Film POP & Hilotrons will present Silents is Golden, a night of silent films brought to life with live musical scores from Ottawa’s Hilotrons. Old-film aficionados and YouTube maniacs and everyone with eyes and ears are invited to come discover The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1920, Germany) along with a collection of short silent films produced by the now-defunct Ontario Motion Picture Board in the 1920s and recently unearthed from Library and Archives Canada’s vault. Friday, March 2, 2012 at Il Motore.

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Film POP et Hilotrons présentent Silents is Golden, une soirée de films muets animés par une trame sonore jouée en direct par les Ottaviens Hilotrons. Les aficionados de vieux films, les maniaques de YouTube ou tous ceux qui ont des yeux et des oreilles sont invités à découvrir Le Cabinet du Docteur Caligari (réal. Robert Wiene, 1920, Allemagne) en plus d’une collection de court-métrages muets produits dans les années 1920 par la regrettée Ontario Motion Picture Board et récemment déterrés de la voute de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. Vendredi le 2 mars 2012, au Il Motore .

This month, Adam and the Amethysts return to singer Adam Waito’s hometown-of-his-youth – Thunder Bay – to kick off a new string of tour dates leading them west.

It has been a year of milestones for Montreal’s Adam & The Amethysts. Since signing to Kelp Records and releasing their sophomore album Flickering Flashlight this October, the new album has been praised as “possibly the best folk-rock album of 2011.”

Cities being visited are below, hopefully you will get a chance to see them live!

Nov 24: Thunder Bay, ON (The Sovereign Room)
Nov 25: Winnipeg, MB (Mondragon)
Nov 26: Saskatoon, SK (Amigos)
Nov 27: Edmonton, Alberta (Wunderbar)
Nov 29: Calgary, AB (Weeds)
Dec 1: Vancouver, BC (The Media Club)
Dec 2: Victoria, BC (Felicita’s @ U VIC)
Dec 3: Kelowna, BC (Fernando’s)
Dec 4: Medicine Hat (Redcliff Youth Centre)

We kicked off the celebrations early with the brand new video for “Dreaming,” the somnambulant, swim-heavy track that ends the album. Yuula Benivolski directed and edited a wondrous b&w journey around Toronto Centre Island, viewable right here:

Order your copy HERE, and come see them on tour this month in the Eastern part of Canada:

OCT 4 – MONTREAL, QC – free instore @ Phonopolis, 6pm sharp!
OCT 5 – TORONTO, ON – The Piston (w/ Pink Moth)
OCT 6 – LONDON, ON – APK Live (w/ Pink Moth)
OCT 7 – OTTAWA, ON – Raw Sugar
OCT 13 – HAMILTON, ON – Casbah
OCT 14 – GUELPH, ON – Homebody House Show
OCT 15 – WINDSOR, ON – Phog Lounge
OCT 20 – FREDERICTON, NB – Capital (w/ Library Voices)
OCT 21 – HALIFAX, NS – Obsolete Records instore (4pm)
OCT 21 – HALIFAX, NS – Company House (HPX Herohill Showcase)
OCT 22 – SAINT JOHN, NB – Teen Resource Centre (all-ages)
NOV 9 – BROOKLYN, NY – Spike Hill

Preorders can be made here on our site, for both 180g made-in-Canada LP format, and CDs. All preorders will receive a same-day MP3 download code for the record, so you can start enjoying it without delay. Skip the lines and grab it today!

HOUR cover story link: http://hour.ca/2011/09/15/adam-the-amethysts-shine-a-light/

Preorders for the album start on Monday, so check back early next week for details!!

If LPs are your bag, get thee HERE as soon as you’re able, and order direct from the band!

And for those of you in the Ottawa area, keep SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH free, as we’ll be celebrating at BABYLON that night with a launch party, along with Mother’s Children and Mnemonics. Further details here!

Kelp is pleased to announce the signing of Montreal band ADAM & THE AMETHYSTS! Their second album, entitled Flickering Flashlight, will be out on Kelp October 4th on 180g LP, as well as CD and digital.

Their debut, Amethyst Amulet, received endless praise from critics. It was thematically unified as a loving lo-fi homage to the people, stories, and natural majesty of Adam’s hometown. On Flickering Flashlight, the overarching theme is less a longing for a long lost and mythologized past, but more a reverence for the present, and Adam’s situated-ness in that present in relation to the past and future.

