May, 2018 | Cadence Recordings

JIM JAMES RELEASES NEW SINGLE “THOWBACK”

May 31, 2018 by Cadence Recordings

ATO Records, brand new music, fuzz, jim james, just a fool, my morning jacket, throwback, uniform distortion, yim yames

EAGERLY AWAITED THIRD SOLO STUDIO ALBUM FROM MY MORNING JACKET FRONTMAN OUT JUNE 29 VIA ATO RECORDS

TORONTO, ON – May 31, 2018 – Jim James has released the new single, “Throwback,” from his soon-to-be-released album, UNIFORM DISTORTION, out June 29 on ATO Records.

“I wrote this song doing pretty much what you are probably doing right at this very second: scrolling thru social media,” says James. “It struck me as SO wild – how, as you scroll back in time through someone’s account, you watch their face grow younger…but as you do this, REAL TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!!! The clock is ticking…instead of doing good work or creating love or taking a walk in nature, I am here STARING AT MY FUCKING PHONE!!!! ha ha ha. Don’t get me wrong – social media is an amazing tool…but I think we should look at it more like a tool, like a hammer you pick up for a little while to do a job, and then you PUT IT DOWN. You don’t sit there and keep hammering away or else pretty soon your entire world would be destroyed and fall apart! And I feel like that is exactly what is happening right before our very eyes to this precious real beautiful human-filled earth. So lets WAKE EACH OTHER UP PEOPLE! Lets stand up against injustice and use this tool of social media to fight for peace and love and equality! Let’s throwback for a minute, but try and live in the NOW for a better future. Thanks for listening.”

LISTEN TO “THROWBACK”

WATCH “JUST A FOOL”

The GRAMMY® Award-nominated frontman of My Morning Jacket’s third solo album, UNIFORM DISTORTION is available for pre-order HERE; deluxe bundles featuring limited edition lithographs and clear vinyl are exclusively available for pre-order HERE. All pre-orders are joined by an instant grat download of the project’s first single, “Just A Fool,” also available now for individual purchase at all DSPs and streaming services. “Just A Fool” is joined a new companion visual, directed by Ellis Bahl (The Kills, alt-J) and streaming now HERE. “Just A Fool” received its exclusively premiere via NPR last month.

JIM JAMES 2018 TOUR

JUNE 21 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre Berkeley – Solo Acoustic w/Robert Plant

JULY 18 – Los Angeles, CA – Pico Union

PRE-ORDER UNIFORM DISTORTION

JIM JAMES

UNIFORM DISTORTION

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Release Date: June 29, 2018

Tracklist:

Just A Fool

You Get To Rome

Out Of Time

Throwback

No Secrets

Yes To Everything

No Use Waiting

All In Your Head

Better Late Than Never

Over and Over

Too Good To Be True

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HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF’S “PA’LANTE” – “ONE OF THE MOST ARTICULATE SONGS OF A GENERATION” (NPR) – ANCHORS POIGNANT NEW SHORT FILM

May 22, 2018 by Cadence Recordings

ATO Records, HFTRR, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Kristian Mercado Figueroa, Life after Hurricane Maria, Mela Murder, Milagros, Pa'lante, Powerful Musical Force, PRIMA Relief Fund, Puerto Rico, The Navigator

AN INTIMATE GLIMPSE INTO THE PUERTO RICAN CRISIS, DIRECTED BY KRISTIAN MERCADO FIGUEROA + STARRING MELA MURDER OF “THE FLORIDA PROJECT”

TORONTO, ON – May 22, 2018 – Hurray for the Riff Raff’s “Pa’lante” – the fervent call to arms for working class Latinx that was lauded as one of the year’s best songs by Pitchfork, NPR Music, Entertainment Weekly, Billboard, The Guardian + more – serves as the powerful musical force behind a new short film directed by Kristian Mercado Figueroa (De La Soul, Hannibal Burress). Shot in Puerto Rico earlier this year, alongside Alynda’s hometown in New York, “Pa’lante” offers an intimate, first-hand glimpse of life after Hurricane Maria via the journey of single mother Milagros (played by Mela Murder of the acclaimed film The Florida Project) and her family – a living testament not only to the everyday struggle after the storm displaced thousands last year, but also the strength, beauty, and identity of an island that embodies the phrase (“forward”) as its national philosophy.

Watch “Pa’lante” here: https://youtu.be/LilVDjLaZSE

Shooting on location struck close to home for everyone on set, many of whom are of Puerto Rican descent. Hurray’s own Alynda Segarra is shown alongside images of her father and overlaid with archival footage of civil rights activist group the Young Lords. Member and founder of the Nuyorican Movement, Pedro Pietri, is also shown reciting his poem “Puerto Rican Obituary” – the epic work that would come to serve as inspiration for the song almost 50 years after it was first published.

