“Over The Bluffs is perfect and so essential you should sacrifice eating so you can buy it!” - The Pop! Stereo

skatterbrainpop:

Upon first hearing the bright, jangly guitars juxtaposed with singer Imran Haniff’s dark, brooding melancholy on “Never Speak Of It Again”, my mind most certainly did not jump to Scarborough, Ontario. But that’s where we find The Holiday Crowd—not in the rainy English countryside and not in 1989, but now, and in Ontario, making some genuinely admirable and seriously good guitar pop without stepping on too many toes along the way!

If you like the song (which you should!), you can head over to Soundcloud for a FREE limited-time download of “Never Speak Of It Again”!

The Holiday Crowd’s new EP, ‘Over The Bluffs’, will be out January 24th on Shelflife Records in the US and New Romantic in Canada. You can and should preorder now!

The album title Over The Bluffs comes from a lyric in their song “Tiresome”, “I would have led you away from the alliance and over The Bluffs instead”, but in many ways it is an open love letter to Scarborough, Ontario, a notorious suburb of Toronto where lead singer Imran Haniff and guitar player Colin Bowers grew up. “The whole mood of the record has a Scarborough vibe to it and it only seemed fitting to name it with an honorary nod to our old stomping grounds. Scarborough has so much stacked against it; it almost seemed like The Holiday Crowd needed to stick up for it. There’s more material lyrically to write about a place that’s tangible and misunderstood than writing about Narnia or Mordor,” says Haniff.

Over The Bluffs was recorded and mixed at Inception Studios Toronto by David Hermiston, with the exception of “Never Speak Of It Again” and “Tiresome” which were mixed by Alex Bonenfant.

Introducing… The Holiday Crowd. Their debut album “Over The Bluffs” will be available in fine stores on vinyl, CD, and digitally on January 24th, 2012 on New Romantic & Shelflife Record.

Kate Bush is releasing another album this year so of course we had throw another party to celebrate. Please join us on Nov. 25 for…

A Night in the Snowy Bush
An album release party for Kate Bush’s ‘50 Words For Snow’

Featuring: Prizes!
An interpretive dance contest hosted by Miss Margot! (Dance to win!)
A special performance by Vanessa Fischer & Bobby Alfons!
DJs New Romantic & Bobby Alfons spinning all Kate, all night long!

New album available Nov. 21 in CD, vinyl and digital formats.

www.katebush.com

A big thank you to Diana McNally for the icily beautiful poster!

“And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time”.

Glen Campbell’s show last night in Toronto has left me haunted. How tragically romantic, a man playing his greatest songs before he forgets how. The air was celebratory. Surrounded by his family band, Glen cleared out the cobWebbs our of our minds in that oh so familiar vulnerable, handsome way. Hallelujah!

Very sad to hear about the tragic death of Amy Winehouse!

The Holiday Crowd - Into Your Arms

NXNE Thursday June 16th - 9pm

@ The Velvet Underground w/ The Two Koreas-10pm & The Hippy Mafia-11pm.