Sloan

December is upon us, and it is time to start ringing in some holiday cheer. For the first time in their 20-year career, we are happy to present a holiday song from Sloan! To sweeten the deal, all funds raised from the sale of "12 Days of Christmas" will be passed along to Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank.



Daily Bread Food Bank is a non-profit, charitable organization that is fighting to end hunger in our communities. As Canada’s largest food bank, Daily Bread serves people through neighbourhood food banks and meal programs in approximately 170 member agencies.

Sloan recorded "12 Days of Christmas" as their contribution to a split 7" single which will be paired with a track from our friends Fucked Up. This very limited edition release will be available at our forthcoming shows, and possibly in limited numbers via our webstores at the end of the month.

To celebrate their return home from a frenetic year of touring, and in the spirit of holiday giving, Fucked Up are curating a 2-day concert at Toronto's Great Hall. Sloan are happy to be invited, and look forward to a couple nights of amazing music in support of local charities. All proceeds from these shows will benefit Barriere Lake Solidarity & Counterfit. Tickets are available now and are $20 for either night. All ages welcome.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 20
At the Great Hall 1087 Queen Street West
FUCKED UP (plays DAVID COMES TO LIFE)
PS I LOVE YOU
plus more tba

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21
At the Great Hall 1087 Queen Street West
SLOAN
OHBIJOU
BONJAY
plus more tba

Thanks to everybody who bought and downloaded our first bootleg release last week! The response was great, and we expect to have more unique offerings from our vaults in the months to come. Sloan’s online store is up and running, stronger than ever with an across the board sale of 15% off from now through New Year’s Day.

Now that the days are growing shorter and the temperature is dropping, it is a perfect time to take advantage of our brand new hooded sweatshirts. Featuring our schooner ship stencil design and sloan logos front and back, these are a great gift to give or receive.



There are plenty of t-shirt styles and sizes for all of the men women and children on your holiday gift list. You can also fill any gaps in your music collection with our CDs and vinyl albums.

Stay tuned for some exciting holiday news for Sloan fans in the days to come.

Sloan's bootleg album will be on sale again starting at noon, Tuesday, Nov. 15th. Click on the purchase link on our homepage sloanmusic.com

As yesterday's launch was hindered by technical issues, we are offering a FREE MP3 download of the Sloan Bootleg album until midnight tonight.

Due to an extraordinary amount of traffic in the first minutes of sale earlier today, our online merch partner's servers were overwhelmed and many requests were not able to be filled. As the day went on, problems persisted and as a result, they have removed the bootleg from their store to reset the system. Several orders did get placed successfully and those will be shipped as scheduled tomorrow. A permanent solution is being worked on and should be in place in time for any future sale events on our store.

In the meantime, we intend to re-launch the bootleg on sloanmusic.com via a different sales platform Tuesday, November 15th at noon eastern time. This will give all of our fans who were unable to complete their transaction today a fair chance tomorrow.

We sincerely apologize for all of the difficulties that the store's malfunction caused our fans, and are working hard to ensure that this does not occur in the future. Thank you!

Mike Nelson
mike@sloanmusic.com

Editor's note: I understand that it is now might appear a bit ridiculous to be posting these tour diaries after we have already returned to these towns for a repeat engagement. I want everybody to rest assured that the wealth of material that we have been collecting and curating shall indeed see the light of day. Take it away Hilliard!



BOSTON Tuesday, June 28th Kevin “Lamps” Hilliard and I set out from the cool bus for a hot walk. Once walking he said to take him anywhere but Harvard Square, which is where I assumed we were headed. We went there anyway because the very idea of me taking anyone anywhere in Boston is a joke. I have walked from TT’s/The Middle East (venues) to Harvard Square dozens of times. It’s usually uneventful then I turn around and go back, usually stopping at a coffee shop. Instead of turning back this time, Kevin and I took the subway down to Newbury Street.

It turned out to be a long strip of high-end boutiques. I usually don’t want to buy anything and I don’t have the confidence to buy anything for my wife character as she is very particular and the only weaknesses I know of Kevin’s are barbeque and Joe Walsh and neither seemed to be represented on Newbury Street. We couldn’t even really find anything we wanted to eat. The sight of reusable napkins scared this cheapskate and we couldn’t smell barbeque so we took the subway back to Cambridge stopping for a long time between stops presumably due to some malfunction. Once back we ate these yummy Indian crepes across from the venue.

TT’s again?! TT’s is quite small and we have played there the last few times in Boston. We’ve played bigger places in Boston over the years but I always say I want to play the venue that snuggly fits our audiences and it felt nice and snug. The staff is nice to us and the show was really fun but it would be nice to move up to a bigger venue in Boston. PS. We played TT’s the night Bill Clinton was elected the first time. Maybe we’ll play when Obama is re-elected. If Palin gets elected we’re making a hardcore record because a Palin White House would be a real boost for the hardcore scene.

We boarded a bus at midnight and crossed the border back into the USA to kick off this leg of Sloan's XX 20th anniversary tour. Tonight will be the first of a series of shows with our Australian friends You Am I, and for the next couple of weeks starting tomorrow, we will have Taylor Locke and the Roughs along as well. Hope that you are able to join us for one of these shows.

Sep 12 - Washington - Rock and Roll Hotel
Sep 13 - Brooklyn - Bell House
Sep 14 - Boston - Brighton Music Hall
Sep 15 - NYC - Bowery Ballroom
Sep 16 - Hoboken - Maxwell's
Sep 17 - Philadelphia - North Star Bar
Sep 20 - Waterloo - Starlight
Sep 21 - Peterborough - The Venue
Sep 22 - St. Catherines - Barracuda Pretty
Sep 23 - London - Music Hall
Sep 24 - Moncton - Atlantic Touchdown
Oct 04 - Ottawa - Mavericks
Oct 05 - Kingston - Ale House
Oct 07 - Detroit - St Andrew's Hall

For those of you who can't make it to one of these shows, perhaps you can catch Sloan on a television set near you. Sloan will be featured in Life is a Highway, a new two-hour CBC documentary on Canadian music in the '90s. The show airs in two parts on Thurs. Sept. 15 and Thurs. Sept. 22 at 8 p.m.