Canada's Alt. Indie Acts @LookVibrant + @living_hour w/ Support By @sisterwizzard #PartyDressBand Fri. 3/9 @sinkholestl

This Friday, March 9th two sonically distinguished acts from Canada roll into St. Louis, Missouri. Look Vibrant and Living Hour will be performing at The Sinkhole. Sister Wizzard and Party Dress will be supporting this event and playing that night. The show is $7.00 at the door and is all-ages. It will go from 9:00 pm to 12:00 am. Visit HERE for the event details on Facebook. Continue on below to visit the artists online and to check out their music. Follow on for more on the latest by Look Vibrant and Living Hour.

- Look Vibrant: (Montreal)

Genre: Art Pop, Pop Art, No-fi, Sounds-core.

https://www.facebook.com/lookvibrant

https://www.lookvibrant.bandcamp.com

Google Look Vibrant: https://g.co/kgs/Mbw2ha 

- Living Hour: (Winnipeg)

Genre: Dream Pop, Psych. Pop, Chill, Shoegaze.

https://www.livinghourband.com

https://www.facebook.com/Livinghourband

https://www.soundcloud.com/living-hour

https://www.instagram.com/livinghour

Google Living Hour: https://g.co/kgs/Sh7xzx 

- Party Dress: (St. Louis, MO.)

Genre: Experimental

https://www.facebook.com/partydressband

https://www.partydress.bandcamp.com

https://youtube.com/channel/UCLRGLSjdmtwH81QTsEK0hZw

- Sister Wizzard: (St. Louis, MO.)

Genre: Dream Pop

https://www.facebook.com/sisterwizzard

https://www.sisterwizzard.bandcamp.com

https://www.sisterwizzard.tumblr.com

About Look Vibrant:

Using unconventional arrangements and thoughtfully fashioned sonic maximalism to contrast their vulnerable lyrics and playful melodic sensibility, Look Vibrant create a cathartic listening experience reminiscent of youthful incertitude and boiling ambition. After performing together in a number of different outfits over the years, founding members Matt Murphy and Justin Lazarus, created Look Vibrant during their journey across Western Europe where they played tunes to make ends meet. Recently Look Vibrant has performed alongside notable acts, including Anderson Paak, Wild Nothing, Micachu and In Shapes. Alvvays and Will Butler (Arcade Fire). They have also performed at acclaimed festivals, such as SXSW, NXNE, Pop Montreal, M For Montreal and Halifax Pop Explosion.

Living Hour shares music video for their Françoise Hardy cover, launches tour next week -- covers EP is out today 

VIDEO: "Tous les garcons et les filles" -
YouTube

STREAM / BUY: Lovely, Lonely: A Collection Of Covers For Hollow Hearts EP
Spotify / Bandcamp / Apple / TIDAL

Today Winnepeg band Living Hour releases a new covers EP, Lovely, Lonely: A Collection Of Covers For Hollow Hearts. The EP includes covers of Nico, Avi Buffalo, The Ink Spots and Françoise Hardy (you can watch the video for this song now via YouTube). The band will also be touring to SXSW and playing an official showcase, co-presented by Danger Village on March 13 at Javelina Bar on Rainey St.

Bio:
Sink into the drowsy guitars and blissful, washed-out textures of Winnipeg’s Living Hour. The band made up of dream-pop revivalists’ atmospheric and pillowy melodies are coloured by psychedelic accents and the enthralling coos of vocalist Sam Sarty. Brushed-Snare Beats, droning reverberations, and wobbly romanticism conjure up a tranquil and exploratory state of mind. 

