Party: FREEZE FEST 2014 w/ The Wet Secrets, Napalmpom, Sidney York, The LBJs

Party: FREEZE FEST 2014 w/ The Wet Secrets, Napalmpom, Sidney York, The LBJs

Alberta Music and Nite Owl Presents
***FREEZE FEST 2014***
Friday December 12th
w/
THE WET SECRETS
NAPALMPOM
SIDNEY YORK
THE LBJS
@ Nite Owl (213- 10TH AVE SW)
www.niteowlyyc.com
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Doors open 9PM
18+
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Tickets $10 adv/ $13 door
Available online at www.zoobis.com, at SLOTH RECORDS, and Oak Tree Tavern

The Wet Secrets
A five-piece rock’n’roll dance band that plays the kind of music you could expect to hear if The Stranglers piggybacked Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass through the Rose Parade.
Swampy basslines, primal drumming, dancing ladies with brassy hornstacks, keys, congas & vocal harmonies galore.
Formed on a dare by Lyle Bell, Trevor Anderson and Kim Rackel, the bass and horn heavy quintet burst onto the scene with 2006’s A Whale of a Cow CD. Written and recorded within one week of the band’s formation, it was a clarion call to anyone within earshot that The Wet Secrets had arrived.
2007 saw the release of the fuzzed-up Rock Fantasy full-length. CBC Radio 3’s fervent support of the track “Secret March” landed the song at the #2 slot on the national CBC charts, won the band a Bucky, and brought on international acclaim. Festival touring soon followed, including mandatory stops at Austin’s SXSW and CMJ in New York, and the band played the opening slot at Edmonton’s inaugural Sonic Boom festival.
Grant Lawrence of CBC Radio 3 named “Secret March” one of the “Top 20 Songs of the 2000s”.
Free Candy is the long-awaited third album from Edmonton’s dapper pop primates. After a four-year hiatus spent focusing on other projects (Bell with Shout Out Out Out Out and Anderson with Dirt City Films), the band has reconvened and crafted a deceptively sunny new album, to be released independently on February 4, 2014.
Free Candy marks a dramatic leap forward for the band in both songwriting and attitude. With the addition of local psych-pop wizard Paul Arnusch (Faunts/Whitsundays) and wunderkind Emma Frazier, The Wet Secrets have returned determined to seize the brass ring and stomp the world in the face/balls. (Figuratively/literally). This new resolve now comes with a more pensive pen, eschewing tongue-in-cheek ribaldry for a well conceived quasi-concept album about death, disappointment, and doin’ it. Material with more gravitas perhaps, but still smartly dressed in the frantic pop trappings of The Wet Secrets.

Napalmpom
Napalmpom are a very, very good rock & roll band from Calgary, Alberta. For those who need to know more than that, behold:

Napalmpom is a rock & roll band. No, Napalmpom is the rock & roll band. Picture MC5 bombast with Thin Lizzy dual guitarmonies, AC/DC showmanship, hooks only The Exploding Hearts could write and the down-to-earthedness of early Black Flag. Perfect band, right? Well, they’re not that band (sigh!), but they are trying their darndest to be. This is celebratory rock & roll.

Having already proven themselves as a must-see live band – a self-contained party unit – they’re set to release their debut LP on Teenage Rampage Records on October 17th. The Unconditional Love Of Napalmpom is 9 songs, er, love letters to the entire history of rock & roll music. These songs range from honest to goodness freedom rock anthems (“Get With Me”) to stoner rock epics inspired by Nick Cave spec scripts (“Ashes Ashes”) to mini rock operas about the similarities in hockey and punk rock uniforms (“Greg Ginn’s Sweater”). What they share is the pure joy with which they are played.

That joy extends to the album’s artwork. Drawing inspiration from the DoodleArt movement of the 1970s, art director Geoffrey Hanson (Robert Plant, Kings Of Leon) presents The Unconditional Love Of Napalmpom LP in matte black & white to encourage listeners to colour in their own copy. The first 200 copies of the LP even come with an official DoodleArt marker set!

Speaking of colouring (!?), following the departure of their original singer, Ian Thomas Day, to the United Kingdom in 2013, the Calgary-based band, made up of relative veterans (members of Forbidden Dimension, The Adam Brown, Beija Flor, The Silent Auction, Creeper, etc.) found his replacement, P.J. Lavergne, in the likeliest of places – at a local karaoke hangout. Everyone assumes he’s a roadie until he takes the stage. Then…then they fall in love with him.

