Weekend Showcase 3.11

Another week and another great seven days of new music from around the globe. The Weekend Showcase 3.11 edition has decidedly international flavor with three-fifths of the artists coming from outside the USA. Fifty-two songs occupy the mega-playlist, and the artists represent 14 countries, including:

The playlist and tracklisting, as usual, follows the list of articles from the past week.

Enjoy the great music and discover music’s hidden gems.

Premieres:

• DIDI – “Sorry” (single premiere)

• The Dream Eaters – “Dead On The Inside” (single premiere)

• Fanny And The Atta Boys – A Peck Of Dirt (album premiere)

Albums:

• Jay Som – Everybody Works (Polyvinyl Records)

• Anohni – Paradise (Secretly Canadian)

• MY BABY – Prehistoric Rhythm (Glitterhouse Records)

Singles:

• The Matinee March 20th – Benchmarks, The Blind Suns, Colony House, Empire Assembly, Gardenback, Nomad City

• The Matinee March 21st – Beach Riot, Cigarettes After Sex, Feist, Ghostly Kisses, Le Couleur, Lindi Ortega, Loam, Próxima Parada, Said The Whale

• Melodic Tonic ’17 March 22nd – Brooch, Fink, Melby, Sandro Cavazza, Thurston Moore, Weirds

• The Matinee March 23rd – A Fugitive, All XS, The Black Angels, Brace! Brace!, CABBAGE, Dolly Spartans, Eat Fast, Kevin Morby, Perfume Genius

• The Matinee March 24th – Blaenavon, Blondfire, Hajk, Holden Laurence, POND, She-Devils, So Many Wizards, Victory Collapse, Wooly Mammoths

• Saturday Sampler March 25th – Baby Strange, Caroline Lazar, Future Islands, Hills, Land of Talk, Masasolo, The New Pornographers, Nilüfer Yanya, SOFTSPOT

Other:

• The Staves Impress at the Bronson Centre (photo essay)

• Matthew Good Gets the Crowd Going at Ottawa’s NAC (photo essay)

Weekend Showcase 3.11 Tracklisting

• Cigarettes After Sex – “Apocalypse” (Brooklyn, USA)

• Land Of Talk – “This Time” (Montreal, Canada)

• Future Islands – “Cave” (Baltimore, MD USA)

• Perfume Genius – “Slip Away” (Seattle, USA)

• Loam – “Heron” (Sheffield, England)

• Benchmarks – “Girls and Boys” (Nashville, USA)

• Jay Som – “Billion Dogs” (Oakland, USA)

• Beach Riot – “B.A.D” (London, England)

• CABBAGE – “Gibraltar Ape” (Manchester, England)

• Kevin Morby – “Come To Me Now” (Los Angeles via Lubbock, TX, USA)

• Caroline Lazar – “Trigger” (Winter Park, FL, via Atlanta, USA)

• SOFTSPOT – “Heat Seeker” (Brooklyn, NY USA)

• She-Devils – “Hey Boy” (Montreal, Canada)

• Le Couleur – “Premier Contact” (Montreal, Canada)

• Colony House – “You & I” (Franklin, TN, USA)

• Feist – “Pleasure” (Toronto, Canada)

• The Dream Eaters – “Dead On The Inside” (New York City, USA)

• POND – “The Weather” (Perth, Australia)

• DIDI – “Sorry” (Hertfordshire, England)

• Thurston Moore – “Cease Fire” (Los Angeles, USA)

• Fink – “Hour Golden” (London, England & Berlin, Germany)

• Nomad City – “Didn’t Have A Gun” (Austin, USA)

• Hills – “Desert Driver” (Austin, USA)

• Blaenavon – “Alice Come Home” (Hampshire, England)

• So Many Wizards – “Sic Boys” (Echo Park, CA, USA)

• Ghostly Kisses – “Garden” (Quebec City, Canada)

• Sandro Cavazza – “Don’t Hold Me” (Stockholm, Sweden)

• Said The Whale – “Miscarriage” (Vancouver, Canada)

• Anohni – “Paradise” (New York City, USA)

• The Black Angels – “I’d Kill for Her” (Austin, USA)

• Baby Strange – “Motormind” (Glasgow, Scotland)

• Nilüfer Yanya – “The Florist” (London, England)

• Empire Assembly – “Take The Time” feat. Lena Drake (Los Angeles, USA)

• Gardenback – “Sleepless” (Manchester, England)

• Holden Laurence – “Broken Waltz” (Cleveland, USA)

• Lindi Ortega – “Til The Goin’ Gets Gone” (Toronto, Canada / Nashville, USA)

• The Blind Suns – “Hovering” (Angers, France)

• All XS – “Millennials” feat. Movements (Switzerland)

• The New Pornographers – “Whiteout Conditions” (Vancouver, Canada)

• Brooch – “Blood Spitting” (Montreal, Canada & Aarhus, Denmark)

• Próxima Parada – “Time In A Circle” (San Luis Obispo, CA, USA)

• Wooly Mammoths – “Water Slide” (Brussels, Belgium)

• Dolly Spartans – “Hanging Out” (New York City, USA)

• Weirds – “Phantom” (Leeds, England)

• Hajk – “Nothing Left to Say” (Oslo, Norway)

• A Fugitive – “Restless Coincidence” (Groningen, Netherlands)

• Victory Collapse – “Younger Than Before” (Athens, Greece)

• Brace! Brace! – “Slow” (Lyon & Paris, France)

• EAT FAST – “Scrambled Egg” (Newcastle, England)

• Melby – “Cross” (Stockholm, Sweden)

• Masasolo – “Ordinary Day” (Copenhagen, Denmark)

• Blondfire – “Here and Now” (Los Angeles, USA)

Supporting labels: 4AD, Alcopop! Records, Arrowhawk Records, Blue and Lucky, Blue Flowers Music, Cannibal Hymns, Caroline International, Collected Works Records, Dead Oceans, Dine Alone Records, Glitterhouse Records, Hidden Pony Records, Howlin Banana Records, Ineffable Music Group, Inner Ear Records, Jansen Plateproduksjon, Lollipop Records., Marathon Artists, Matador Records, My Little Empire Records, Ninja Tune, Oh, Sister Records, Partisan Records, Polydor Records, Polyvinyl Records, RCA Records, Rama Lama Records, R’COUP’D, Saddle Creek, Secretly Canadian, Skeleton Key Records, Sofaburn Records, Teenage Hate Records, Tough Love Records, Transgressive Records, Universal Music Group.

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