Thought I'd share some PR love:
For Immediate Release:
Sparks Music Recording Artists Announce Release Dates
SLAVE to the SQUAREwave “Big Change” Out September 25
Download the Advance Single “Big Change” “Here http://www.savefile.com/projects/808506161 or @ www.myspace.com/slavetothesquarewave
Spiral Beach “Ball” Out October 16
“Download the Advance Single “Made Of Stone” “Here http://www.savefile.com/projects/808506161 or Listen @ www.myspace.com /spiralbeach
SLAVE to the SQUAREwave
Picture Devo. Now picture Devo, but with David Bowie as the singer. Now picture Devo with Bowie, but they’re all sporting Talking Heads suits and influences. Now picture a squarehead…and you might just begin to get the feel for the music of Toronto’s SLAVE to the SQUAREwave.
Brought together in 1999 at a rave, where singer Colin Troy and keyboardist Rob Stuart were each playing solo sets, SLAVE to the SQUAREwave was born out of a mutual admiration for the bands mentioned above…… a penchant for fat, funky bass lines…. that infectious retro dance beat and a flare for the dramatic on stage. Made complete through the addition of Andrew Starr (guitar) and Doug Lea (drums), mere words cannot describe the experience of their energetic live shows, where Troy easily takes the title of the most riveting front man to emerge in recent years!
The band’s incredible live show did not go unnoticed among judges of the 2003 Emergenza contest in Canada, who voted SLAVE to the SQUAREwave the best band in this country from over 350 contestants. Playing at the world Emergenza finals in Germany was the highlight for the band that year, where they performed for thousands of cheering fans. And speaking of cheers, the staff at Club Soda in Montreal, where SLAVE to the SQUAREwave opened for new wave legends The Fixx, said, “This is only the second time in 5 years that the opening act has received a standing ovation”.
Iconic Canadian DJ Dave Marsden remarked “SLAVE is better than Scissor Sisters” and called SLAVE to the SQUAREwave “The best band of 2006”. Several of SLAVE’s songs have been in steady rotation on 94.9 The Rock and on www.pulverradio.com. “Pumpin’ Up the “P” House” was heard in the long running TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation and Fashion Television, shown in over 70 countries worldwide, has placed several SLAVE to the SQUAREwave songs in its shows, finding a perfect balance of dance, funk, melody and upbeat rhythm for its audiences. The “P” House” track has recently been remixed by Toronto DJ’s Soundbluntz and is destined to become a national club hit!
www.myspace.com/slavetothesquarewave
Spiral Beach
Ball is the 2nd album from Toronto’s Spiral Beach. Brothers Daniel and Airick Woodhead form the songwriting core of Spiral Beach, joined by New York City transplant Dorian Wolf and childhood friend Maddy Wilde. Having grown up immersed in the 60’s born folk festival circuit, the band’s sound developed as a reaction to their upbringing, finding solace in churning dance music both haunting and jubilant, propelled by the uncannily matched voices of Airick and Maddy belting out surreal lyrics set to cutting melodies.
Spiral Beach soon found their natural habitat as the resident opening act at Toronto’s Drake Hotel, but quickly became the main attraction of the night - playing for packed and energized audiences and showcasing their kaleidoscopic stage show of video projections, siren lights and smoke machines. The band has become notorious for their fearless attitude towards performing, defying expectations of a “pop” or “teen” act with music comparable to the Mother’s of Invention and a confidence unexpected from such young players.
Armed with national and local praise for their self-produced, self-titled album in late 2005, Spiral Beach soon found themselves touring numerous times in the United States and Canada with acts such as the Hidden Cameras, Sloan and Cuff the Duke. When the band relocated to a converted barn in Ontario with Mark Olsen (the Hidden Cameras, Arcade Fire) and Scotty Hard (Medeski Martin and Wood, Wu-Tang Clan) in the winter of 2007 to record the material they had been touring for the past year, Ball was born.
Watch for Spiral Beach on tour everywhere and always.
Press Reaction
“The next 12 months could prove to be the year of Spiral Beach. Their gig at the Drake was one of many convert-making concerts, as the Spirals simply aced an endorphin-flooding set that displayed equal measures of beyond-their-years songwriting chops and in-joke rec room goofiness. Too much hype can be a dangerous thing for an up-and-coming group, making detractors out of people who haven’t yet heard a note, but anything less than shouting praise for these wunderkinds from downtown rooftops wouldn’t do them justice.” eye weekly
“Spiral Beach’s debut full-length starts strong and strays not thereafter, laying one cutting melody after another, staying on cue, staying in tune, and hopping with energy.Their future holds brilliance — so get into it now” Exclaim! Magazine
“Outta-control art rock threats are on a collision course with success. They have the ambition and ability to explode big, and an unself-conscious spark that makes you want to covet the band as your own personal diamond-in-the-rough discovery.” Now Magazine
www.myspace.com /spiralbeach / www.spiralbeach.com
www.sparksmusic.com