…and love is a common theme for these folks. While they might choose rock & roll itself as the subject they are smitten by, and though they might not always be proclaiming it as eloquently as Leonard Cohen on Songs Of Love And Hate, make no mistake, these are songs of exactly that: a love for music that understands that the ‘rock’ and the ‘roll’ are equally important in the equation and a hate for the assumption that anything with a guitar solo must be an ironic joke.

Sidney York
Begun as a long-distance musical collaboration between opera singer Brandi Sidoryk and bassoonist Krista Wodelet, Sidney York is one of the sharpest, sweetest, most surprising musical duos around.

Known for their high-energy live shows featuring instruments seldom seen beyond the orchestra pit, Sidney York is captivating audiences with an unconventional and irresistible blend of catchy lyrics, masterful arrangements, and soaring vocal harmonies.

Named Best Untapped Newcomer at the Calgary Folk Fest, Sidney York has also performed at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, SXSW, Canadian Music Fest, BIGSOUND (Australia), NXNE, and Vancouver Jazz Fest. Their 2011 album Apocalyptic Radio Cynic was called “vivacious, fresh, fun and gorgeous… a burst of fresh air” (Tamara Stanners, The Peak 102.7FM) and celebrated for bringing “sense of humility, a touch of class and most of all, fun” (Andrew Elliot, The Café Live 88.5FM) to the nouveau-pop genre.

Sidney York has recently shared the stage with notable artists Rich Aucoin and Carly Rae Jepsen, and will be featured in the forthcoming documentary Tracks on Tracks, which showcases ten Canadian acts on a cross-country musical adventure aboard a VIA Rail train.

Their brand-new album <3s (Hearts) infuses their trademark blend of layered vocals and eclectic influences in a set of tracks with “an undeniable edge and depth” (Kirk Hamilton, 3AM Revelations). <3s, an album in five volumes, is available in Canada and the US beginning January 2014, through a unique subscription model. Two tracks from the album are available every two months, delivered directly to subscribers along with other cool extras.

From the opera stage and the orchestra pit to the indie music scene, Sidney York is reinventing the meaning of the term “band geek”, one stage at a time.

The LBJs
Three amigos don their leather jackets, leave the bass at home and light the stage on fire. They're new kids on the block in town, but it's easy to yearn after their scrappy rock and roll, flailing solos and driving organ riffs. Vice presidential, indeed.

Invited: Connor Wilson, Krista Wodelet, Ains Diane, Sally Raab, Heather Christine, Tori Hines, Joanna Leigh, Joel Funkyfresh Taras, Jessica Bilodeau, Alice Lam, Natasha Elizabeth, Kallen Law, Cayley Moffat, Kelly James, Greg McCarthy, Eleanor Turley, David Weevers, Yvonne A, Kirstin Mulholland, Scott Perrin, Sebastian Buzzalino, Drew Anderson, Hayley Em, Dawn Daniels, Sean Parker, Matt Mosley, Samantha Mac Donald, Jessica Starling-Forces, Bil Hetherington, Jarret Hartnell, Jason Ronald, Jennifer Apperley, William Sharpe Staples, Tyler Guichon, Amanda Boulter, Jennifer Tuck, BJ Downey, Brett Hopper, Gene Lachica, Cheniese Bender, Shawn Petsche, Liam Wolstenholme, Russell Knight, Natasha Bailey, Zoë Andresen, Kevin Dorin, Colin Smith, Cody Ray Thompson, Dean King, Nathan Hurd, David Fyfe, Lindsay Todd, Anniken Richard, Eamonn Leyne, Andrea Llewellyn, Kelsey Thompson, Cat Heard, Ryan Secord, Maggie Davidson, Kyla Barstad, Nick Taylor, AJ Matheson, Jessica Marsh, James Mitchell Doiron, Candace Pearson, Christopher Schieman, Shari Rae, Rachel Jacques, Bella P Cuffley, Chad Tweten, Jazz Zenchyson, Billy Liver, Mallory McCredie, Doug Mitchell, Krista Kent, DC Lxvi, Matt Pounden, Skish E Ishy, Christie T, Sarah Merrill, Brandi Sidoryk, Malissa Dunphy, Chris Schwartz, Sarah E Hansen Allwood, Antonio Faiola, Stephen Balser, Jaimie Dawn Hackamo, Dasha Danger Taikh, Chelsea Malmberg, Rebecca White, Kenn Bell, Phil Schumacher, Kendra Richter, Alissa Finch, Crystal Rose, Colleen Krueger, Cole Hofstra, Amanda Scott, Mark Fleischhaker, Diesell Pfingsten show more »