Songwriter and actor Ian Lake uses his musical gift to connect people through the unifying bond of our shared human experience. Powerful, textured vocals and brutally honest lyrics, and soulful melodies, give Lake’s songwriting immediate impact, and leave a lasting impression.

“Fishing for Promises,” his third offering from this record, is a piano and cello ballad, about feeling misunderstood, and the imagined conversations that come out of it. It is easily his most raw and vulnerable song to date.

Watch the official music video for “Fishing for Promises” on YouTube:

“The song is about unrequited love, and feeling misunderstood,” said Ian. “It’s an imagined conversation that will never take place. What would I say if I actually got the chance to explain myself to the person who’s been occupying my mind? The song is equal parts clinging to hope, and calmly accepting whatever comes.”

The upcoming debut album What It Is (out April 22nd) finds Ian Lake on a journey from fragile vulnerability to courage and resolve. 

Alex Exists is the new solo project of Alex Pulec, frontman of The Nursery (awarded Best Independent Rock/Pop Band in Canada at Indie88’s 2018 Indie Awards). 

His first release is a cover of the David Essex song, “Rock On,” for a multi-artist cover album, Coverama. Alex’s version is a hypnotic and sultry interpretation that incorporates rhythmic breathing, pizzicato strings, ragtime pianos, toy drums and more… which challenges the question, “What is rock ‘n roll really supposed to be?”

“If I was going to do a rendition of a golden age rock and roll classic, I knew I had to launch it into orbit with an unexpected modern twist,” said Alex. “I was inspired by this idea that if aliens came to earth, years after rock and roll had died, found this record, fell in love with it, took it back to their planet and started making their own interpretations of it, how might it sound?”

After a successful release of a handful of singles including “Let it Out” which reached #28 on the Billboard Canadian Alternative radio chart, and a Wu-Tang Clan approved cover of “Shimmy Shimmy Ya,” Mountain Head are ready to share their 6-track EP to be released on March 18. 

The lead single off the EP is the title track, “Backseat.” It’s a blend of subversive pop-infused dance beats and groovy guitar riffs, disrupting the notions of rock music. The song beckons a contemplative state, and has a longing for some sort of order out of the vast vacuum that COVID-19 created around the world and especially amongst the artist community. This song is passive, and aims to put the listener in the backseat so they can take a breath and listen. 

Exploring lessons from the natural world and our vast subconscious, Backseat reveals the unimagined possibilities held just beyond our learned humanity. 

Mountain Head hopes the listener is able to find a bit of themselves in the album, and that they come on the journey with them, returning equipped with the tools to build the reality they want to inhabit, and not the one that’s just been handed to them. 

K PRICE (born Kaeden Kienge) is a hip hop recording artist from Calgary, AB. In 2018, he recorded his first song “Call Gucci,” followed by his 2019 debut album Complexion. K PRICE is determined to be the best at what he does as an artist and as an inspiration to his peers who might want to express themselves through art. 

Inspired by tequila, weed and a good melody, brand new track, “TRUË RELIGION,” is one to play when you need some good energy. 

AGATH CHRIST is a time-traveling, shape-shifting, meta-force, slipping between genres and styles while blowing up drum busses and pushing the limits of melody and noise. This is synthy, groovy, dramatic experimentalism that wears both its art music and its pop pedigrees candidly.

Evident in the dark, kinetic energy of their newest single “‘Blood,” AGATH CHRIST is capable of stunning complexity and dexterity; of dynamism and tenderness at once. The artist reveals, “I realized that I had been lacking the fearlessness that I’d wanted to work into my art. I was stunned into an emotional reckoning and I resolved to push harder into that barrier, to try and open myself to an intensity I was maybe afraid of.” 

The music in their ongoing series, Bodies, flows from extremity to extremity while highlighting a collective, cultural, human, whole. It is a reflection of the violent and emotionally devastating time we live in while celebrating the beauty and vastness of spirit possible when we indulge in our ability to be undeniably curious, attentive, and compassionate.

Mercvrial is a band that is increasingly on the rise for 2022. The group is a geographically-dispersed recording project based in Rosarito, Mexico which combines elements of post-punk, dream-pop and neo-psychedlia all into one. “Picture a friendly debate between Guy Chadwick and Ian Brown breaking out during a Ride show, moderated by Will Sergeant and The Chameleons,” shares the band. Their debut EP “The Stars, Like Dust,” was a well-received release that put the group on the map in 2019. And in 2022 they show no sign of slowing down. Their latest debut LP “Brief Algorithms” is out on April 29, is filled with indie rock surprises and dark humor lyricism that is sure to become a favorite for fans and critics alike. Mercvrial stopped by to speak about their new video for the single “Be That Someone,” off of their upcoming release, below. Read on!

Tell us the story of this song, why did you choose to visualize this song specifically? 

It seemed like the most commercially acceptable song of the 11 on the record.  That’s why we picked it for the first single.  And as the first single, it made sense to make a video for it.  I suspect that is very often the logic behind choosing to make a video for any particular song on an album.  Also, thematically, it seemed as if Be That Someone lent itself to being a potentially interesting video.

What was the inspiration behind this video (visuals, storyline, etc.)? 

The song is about social media obsession and how empty and pointless it is on a personal level.  It’s one thing, of course, to use social media to stay in touch with friends or to help build a business or, for that matter, reach out to fans if you’re a musician, artist, etc.  But that so many people obsess over their “popularity” as viewed through the lens of followers, likes, etc… is a sad commentary on the state of things.  But that’s where a lot folks are at, so what can you do.

What was the process of making this video?

Well, to be frank, the process was incredibly and boringly simple.  We sent the song to a video designer on an online marketplace for freelance services.  We had used her before for other video work.  We said we wanted to make a video in black and white, and the theme of the video should be social media obsession.  And with that limited guidance she put the whole thing together herself, got appropriate permissions where necessary, we made a few tweaks and – voila – it was done.  It’s pretty amazing what you can do today with video technology and creative, competent folks who live all over the world.