Eight years ago the gals in Vancougar formed a band and quickly became the best of friends. Since then, every year at Christmas they’ve gotten together for ‘A Very Vancougar Christmas’ to exchange gifts and have FUN and be FESTIVE!
This year, Vancougar would like to invite all of you to join us in the first ever A Very Vancougar Christmas Show! They’ve asked some of their favourite all-female (or mainly female) kick ass rock n’ roll bands around town to help round out a killer night.
And… in the spirit of giving we’ll be collecting donations for the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre at the door in exchange for a discount of $1.00 per donated item off the cover charge.
Cover charge is $10 so bring 10 items and get in for free!!
Please see the following link for donation ideas: http://dewc.ca/?page_id=33
Vancougar willl be preparing gift bags for all of you lovely people and giving them away all night. That’s right, you can win a gift bag full of band merch and goodies just for showing up!
The Ballantynes are making their 7″ release party a weekender. Chains of Love are coming, too. So you basically get two of the best bands outta Vancouver in years as an early Christmas present. Plus you get Sick Secrets and Boom City. For like $8. A pittance. Lucky you!
For those of you who downloaded the free mixtape and requested a track listing, here ’tis:
1.Lee Rogers-Cream of the crop 2.Edwin Starr-I just wanted to cry 3.Sly and The Family Stone-Turn me loose 4.The Other Four-Once and for all girl 5.The Shangri-las-Wishing Well 6.Lykke Li-Sadness is a blessing 7.Pat Kelly-Troublin’ mind 8.Claudette-Queen of the World 9.The B-52′s-52 girls 10.Dramarama-Anything,Anything 11.The Flaming Groovies-Yes I am 12.Robert Brown and The Sons of The South-Nobody Knows
If you haven’t got it yet, go to http://latida.transmitvinyl.com/ballantynes/ and grab it. You’ll have to leave your e-mail, but don’t worry: it’s nothing dubious. We won’t forward it to The Rand Corporation or the reverse vampires.
Vancouver’s staple indie label, Mint Records is turning 20 years old. To celebrate, they’re holding a big party and they’ve invited The Maxines to join in on the fun. It all happens Friday November 25th @ The Waldorf Hotel (1489 E Hastings)
The Maxines hit the stage at 8:30 pm. We’ll have copies of the 7″ for sale so make sure to come by the merch table and say hello.
Tickets: $12 in advance/$15 at the door
Doors: 8pm (come early for prizes)
See you there
Partial proceeds go to support Vancouver’s Safe Amplification Society.
I: Pre-orders for the single available under the records tab (to the right) now. Only 500 pressed and only 200 up for pre-order. It’s no hyperbole to say these will go very, very fast. Orders will ship December 15th. If you’re ordering multiple copies, please inquire about combined shipping rates before checking out.
II: The Ballantynes made you a free mixtape. Because they’re good like that. Twelve eclectic cuts that round out the Ballantynes beat. Click Dale’s striking image for your secure download:
III: The Ballantynes are making some noise up on Parliament Hill. Hit the six minute mark to find out why we are all so gobsmacked:
There’s tons of fun cellphone clips circulating from The Ballantynes debut last Friday (check our favorites from the youtube channel), but The Futurists gave us all something special. No surprise there: it’s kinda what they do. Big thanks to Jashua Peter Grafstein for an amazing job.
13 Years of bringing Calgary the best in reggae and all its’ permutations. Unbelievable. As always, Al and Elijah have flown in a super heavyweight for a one-off show to mark the occasion. Last year? Jahtari. Before that? Sister Nancy. This year? Top Cat! Happy b-day you crazy fucks.
Thursday night at Talk’s Cheap in Victoria? Amazing. Cannot tell you how encouraging it is to have 50 people take the time to buy advance tickets and sell out a record store show. And 50 rad people who hung out, bought records, broke nothing, danced and kept things super posi. It makes us want to do something like this again should the store be so gracious.
Friday night? Fucking stupendous. A heartfelt thanks to all you who sold out the Cobalt. The debut of The Ballantynes was pure magic. If you caught the buzz but missed the show, there’s a record release to be announced very soon. There’s a mixtape coming out very soon, too. Like both next week. The Maxines launched their debut single in fine style, making many a convert. The Shimmering Stars were wonderful, and The Tranzmitors brough it as only The Tranzmitors do.
Saturday: we learned how Olympians do it; dancing uncontrollably and taking no prisoners. Also, they sure could teach their northern neighbours a thing or two about how to Occupy, btw.
And yes, we somehow managed to get the Maxines single out in time for all of it. We’re talking Against All Odds here. They’re in places like Red Cat and Neptoon in Van, Rainy Day and K Recs distro in Oly, and soon to be in Talk’s Cheap. Zulu and Scratch later this week. They’ll also be available at the Mint 20th Anniversary Party at the Waldorf in a couple of weeks. And you know what? It’s a pretty rad single.
Or, just buy one right off the site. They come with nifty download codes, too!
We’ll get some Maxines videos from the weekend up to the You Tube channel soon. In the meantime, here’s Nardwuar vs. The Maxines!!!! xo.
Friday, June 8th: Needles//Pins, The Mandates. Saskatoon, SK
Tuesday, June 12th: Needles//Pins. London, ON.
Wednesday, June 13th: Needles//Pins w/Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs, Mighty Atom at The Mongolian Grill, Waterloo, ON.
Thursday, June 14th: Needles//Pins, Mean Jeans, Hollywood. NXNE (the shop under P&L), Toronto, ON
Friday, June 15th: Needles//Pins. Montreal, QUE.
Saturday, June 16th: Needles//Pins. Ottawa Explosion Festival, Ottawa, ON.
Saturday, June 16th: Skip Jensen w/ Les Sexareenos!! at Il Motore, Montreal, Que
Sunday, June 17th: Needles//Pins @ Millards Garage, Sudbury, ON.
Wednesday June 20th – Saturday, June 23rd: The Ballantynes, Needles//Pins, Fist City and 200 other bands are all over Calgary, AB for the Sled Island Festival
Friday July 6th: The Maxines w/The Shivas, Portland, OR (House Party)
Saturday July 7th: The Maxines w/ Blasted Canyons and The Mallard, San Francisco, CA
Friday, July 13th: The Maxines at Burger Records! Fullerton, CA
Saturday, July 14th: The Maxines w/ The Wild Ones, Santa Cruz, CA
Eight years ago the gals in Vancougar formed a band and quickly became the best of friends. Since then, every year at Christmas they’ve gotten together for ‘A Very Vancougar Christmas’ to exchange gifts and have FUN and be FESTIVE!
