The 427's

Monumental Instrumental!

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Tonight’s the night... See you at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Thank you to all the radio programmers, music directors, listeners, fans, and friends for all your support! Our latest record, “Stay Gold”, which we released last June, finished 2018 at #93 on the !earshot National Top 200 Albums of the Year! In addition, we now have a new lineup featuring a new drummer/percussionist as well as trumpet, saxophone, keys, pedal steel guitar, and, oh yes, vocals! 

Pic by Adam Cormier

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Julie Newmar's Guitar

On a Cold Winters Night a very sexy Burlesque Dancer is found dead back stage. Que Music to find out who done it!

It’s a cold winter’s night and beautiful burlesque dancer Roxanne Summers has been murdered. Found dead in a good neighbourhood to have bad habits in, Detectives Richard Taylor and Jim Stark are assigned to the case. They needed a drink, a lot of life insurance, and a vacation. What they had was a coat, a hat, and a gun... Help them crack the case through link above.

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If winter was an endurance race, well, we can finally see the checkered flag. We’ve spent the past few months of northern darkness hibernating in the studio, writing and recording our new album, and with the sun once again beginning to thaw the ground we’re getting excited to provide the soundtrack for the summer. “Stay Gold” is fourteen songs inspired by the swinging 60s, surf music, film noir, bossa nova, rockabilly, exotica, and spy movies guaranteed to liven up your days and heat up your nights. It’s time to put the top down, put the pedal to the floor, and put winter in the rearview mirror. “Stay Gold”: available June 2018 everywhere fine music is streamed.  

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They told us we wouldn’t need a gun, so we brought four. One for MKULTRA, one for the Liberty Belle, one for The Big Sleep, and one for our Escape from Hell. They went down too easy; like a boxer with a gambling debt. We could’ve kept going, but decided to trade bullets for bourbon and leave the pleasantries to someone else. Someone with more time, more money, more banked holidays, and more life insurance. We were just doing a favor for a preferred client. Besides, dead men are heavier than broken hearts...

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Summer is quickly coming to a close and, as has become something of a tradition for the band, the change of seasons means the release of our new music video. Directed by the ever-talented Andrew Young and featuring everyone’s favorite instrumental surf rock band, The 427′s, Urchin Stomp tells the tale of how the band was formed. We don’t recruit members, we create them. There’s always room for one more...

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It’s still the pre-dawn of this foul Age of Aquarius and to commemorate this we’ve been writing our most rock star, post-film noir, neo-psychedelic songs to date. With titles such as MKULTRA, The Big Sleep, and Anger in Babylon we invite our listeners to create their own “mind-movies” with our music being the soundtrack. Every song we write has meaning. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to discover it. Don’t try too hard or you’ll be bound to fail. We don’t try anything; we just do it. Wanna try us?  

Photo credit: Mark Preston

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I love your music!

Thanks!

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The 427's - Fake Betty

Released as the second single from The 427's new album, Mavericks, "Fake Betty" is a cautionary tale of false pretense, fraudulent motives, and faux-finishes...

We enjoyed making the video for “The Spy Invasion” so much we decided to do it again!  From the lens of the ever-talented Andrew Young, here comes “Fake Betty”!  Featuring:

Chris van Keir - Guitar

Rob Day - Guitar

Eve Hell - Bass

Lorne Petersen - Drums

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Well, here we are.  2016.  We made it.  We made it through breakdowns.  We made it through bars.  We made it with drums and with bass and guitars.  We released a new album.  A video we shot.  We met some new friends (and some who were not).  We wrote many songs, not one with a rhyme, but we knew our great drummer was keeping good time.  And as we rang in the new year, two-thousand-one-six, we vowed that the world would get its surf fix.    

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We are pleased to release “The Spy Invasion”, which tells the story of Detectives Jim Stark and Richard Taylor as they hunt down the nefarious Lola Brigida and her associate Count Kilmeister.  It is a tale of  intrigue, back-handed romance, and broken alliances told in stunning 16mm by up-and-coming filmmaker Andrew Young.  Will Lola and The Count make their escape?  Or will the dashing duo of detectives become Byronic heroes?  Who will remain and what will be left of them?  Stay tuned!  

