Suuns' blistering, dark electro and arena-sized psych is one the newest additions to the Third Side roster. The band has just signed with Secretly Canadian and recorded with Jace Lasek of The Besnard Lakes, who recommended them to the label on a post-it, with a modest "Thought you might like to hear them. They're pretty cool." A succinct phrase that hardly prepares you for their patently earth-shattering post-punk, obsessive musical marriage of droning grooves and hypnotic vocals. Their appeal lies in the music's ability to oscillate from the intellectual to the sensory, with thrilling results.

Secretly Canadian is offering a free download of Suuns' first release,  Zeroes EP ! You can get it here for a limited time:

DOWNLOAD "Zeroes EP"

Suuns' upcoming full-length album will be released before the end of 2010. You can enjoy them live right now on the East Coast with Parlovr, then in September with The Besnard Lakes and Land of Talk for a full-on U.S. tour. Check it out on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/suuns_

We are very proud to announce that 3 of our artists made it to the short list for Polaris Prize!
"And the winners are..."

OWEN PALLETT - Heartland

RADIO RADIO - Belmundo Regal

KARKWA - Les Chemins De Verre

Notes: Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) has already won Polaris in 2006 and The Besnard Lakes have also made the sort list in 2007. Radio Radio and Karkwa are the brand new ones and rap or sing in French. Check the full list here.

So CONGRATS TO ALL!
 

 

On Wednesday July 7th :

Third Side Music newest addition to their publishing roster, Bedouin Soundclash, are hitting the Apple store (1321 rue Ste-Catherine Ouest) for a live in-store appearance at 8:00 PM.

Afterwards, Bedouin's bass player, Eon, (with band and crowd in tow) will be hitting the decks alongside Ninja Tune veteran DJ Luv for some after-party jams at Casa Del Popolo (4873 Blvd St. Laurent). 9:30 PM - 3:00 AM

Both events are free.

Bedouin are fresh out of the studio with the one and only King Britt and are coming armed with a grip of new tunes they're prepping to drop this Fall.

http://www.bedouinsoundclash.com
 

 

 

Among the big 40 revealed, a couple of our artists made it to the long list for Polaris Prize 2010! They will be narrowed to 10 and announced July 6. The Polaris Music Prize is a music award based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. That's why these artists make us proud:

Karkwa - Les Chemins De Verre
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Radio Radio - Belmundo Regal
The Slew - 100%

Fingers crossed untill July 6!

You can check the full list here

Let the Francofolies 2010 begin! From June 10 to June 19 more than 250 shows, including 180 free outdoor shows, will be rocking Montreal with the sole purpose of celebrating franco music! Third Side will be proudly represented by 3 of the hottest bands out there: Malajube, who recently composed the soundtrack for The Trotsky (still in theaters); Les Breastfeeders, with their crazy-girly pop/punk; and of course Radio Radio, who just launched the already renowned Belmundo Regal with hits like "Guess What" and "Dekshoo". If you missed the album launch, we think this is pretty much the next best thing.

Don't miss out! Check out the Third Side calendar:

LES BREASTFEEDERS
Saturday June 12  - 11 p.m. @ La Zone Molson Dry
More details here

MALAJUBE
Monday June 14 - 8 p.m. @ Théâtre de Maisonneuve
Malajube "Cubes Rubiques"  - A very unique show specially created for the festival. Don't miss it!
More details here

RADIO RADIO
Sunday June 13 - 10 p.m. @ Cabaret Juste Pour Rire
Monday June 14 - 10 p.m. @ Cabaret Juste Pour Rire
Radio Radio DJ Set: Thursday June 17 - 11:59 p.m. @ Le Shag, Savoy du Metropolis
More details here
 

Revisiting the lush aesthetic of the French nouvelle vague, (replete with casually beautiful women and casually criminal men), Jay Malinowski (Bedouin Soundclash's frontman) and Béatrice Martin aka Coeur de pirate show off their chops and give Seberg and Belmondo a run for their money - Check it out!

