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San Diego Rock Collective Chest Fever / Mrs. Henry Kick-Off North American Tour in Canada

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Chest Fever, the Official Revival of The Band, and alter ego of San Diego rock band Mrs. Henry, are kicking off their North American tour with a string of tour dates in British Columbia starting on February 1st in Roberts Creek and ending on February 7th in Vancouver at The Rickshaw. The group will then head back down south for their U.S. tour dates, returning to Canada at the end of March to finish the tour in Ontario and Quebec. And since they'll already be there, Mrs. Henry will be the opening act for the tour dates to support their new album Keep On Rising  - A 21st Century Rock Opera (available now via Blind Owl Records). See below for the full tour listing. 

2025 marks Chest Fever’s 3rd year on the road touring North America and second tour with Mrs. Henry supporting and performing an opening set of original music. This is their 2nd time returning to most of the Canadian markets, but will be their first time in Victoria and Montreal. 

“The group absolutely loves touring in Canada, and we’ve felt such a warm embrace for both our original music and our celebration of The Band’s timeless catalog," says guitarist Daniel Cervantes. "Every tour we do is unique and tailored to that journey, and fans can expect a show unlike any we’ve done before. As high energy and as high level as you can get!” 

The stories, legend and community of The Band live on through the passion and magic of Chest Fever, newly embodied in the live performance and burning energy they bring to every stage. Officially approved by Robbie Robertson and The Band Official, the group began hitting the road and playing venues in North America in 2022. From their hometown of San Diego to North Ontario, Chest Fever has performed in almost every state and province across the US and Canada with many highlights including a sold out show presented at Toronto’s revered Massey Hall on November 18th, 2023 - Celebrating the 45th Anniversary release of The Last Waltz. The same year saw Chest Fever releasing two albums that reimagined both Music From Big Pink and Rock of Ages, receiving critical acclaim and showcasing how the group honours the music of The Band while remaining true to their own original vision.

Chest Fever is comprised of members of the San Diego Music Award winning rock band Mrs. Henry, including keyboardist Jody Bagley, guitarist Daniel Cervantes, bassist Blake Dean, and multi-instrumentalist Ben Pinnola. Like The Band, Mrs. Henry is blessed with three lead signature vocalists coalescing into a profound harmonic blend. With authenticity as their compass, Mrs. Henry's musical bond mirrors a magical brotherhood revealed in spirited harmonies, psychoactive jams, and uplifting anthems that elevate the band and their ever-expanding audience into the sonic stratosphere.

In the summer of 2024, Mrs. Henry announced their 38 song epic rock opera Keep On Rising, the story of 'Your Twenty-First Century Rising Star,' a rocker who is reaching for the top and will stop at nothing to slake his appetite for rock n roll glory. They also recently released 'The Underworld Suite', a striking visual experience of mesmerizing graphics and mystical images, paired with the first seven tracks of Act II of Keep On Rising: Faith, Fate, and Hope in The Land of Nothing Matters.

Look for Chest Fever and Mrs. Henry on tour across Canada and the U.S. in February and March. For more information, please visit mrshenry.com.


CHEST FEVER w/ MRS. HENRY 2025 TOUR DATES 
Jan 31 - Powell River, BC at The Carlson Loft *
Feb 1 - Roberts Creek, BC at The Royal Canadian Legion
Feb 4  - Penticton, BC at The Dream Café 
Feb 6 - Victoria, BC at The Capitol Ballroom 
Feb 7 - Vancouver, BC at The Rickshaw Theatre

Feb 11 - Seattle, WA at The Tractor Tavern
Feb 12 - Eugene, OR at Wow Hall
Feb 13 - Portland, OR at McMenamins Mission Theater
Feb 21 - San Juan Capistrano, CA at Coach House
Feb 22 - San Diego, CA at Booze Brothers
March 6 - Pittsburgh, PA at Thunderbird Café & Music Hall
March 7 - Cleveland, OH at The Winchester Music Tavern
March 8 - Columbus, OH at Woodlands Tavern
March 13 - Lancaster, PA at Tellus 360
March 14 - Jim Thorpe, PA at Mauch Chunk Opera House
March 15 - Burlington, VT at Nectars
March 19 - Syracuse, NY at Middle Ages Brewing
March 20 - Buffalo, NY at Buffalo Iron Works
March 21 - St. Catharines, ON at Warehouse Concert Hall
March 22 - Toronto, ON at Adelaide Hall
March 23 - Montreal, QC at La Sala Rossa


* Mrs. Henry headlining show



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Wednesday 01.15.25
Posted by Jen Fritz
 

Vancouver Fusion-Pop Artist Cinnamon Sandhu Shares New Single I'LL BE ALRIGHT

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Vancouver fusion-pop artist Cinnamon Sandhu shares her new single 'I'll Be Alright' out now on all digital streaming platforms. Listen here.

