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Following the beautiful video (shot in India) for upbeat track 21 Days, Geoffroy now reveals Woke up Late. The Montreal-based artist’s latest single balances sweetly between chill, trip-hop verses and a chorus of intricate drum beats. Woke up Late is a feel-good song written by Geoffroy while he basked in Los Angeles sunlight, making it the perfect soundtrack for warm summer days.

The video, directed by Kyle cc Smith and Asim Overstands, features a live performance by Geoffroy and his bandmates. The house [musician Clément Leduc’s late grandfather’s] in which we shot the video is an art piece of its own, explains Kyle cc Smith. You rarely come across a house that is seemingly stuck in time as this one, so the location truly made this shooting a special one. Having the video’s audio be a live take from that house was very important to Geoffroy, who adds: The reality is I wanted to showcase the chemistry we have as a band, as they truly are everything to me. I wanted the viewer to feel like they would at one of our shows, just a gang of stoner friends making music.

Both Woke up Late and 21 Days will appear on his sophomore effort due out November 1st via Bonsound.

After releasing the single Part of Your World in July, Mark Clennon is back with Not Perfect, the second single off PASSION, his upcoming EP due out on September 6, 2019.

The Toronto-based future soul artist describes this new soulful and sensual track as the perfect song to embody a complicated breakup and all the emotions involved.

Not Perfect is out now on all music services.

In collaboration with Bien à vous and The Womanhood Project, Safia Nolin presents the video for her song Lesbian Break-up Song (feat. La Force), off her latest album Dans le noir.

Head over to lesbianbreakupsong.com to watch and share the video.

It's with great enthusiasm that we've announced the signature of future soul artist Mark Clennon to our record label. The Toronto-based musician unveiled Part of Your World, the first single off his sophomore EP to be released in September. To write this very personal song, Clennon drew inspiration from a period in his life when he felt like an outsider. The lyrics address interracial relationships and the challenges of fitting into a culture that is foreign to you, into a space that is a little inhospitable.

Watch and share the music video for Part of Your World via YouTube.
The single is available on all music services.

Inspired by Pop Up Video, a cult TV show from the late ‘90s, the music video was produced and co-directed by the artist, which he considers to be a huge accomplishment. With much determination and after months of hard work, Clennon travelled to Jamaica to shoot the video on the tiny island of Maiden Cay. I chose to shoot on the Cay as a symbolism of the isolation I felt in that time in my life when I wrote this song, he explains.

PASSION, Mark Clennon's upcoming EP is due out on September 6, 2019. It follows the release of When The Smoke Clears (2016).

Bonsound is proud to announce the signature of Corridor to our record label. Later this year, the band will release new music via Bonsound in Canada and via Sub Pop for the rest of the world. This is the first time since its creation in the 1980s that the legendary Seattle-based label will collaborate with an entirely francophone group.

The band is also making the most of this announcement by unveiling dates for their upcoming tour throughout the fall of 2019. The tour will kick off in Philadelphia on October 23rd with dates in Berlin, Paris, London and Toronto before wrapping at the Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles on December 13th. Corridor will also stop by their hometown on Novembre 22nd, to perform at Le National as part of M for Montreal.

Tour dates:
23/10 Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
25/10 Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong
29/10 Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso
04/11 Paris, FR - Point Éphémère
06/11 London, UK - Waiting Room
08/11 Hamburg, DE - Hafenklang
09/11 Berlin, DE - Westgermany
10/11 Kortrijk, BE - Sonic City Music Festival
20/11 Toronto, ON - The Garrison
22/11 Montreal, QC - M for Montreal (Le National)
28/11 Quebec City, QC - l'Anti
04/12 San Francisco, CA - Milk Bar
07/12 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar
12/12 Seattle, WA - Barboza
13/12 Los Angeles, CA - Moroccan Lounge

Two years after releasing his debut album Coastline, Geoffroy returns with 21 Days, a new upbeat and mesmerizing single that he composed in Los Angeles with his bandmate and producer Clément Leduc. The track is out now on all music services.

Geoffroy flew to India to film the video for 21 Days with director Didier Charette, a good friend and frequent collaborator, and DOP Derek Branscombe. True to form, Geoffroy was in search of adventure and this time he travelled across Rajasthan from cities to the desert in 50°C heat. The result is a breathtaking, beautiful video that showcases an intoxicating joie de vivre and the real connection between the artist and the people he encounters on his journey.