 

Every week, AUX TV. takes two music videos and puts theme head to head - The winner airs in power rotation on AUX. It's a battle between songs, bands and fans. Make sure you vote for We Are Wolves; it's a close race!

Vote here!

Owen Pallett recently shared the stage of the New York City's Webster Hall with guitarist/percussionist Thomas Gill to play an amazing show. Pallett focused mostly on what he playfully called his "new jams," but he bookended the set with some golden oldies, including fan favorites "This Is the Dream of Win and Regine" and "The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead."

You can check the set list and listen to the show here

 

 

TSM could not be prouder, as 2010 Junos nominate a number of brilliant & talented artists (who we are lucky enough to have on our roster!). Congrats to all!!!

Handsome Furs: Alternative album of the year for "Face Control" (also got a nom for Galaxie Rising Star this year!)
Thunderheist: Dance recording of the year for "Thunderheist"
Poirier Ft. Face-T: Reggae Recording of the year for "Wha-La-La-Leng"

Check out the where, when, who and how of this year's Juno awards

Radio Radio played at Pop Montreal Party at SXSW and they served it up Montreal-style! They turned a Saturday night tired/uninspired crowd into a crazed and sexy dance-floor-party in under three songs.

Their last album is on top 5 palmares for the francophone sales! Nice one. Check their myspace out. They may be coming to a city near you...

 

Champion has been asked to perform a Michel Pagliaro song at the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame gala. The 6th annual CSHF gala welcomes a diverse line-up of talent who will perform renditions of this year's inducted songs.

Event take place in Toronto on March 28, check details here

Read the rest of the article...

One of the newest additions to the Third Side roster is Tanya Tagaq. ‘Inuit throat singer’ does not begin to describe this extraordinarily creative collaborator who has worked with Bjork, Kronos Quartet, Buck 65 and Mike Patton, to name a few.

One of the most recent projects that Tanya is involved in is the short film "Tungijuq". The film gained interest when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was awarded the "Best Short Drama" at the Imaginative Film & Media Arts Festival, also in Toronto.

The film (in which she is featured and helped screenwrite), has been recently selected to be presented at the 2010 Sundance Music Festival!

For more insight on Tanya's talent, take a look at this "making of" video with the Kronos Quartet

 

Final Fantasy makes an appearance on Pitchfork TV with a live video of the new single "Lewis Takes Action"!

"Lewis Takes Action" is to be the first single off of the upcoming album "Heartland", which will be released in January.

 

Hotsy-totsy and wildly talented Handsome Furs checked in at #3 on this year’s annual list of I(Heart)Music’s Hottest Bands in Canada! 2009 saw this husband/wife duo releasing their sophomore album Face Control; and after a listen it’s not hard to see why they’ve made such an impact on the Canadian and international scene in a year that saw them tour the globe (no, literally; they toured the globe!)

Check out the full list here

Moneen is in high drive with a new release on Dine Alone Records (and on Vagrant in the United States).

Check out the exclaim review of the new album.

The band will be touring the US into November and then will start their Canadian leg of the tour into December. Head over to the artist's section of the website to listen to their new album entitled "The World I Want To Leave Behind", including the song "Believe".

With a new video for the song "Holding Hands" and some awesome touring in 2009 and through into 2010, it's clear that We Are Wolves are "out to unbutton starched collars and cause stiff upper lips to wobble."

8/10 on NME Album Review by Luke Turner

Here's the video for "Holding Hands"

 

Here are some of the new albums that have been released recently:

We Are Wolves - Invisible Violence

Champion - Resistance

Moneen - The World I Want To Leave Behind

Parlovr - Parlovr

 

Head over to the Artist section of the website to take a listen to these new albums and more from our other artists!

Please note our new location :

1499 William, Suite 2
Montreal, QC H3C 1R4

Phone, fax and other contacts remain the same.