For the director Kristian, this was a very personal video as his family was displaced by Hurricane Maria and his grandfather passed in its aftermath: “We really wanted to showcase talent of color, stories by people of color – it was important to me to make sure this was a diverse production that had Puerto Ricans working on it. The conditions on the island are still very poor. During the production we could all feel how painful it all was, how it’s been so long without enough help. The island is still strong, the people always positive, but you can’t help but feel the desperation and pain of the colonial condition, the sense of abandonment. Pa’lante is a very Puerto Rican mindset – be it a family struggling to stay together, or recovering from the hurricane, the Puerto Rican people are strong and they will always stand and move forward. And there is a beauty to that.”

For Mela Murder, it was her first time visiting her homeland since Hurricane Maria. “The character Milagros deeply resonated with me being that I am a single mother,” she says. “Our lives are entirely different, but the fuel that keeps women like us going is exactly the same as it has been for generations before us – love. The island is alive with love so strong you can feel it in the breeze coming off the ocean. It made me feel so damn proud of my Boricua roots!”

“Pa’lante” aims to raise funds and awareness for the PRIMA Relief Fund, a collective dedicated to sustaining Puerto Rico’s independent music and artistic community following Hurricane Maria. Learn about ways to support PRIMA Relief at their website: https://www.primafund.org

Hurray for the Riff Raff’s “Pa’lante” was named “Best New Track” by Pitchfork upon its release (“the most hair-raising two minutes of music this year”), and was also hailed by NPR Music as “one of the most articulate songs of a generation.” It serves as the hard-hitting closer for her acclaimed album ‘The Navigator’ (ATO Records), which earned career-best reviews for Segarra.

Hurray for The Riff Raff will be in Vancounver on May 26 supporting Bon Iver at Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF TOUR DATES:

MAY 25 Sasquatch! Music Festival at The Gorge Amphitheatre – George, WA

MAY 26 Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park with Bon Iver – Vancouver, BC, Canada

JUN 23 Arroyo Seco – Pasadena, CA

JUL 6 Summerfest – Milwaukee, WI

JUL 14 Mad Cool Festival – Madrid, Spain

JUL 16 Poble Espanyol with Future Islands – Barcelona, Spain

JUL 17 Teatro Circo – Braga, 04, Portugal

JUL 19 Colours of Ostrava – Ostrava, Czech Republic

JUL 21 Pori Jazz – Pori, Finland

JUL 26 River & Blues at Wagner Park – New York, NY

AUG 17 Maha Music Festival – Omaha, NE

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THE TREWS ANNOUNCE SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘CIVILIANAIRES’ OUT SEPTEMBER 14 VIA CADENCE MUSIC

May 17, 2018 by Cadence Recordings

Bundles, Canadian Rock, Chris Gormley, Civilianaires, Colin MacDonald, Jack Syperek, John-Angus MacDonald, PledgeMusic Campaign, The New Us, The Trews, Tour Dates

PLEDGEMUSIC PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES TODAY

TORONTO, ON – May 17, 2018 – The Trews have announced they’re gearing up to release their sixth studio album Civilianaires, due out September 14 via Cadence Music Group.

The band are once again teaming up with PledgeMusic for a pre-sale launch of the album. Fans can pre-order the album in multiple formats – vinyl, cd, digital – and bundle it with any number of exclusive items from signed lyric sheets to exclusive merch to private house concerts available only through PledgeMusic. Pledge here: https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/the-trews

Earlier this spring the band released, “The New US”, the first track from Civilianaires . Viewed through the lens of our current political climate, the band describes “The New US” as “…. a call-to-arms for us all to try and cut through the static, noise, clutter and b.s. of the insane times that we find ourselves living in and hopefully seek out a little truth for ourselves in the process…or at least give you something to head bang along to in frustration in the meantime.”

Watch: “The New US”

The Nova Scotia-bred, Hamilton, ON-based combo of singer/guitarist Colin MacDonald, guitarist John-Angus MacDonald, bassist Jack Syperek, and drummer Chris Gormley – songwriters all – has won universal acclaim for both their dazzling live performances and wildly accessible songs. With two Gold albums, seventeen (17) Top-10 singles on Canadian rock radio and over twenty-five (25) music industry awards and nominations The Trews have earned their place as one of Canada’s most iconic Rock bands. Their career has spanned two decades and The Trews have performed over 1,000 international live shows, including support slots for The Rolling Stones, Robert Plant, Guns N’ Roses, KISS and Bruce Springsteen.

