Sloan

Sloan are happy to be hosting a label showcase at this year's Canadian Music Week to promote our exciting new spring line-up on murderecords. Sloan have owned and run murderecords over the past 16 years.

The night will feature showcase performances by new murderecords artists: Will Currie & the Country French and Pony Da Look. We will also be joined by our friends the Meligrove Band. Sloan will be performing a showcase set of mostly new material from their forthcoming album due to be released on murderecords later this spring.

Advance tickets are now available for $13 through Ticketbreak . A limited number of tickets have been held for fans to purchase in advance using the special promo code CMWSLOAN. There will also be limited tickets available at the door for $15, and CMW wristbands will be honoured as space allows.

9:20 -- Will Currie & the Country French
10:20 -- Pony Da Look
11:20 -- Meligrove Band
12:20 -- Sloan

Sloan's "Keepin' The Tour Alive" has been nominated for DVD of the Year at this year's East Coast Music Awards. This year's awards will take place in Fredericton in early February. The director of the DVD, Kevin Hilliard is planning to make the journey to New Brunswick and is actively cajoling members of Sloan to join him. We'll see if anybody takes him up on the offer.

Hilliard traveled with Sloan on their Action Pact tour filming hours upon hours of live footage and behind the scenes antics. The DVD is available via Sloan's online store. Since word of the nomination, they've been going fast, so I have shipped extra stock to our retailer. Check back soon if we run out.

If you happen to be a member of the East Coast Music Association, please vote (preferably for us).

mn

Sloan's "Never Hear The End Of It" was released in the US on the first week of January 2007. As we welcome the new year, it is nice to see the album making it onto some year-end top album picks. Here are some notable links:

abcnews.com's Top 50 Albums of 2007

Disney's family.com's Top Albums of 2007

#3 on The Big Takeover

cnn.com's showbiz blog

Here's wishing everybody a great 2008! We're looking forward to an exciting year for Sloan. Hope to see you down the road.

mn

Sloan will be performing at a free, outdoor show in downtown Toronto as a part of the CFL Grey Cup festival happening this weekend.

Put on your hat and mitts and come down to join us for an afternoon rock show.

Hope to see you there!

mn

Sloan have claimed three spots on a new list of Canada's top albums. Music journalist Bob Mersereau compiled the list after polling close to 600 of the nation's music industry insiders. Twice Removed landed at number 14, One Chord to Another at 34 and Smeared at 86.

Chris Murphy will be appearing on CBC radio's Q this afternoon to talk about the list. CBC's website features local feeds from across Canada, so if you miss it in one time zone you may catch it in another.

Patrick will be sharing DJ duties with HYFY's AL911, under the name Darth Virgos, on Friday nights at Torontos Bovine (538 Queen Street West). Music begins blaring @ 10 pm.

Chris and Jay were interviewed for iNDiGO.TV during Sloan’s Spring '07 USA Tour. Watch and learn as they discuss white elephants, Chris’ fascination with “Mini Me”, band bonding, Patrick’s hair, and slappin’ high fives. The video includes live performance clips from South Paw in Brooklyn, NY.

Click here to watch, vote and comment.

Sloan traveled to LA earlier this year to work with renowned creative production company Stardust on the video for “I’ve Gotta Try”. Stardust poured vast amounts of time and resources into creating a unique new music video that blends the live band with animation. The video has now hit the airwaves, added into heavy rotation at MuchMoreMusic in Canada, entering its chart at #19.

If you are having trouble viewing the video go to this link.

Scenes from the making of the video:

Click here for more info on the making of the video.