British hip hop artist Speech Debelle emerged triumphant at the U.K.'s Mercury Prize Tuesday night, snagging the prestigious music honour for her debut album Speech Therapy (Big Dada Recordings).   Speech Debelle is exclusively published by Third Side Music in North America.

Lots of Third Side Music have been nominated for the GAMIQ 2009 (Gala de l'alternative musicale indépendante du Québec).

Malajube: Artist of the Year, International Career of the Year, Show of the Year, Indie Rock Album of the Year
Patrick Watson: Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, International Career of the Year, Show of the Year, Indie Pop Album of the Year
Handsome Furs: Indie Rock Album of the Year
Numéro#: Electro Album of the Year
Thunderheist:  Electro Album of the Year
Artist of the Year:  Electro Album of the Year
Torngat: Experimental Album of the Year
Le Volume Était au Maximum: Punk Album of the Year
Le Nombre: Rock’n’Roll Album of the Year

You can vote for your favorite artists on the website www.gamiq2009.com. The winners will be announced during an awards show on Sunday, October 4th, 2009 at the Club Soda during the Pop Montreal festival.
 

Final Fantasy announces new album, signing to Domino Records, extensive touring with Timber Timbre and The Mountain Goats.

Heartland exists. The product of nine months of work in four countries, this is the third Final Fantasy full-length, following 2006’s He Poos Clouds LP and 2008’s Spectrum, 14th Century and Plays To Please EPs.  It will be available on double 10” vinyl, compact disc and digital formats in the early days of 2010, released by Domino Records worldwide outside of Canada.



Preceding Heartland’s release, Final Fantasy will do a west coast Canadian tour with the Toronto group Timber Timbre as a special guest. This will be followed by an appearance at the Halifax Pop Explosion, playing a full programme of songs for looped violin and voice and backed by the Nova Scotia Symphony.



To finish the year, we’re also pleased to announce that The Mountain Goats have invited Final Fantasy to join them as a special guest on their November tour of the United States.

Congratulation to Malajube! They made it to the short list of the prestigious Polaris prize with their album Labyrinthes. The winner will be announced at the legendary Masonic Temple in Toronto on September 21, 2009.

Ninja Tune/TSM's Amon Tobin recently scored the highly-anticipated, modern day superhero adventure for Playstation 3,  inFAMOUS. The music, composed by Amon in collaboration with James Dooley, Mel Wesson, and electric cellist Martin Tillman, will transport any gamer into the modern-day superhero universe of the game. Released May 26th.

Two TSM artists will join forces for a very special double bill in New York City. After many adventures in Europe, Malajube arrives in the Big Apple to kick off the U.S. leg of the Labyrinthes tour.  They are joined by Michael Johnson, a.k.a Ape School,  who just released his debut album on Counter Records, Ninja Tune's little brother rock label.

24/07/2009
Ape School w/ Malajube
@Littlefield
Brooklyn, NY

The Internationally renowned Montreal Jazz Festival, held in July, has invited several members of the TSM family to perform. Check out these shows :

Alice Russell and TM Juke – Scene Bell 10pm, July 2
Eleni Mandell  – Club Soda 7pm, July 3
Florence K – Scene GM 9pm and 11pm, July 3
Thunderheist – Club Soda 12pm, July 4
The Dears (Jason Kent on Guitar) – Club Soda 12pm, July 6
Artist Of The Year – Savoy du Metropolis 12pm, July 9
The Heavy – Scene Bell 10pm, July 10
Artist Of The Year - Savoy du Metropolis 12pm, July 10
Bonobo – Club Soda 12pm, July 10
Artist Of The Year - Savoy du Metropolis 12pm, July 11
Ray Bonneville – Pavillon SIMM-GM 7pm, July 12

After a big tour in Japan, where he is a total legend, Erik Mongrain heads to the east coast of the United States for a series of shows. In November, he will cross the ocean again for a huge tour in UK. Check out the dates on his website : www.erikmongrain.com.

