Bocephus King is making a late fall tour of the west. You will be greeted with something that sounds like the way the cotton candy of your youth tastes like mixed with the way a Remedios Varo painting looks hung up in a mexican cantina. That is to say, otherworldy, gutbuckety, sweet, psychedellic, and totally satisfying.

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Unwed Mothers is a four piece blues-rock outfit from Edmonton, Alberta. The group came together in the summer of 2012 and haven’t slowed down since. The band delivers a gritty, aggressive style that boasts fat guitar sounds, heart shaking beats and power house vocals.

The release of their debut album in the spring of 2013 was met with glowing response from multiple publications including Blues Rock Review (US) and Indie Bands Blog (UK). The 8 track compilation showed off their flexibility in style and impressive lyricism giving audiences an introduction to a group that expresses a strong sense of musicality while dabbling in multiple genres. Within months of forming the band was invited to showcase at Canadian Music Week 2013 in Toronto and soon after their return they were back on the road touring Western Canada from Vancouver to Saskatoon. With each live performance their fanbase steadily grew and Unwed Mothers entered the regular rotations on College Radio stations all over Canada charting #2 on CHLY and entering the top 20 in multiple other cities. In September, the album’s single “Skeletons” caught the ear of their local alternative radio station and the group earned the coveted position of the Sonic 102.9FM Band of the Month which was accompanied by headlining show at The Starlite Room where they played to a packed house. The feature led to some additional exposure including a live performance/interview on Global Edmonton’s Breakfast Television and a live acoustic webisode on Balcony TV.

Repartee and Windmills
Nov. 23rd @ Doc Willoughbys

Before she started Repartee, Meg Warren was a frustrated opera singer. She loved music, but hated the formality – so she started a synth-pop band. Repartee played their first gig in St. John’s in 2009 and while a lot has changed since then, one thing remains the same – Repartee want to make you dance. In fact one publication says they can make you dance ‘without giving a f*** about how foolish you look’ (The Muse).

The band’s career has been steadily growing over the past three years with the addition of members Robbie Brett (The Pre-Raphaelites, Hear/Say), and Nick Coultas-Clarke and Josh Banfield (Catcher). In 2010 they released their first EP, ‘Lost Like We All Are’, to a sold out crowd at the legendary The Ship Pub in St. Johns. That same year they were named the Newfoundland Herald’s prestigious ‘Band To Watch’ for 2011.

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Rick Scott pioneered indie roots music in BC with Shari Ulrich and Joe Mock as Pied Pumkin in the mid-seventies. Later when Shari left the Pumkin became Pied Pear. Now Rick who is also famous for his children’s and family entertainment is doing a series of shows for Home Routes labeled as “for Big Folks”. Tickets available online or at ABC Hobbies and Games on Dilworth.

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They will be opening for Hollerado @ Habitat

Tickets also available at Leo’s Video (2680 Pandosy St) & Mosaic Books (411 Bernard Avenue).

Hollerado is an indie rock band which formed in Manotick, Ontario. The band consists of Menno Versteeg (vocals, guitar), Nixon Boyd (guitar), Dean Baxter (bass) and Jake Boyd (drums). They self-released their debut album “Record in a Bag” in 2009 as a free download on their website.

Hollerado’s members grew up on the same street in a small town in Ontario. There is one bar in the town and on Friday nights the jukebox plays Roy Orbison, and John Prine. One day, while riding the bus, a man in an exquisitely tailored suit said to them “it is not nearly as fun to reminisce about the times you didn’t spend your life savings on four one-way tickets to Japan.” With that in mind they got jobs doing construction. When they were tearing down the old walls they listened to The Who. When they built new walls they talked about time travel. Soon they bought an old van and started a moving company (Haulerado). The van had a tape player and they listened exclusively to the Traveling Wilburys.

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After debuting with Tic Toc Tic in 2009, The Zolas scaled the precipice of cult status across Canada, thanks to a loyal fanbase carried over from Zach Gray (vocals, guitar) and Tom Dobrzanski’s (piano) earlier years as Lotus Child.

With Ancient Mars, their second album, The Zolas are set to continue their legacy of postmodern pop. Armed with poetic lyrics, Ancient Mars trades in the cabaret glitz of Tic Toc Tic for reverbed pianos and hard, minimalist beats.

In “Strange Girl” a sunny guitar riff blasts into the perfect mid-‘90s summer jam, while title track “Ancient Mars” is bouncy and nostalgic, with heaping spoonfuls of Montreal and Brooklyn avant-pop. If John Lennon and Kanye West met later tonight at a hotel bar, “Escape Artist” is the song they would write. It’s these kinds of pairings that Ancient Mars is full of: The Zolas write classic pop songs and then fuck them up until the hooks have to fight to get out.

As if to offset Ancient Mars’ aesthetic diversity, the lyrics are raw and focused. The Zolas’ tumultuous songwriting captures the zeitgeist of being in your 20s, on the cusp of youth and real adulthood. In each song Gray builds a skeleton of a setting – from outer space to a college library to a Victorian jail cell – and tells stories fleshed out with the listener’s own history.  In October 2012, The Zolas teamed up with Winnipeg’s The Liptonians to release a 7” split single “Cultured Man”, a quixotic snack in between the two full-length albums.

Dobrzanski is the band’s on-board producer, having worked with names in indie-rock royalty like Said the Whale and We Are The City, but for Ancient Mars production duties were handed over to Chuck Brody (Phantogram, Wu-Tang), much like how 2009’s Tic Toc Tic was produced by Howard Redekopp (Mother Mother, The New Pornographers).