Adam played nearly all of the instruments himself, but Rebecca Lessard is prominently featured on cello and vocal harmonies. Adam also received help from Montreal music scene friends, Nathan Ward and Jordan Robson Cramer, drummers from Miracle Fortress and Sunset Rubdown, respectively.

Rebecca, Jordan, and Scott Johnson Gailey (who also contributed to the new album) make up the most recent—and most solid to date—live lineup of Adam & The Amethysts.

Download the first single, “Prophecy,” for free:

The full fall touring schedule will be announced shortly, but here’s the first batch of dates to look forward to:

August 18th- OTTAWA, ON – Raw Sugar Cafe (w Owl Loris)
August 25th- TORONTO, ON – Tranzac
September 22nd- MONTREAL, QC – O Patro Vys (Pop Montreal MEGAPHONO Showcase)
September 23rd- MONTREAL, QC – Prism Tower (Pop Montreal loft show)

Unbelievably, Scott Terry made it through security this morning at the airport, boarding an aeroplane for the first time in 23 years. It’s real- Camp Radio is heading to Alberta!

Fresh off the recording of their brand new album, Campista Socialista, Camp Radio are making a field trip to the land of oil and flame to celebrate, culminating in a weekend at Calgary’s stellar Sled Island festival.

If you’re in Alberta this week, don’t miss this rare chance to see the band live, which on this tour includes Jeff Kainz (Werbo) and Jim Bryson on added-dual-axe attack!!

Here’s a refresher on the dates:

Thursday June 23rd
The Hideout
Red Deer, AB
w/Mark Davis

Friday June 24th
The Artery
Edmonton, AB
w/Mark Davis (CD release par-taaay!)

Saturday June 25th
The Palomino
Calgary, AB
Saved By Vinyl BBQ (afternoon show)
Sled Island Festival
w/C’mon, Rae Spoon, Mark Davis, Jon McKiel

Saturday June 25th
Vern’s
Calgary, AB
Sled Island Festival
w/Cheeseburger, Bare Wires, Young Ones

Come early for free BBQ (while supplies last) and stay all afternoon for some great NXNE showcasing acts from the East and West of our lovely nation.

Sponsored by Oh! Canada’s home base UK blog THE LINE OF BEST FIT and MEGAPHONO, as well as our friends at CARLSBERG!

THE KELP RECORDS / OH! CANADA
EAST MEATS WEST BBQ!

GLOBAL VILLAGE BACKPACKERS (460 KING W @ SPADINA)
FOOD STARTS AT 1PM SHARP.

1:30PM
Pink Moth (Toronto, ON)
http://pinkmoth.bandcamp.com/

2:15PM
The Elwins (Newmarket, ON)
http://theelwins.ca/

3:00PM
Slow Down, Molasses (Saskatoon, SK)
http://slowdownmolasses.bandcamp.com/

3:45
Shuyler Jansen (Saskatoon, SK)
http://shuylerjansen.bandcamp.com/

4:30
Kite Hill (Toronto, ON)
http://www.myspace.com/restandrun

We are proud to release the list of Flea & Food Market vendors for this Saturday’s throwdown at the DOM POLSKI Polish Hall (379 Waverley).

In a short period of time we have managed to cobble together a very impressive list of chefs who will be making street food-inspired creations for your feasting pleasure:

- The Black Cat (Chef Trish Larkin)
- Murray Street (Chef Steve Mitton)
- Pascale’s All Natural Ice Cream showing off her new ice cream
bike (ding! ding!)
- Raw Sugar Café’s (owner, Nadia Kharyati)
- Ryan Janssens (Sous-chef, Domus Cafe)
- the Urban Element (Chef Candice Butler)
- the Whalesbone (Chef of Catering Kate Klenavic)
and some of Otown’s awesomest amateur chefs! (spent grain pretzels and whoopie pies anyone?)

On the “flea” side of the equation you’ll find:

- Kelp artist Andy Swan’s glass engravings & Andrew Vincent’s handmade wonders
- Neat Coffee (Burnstown, ON)
- Major Craig’s Chutneys
and regular flea market goodies like clothes, toys and records.

Then obviously, the music:

12 PM: Jenny Omnichord
2 PM: Greenfield Main performing their 2004 album Barnburners & Heartchurners

The market will take place at the Dom Polski (379 Waverley, just east of Bank). Doors open at 11am. Tickets are $2 before 1pm, $5 after that. Food and “flea” prices vary.