One of the earliest of German horror films, Tales of the Uncanny (Unheimliche Geschichten) was first released in 1919. Now, in association with the North by Northeast Music and Film Festival and the Goethe-Institut Toronto, Luminato brings this silent classic to Canada for the very first time.

Directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt in one of his earliest roles, Tales of the Uncanny (not to be confused with the same director’s 1932 remake) uses an antiquarian bookstore after dark as the framework for five distinct stories, among them Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat. Berlin electronic artist Robert Lippok, Do Make Say Think, and Owen Pallett provide the live soundtrack for this historic screening.

Thursday, June 11 at 9:30pm (90min.) at Yonge-Dundas Square
FREE

http://www.luminato.com/2009/events/40

Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett, provided orchestral arrangements for two tracks on the new Pet Shop Boys!!!! 

"Beautiful People" & Legacy"are the tracks.

Read the article here :
http://exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=0&csid2=844&fid1=37678
 

Ghislain Poirier released his second video for the Soca Sound System EP.

 

Poirier - Wha-La-La-Leng feat. Face-T (official) from departement on Vimeo.

Thunderheist just released a new video for the song "Nothing 2 Step 2". Check the video below. They will also perform on MTV on April 28th.

 

Ferriswheel is the new instrumental project of montreal’s pianist Mathieu Charbonneau (Torngat) and guitarist Simon Trottier (White Noise Ensemble, Timber Timbre). The result is a beautiful blend of musical genres hinting classical piano, folk fingerstyle guitar and indie rock.

From parlour classical to porch folk, their sometimes lively, sometimes staid compositions evoke the antiquated and the pastoral—–perhaps they’re aware of their cinematic potential, having titled the closing track Scrolling Names.” - Lorraine Carpenter, The Mirror January 2009

Sport de combat is the unexpected sequel to L'idéologie des stars. An album featuring eclectic production (funk, pop, folk, psychedelic, and electro) and more mature and personal lyrics.  A rich album that invokes the image of a fighter struggling with his identity. Proof that Numéro# still has a few tricks up their sleeves!

The Blue Seeds will release their album in France on April 27th via the distributors Anticraft and IODA.

There will also be a vinyl & digital single entitled "Where Did You Go" including a Mix of the song "Lost and Delirious" by Kid Loco. This last song is available for free download. Follow this link.

LIVE - Paris - L'International with Variety Lab 21.04.2009
LIVE - Printemps de Bourges 24.04.2009

More great music is streaming in at TSM. We're very happy to announce new deals with Warp Publishing and with Jagjaguwar / Secretly Canadian.

TSM has signed a sub-publishing agreement with Warp Publishing for Canada.   Represented bands include Born Ruffians, Clark, !!!, Prefuse 73, Squarepusher, and many others. Check out their website at www.warprecords.com

We have also signed an exclusive master representation agreement for Canada with Jagjaguwar, which include music bySwan Lake, Bon Iver, Okkervil River, Dinosaur Jr., Julie Doiron, Black Mountain, Ladyhawk... www.jagjaguwar.com

A new video for Ghislain Poirier, with the release of his lastest EP Soca Sound System on Ninja Tune.

 

GHISLAIN POIRIER - GET CRAZY feat MR. SLAUGHTER
directed by Gabriel Poirier-Galarneau.

FACE CONTROL, the second album from the Montreal’s Handsome Furs, is fast and up-beat and soulful and smelly and shiny and real. The duo, Alexei Perry and Dan Boeckner, wrote the songs together, the album was recorded and mixed by Arlen Thompson at Mount Zoomer, and it was then mastered by Harris Newman at Hotel2Tango.
FACE CONTROL will be released March 10, 2009.  The duo will also be participating in the Sub Pop Records showcase at the South By Southwest Festival (SXSW) this month.
 