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Our upcoming album, “Mavericks”, will be released next month and it has us reflecting upon the moods music can convey.  We’re not speaking of stories written in rhyme, but music in and of itself.  Instrumental music, regardless of genre, tells its own story, conveying a mood, painting a picture, framing a scene in a listener’s mind, which is at once personal and universal.  A piece of music can evoke raw joy and pure ecstasy or, keeping in mind All Hallow’s Eve is upon is, can provoke fear and dread.  Through music alone one could experience a bitter wind blowing lonely leaves from the skeletal remains of trees on a moonlit night.  All dependent upon the listener’s own life experience or, as Norman Zinberg discussed, set and setting.  No other art form is as abstract and ethereal as music.  Books have pages filled with words.  Even so-called “abstract art” has a visual component as well as a tangible one in the materials used.  But music, instrumental music, has no words to act as a guide, no narrator to lead us, no visuals whatsoever, aside from what each of our mind’s conjure up within the confines of our cranium.  So the next time you find yourself singing along to the latest chart-topper, pause for a moment and consider your mood, and your image for the song before the singing began.  Where are you?  And more interestingly, now that you’re considering where you are, where are you going?     

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This has been one hell of a year in The 427′s camp and this past month has been one of the toughest yet.  Between breakups and breakdowns, health issues and hospitalizations, ex-jobs and former friends, the possibility of physical and mental collapse has been very real.  And yet, despite others’ best efforts, Rob, Chris, Eve, and Lorne are still here and stronger than ever.  They recently returned from the Western Canadian Music Awards in Victoria, British Columbia, where they were nominated for “Instrumental Recording of the Year”.  They have completed production on their full-length debut album, “Mavericks”, which will be released in time for Christmas 2015. They have just completed filming of the pilot episode of their new TV series, “The Spy Invasion” with the producers of the documentary “Keep It Real” and will be bringing it to the screen within the next month.  They begin their fall series of shows this weekend with the Tattoo & Arts Festival in Calgary, Alberta.  On top of everything they still made time to restore hot rods, build airplanes, harvest wheat, surf rivers, and, of course, write new music.  So, like the snake sheds its skin to start anew, so the original surf rock mafia have banded together to continue onward and upward, now with a new motto: “God forgives, The 427′s don’t”.  

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Well, it’s been one epic, adventure-filled summer.  We added two new members to the line-up.  We surfed rivers.  Climbed the Rockies.  Drove through Death Valley with no A/C.  Surfed Newport Beach.  Drank coffee on Balboa Pier.  Watched Social D on the Sunset Strip.  Ate fish tacos.  Listened to Slayer.  Hung out with Echo Sparks at a burlesque club in East L.A.  Drank Red Bull.  Saw JD McPherson at the Santa Monica Pier.  Dined at The Hollywood Roosevelt.  Enjoyed Willie Nelson at The Greek.  Hung out with the VW’s and characters of Venice Beach.  Drank martinis.  Drove Mulholland Drive.  Snuck into the Hollywood Bowl Observatory.  Barfed on Hollywood Boulevard.  Drank Rock Star.  Spent the night in the Tenderloin in San Fransisco.  Re-enacted the scenes from Bullitt and The Dead Pool.  Ate roadside sushi.  Stopped for food at Bless My Soul in Eureka because we liked the name. Slept in the car.  Started a night pie trend.  Shopped for vinyl in Winnipeg.  Had our truck towed in Vancouver.  Listened to Warrant. Ate oysters on Granville Island.  Attended a film noir festival.  Watched Seaway and The Dirty Nil at The Cobalt.  Played at a wedding on the seashore on Bowen Island.  Used the word “moist” as often as possible.  Ran out of gas just outside of Golden.  Blew a radiator hose just outside of Banff.  Ate convenience store smorgasbord dinners.     

And through it all we made music.  We played festivals and clubs.  We made new friends.  We sold out of CD’s and two different styles of t-shirts.  We recorded a new album.  We released a new single.  We were nominated for a music award.  And then we made more music.  

 Yes, it’s been one for the books.  And it’s because of you.  Our friends, our fans, our families.  Each and every one of you.  We couldn’t have done it without you.  

Thank you from The 427′s!  

-Another great band photo by Mark Preston.     

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We're excited to release The Spy Invasion, the first single from our upcoming album "Mavericks", which is set for a fall release! Take a listen and let us know what you think!

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We are pleased to announce we are working with AY Productions to provide the soundtrack to their latest film, Keep It Real! They are making a documentary on mountain biking and we are stoked to be part of their amazing project!

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We want YOU!  Must be expert listeners, willing to risk aural pleasure daily.  Music fans preferred. Photo by Mark Preston.