SHABBYTOWN out May 12

Posted by James Irwin

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JAMES IRWIN’S 3^rd album, SHABBYTOWN is a record about a particular Montreal.

SHABBYTOWN Tour Dates:

May 19 Montreal @ Bar le Ritz PDB w/ Alexia Avina + Cedric Noel

May 20 Ottawa @ Bar Robo w/ Beth and Soft Life

May 23 Peterborough @ Garnet w/ Carodiaro & Ben Rough

May 26 Toronto @ Burdock w/ L Con & EONS

May 28 Hamilton @ This Ain’t Hollywood w/ Delta Days

June 3, London @East Village Arts Collective w/Dan Edmonds & Jenny Berkel

SHABBYTOWN was tracked live off the floor over four days in Spring 2015. The band was ¾ of The Luyas – Pietro Amato, Stefan Schneider, Michael Feurstack—and Pat Bass Latreille. Patrick Gregoire (Pat Jordache) engineered and mixed. Maya Kuroki, Maica Armata (Carodiaro), and Lisa Conway (L Con, Del Bel) added guest vocals. Adam Kinner added sax.

Track List

First of May

Carlo What Do You Dream

Pink Noise

Shabbytown

Natural Feeling

Blonde Tobacco

Swarms

Sweet Light (For Katherine)

New Video by Hannah Fleet

Posted by James Irwin

This is the 3rd, and last, beauty video by Montreal director Hannah Fleet from the Unreal album. This one, for the song A Wave is a Wild Thing is premiering on Exclaim this week.

Check out the other vidEOS by Hannah for Did You Hear Who Shot Sam, and Sahra, and for Everything Passed Me By by Derrick Belcham HERE.

Unreal Now Out On Sainte Cécile

Posted by James Irwin

So happy to say Unreal is now out on Sainte Cécile, a digital wing of Montreal label Dare to Care Records.

You can buy Unreal on iTunes and buy/stream it on all the other web whatevers. You can also still buy the CD via bandcamp.

Un gros merci à Eli et Gabrielle et tout l’équipe à Sainte Cécile.

Sean Michaels’s Globe & Mail Sendup

Posted by James Irwin

I moved to Toronto. Oops. Before I left Montreal we had a send off show with all these guys at Snack and Blues and Sean Michaels wrote this amazing sendup in the Globe & Mail.