Montréal based indie pop duo Down With Space are vocalist/guitarist Rob Helsten and drummer Steve Dumas – the classic Montréal meeting of an English speaker (Helsten) and a French speaker (Dumas) who have found an understanding through music when language can sometimes elude communication. Formed in 2019 just before the world shut down, Down With Space have adopted a DIY ethos to keeping their process in house while creating sounds that are equally balanced between synthesis and organic instruments.

New single, “What You Keep Telling Yourself” is about perseverance. Inspired by a pair of completely unrelated, unfortunate life experiences – a bicycle accident and a reasonably serious kitchen fire (serious enough to involve the fire department, anyway) – the song’s message is about getting past the bad and getting on with the good.

The group shares:

Getting past the bad and getting on with the good is at the heart of our new song. 

Inspired by a pair of completely unrelated, unfortunate life experiences – a bicycle accident and a serious kitchen fire – “What You Keep Telling Yourself” is centered around the theme of perseverance.

Break your face, burn your house, or something more

Listen to “What You Keep Telling Yourself” on your favourite platform

Our frontman, Rob Helsten, shot and edited the music video for this track, catching the vibrant summer colours of the sky along with a transition into sunset and the imposing nighttime.

We’re all just people trying to make the best of things and when it comes down to it, nothing is really that bad. We all have our place here. 

Hope you embrace the positive mood and spirit of this indie rock tune.

Two Late To The Party is a Calgary, Alberta based indie-folk duo featuring Adam Corkett and Alessandra Enns. 

Their earnest, climatic new single, “In The Sunrise,” is a duet meant to inspire hope. Stripped back to just acoustic guitar, piano, and vocals, this song acknowledges the struggle of life and how difficult the journey can be. 

The human experience of loneliness and anxiety is normal. “In The Sunrise” offers the reminder that with the dawn, comes new life, and a chance for new beginnings. Horns and percussion join with Corkett and Enns’ voices just as the light of a new day beckons.

The Daddy Raygun Band is a collective of renowned Toronto musicians that collaborate to produce musical soundscapes for the lyrical musings of their friend Danny Regan. Void of a musical background, Regan‘s somewhat unorthodox song structures rely more on storytelling techniques than traditional songwriting formats. He prefers to paint pictures with words to take the listener on an aural journey.

Bordering on gothic country, Regan speaks on new single, “The One Armed Man” – The majority of my friends are musicians. I am not. I am a storyteller. A writer. I wanted to collaborate with them musically. They challenged me to write a song. I did. They liked it. They agreed to provide the music to my words. The Daddy Raygun Band was formed.

The group shares:

I come from a long line of storytellers and have always been intrigued by dramatic songs that take the listener on a vivid audio journey. My musician friends challenged me to write this particular style of ballad and agreed to provide the musical accompaniment to my words. And thus The Daddy Raygun Band was formed.

Our debut single, “The One Armed Man,” was inspired by the captivating, wildly popular, classic television series, The Fugitive.

It’s a suspenseful cat and mouse story of an honest man wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, perpetually on the run from the unrelenting pursuit of the law.

 All the while endlessly searching for that dark, elusive shadow he saw escaping the scene of the crime, “The One Armed Man”.

Our groundbreaking Rayoptics© video was achieved by scouring a wide variety of “public domain” film noir movies for images that would suit the story’s compelling narrative. Unique animation techniques were painstakingly applied to each cell to add visual dynamics, a conspiracy of elements from graphic novels, pulp fiction and classic cinema intertwined to achieve this haunting homage.

 The marriage of our alluring song and compelling video provide the perfect vehicle for this fascinating  journey into mystery and suspense.

Thank you for taking the time to enter the enigmatic world of “The One Armed Man”.

Hailing from the countryside of rural Ontario, Benjamin Dakota Rogers channels his penchant for starry nights and nostalgia into a stylized Americana sound full of heartbreak and grit featuring the guitar, banjo, upright bass, and fiddle. At just 25, the two-time Canadian Folk Music Awards nominee and four-time international songwriting competition winner promises to deepen the path he’s already carved for himself in the years to come.

Inspired by old Western movies, his new single “When I Do Die” follows the murder ballad storyline of boy meets girl and falls in love, but girl has another lover who boy kills. He gets the girl for a short while before his crime catches up to him. At the beginning of the song, he’s asking her to carry his body back home when he’s gone. 

20-year-old Billboard charting singer/songwriter Avery Raquel has been entertaining audiences professionally for over 10 years. Her impressive list of accomplishments ranges from television; onto the likes of Spielberg, DreamWorks, and Disney; voice-over work, commercials and radio; as well as a number of professional stage productions across Canada. 

Avery has three critically acclaimed albums under her belt. Now, she is gearing up to release her self-titled fourth in 2022; lead single “Helpless” debuted at #4 on iTunes Top 200 RnB/Soul chart.
Her latest song “Please” is a refreshing, soft take on a story about a love triangle. Already in a relationship, the third person was trying to convince Avery she’d be better off with him. Although she didn’t want to leave, she did enjoy their friendship and needed time to process the situation.

Bodyhorror is the pseudonym of Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and producer, Sean Panacci. The project’s new mini-LP, EVA, will be determined to take the listener through the depths of the cosmos on a psychedelic and synth soaked journey.

“Arrival,” EVA’s second single, is a bright instrumental marriage of electronics and guitars which embodies flight, space, and motion. 

The song captures the feeling of entering a new solar system and seeing that it is full of life. Distilled to its simplest elements, “Arrival” is finding what you were looking for after endless searching.