Tour Dates

May 17 – Waterloo, ON – Maxwell’s
May 31 – Dublin, IR – Whelans*
June 01 – Dublin, IR – Whelans*
June 02 – Dublin, IR – Whelans*
June 09 – Mt. Brydges, ON – Rockin Wheel @ Mt. Brydges Arena
June 16 – Sudbury, ON – Feast Fest @ Grace Hartman Amphitheatre
June 30 – Brockville, ON – 1000 Island Regatta
July 01 – Regina, SK – Canada Day @ Wascana Park
July 04 – Peterborough, ON – Music Fest @ Del Cray Park
July 06 – Niagara, ON – Jackson Triggs Winery
July 14 – Hamilton, ON – Because Beer Festival
Aug. 05 – Bala, ON – Kee to Bala
Aug. 10 – Shelburne, ON – Shelburne Arena
Aug 31 – Shawville, QC – Shawville Fairgrounds

*w/ Hermitage Green

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RAYLAND BAXTER HOLDS A MIRROR TO HUMANITY ON NEW ALBUM WIDE AWAKE (JULY 13/ATO), PRODUCED BY BUTCH WALKER

May 8, 2018 by Cadence Recordings

79 Shiny Revolvers, Butch Walker, Casanova, New Record, Rayland Baxter, Strange American Dream, Wide Awake

ANNOUNCED HEADLINING TOUR INCLUDING TORONTO AND

VANCOUVER DATES

LISTEN TO “CASANOVA” HERE: https://bit.ly/2HZutNm

TORONTO, ON – May 8, 2018 – Rayland Baxter‘s new album is a dream realized. Since he first started writing music, this roving rock ‘n’ roll philosopher dreamed of a space where he could devote every waking hour to creating. The hard-touring musician finally found it in the form of an abandoned rubber band factory in Franklin, KY, where he covered the windows, threw a mattress on the floor, and with guitar and piano in tow, spent three straight months writing. At night he would sit and listen to the sounds around him: coyotes, the howling wind, the faint prattle of the nightly TV news. The result of this isolation quest is Wide Awake (July 13/ATO Records) a ten-song collection that celebrates the best aspects of humanity and grasps at understanding the worst.

“This is an album about decision making,” Baxter explains. “It’s about being a human at the crossroads. Do I do good or do I do evil? Do I lie or do I tell the truth? Am I going to be happy or am I going to be sad? All of these questions and emotions are things I see in myself, and they’re the same things I see in everyone else no matter where I go.”

Wide Awake was produced by Butch Walker and features Walker himself on bass, Cage the Elephant’s Nick Bockrath on guitar, Dr. Dog’s Erick Slick on drums, and piano wizard Aaron Embry (Elliott Smith, Brian Eno) on keys. Rayland’s father Bucky Baxter contributes pedal steel, as does original Nashville Cat Lloyd Green.

Wide Awake runs the gamut from intensely personal to cutting social satire. On lead single “Casanova,” Rayland imagines student debt as a greedy girlfriend, admitting, “I got a real bad feeling ima let her down / got a hole in my pocket and I’m running around.” Album opener “Strange American Dream” was written around the time of the 2016 election and takes a hard look at the country’s values, while “79 Shiny Revolvers” skewers our national fixation with guns.

Listen to “Casanova” here: https://bit.ly/2HZutNm

Rayland has toured with Kacey Musgraves, Jason Isbell, The Lumineers and more, and has multiple songs with over 10 million plays on Spotify. He wrote and performed on Shakey Graves’ new album, is opening some of the shows on his upcoming tour, and will perform with him at Red Rocks in August. He has also played festivals like Bonnaroo and Newport Folk. Stereogum praised his 2015 album ‘Imaginary Man’ as “an impeccable breakout” while NPR hailed its lead single as “close to perfect.”

TRACKLIST FOR WIDE AWAKE

Strange American Dream
Casanova
Angeline
79 Shiny Revolvers
Amelia Baker
Without Me
Hey Larocco
Sandra Monica
Everything To Me
Let It All Go, Man

TOUR DATES:

2-Jun – Wellston, MI – Camp Greensky

12-Jul – Washington, DC – Union Stage

13-Jul – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom

14-Jul – Philadelphia, PA – World Café Live

15-Jul – Richmond, VA – Broadberry

18-Jul – Nashville, TN – Basement East

20-Jul – Birmingham, AL – Saturn

21-Jul – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West

24-Jul – Toronto, ON – Adelaide Hall

25-Jul – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom

26-Jul – Detroit, MI – Otus Supply

27-Jul – Grand Rapids, MI – The Stache

28-Jul – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall

1-Aug – Indianapolis, IN – Hifi

2-Aug – Davenport, IA – Triple Crown Whiskey Bar

3-Aug – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall

4-Aug -Lawrence, KS – Bottleneck

5-Aug – Omaha, NE – Slowdown

9-Aug – Denver, CO – Bluebird

24-Aug – Salt Lake City, UT – Red Butte Garden*

25-Aug – Missoula, MT – Big Sky Amphitheatre*

26-27-Aug – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory*

28-Aug – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory*

30-Aug – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks (performing w/Shakey Graves)

