, ON - Silence *^ w/ the flu 10/04 Windsor, ON - Coach & Horses (FAM Fest) ^ w/ bardos, johnny red eyes 10/05 London, ON - House Show *^ w/ no hands 10/11 Ottawa, ON - Mugshots *^ w/ new fries 10/19 Toronto, ON - Cinecycle ^ w/ fat as fuck, krill, junior bob, shoelace 10/23 Guelph, ON - Jimmy Jazz ^ w/ bardos

attend a show and get your hands on one of these babely hand-printed albums pronto!

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del bel's new stop-motion video for "the rains"—made by lab rat and esther grey front-woman steph yates—was premiered today over on NOISEY where they are saying it is "equal parts terrifying and beautiful." 

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wonderful things are happening this weekend in guelph. tonight: ESTHER GREY plays the silence re:launch celebration with matt brubeck & parmela attariwala, and gary diggins & jeff bird. more info over at kazoo!

tomorrow (saturday sept 27th) is CASSETTE STORE DAY! royal cat records will be hosting afternoon in-store performances by TYSON and BRICK WALLS! some hot tapes will be there. enjoy your week end.