We're super proud to announce three of our artists have been nominated on the 2019 Polaris Music Prize Short List! Elisapie's The Ballad of the Runaway Girl, Les Louanges's La nuit est une panthère and Marie Davidson's Working Class Woman all made the cut from the 40 albums previously selected for the Long List.

The Polaris Music Prize rewards the canadian album of the year, judged solely on artistic merit, without consideration for genre or record sales. The winner will be announced on September 16th and will receive a cash prize of 50 000$.

Fingers crossed!

Since the release of Deception Bay in February 2018, Milk & Bone won a JUNO, performed alongside Lorde and released DIVE, a collaborative EP with famed producer Alex Lustig. Needless to point out that the girls haven’t slowed down at all in the past year. To top a list of critically acclaimed singles off Deception Bay, they’re now releasing a video for the song KIDS. The video was created thanks to the generous support of the MVP Project, a joint initiative of RBCxMusic and the Prism Prize (administered by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television).

Once again, Camille and Laurence entrusted the video direction to their long-time collaborator Soleil Denault. The director opposes the carelessness and innocence played out in the lyrics to well-thought-out visuals: the calculated camera shifts, the lines that seamlessly curve and swerve throughout the video, the choreography. Through opposite yet complementary aesthetics and the bodies effortlessly melting into one another, the images draw out a meticulous dance.

Milk & Bone will be playing many festivals across Canada all summer long. See milknbone.com for all tour dates.

Today Elisapie unveils a video for the song Ton vieux nom, off The Ballad of the Runaway Girl, released in September 2018. In addition to taking her all over North America and Europe, this intimate album - on which the Inuk singer explores her northern roots and aspects of her femininity - has amassed great reviews. Rolling Stone France called the music a delicately violent album that seduces as much as it questions, while NPR said Elisapie synthesizes stories from her eventful life with hypnotic arrangements that channel ‘70s rock, indigenous folk music and the low, moody rumble of barnstormers like Tom Waits.

On the album's only French track Ton vieux nom, co-written with Chloé Lacasse and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Elisapie uses her skillful poetry to urge her people to reaffirm their pride. Behind its hushed ballad mood, the lyrics address issues that still affect the Inuit population today. The video is made up of archival images that offer a window into the reality of Inuit living in the Great North. Coupled with the lyrics, the song is an important reflection on the past. Above all, Ton vieux nom is a song of determination and compassion.

This summer, Elisapie will embark on a Canadian tour, during which she will take part in a dozen festivals, including the Montreal Jazz Fest, RBC Bluesfest in Ottawa and the Festival de la Chanson de Tadoussac. She will then fly to Europe where she will perform in several French cities as well as in Czech Republic, by way of the Paleo Festival in Switzerland and the Francofolies de Spa in Belgium. Visit elisapie.com for more information about her summer tour or see dates below.

Safia Nolin, who is currently touring with her latest album Dans le noir, will headline an outdoor concert at this year’s Francos de Montréal on Sunday, June 16th. She will be accompanied by special guests Patrick Watson, KROY and Pomme (to name a few), and Philippe Cyr (J’aime Hydro) will produce the show. Written in her self-described super depressive style (the style that won her the Prix Félix-Leclerc de la Chanson, the SOCAN Breakthrough Award, the Félix for Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2016, and the Félix for Female Artist of the Year in 2017), Dans le noir is described by ICI Musique as tough, filled with painful tenderness and, most of all, so beautiful it’ll bring you to tears.

Since launching her album in October, Safia has released Mélancolie, a duet with Patrick Watson, and a music video for Dagues starring the drag queen Verona Verushka, as well as performed over 40 concerts in Canada and France. Now, Safia returns with a new track, Claire, written with her friend Philémon Cimon, an artist she greatly admires. Recorded on tape with her long-time much-respected collaborators Joseph Marchand and Philippe Brault, Claire is an intimate break-up song. Emotional and deeply moving, the critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter exposes another piece of her heart in this latest dark, stripped-down folk song. Claire’s artwork and video were created by Safia herself.