Said The Whale Cascadia Arts & Crafts For me a favourite thing is listening to bands that share a strong kinship with one another as well as to their music. Vancouver, B.C trio, Said the Whale have been playing with a rich heartfelt woodsy [...]
Dan Mangan @ New Vision United Church, Hamilton February 1, 2019 The New Vision United Church is located in the heart of downtown Hamilton and provides the perfect atmosphere for performances by singer-songwriters like Dan Mangan and his opener, [...]
WELCOMING AND WARM DIVERSIONS A CONVERSATION WITH DAN MANGAN Way back in the days of Myspace an emerging young musician named Dan Mangan commented on a song embedded on my profile as being one of the most beautiful things he’d ever heard. [...]
DAN MANGAN SHARES COVER OF R.E.M.’s “LOSING MY RELIGION” ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM MORE OR LESS OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS Dan Mangan is sharing his cover of R.E.M.’s classic “Losing My Religion” which appears in the trailer for [...]
KID KOALA SHARES “ALL FOR YOU” VIDEO – NEW ALBUM OUT JANUARY 25 ARTS & CRAFTS Visionary scratch DJ and producer Kid Koala (aka Eric San) shares the visuals for latest single “All For You” featuring Trixie Whitley today with [...]
Various Artists Live At Massey Hall – Vol. 1 Arts & Crafts Live At Massey Hall – Vol. 1, released on Nov. 28 for Record Store Day Black Friday, is available on vinyl at various independent record stores across North America. It is a [...]
Dan Mangan More Or Less Arts & Crafts The very best writing about this album was done by Dan Mangan himself via his publicity team on his website. As a description of the album, he explained its genesis as well as his own personal evolution [...]
LEGACY: A TRIBUTE TO GORD DOWNIE PRESENTED BY BURLINGTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE SUPPORTING THE GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND AND LEGACY SPACE The Burlington Performing Arts Centre, in collaboration with The Gord Downie & Chanie [...]
ARTS & CRAFTS AND MASSEY HALL ANNOUNCE LIVE AT MASSEY HALL VINYL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 1 ARRIVES NOVEMBER 23 FOR RECORD STORE DAY BLACK FRIDAY ALBUM FEATURES DESTROYER, EMILY HAINES, ANDY SHAUF, JAPANDROIDS, DAN MANGAN, CŒUR DE PIRATE, [...]
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE RELEASE HUG OF THUNDER TRACK “OLD DEAD YOUNG” PREVIOUSLY ONLY AVAILABLE ON VINYL WRAP UP TOUR WITH A ONE-OFF PERFORMANCE OF YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE AT MUSIC TASTES GOOD AND A HEADLINE SHOW AT THE TROUBADOUR IN LA [...]
Fucked Up Dose Your Dreams Arts & Crafts Dose Your Dreams is an hour and a half long epic experimental concept project from Toronto-based band Fucked Up. The band’s fifth LP release is a true testament of their creative ability to push [...]
DAN MANGAN SHARES NEW SINGLE “COLD IN THE SUMMER” + ANNOUNCES VARIETY SHOW MORE OR LESS OUT NOVEMBER 2 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS Dan Mangan is sharing a new track from his upcoming LP, More or Less, which he described as the existential [...]
DAN MANGAN ANNOUNCES NEW LP MORE OR LESS + SHARES NEW SINGLE MORE OR LESS OUT NOVEMBER 2 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS More Or Less is about “witnessing birth, and in some ways rebirth,” says Dan Mangan. “It’s about feeling disconnected from a popular [...]
La Force La Force Arts & Crafts Ariel Engle, aka La Force, is a dynamic performer with oodles of talent who has, in less than two years, become a permanent member of the Canadian indie collective Broken Social Scene, toured in support of [...]
REUBEN AND THE DARK ANNOUNCE FALL CANADIAN TOUR DATES TOUR DATES CONTINUE JULY 20 WITH MORE CANADIAN STOPS ADDED FOR FALL ARMS OF A DREAM OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS PURCHASE // STREAM ARMS OF A DREAM On the heels of a successful stint of [...]
DAN MANGAN DANCES AWAY HIS WORLD WOES CANADIAN TOUR DATES WITH KALEO BEGIN JUNE 23 Arts & Crafts Today, JUNO Award winning songwriter Dan Mangan shares “Troubled Mind”, what may be his most upbeat, dance-able song to date “in complete [...]
HAERTS SIGNS TO ARTS & CRAFTS ANNOUNCES A NEW FULL-LENGTH STUDIO ALBUM COMING FALL 2018 Indie rock act HAERTS is excited to start the next chapter of their story as they announce that they’ve officially signed with influential Toronto-based [...]
Bernice Puff LP: In The Air Without A Shape Arts & Crafts Bernice’s latest album Puff LP: In The Air Without A Shape, shakes up all of Toronto’s current sound. This album is a minimalist follow up to Puff EP, produced by Grammy Award winner [...]
Reuben & The Dark Arms Of A Dream Arts & Crafts Anybody a bit more familiar with Calgary’s Ruben & The Dark has known them so far as just yet another set of indie folkies, albeit with the leader Reuben Bullock possessing an excellent [...]
LAYIN’ TRACKS FOR A BUNCH OF FLOOR KIDS A CONVERSATION WITH KID KOALA Kid Koala is a ground-breaking scratch DJ with as impressive a creative resume as is imaginable. In our interview this past week, I also came to know him to be open, [...]
Kid Koala Floor Kids (Original Video Game Soundtrack) Arts & Crafts It is no surprise, given his hard-to-contain talent and countless sources of artistic inspiration, that Eric San (aka Kid Koala) would get involved in the creation of a [...]
DAN MANGAN CELEBRATES LOVE AMIDST CHAOS IN NEW “FOOL FOR WAITING” VIDEO US TOUR DATES WITH STARS BEGIN APRIL 15 – CANADIAN TOUR DATES WITH KALEO BEGIN JUNE 23 Dan Mangan’s new single “Fool For Waiting” is an instant classic [...]
LOWELL ANNOUNCES SOPHOMORE ALBUM OUT THIS WEEK NEW ALBUM LONE WOLF OUT FRIDAY APRIL 6 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS Multi-talented alt-pop siger-songwriter-producer Lowell announces her sophomore album Lone Wolf set for release on April 6 via Arts & [...]
Moby Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt Arts & Crafts American electronic DJ/producer/singer-songwriter Moby’s latest album Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt isn’t anything like his fifth and breakthrough album [...]
