Rain Over St. Ambrose has just released a new video for my jam on the record, “Broken Love”.
See that singer man, there? I have known him since he was 14 years old or so. His name is Cory (but not what we called him), and he’s grown in to a hilarious, lovely young man. He’s a dad now. And, methinks, a pretty cool lookin’ front man. 🙂
It’s got to be fall now, because Nova Scotia Music Week / Music Nova Scotia is announcing its award nominees and performers for the November event! ALL nominees and voting information is posted HERE. See below for a list of our artists and their nominations. Congratulations to all of our peeps!!
Company of The Year – Rocking Horse Road Productions – that’s us!
Industry Professional of the Year – Janesta Boudreau (Rocking Horse Road Productions) – that’s me!
Entertainer of the Year – Christina Martin
Solo Recording of the Year
-Christina Martin
-Gabrielle Papillon
Group Recording of the Year
– Rain Over St. Ambrose
– Mardeen
Recording of the Year – Gabrielle Papillon
SOCAN Songwriter of the Year
-Christina Martin
-Gabrielle Papillon
Digital Artist of the Year – Christina Martin
Electronic Artist of the Year – Bit Funk
Folk Recording of the Year – Gabrielle Papillon
Hip Hop Recording of the Year – Quake Matthews
Pop Recording of the Year – Christina Martin
Rock Recording of the Year
– Mardeen
– Rain Over St. Ambrose
– The Stogies
Oh, yeah. It’s a good day when we can announce a new album. Today is a great day to announce that Heather Green’s new record, Clementine, will be released on Sept. 11th. Not only that, there will be a CD release show in Halifax on September 12th. Not only that, but the first single, “Wild Ones” is available NOW for streaming and for download on iTunes. Yeup – a great day, indeed.
Bio:
With two albums under her belt, (2008’s One Year Happy and 2012’s ECMA nominated Your Last War), Heather Green returned to the studio last year with music producer/genius Daniel Ledwell (Jenn Grant, Don Brownrigg, The Forunate Ones) to record her third album, Clementine.
Clementine is an album about relationships: both romantic and platonic. Inspired by these relationships and influenced by bands First Aid Kit, Boy, and Ingrid Michaelson, Clementine is Heather’s most eclectic album. First single “Wild Ones” reminds the listener of Heather’s previous tracks, painted with a broader, more sophisticated musical pallet. “Last Leg” intertwines intelligent melody and baselines to create a perfect driving song, and soulful “Time” brings one back to an era of classic doo-wop ballads. While the songs are varied, the album stitches together that gravitational theme of relationships, and of course, Heather’s expert songwriting, which is what she is known and admired for among her fans. Along with the fans’ accolades, Your Last War was honoured with two top ECMA nominations (Pop Recording of the Year, Rising Star Recording of the Year) and SIX Nova Scotia Music & Industry Award nominations. With this new collection, the Industry is sure to recognize Heather’s work once again.
Like all Heather Green albums, Clementine features some of the best musicians that the East Coast has to offer. Heather’s friends Stewart Legere, Kim Harris, and Margot Durling add signature harmonies, while the rock band Young River (Zach MacLean, Brodie Peterson and Matt Thauvette) crafted the guitars, bass and drums. Clementine is undoubtedly Heather Green’s most mature and daring album. One that, Heather adds, is “my favourite group of songs yet.”
Since moving to Nova Scotia from California in 2009, Heather has carefully woven her way into the fabric of both the music community and the local LGBTQ+ community. When not playing music or working for community services, Heather spends her time volunteering as the Vice Chair and Entertainment Director for Halifax Pride and training her cat to sit on his hind legs.
Learn more at www.heathergreen.ca
He’s baaaack!
A little story for you. When I started at Sonic Entertainment Group in 2004 (where I lived for 8 great years!), my first task was to help the label, Sonic Records with a mail out for Nathan Wiley’s second album, High Low. Fast forward to a decade later, and I check my mailbox to find an envelope addressed to me from Nathan Wiley containing a copy of his new EP, Bandits! it’s with great pleasure that I can now announce our newest RHR Artist – NATHAN WILEY!
Now for a taste – Nathan’s petty-esque “Queen of the Road” video is below. Supes – look for this in your in-box early next week, along with a copy of Heather Green‘s upcoming release, Clementine!
Hi readers! Happy summer! How are we? Great, I hope.
Some news to share with you. We are in the initial planning stages of expansion here at RHR – will share more information as things progress. It’s likely a year long project, but we can’t wait to launch it! OK – enough of being cryptic. I have some videos to share:
1) Halifax Urban Folk Festival (HUFF) has announced its lineup for this year. If you’ve not heard of HUFF – you have to check it out. Intimate, fun nights with some stellar musicians. Last year, Dave Pirner (yep – Soul Asylum guy) came and made lots of Haligonian friends.
