Listen to 'The Sound' from Human Highway's upcoming record....

Pitchfork has a stream of one of the many lovely songs that pack Human Highway's Moody Motorcycle, which Secret City will be releasing this August. It's awesome. Once you've given a bazillion listens you can hit Human Highway on Myspace or Facebook, too. And keep watching all these spaces for more moody motorcycle music....

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Plants and Animals on the Canadian summer festival circuit

Plants and Animals will be playing on a bunch of big, sunny, outdoor stages across Canada this summer. The quintessential summer festival band? You'll be able to decide for yourself as they hit summer faves like Hillside, Ottawa Blues, Wolfe Island, Salmon Arm, and play some home-province stages at Osheaga, in Quebec City, and at FME Abitibi. They'll also be making the trek all the way up to Yellowknife to get some fresh air at the Folk on the Rocks Festival. More to come, too!

The band does part one of their summer U.S. tour starting next week in Philadelphia. All details can be found in the shows section.

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Secret City to release Human Highway this August

Secret City is pumped to announce that it will be releasing Human Highway’s Moody Motorcyle in Canada on August 19th. The project is the new collaboration from two of Canada’s most-loved troubadours: Jim Guthrie and Nick Thorburn. The album will be simultaneously released by Seattle’s Suicide Squeeze label in the US.

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Plants and Animals to play a bunch more US dates

Plants and Animals will be hitting both coasts of the USA as the summer months creep in, starting with a string of dates in the North East in May. In June they'll be off to the West Coast for their first ever shows out there, including stops in Seattle, Portland, San Fran and LA.

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Secret City featured on CBC today

With the whole home-grown roster in action tonight (Plants and Animals are in Minneapolis, Patrick Watson & Miracle Fortress are sharing a bill at Scala in London), CBC.ca has a piece about the label on the front page of their arts section today.

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Parc Avenue out in the USA next week...band head West through Canada

People everywhere seem to love Parc Avenue, and on March 25th, people in the USA can go to stores and buy copies of it. Meanwhile the band is headed West for a string of more Canadian shows that will take them out to Vancouver and back.

The album is also avaible across North America on iTunes and eMusic. A really nice gatefold 2LP is coming, too, but we're taking our time with that one and getting it right, because this album deserves it. Check back soon or sign up for our newsletter for official updates on the catalog and release-territories.

If you haven't already checked out Plants and Animals (or Secret City), by all means do so now, and feel free to start with Parc Avenue...it's a whale of a record.

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Miracle Fortress in the U.S., Patrick Watson in Europe, to play together in Germany, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, UK

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Plants and Animals SXSW schedule...

After rocking CMW (and CBC's Q; grab the podcast here!) last weekend in Toronto, Plants and Animals are on their way down to Austin, Texas where they'll make at least three appearances at SXSW. They are thus:

March 14th
Homeslice Pizza (Party) @ 12:45pm (afternoon)
1415 South Congress

March14th
Maggie May's (M for Montreal - Official Showcase) @ 11pm
323 East 6th Street

March 15th
Urban Outfitters (Party) @ 3pm
2406 Guadalupe St. (behind the UO)

Come check them out if you're in town....

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Miracle Fortress double feature!

Yup, that's right...the fountain of joy that is Five Roses keeps on gushsing, this time in the form of not one, but two marvelous music videos. Though "Have You Seen In Your Dreams" (directed by Sinbad Richardson here in Montreal) and "Maybe Lately" (directed by Daniel Stafford-Clark across the pond) were each created independently of the other, we think you'll agree they play of each other rather nicely. Enjoy!

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Plants and Animals at CMW, SXSW

Fresh off Parc Avenue's first week in Canadian stores, Plants and Animals will be hitting up Canadian Music Week in Toronto on Thursday (March 6th) at the Horseshoe Tavern, and will follow that up with an appearance at SXSW in Austin next week. See the shows section for details..

Parc Avenue has burst out of the gates here and has a lot of folks saying awfully nice things about it. The album will be out in the U.S. on March 25th.

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