2024 has been a busy year for Cinnamon creative-wise. 'I'll Be Alright' is the 4th single she's released this year, following her previous singles 'Materialistic Rani' (April 2024), 'Diamond' (July 2024) and 'Genie' (September 2024). She chose to end out the year with 'I'll Be Alright' because its universal theme of self-empowerment and healing is perfect for moments of new beginnings, like the New Year, when people focus on healing and fresh starts.

'"I’ll Be Alright' is me telling myself that I’ve got this—it’s like a self-affirmation in the form of a song," says Cinnamon. "It’s about reminding myself that no matter how hard things get, I have the strength to heal, grow, and come out stronger on the other side."

An emerging South Asian artist from Vancouver, BC, Cinnamon calls her genre fusion-pop because it’s a mix of Western and Indian pop music. Her music career began nine years ago, when she began singing covers of Punjabi and English songs on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Since then, she's gained 180K followers, 2M likes on TikTok, and 3.5M views on YouTube.

But despite this early success, according to Cinnamon, it wasn't until years later that her career fully took off: "I consider 2021 the year my career officially launched as it’s when I released my first single and booked my first paid show at 5X Fest, a well-known South Asian Festival in BC. In 2022, I independently released four singles and one self-funded music video, with my music video reaching over 10K organic views on YouTube."

In 2023, Cinnamon released her debut EP Love Story and strategically timed its release to coincide with her trip to India, allowing her to market it to a wider audience and generate content tailored to the EP. Also that year, she booked 3 festival performances marking a milestone in her career. One of those festivals was the Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts at the Punjabi Market Live event in Vancouver, where she had the honour of performing in the time slot immediately preceding the two headlining acts.

'I'll Be Alright' is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit cinnamonsandhu.com.


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Wednesday 12.11.24
Posted by Jen Fritz
 

Yellowknife Musician Carmen Braden Shares New Album A HARD LIGHT

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Award-winning singer-songwriter and contemporary composer Carmen Braden shares her new album, A Hard Light, out now on all digital streaming platforms. Listen here. Carmen is also featuring 'The Dance' as the fourth single from the album, following previous singles 'Voice In The Dark', 'An Invite' and 'Really Pretty'.

With her latest single, 'The Dance,' the Yellowknife-based musician gives us a soul-soothing roots blues track that feels like a fresh breath of air from a bygone era. With its laid-back acoustic strumming and emotive yet abrasive delivery, the song evokes a nostalgic, almost cinematic vibe that would fit right in with the folk-rock gems of the 90s. The song was birthed during the isolating days of the pandemic, when Carmen, like many of us, found herself navigating moments of personal frustration.

"I wrote the core idea for 'The Dance' during the COVID lockdown," says Carmen. "One day I had a shift in attitude about something that was frustrating me, it might have been something with my really young kids, a relationship, the state of the world - I can’t even remember now exactly what! I decided instead of being frustrated and upset with it - ok, mostly with myself - I would treat it like a chance to play, to invite this frustrating thing closer and see what happens."

Carmen's new album, A Hard Light, is the latest collaboration with her longtime producer and friend Mark Adam. Two years in the making, it's a full, groove-based, up-front album diving into 9 beautifully sonic-crafted omnivorous songs. The album grew out of her 2021 Seed Songs album and songwriting process, evolving beyond into fuller creations. A couple of the tracks are “grown-up” versions of the little seeds. Like 'The Dance' which grew into a deeper, fuller track with a grittier groove; or the song 'The Weather', which was originally a 1-minute stripped-down version called 'Grief Wine Whiskey' and is now much more expansive. Other tracks, like the first single 'Voice in the Dark', were songs that Carmen waited years to bring to fruition in the studio.

Says Carmen: "I love the strength of the rhythms and textures of this album, and the courage that I’ve gained through making this album with Mark. When I listen, I can hear that courage, and the trust between us in the spaces between sounds, in the mistakes that we kept in that somehow fit perfectly, and in the balance of simplicity and depth."

A Hard Light is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit carmenbraden.com.


Tracklisting:
Carmen Braden - A Hard Light
(Independent)

01. An Invite
02. Voice In The Dark
03. Daughter
04. Really Pretty
05. The Dance
06. The Weather
07. 8 Ball 
08. The Fall
09. Patience Of The Cactus


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Thursday 12.05.24
Posted by Jen Fritz
 

Alberta Musician Ryland Moranz Shares New Album BETTER/WORSE

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Alberta musician Ryland Moranz shares his new album Better/Worse out now on all digital streaming platforms via Tonic Records. Listen here. Ryland is also featuring 'A New Civil War' as the third single/video from the album, following previous singles 'When I'm Gone' and 'The Hell Of This Town'.