My first HUFF experience was in its inaugural year – the day of a hurricane – with an after party in the dark. It remains one of my most memorable nights in the city. Also – I met Steve Anthony, which was kinda fun.
Anyway – dive in to the scene and the city. See some of our artists and friends. Experience HUFF this year:
2) Paper Beat Scissors has a new album coming out on Aug 14th called Go On. It’s lush and sounds like a new Tim Crabtree. Exclaim! says it “masterfully maneuvers between grandiose chamber pop, aching experimentation and cinematic sonic landscapes.” – Supes, you’ll find it in your inbox soon. Until then – the debut video for “Lawless”, which premiered on Rolling Stone Germany’s website a few weeks ago.
Happy suntanning (but wear that sunscreen)!
xo – jb
It’s been a while since the last post. Apologies to any of our readers! Rocking Horse Road has been attending conferences in London, Los Angeles, Toronto and PEI – growing the business and making new friends. It’s been a great year so far, made even better by being able to finally reveal a lovely project that we helped with earlier this year.
Planet Coaster, the newest game created and published by Frontier Developments (Elite: Dangerous, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, Zoo Tycoon, etc.) was just announced at E3 in LA on June 16th. This adorable trailer features the track “Compass” by Lady Antebellum. It was one of our biggest clearances to date, and it was a pleasure working with everyone involved – thanks to Universal, Kobalt, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappell and Lady Antebellum! The results of everyone’s work is below. Let me know what you think! @RockingHorseJB
While attending the London Sync Summit, I had the pleasure of catching a couple short acoustic performances by this lovely band of Irish lads called The Young Folk. It’s my pleasure to report that, a few emails later, Rocking Horse Road now represents them for syncs on this side of the pond!
“Quite simply, one of the most promising young bands to come out of Ireland in several decades, and this debut album is a fantastic calling card and opening gambit for the five lads” – Maverick Magazine
“Serious challengers for the likes of Fleet Foxes, Mumford and Sons and The Low Anthem.” – Hot Press
They’ve opened for Midlake. They have been compared to Fleet Foxes, Lumieers, and Mumford and Sons. They have really bad luck (read this article. holy crap!).. but all comparisons, name drops, and tragic stories aside, these kids are the real deal. We are very proud to have them as part of the RHR family. Supes – this will land in your inbox very soon!
Thanks to Caren and Julia at Pixie Place Records.
-JB
What a week! While in the UK to attend the London Sync Summit, I had one eye and half my heart back on the East Coast, where East Coast Music Week was happening in one of my favourite places in the world – St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The Sync Summit was a nice time, capped off with a night at Sync Drinks – where London’s licensing professionals go to drink beer on the sidewalk outside a pub in SOHO. Super fun. Between the two events, I had the pleasure of meeting some great UK / European industry pros, including Joel and Emma from SynchTank, Marcel from Sizzer Amsterdam, Carmen of CMC Music Supervision, Peter from Sweden, Clare and Jay… the list goes on. Thanks to our host and leader, Mark Frieser for bringing us licensing folk all together, and I will return to another one of these summits soon!
On the other side of the pond, RHR artists Kim Harris and Joshua Van Tassel won awards for Rising Star of the Year and Electronic Recording of the Year at East Coast Music Week. The depth and breadth and quality of the talent back home is exactly why I do what I do, and why I travel far and wide to meet new people and spread the word about our music. Congratulations Kim and JVT. You deserve that recognition and much much more.
xo- JB
It was a good 14 years ago that I fell in love with Michael Feuerstack‘s s music, when he went by the name ‘Snailhouse’. I saw him play in a crowded upstairs room at The Khyber in Halifax, Nova Scotia on a rainy afternoon and I’ve been an uberfan ever since. His work in Wooden Stars is also terrific, but his solo stuff, to me at least, is magical. I did have one of his tunes as a ringtone for a while too. I fangirled out and showed him once, all smiles and holding my phone up in front of him like it was made of gold. Geek move, but whatever. Fans are weird, it’s just a fact.
Anyway – The Globe and Mail recently published a story FINALLY singing his praise, with Canadian musicians imparting very kind words, and helping to educate the rest of the country on Mike’s brilliance as a songwriter. READ IT HERE.
RHR has the pleasure of having Mike on our roster. When we signed him on, I was over the friggin’ moon. His new album The Forgettable Truth is out now. I’m posting my jam “The Devil” below, as well as his in-studio performance on Q (you know, that show that used to be Jian Gomeshi’s on CBC) of “Clackity Clack”. I believe that might be Jeremy Gara from Arcade Fire on Drums.. am I right?
