Plants and Animals announce US tour, new single/video

Plants and Animals have just announced their most exhaustive North American tour to-date, with the addition of over 20 US dates (and packed SXSW schedule) to their already announced Canadian itinerary. They'll be heading down to Brooklyn next week for a sneak-peak, opening for Broken Bells on March 10th, before their CMW appearances in Toronto. You can see the full list of shows here.

The band has also released a new video for another song from La La Land, entitled The Mama Papa. Directed by Sinbad Richardson, inspired by Frederico Fellini, and starring P&A, and Joe Cobden.

Patrick Watson announces US dates

Patrick Watson & the Wooden Arms have just announced a string of U.S. shows in May, including shows in New York, Chicago and LA, and wrapping up with an appearance at The Sasquatch Fesitval at the Gorge in Washington. These will be their first US shows since the jaw-dropping CMJ performance in new York back in October. (Which by the way, you can still hear in its entirey thanks to NPR and KEXP).

Plants and Animals announce Canadian Tour in support of La La Land

More news today in Plants and Animals land, as the band has announced Canadian dates in support of their forthcoming album, La La Land, which we announced back in January. The tour starts April 21st in Quebec City, and wraps May 5th out in Vancouver. Tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday, February 5 at 10:00 a.m. (dates are listed below, with more details in the shows section). The band will also be showcasing the new material during a series of performances in March at both CMW in Toronto and at SXSW in Austin, Texas. For fans outside Canada, fear not, there's lots more where this came from; stay tuned.

La La Land live:

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Heart of My Own is out today

Basia Bulat's Heart of My Own is finally out! And people seem to love it as much as we do, as the album has received some rave reviews across the country already. Don't forget that Basia starts her cross-Canada tour on February 2nd, and it runs all the way until early March, so odds are she's coming to your town. As always, you can get the record directly from us, your favourite record store, , and everywhere else fine records are sold.

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Plants and Animals announce new album, La La Land

Very exciting day here at Secret City, as we're pleased to announced the release of Plants and Animals second full-length record, La La Land, due out in North America on April 20th. And if you're already familiar with their debut, Parc Avenue, you know why this is a big deal. And let us be the first to say this album is bigger, smoother, tougher and tighter than the last one. The La La Land album page has a whole lot more to say, but more importantly, also has the first sneak listen—a little warm-up number called "Tom Cruz" to get you through the cold months until the rest of it drops...

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Pre-order Basia Bulat's new album

Basia Bulat's new album, Heart of My Own, hits the street on January 26th, but folks in Canada can pre-order the album directly from us now. It's available on CD and LP (with free digital download), and we'll be shipping the orders to arrive on or before January 26th. We'll also be giving away an exclusive bonus new track that doesn't appear on the album to everyone who orders a physical copy from us. Basia kicks off a whirlwind tour in support of the album starting this coming Saturday in Toronto, at Trinity St. Paul's. Stay tuned for lots more...

Basia Bulat announces 2010 Canadian tour

Basia Bulat will head out on a winter tour beginning in February in support of her new album, Heart of My Own, due out on January 26th. The first single from Heart of My Own, "Gold Rush" is available now on .

Basia has already announced a kick-off show in Toronto prior to the album's release, at Trinity St. Paul's on January 16th, which is on sale now. She'll also e supporting Secret City label-mate Patrick Watson at Metropolis on December 16th. Tickets to the rest of the tour go on sale this Thursday, November 19th.

The tour dates are as follows:

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Patrick Watson's first album finally available

We're particularly excited to announce that Patrick Watson's first album, Just Another Ordinary Day, has finally been re-issued and is available as of today...especially because this means people will stop emailing us asking where they can get it!

Originally self-released in 2003 in very limited quantities, this was the first recording prominently featuring all four members of the band: Patrick Watson, Simon Angell, Robbie Kuster, and Mishka Stein. All the band’s current touchstones are apparent on the album: from Watson’s intimate-sounding vocal and piano performances, to Simon Angell’s dreamy soundscapes, and Robbie and Mishka’s intricate space-rock rhythms. But it also gives an interesting window into the band’s early stages, with moments of subtle electronica, and arguably some of their most accessible pop songs to-date.

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Patrick Watson's CMJ show streaming on NPR

"Recorded with the help of Seattle's KEXP, this was one of the best live shows I've seen all year, anywhere. Watson is a dynamic performer who gets deep inside the songs, and you can tell. His face contorts, his body shifts as he becomes the characters and stories he sings. But there's more to Watson than his colorful songs. He has one of the best bands performing music these days, able to shift moods from funny to scary, and from cartoony to evocative of street life, often in the same song."

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Basia Bulat hosts the CBC Radio3 podcast

Basia hosts the CBC Radio3 podcast this week...

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