Torngat return with “La petite Nicole”, a grittier, propulsive sounding record that more closely resembles the bands live sound. “La petite Nicole” offers forays into dub-heavy elements of post rock as well hints of kraut rock and the occasional miniature freak-outs. To be released March 3rd on Alien8 Recordings.

Here's the first video for the song "Porté disparu" from Malajube's new album Labyrinthes.

 

MALAJUBE || PORTÉ DISPARU from Dare To Care Records

Malajube made the cut with the song Montreal –40C, which was chosen among the top “49 songs from north of the 49th parallel” that would best define our country.  The list was compiled by CBC Radio 2 and their listeners, and was presented to U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama on his Inauguration Day.  Who knows, TSM might end up licensing a Malajube track for Obama’s next campaign video.  Anything is possible now!

We are proud to announce our upcoming signed artist : Broadcast 2000. They are an awseome band from UK. Check out their website and have a look at this terrific video a US student made on the song "Get up and Go". Enjoy!

 

www.broadcast2000.co.uk

Third Side Music has added Florence K to the roster.  A passionate artist who writes and sings in French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese on her new album. Florence has loads of charm and talent and a fluid stage presence.  With a new CD La Historia de Lola, produced and mixed by Nick Petrowski (Arcade Fire) selling thousands of units a week, she will be raring to go out on tour in the new year! Her last CD won awards including a Félix for best world music and quickly went gold (over 80,000 sold). Her mother is the famous, gloriously eccentric opera comedienne Natalie Choquette, with whom Florence has been performing since she was 6.

This video is awseome, check it out.

Just back from a month long tour in Europe, where he performed in the UK and at the Nice Guitar festival, this young exceedingly skilled guitarist has been getting rave reviews.  Acoustic magazine (UK) acclaimed his skills in a recent interview:  ‘Exceptional talent combined with the ability to recall and execute complicated patterns, timings and syncopated rhythms make up the memorable melodies of Erik Mongrain'.
 
He has appeared twice now at Montreux Jazz festival and his video Airtap has been viewed an astonishing 3.5 million times on youtube.  He has plans to return to France for a number of dates in the spring, and he will also be heading to Japan where he is a star - the Japanese national network recently filmed Erik live at the St Joseph Oratory of Montreal.

Third video from the No Ground Under (Ninja Tune) album.
Directed by Guillaume Simoneau and Jimmy Hayes.

Mangnen l'boulé feat. Nik Myo

 

Thunder-Hype!

We are pleased to announce a new edition to the TSM family... Thunderheist.

Having thoroughly brought the house down for various music supervisors at The Toronto International Film Festival's "Music Cafe" spot (where they also could be heard in the new Darren Aronofsky film "The Wrestler"), weeks later they found themselves signed to Big Dada Records who will be releasing their debut album worldwide in early 2009.

In the meantime... Jerk It :


(note that no chickens were harmed while jerking it)

Fresh off some dates with My Morning Jacket where they succeeded in getting the prog rock masses hyped (some of which who had just driven a day a half straight from Bonnaroo), and having spent a night doing serious damage to the Third Side expense account while drinking $8 beers while discussing business at a Rush concert... is it any surprise their new video revolves around fantasy horses with their heads in the mane, D&D sword fights, and monsters in sewers? Not at all really. Now if only they'd taken my advice and just played this track for 40 minutes while opening for My Morning Jacket...

Super fun TSM fact : Video directed by Kara Blake, sister to the lovely and talented TSM licensing super-force Julie Blake. 

I'm excited pretty much on a daily basis that Owen Pallet/Final Fantasy is part of the Third Side roster. But when The Last Shadow Puppets asked him to arrange strings for their project; a project which was initially described to me as being Scott Walker-ish... well that level excitement reached fever pitch... the same sort of fever pitch I felt when I managed to find an original copy of Scott Walker's "Scott 4" on vinyl oddly enough.

The Last Shadow Puppets is a collaboration between Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) and Miles Kane (The Rascals). Owen helped make this record sound big... really really big...

Check the first single for The Age Of The Understatement: