The Wooden Birds have a new video for Hometown Fantasy. The song is from Magnolia, a Barsuk Records release. The video is aligned with the announcement of a tour with Great Lakes Swimmers. Check below for tour dates.YouTube – The Wooden Birds – Hometown Fantasy.The Wooden Birds – Hometown Fantasy (extended)September: 24 – South Burlington, [...]
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Here it is. 6 bands/artists that are 2nd time nominees and no debut albums.Who do you think will take it? Elliott BROOD – Mountain MeadowsToronto Website | MySpace Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common LifeToronto Website | MySpace Great Lake Swimmers – Lost ChannelsToronto Website | MySpace Hey Rosetta! – Into Your LungsSt. John’s [...]
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Hazy country-tinged, unpretentious folk rock tunes, moderate melancholy, plushly layered harmonies....Great Lake Swimmers from Toronto, fronted by Tony Dekker and his easy-yet-haunting voice, evoke afternoon heartache, tall pine trees and hawks overhead in crisp weather under a soaring blue sky, and cozy hearths of refuge, all at once. The pedal steel tugs at heartstrings while mandolin ruffles...
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We've got some more details about the performers at this year's Hillside Festival in Guelph just west of Toronto. Performers appearing at the 2009 edition of the festival include:Julie DoironFinal FantasyGreat Lake SwimmersIssaLoreena McKennittXavier RuddThe Rural Alberta AdvantageBuffy Saint MarieTokyo Police ClubWinter GlovesWomenGet the complete list at the festival's website.The festival
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Great Lake Swimmers continue to reach new heights as their latest album, Lost Channels, debuts at #10 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart in America and #48 on Canada’s Top 200 Album Chart today. The album is also drawing impressive numbers on iTunes, currently sitting at #1 in Canada and #5 in America on the Singer/Songwriter Charts. With the band’s US tour in full swing, they continue to garn
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Tony Dekker seems like he should be playing songs softly and sweetly, beneath a lonely streetlight. The Great Lake Swimmers frontman keeps his eyes down, his mouth barely moves and his words—touching on topics like heartbreaking bricks and whispering mountains—feel like they’re constructed to hint at whatever he happens to be feeling at that thick moment in time. On stage, he doesn’t seem
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The Brattle Theatre often hosts sold-out shows, everything from Noam Chomsky to Buffy the Vampire sing-a-longs. Tonight the stage was set aside for the atmospheric, slightly slowcore, Great Lake Swimmers. The cool Cambridge air welcomed their woodsy spirit of Northern climes flannel and layered harmonies. Along for the 6,500 mile tour (it was the answer to a pop quiz won by a man in the front r...
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Great Lake Swimmers make great music to listen to as you lie in the grass and fall asleep.
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There’s certain timbre to Tony Dekker’s voice, so warm, so undeniably sincere, it’s almost impossible to imagine anyone hearing it and not being swept away. Lost Channels’ immerses you in a pool of refined folk rock, soaking with resonant drums, guitars that dovetail seamlessly with cello and violin and lyrics brimming with possibility and vanishing reverie. With nature as a sonic and the
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For years now, Great Lake Swimmers have been writing beautifully melodic and poetic folk ballads up in their northern home of Ontario, Canada. While they have a couple of songs that may be classified as rock, rarely does their music rise beyond an aroused hush. Consistency has always been one of the band's strong suits. Since the band's inception they haven't had a misstep; each album being as...
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Not unlike Mark Kozelek's reinterpretation of the Modest Mouse canon on his 2005 Sun Kil Moon LP, Tiny Cities, here Great Lake Swimmers', Tony Dekker takes on the unlikely muse of Neil Diamond for the soundtrack to filmmaker Greg Kohs' documentary Song Sungs Blue. And it works. Whereas there is an obvious thread between the [...]
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Loving this on a mellow Friday morning whilst sitting on the verandah in NongKhai Thailand...Enjoy!!!
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Tony Dekker seems like he should be playing songs softly and sweetly, beneath a lonely streetlight. The Great Lake Swimmers frontman keeps his eyes down, his mouth barely moves and his words—touching on topics like heartbreaking bricks and whispering mountains—feel like they’re constructed to hint at whatever he happens to be feeling at that thick moment in time. On stage, he doesn’t seem
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Here it is. 6 bands/artists that are 2nd time nominees and no debut albums.Who do you think will take it? Elliott BROOD – Mountain MeadowsToronto Website | MySpace Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common LifeToronto Website | MySpace Great Lake Swimmers – Lost ChannelsToronto Website | MySpace Hey Rosetta! – Into Your LungsSt. John’s [...]
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I love the Great Lake Swimmers for their folky, quiet, haunting, and wistful sound and lyrics. Here's a beautiful new vid from their latest release, Ongiara.Scheduled U.S. shows:June 5 Cambridge, MA; Middle EastJune 6 New York, NY; Joe's PubJune 7 Arlington, VA; IotaJune 8 Philadelphia, PA; Tin AngelJune 9 Pittsburgh, PA; Garfield ArtworksJune 10 Chapel Hill, NC; Local 506 June 11 Charleston, S...
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