CBC's Radiosonic recently posted some year-end "Top Ten" lists from some of your favourite Canadian musicians, including picks from Jay and Chris. Below, you'll find a complete and unedited version of Chris and Jay's choices:
"Just wanted to let you know that I'm going to guest 'Dee-Jay' at the "International Colouring Contest" dance night. It will be in two weeks (on Friday Dec. 8) at Rancho Relaxo ( 300 College St.). It's their first year anniversary. It will be fun if there is a good crowd!" --Jay
(There will be a small cover charge, and you have to be 19+ and carry valid ID. The whole sha-bang should start sometime between 10pm-11pm... See you there! Maybe.)
The new Sloan CD single featuring "Don't you Believe a Word" and two previously unreleased tracks is now available through Murderecords. The songs "Summer's My Season" and "At the Edge of the Scene" were previously only available as bonus tracks on Between the Bridges' Japanese release.
The discs cost $8 CAN or $7 US, postage included. To order please send a cheque or money order payable to Murderecords. For other international orders please contact murderecords@hotmail.com for shipping information. (For a complete listing of all available Murderecords merch, check out the Catalog page.)
Shortly after Sloan's return from London (their last stop on tour) , Chris chatted briefly with sloanmusic.com to give some details about the band's experience in Europe, and to update us on the progress of their upcoming album...
Here's a brief review from the Nov 5th-11th issue of
Melody Maker of Sloan's London gig:
SLOAN - THE GARAGE, LONDON (4/5 Stars)
"If ever 'That '70s Show' is looking for an in-house band (and God
knows it needs something to perk up the dreadful script), I think I may
have found one. Sloan have surely been beamed in from Planet 1974: four
delightfully goofy Canadians with skanky ruffle-worthy hair, skinny-fit
T-shirts and a nice line in self-depreciation, grinning insanely like
the Monkees on pay day and churning out reams of powerchord-saturated
super-melodic tunes.
While
it's child's play plucking reference points from a riff-happy show in
the arm like "Losing California" - The Who, The Jam, The Beach Boys,
you know the drill - Sloan succeed where the dreadful Phoenix fail by
sheer enthusiasm and an almost uncannily natural feel for perfect
close-harmony singing.
The
set takes in aspects from various points in their eight-year career but
concentrates on the current, irresistably sunny "Between The Bridges"
album; it's only when the chorus of joyous piano-fest new single "Don't
You Believe A Word" is still ringing around your head some three full
days after you last heard it that you realise quite what refreshing,
incisive songwriters Sloan are.
A
little over-fond of protracted and momentum-disturbing wildly codas
they may be, but the audience sings every word of oldie "Underwhelmed"
like it's the Canadian national anthem. There's no escaping that
defiantly retro power-pop wins on points. "
Author Ian Jack is in the middle of writing a comprehensive book chronicling the Canadian music scene, from 1985-1995. Ian is reportedly devoting entire chapters to bands such as The Tragically Hip, Blue Rodeo, Change of Heart, and Sloan. The book will also feature a chapter detailing the "East Coast music phenomenon". The book is tentatively scheduled to be finished sometime early next year.
Bravo U.S. has begun airing episodes for the critically-lauded Canadian sitcom
Twitch City.
As many fans know, Sloan made a brief and un-credited appearance on
episode nine of the series ("Klan Bake"). You can catch Sloan's guest
appearance on the following dates and times:
- Wednesday, Sept 13 ~ 10 pm and 1 am and 5:30 am EST
- Friday, Sept 15 ~ 11 pm and 2:30 am EST
Jay recently spoke with
MTV Online about the current status and direction Sloan is taking with the next album. The guys are presently recording in the studio right now, and hope to release the album in May 2001. You can check out the full article
here.
This just in... Finally we have a news page on the Sloan Website. Over the weeks to come I will use this page to update fans on upcoming Sloan events,changes to the website and news on anything and everything related to Sloanand murderecords. As always, if you have any specific questions about Sloan or ordering from murderecords, you can contact me (Mike Nelson) directly at: murderecords@hotmail.com