5-Sep – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret

6-Sep – Bellingham, WA – Wild Buffalo

7-Sep – Seattle, WA -Tractor Tavern

9-Sep – Portland, OR – Doug Fir

14-Sep – San Diego, CA – Belly Up

15-Sep – Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan Lounge

20-Sep – Crystal Bay, NV – Red Room at Crystal Bay

21-Sep – Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst

23-Sep – Sonoma, CA – Harvest Music Festival

28-Sep – Roseland, VA – Devil’s Backbone Hoopla

30-Sep – Asbury Park, NJ – Sea Hear Now Festival

*opening for Shakey Graves

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NATALIE PRASS UNVEILS HEARTWRENCHING BALLAD “LOST” FROM THE FUTURE AND THE PAST (JUNE 1/ATO RECORDS)

May 1, 2018 by Cadence Recordings

Animated Art, ATO Records, Canadian Date, Lost, Modern Feminist Anthem, Natalie Prass, Short Court Style, The Future and the Past, Tour

WATCH THE “LOST” ANIMATED ART VIDEO HERE: https://bit.ly/2KrLAFh

ANNOUNCES FALL HEADLINING

TOUR TODAY

TORONTO, ON – May 1, 2018 – The third song to be released from Natalie Prass’ album The Future and The Past (June 1/ATO Records) finds her in a position not yet seen from her new project: vulnerability. “Lost” soars, a big sweeping ballad that laments the growing and heartbreaking realization that sometimes, love isn’t enough to make a relationship worth it.

Watch the animated art video for “Lost” here: https://bit.ly/2KrLAFh

Says Natalie, “‘Lost’ is about putting your foot down in a relationship when enough is enough. It’s the journey of getting engulfed in another person’s energy, good and bad, and ultimately understanding the other person is out to hurt you and not there to love you back.”

“Lost” is the third single from The Future and The Past, with the last single “Sisters” hailed as a “modern feminist anthem” by Consequence of Sound. Natalie performed the first single, “Short Court Style,” on CONAN and for NPR Music; recorded an episode of the popular podcast Song Exploder exploring the track; and earned praise from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Vulture, The Fader, and more.

Today Natalie has also announced her fall headlining The Future and The Past Tour. It begins September 18 in Columbus and ends November 8 in London, hitting cities including Vancouver, Chicago, San Francisco, and LA in between. Full dates below.

Watch Natalie perform “Short Court Style” on CONAN https://bit.ly/2IEOdCU

and NPR Music https://n.pr/2pffvrv

Watch the video for “Short Court Style”: https://bit.ly/2EWOcvH

Watch the eye-popping animated art video for “Sisters” here: https://bit.ly/2I4pzKF

The Future and The Past is a stunning snapshot of a musician in a state of personal rediscovery and surging femininity. The celebratory and defiant album finds Natalie tapping into deep, dancey grooves that glisten with ’80s pop and ’90s R&B, nestled alongside quivering, lushly orchestrated ballads.

Natalie recently completed a run of shows with Fleet Foxes and several performances at SXSW where Rolling Stone deemed her one of the best acts of the week and said her show was “the sound of a musician hitting her stride.” Last week, The Guardian raved that Natalie “counters oppression with optimism…it feels as if Prass, confronting wrong with charm and sterling musicianship, is on the verge of something bigger.”

Preorder The Future and The Past on all platforms: http://smarturl.it/natalieprasslost

TOUR DATES:

May 26 – Nashville, TN – Centennial Park

June 1 – New York, NY – Rough Trade

June 2 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s

June 3 – Richmond, VA – Broadberry

Aug 19 – Marietta, OH – Mountain Stage

Sept 18 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups

Sept 19 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall

Sept 20 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon

Sept 21 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club

Sept 24 – Seattle, WA – Chop Suey

Sept 25 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret

Sept 26 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios

Sept 28 – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s

Sept 29 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour

Sept 30 – San Diego, CA – Casbah

Oct 2 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar

Oct 7 – Tulsa, OK – The Vanguard

Oct 8 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar

Oct 10 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge

Oct 14 – New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa

Oct 16 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl

Oct 17 – Asheville, NC – The Mothlight

Oct 18 – Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge

Oct 19 – Raleigh, NC – Kings

Nov 8 – London, UK – Electric Brixton