Living Hour
Lovely, Lonely: A Collection Of Covers For Hollow Hearts EP
(Self-Released)
Street Date: March 2, 2018

Track List:

1. Tous les garcons et les filles (Francoise Hardy)
2. I Don't Want To Set The World on Fire (The Ink Spots)
3. Overwhelmed With Pride (Avi Buffalo)
4. For Nico
5. These Days (Jackson Browne, in the style of Nico)

LIVING HOUR LINKS:

Facebook
Official Site

Hidalgo By @churchgirlsband Is Now Available. Catch Them On 10/4 @FoamSTL w/ #SisterWizzard And #PartyDress

On Wednesday, October 4th at Foam brings Church Girls into town from Philly tourung in support of their new release "Hidalgo". Sharing the stage with them are St. Louis' own Sister Wizzard and Party Dress. Visit HERE for all of the event details.  Below are links to the artists on the bill and also more detailed information on Church Girls.

* Church Girls (Philly, PA):

- (Dreamy, indie rock and post punk.)

http://churchgirls.bandcamp.com

* Sister Wizzard: ( STL Dream Pop)

http://sisterwizzard.tumblr.com

* Party Dress: ( STL Experimental)

https://www.facebook.com/partydressband/

- Stream the Demo by Party Dress" 

* New Album Hidalgo Now Available:

- Stream: "Breaking Bones" at All Things Go or SoundCloud

- Stream: "Better Off" at Culture Collide or SoundCloud

Philadelphia-based Church Girls have revealed a new single "Breaking Bones" from their album Hidalgo. "Breaking Bones" premiered today at All Things Go and is also available to stream at Soundcloud. 

All Things Go says, "Subtle plucking like footsteps and a classic strums introduce “Breaking Bones”, the latest by relative newcomers Church Girls. After releasing Thousand Lives in 2016, which took helping hands from Dr. Dog‘s Brian McTear, the band embarked on a US tour and built a following. In just three short years, the Philadelphia outfit are set to release their second full length and hit the the road running. After some time working in the fashion world, a life of music creativity beckoned Mariel Beaumont, the band’s frontwoman, whose day to day seemed to hit a lull. She answered that call in 2014 with enthusiasm and a knack for writing nostalgic and progressive rock that rings bells for listeners from across the spectrum. Hidalgo is available to pre-order now at Bandcamp. 

Last month the band shared the first single from the album, "Better Off," with Culture Collide who said, "Dreamy indie-rock quartet Church Girls’ latest single 'Better Off' feels as cleansing as a summer rainstorm. Melodic and rejuvenating, 'Better Off' is all about letting go and new beginnings, underscored by lead singer Mariel Beaumont’s hypnotizing vocals which feel both vintage and fresh."

Church Girls formed in 2014 as singer-songwriter Mariel Beaumont’s way to fill the creative void in her fashion career. Drawing from her punk roots attending dingy basement shows as a teen, she began writing and playing open mics around Philadelphia. An encounter with high school friend and guitarist Robert Dwyer led the two to begin collaborating and playing local and regional shows with a rotating cast of band members.

In 2016 the band became a full-time pursuit for Beaumont, as they self-released the 2016 album Thousand Lives, produced by Brian McTear (Dr. Dog, Marissa Nadler) and embarked on their first national tour. The album received local praise for its “introspective lyrics that complement pop melodies beautifully” (WXPN) and “smooth sincerity that navigates through moments of folk into straight out rockers” (The Deli).

Robert Dwyer (guitar), Will Schwartz (bass) and Zakary Iannitelli (drums) with Beaumont at the helm, release their debut LP Hidalgo in summer 2017. Hidalgo is a true collaboration — a shift in creative process for Beaumont — allowing the savvy of Dwyer, Schwartz and Iannitelli to radiate. Producer Erik Wofford (The Black Angels, Bill Callahan, Explosions in the Sky) brings a haunting, dreamy element to the Church Girls’ LP, with songs bound together by brooding lyrics, strong harmonies, and tight rhythms.

Church Girls is on a quest to tap into listeners’ emotional marrow by lyrically confessing a resistance to growing up, espousing a tendency towards self-destruction, showing the pains of communication, and celebrating the ways we work to become better humans a little at a time. These are anthems of authentic self-discovery.