PLAYLIST: Bry Webb+COTS with Astral Swans and Martha Zed
FRI NOV 6 | 8:30 PM at The Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
(109 7th AVE SW)
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BRY WEBB // Listen HERE
Bryan Webb (born 1977), sometimes credited as Bry Webb, is a Canadian singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the indie rock band Constantines.
Webb began his musical career playing in the emo band Shoulder in 1994, releasing a demo tape, a CD/LP and two 7" vinyl (including a split with Morning Again) before breaking up in 1997.[2] Two years after Shoulder's breakup, in 1999, Webb and two former members of the band formed Constantines, though one of them quickly departed.
In 2007 he recorded a cover of The Velvet Underground's "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" as a duet with Casey Mecija of Ohbijou for the compilation album, Friends in Bellwoods.
In 2009, Webb received a Genie Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Music – Original Song for "Big Smoke", a song he wrote for the soundtrack to This Beautiful City.
While living in Montreal, Webb formed the Harbourcoats and recorded an album. In 2009 Webb and his wife decided to start a family in Guelph. Feist heard the Harbourcoats album and invited him to duet on her album. Webb provided back-up vocals on her album Metals, including the first track "The Bad in Each Other".
With the announced hiatus 12 August 2010 of the Constantines, Webb embraced his new role as a newlywed and father. His debut solo album Provider was released 15 November 2011 on Toronto label Idée Fixe Records. The first single, "Rivers of Gold", was inspired by the Constantines' first time playing the Dawson City Music Festival in the Yukon in 2005.
Webb is also the operations coordinator for CFRU-FM, the campus radio station at the University of Guelph. He previously served as programming coordinator at CFRU from 2010 to 2014.
Webb contributed the song "Someplace I'm Supposed to Be" to the 1 March 2013 episode of This American Life. - taken from wikipedia
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COTS // Listen HERE
Cots is the debut solo project by Canadian composer, singer, and guitarist Steph Yates. "Disturbing Body" is the first single and title-track of a forthcoming 10-song record produced by renowned Toronto musician Sandro Perri. Borrowing elements of bossa nova, folk, jazz, and classical, Yates’s subtly unconventional composition style and poetics are at work here in a hushed and more naked voice. The sounds and images of Cots are familiar the way dreams and shadows are; there appear strange landscapes, the vague outlines of former lovers, a quiet queerness, the feeling of motion. These are songs of closeness and aloneness.
Yates's former projects include Esther Grey, Cupcake Ductape, and French Perfume. - taken from HashBrandNew
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ASTRAL SWANS // Listen HERE
BE KIND TO SENIORS & ANIMALS. - taken from bandcamp
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MARTHA ZED // Listen HERE
Alternative music with a gangster grunge heart and lyrics that explore themes of despair, paranoia and the absurdity of life, Martha Zed’s musical output can best described as the ramblings of a reckless mind, consumed with curiosity for the world and a relentless desire to express their indefinable inner life in song. - taken from their website
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