'A New Civil War' arrives as a timely and poignant commentary on the cultural polarization and hostility that has taken root in our current society. Known for his ability to blend folk, bluegrass, and Americana with deep personal reflection, Ryland uses this song to address a broader societal crisis: the divisive nature of reactionism and the consequences of rejecting those who disagree.

"'A New Civil War' is a protest to reactionism and a reflection on the consequences of uninhibited othering," says Ryland. "While conflict is inherent to the entropy of the cosmos, we have entered a cultural era of oppositional fetishism. The desire isn’t simply to be right, but to prove those who disagree devastatingly wrong and foolish. Where do we go from here if none of us can let the other off the hook? And when did we choose to live like this? I wanted to write something that expressed a third alternative to right and wrong. To hope to be right and practice being wrong." 

Recorded by John Raham at Barnhouse Studios in Qualicum, BC, and produced by Ryland and Leeroy Stagger, Better/Worse, takes an earnest snapshot of a world emerging from the brink, or rather, from one brink to another. A spiritual successor to Ryland’s acclaimed 2021 offering XO, 1945, Better/Worse turns the focus from where we have been to where we may be going.

Says Ryland: "This album is a mixture of the universal and the deeply personal. The idea that everything is simultaneously better and worse for the people in it has become a common ponderance of mine in the years since our collective forced vacation. Better/Worse is my attempt at focusing a lens less on the contrast between the two and more on the collective commonality of the paired, symbiotic conditions. During the writing of the album, I was nearing a breakthrough in my mental health, with which I’ve frequently struggled and continue still to do so. The result is my most hopeful answer to a world in search of the shared responsibility of existence."  

Better/Worse is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. Ryland is touring across Australia and New Zealand in November and December, starting on November 15th in Kureelpa at the Public Hall. For the full tour schedule, please visit: rylandmoranz.com.


Tracklisting:
Ryland Moranz- Better/Worse
(Tonic Records)

01. New Civil War
02.  Goodbye To All That
03.  When I'm Gone
04.  The Hell Of This Town
05.  Storm On The Ocean
06.  Do You Need Me
07.  I've Been Calling
08.  Nobody's Going To Heaven
09.  Never
10. You Can't Stop Love


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Friday 11.15.24
Posted by Jen Fritz
 

Toronto Musician Lisa Humber Shares New Holiday Single BLUE CHRISTMAS

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Just in time for the holidays, Toronto indie pop musician Lisa Humber shares her new single/video 'Blue Christmas' out now on all digital streaming platforms. Listen here.

Wrapping up a busy and productive year for Lisa, 'Blue Christmas' is the final release in her quadriptych of new music for 2024. The track was created in collaboration with producer/guitarist Justin Abedin, who also produced her recent singles 'It's Me, It's You' (October 2024), 'Dance Within' (June 2024) and 'The Devil's Advocate' (March 2024). 

The beauty of Lisa's version of 'Blue Christmas' lies in its authenticity. Where Elvis Presley’s iconic rendition brought a sense of resigned sadness, Lisa's interpretation draws out a deeper sense of raw emotion. There’s a haunting tenderness in her voice, a vulnerability that makes each word feel personal.

"My journey into songwriting began with my first original, 'Boxing Day'—a reflective, bittersweet narrative about fleeting romance and the transient nature of holiday moments," says Lisa. "This year, I’m reimagining 'Blue Christmas' in a raw, stripped-back rendition that captures the season's loneliness and heartache. With haunting melodies and a deep sense of longing, this cover brings out the quiet emptiness that can linger when the holidays don’t meet their festive promise."

With a career spanning over two decades as a stage manager, Lisa witnessed a transformative shift in the live events industry in March 2020. Out of this tumultuous time emerged a collection of songs that seamlessly blend indie pop, introspective lyrics, and adult alternative elements. Lisa’s debut EP, The Space Between, released in 2022, received high praise from industry professionals and marked the beginning of her collaboration with Justin Abedin, bringing an authenticity to her music, translating personal experiences into a resonant sound. After releasing 4 singles in 2024, Lisa is already working on new music for 2025. Stay tuned.

‘Blue Christmas’ is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit lisahumber.com.


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PRAISE FOR 'IT'S ME, IT'S YOU'

"Humber’s vocals convey a narrative of personal growth, transitioning from a place of subjugation and misogyny to self-realization." - Kindline Magazine

"Sonically sweet, upbeat, and infectious, ‘It’s Me, It’s You’ carries a darker narrative beneath its shiny surface." - Mesmerized

"Humber’s ability to turn personal challenges into anthems of resilience is remarkable." - Indie Spirits


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Friday 11.15.24
Posted by Jen Fritz
 
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