What Happens Next? The Dan Mangan Documentry

Dan Mangan will be featured in an upcoming documentary titled What Happens Next? The Dan Mangan Documentary. The film is due to air on CBC TV on August 25 at 7 p.m. PST. A brief official blurb describes the flick like this: "The night before musician Dan Mangan plays the biggest concert of his life, he invites a few close friends over for a poker game and explores the ideas of fate, destiny and the daunting question... what happens next?" Check out the trailer above and tune in August 25th on CBC (courtesy of exclaim.ca)

 - Spencer 

New Releases This Week

This week is proving to be a big for new releases that come out tomorrow (June 12th).

The Tallest Man on Earth -  There's No Leaving Now.

This album is our most anticipated this year as it is the follow up to The Wild Hunt, Blue Sloth's #1 album of 2010 on our unreleased list. Stream the album at NPR First Listen.

Metric - Synthetica

Over the past couple months Metric has created significant hype about this album by releasing tracks through clues provided by various tweets and social media posts. Emily Haines claims this is their most organic album yet and a accumulation of Metic's ten years together. Stream the album at Consequence Of Sound.

Wintersleep - Hello Hum

The Canadian indie veterans return with their fifth full length album Hello Hum. I wasn't much for the likes of their last offering New Inheritors, however the first single "In Came The Flood" is showing good promise for the new album. Stream the ablum at Exclaim.ca.

Enjoy

- Spence

Stream: Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere

A while back I posted about the new Great Lake Swimmer's album New Wild Everywhere as well as the first single "Easy Come, Easy Go". Well the album is officially out today and you can get it at iTunes or your favorite record shop. Or if you feel like giving New Wild Everywhere a listen first, head over to exclaim.ca! to stream the full album. Enjoy!

 - Spence

Adam & the Amethysts - "Flickering Flashlight"

Thanks to the CBC Radio 3's The R3-30 I recently discovered Adam & the Amethysts out of Montreal. The band released their second LP, Flickering Flashlight on October 4th. I'm not sure how you describe Adam & the Amethysts' sound, could be psychedelic folk or pop but either way I am definitely enjoying the sound and I will let Radio 3 try to describe Flickering Flashlight better then I can. You can stream the full album right now via Exclaim.

"Flickering Flashlight is the highest-fi lo-fi record you'll hear this year. Much as it evokes Van Dyke Parks' ensembles and Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, this bold blushing sound was recorded in a single tiny room at the front of Adam's apartment; an office stuffed with guitars, amps, patch-cords, a giant vintage map of Lake Superior. No, it wasn't soundproofed; yes, you can "definitely hear some garbage truck". There are distant creaks, closing doors, moth-wings. "When you listen to the record it's kind of like sitting in my house and listening to my house, with music playing over it," Adam says. "I was trying to achieve sounds that on the one hand transcend the circumstances, grander and more interesting, but on the other hand remain true to what's going on: which is a guy making music in a 5' x 8' room, overlooking the street." - CBC Radio 3

- Spence

Dan Mangan Day

In honor of today's arrival of Dan Mangan's new LP Oh Fortune, Blue Sloth would like to dedicated this day as Dan Mangan Day. This post will provide you with everything you could possibly want and need in anticipation for Oh Fortune official release of September 27th.

Also, we would like to say thank you to @danmanganmusic twitter for the retweet of Blue Sloth Music and for the source of this wonderful information. Please do yourself a favor and follow him immediately if you have not already done so.

Full Length Stream of Oh Fortune:



Check it out via CBC Radio 3, AUX TV, and Exclaim.

Performances:

"Row of Houses" @ CBC Vancouver September 17



"Oh Fortune" @ Canada AM

Canada AM

Pictures and video from Oh Fortune premiere @ CBC Vancouver

CBC Radio 3

Free Download of "Post-War Blues" @ iTunes Single of the Week

iTunes


Canadian Tour:

Oct 14 – Ottawa @ Bronson Centre
Oct 15 – Kingston @ Sydenham United Church
Oct 16 – Montreal @ Theatre Outremont
Oct 17 – Quebec City @ Le Cercle
Oct 19 – St John’s, NFLD @ Cochrane United Church
Oct 22 – Fredericton @ Wilmot United Church
Oct 25 – Waterloo @ Starlight
Oct 26 – London @ Aeolian Hall
Oct 27 – Hamilton @ The Theatre at Hamilton Place
Oct 28 – Toronto @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Oct 29 – Guelph @ Dublin Street Church
Nov 1 – Winnipeg @ The Garrick Centre
Nov 2 – Saskatoon @ The Broadway Theatre
Nov 3 – Edmonton @ McDougal United Church
Nov 4 – Calgary @ MacEwan Hall Ballroom
Nov 9 – Vancouver @ Orpheum Theatre
Nov 10 – Victoria @ Alix Goolden Hall

Bryce and I will be attending the November 4th show in Calgary, if you happen to be going fire us an email at blue.sloth.blog@gmail.com. We would be happy to meet you, have a couple beers and listen to some great Dan Mangan music.

- Spence