The Champion Heartache Mixing New LP, Giving Away Debut Album

The Champion Heartache Mixing New LP, Giving Away Debut Album

It’s been over a year since Oshawa’s The Champion Heartache self released their debut disc. The band is now in the mixing stage of their sophomore album, titled Indoor Voices, and to celebrate, they’re giving away their first album for free. “This is simply an effort to get more people to hear the first one. The new disc is about a month or so away, and we’d really like to get some friends excited for the new one. We just hope people haven’t forgotten about us.” Matt Holtby is the lead singer of the band, but claims the new album is strictly a collaborative effort. “This time, we just did a lot of jamming, and feel the next release is a true pop rock record. Lots of fun four minute rockers.”

The band will have a new song from Indoor Voices available within weeks, but in the meantime, download their self titled debut for free below.

Expect to see a string of spring tour dates to coincide with their release.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2vb4x9

Stop Breathin'

So, tomorrow tickets for the show of the year go on sale. It features Broken Social Scene, Band Of Horses, and the reunited Pavement! Since hearing of this show, I've been driving around listening to Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and thinking back to why I started listening to this band in the first place. Not the lyrics, not the production, not the wanky guitar, but...the hooks. Between this, and Slanted and Enchanted, there more hooks than a tackle box (ZING!) Gotta love it.

Heres details: http://torontoislandconcert.com/

As for some other cool shows coming up, my good friend Jonas Bonetta aka Evening Hymns is doing his CD Release tonight in Guelph. There's also a slew of dates in support of his beautiful new album, plus this friday he'll be joined by our good friends The D'urbervilles, Forest City Lovers, Jenny Omnichord and DJ Hurtsack for the Out Of This Spark 3rd Anniversary bash at the Garrison.

Transference

Today the new Spoon album came out. It's absolutely great, and I urge you to get out and pick it up. I first caught these guys back in '01 opening for Guided By Voices, and I've been a huge fan ever since. They're on Conan tonight too.

This past weekend was great. On saturday, our drummer Craig stopped by, and we ended up listening to this album after killing a case of beer. It was great to just relax and chat about music other than our own.

Sunday we got back to working on the new Champion Heartache record. I'm finally getting excited, and have a good feeling that it's going to sound like I hoped it would. It's a much more upbeat record with only one slower tune on it. We now have 2 songs completely mixed, and shall continue to work away on the remaining tracks. Within the next month or so we'll be working on some new promo stuff like photos, artwork and a new website.

Here's a taste of that Spoon album: http://www.sendspace.com/file/g5kiwp

Other Spoon related stuff:

Tonight!Spoon on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on NBC at 11:35 p.m. ESTWednesday, Jan. 20

Spoon on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, streaming live beginning at 11:15 a.m. PST / 2:15 p.m.

ESTThursday, Jan. 21Spoon plays live at the Mercury Lounge in NYC.Saturday, Jan. 23Britt Daniel solo at Sound Fix in Brooklyn at 7 p.m. ESTMonday,

Jan. 25Spoon on KGSR 93.3 FM in Austin at 12 p.m. CST Spoon performance at Waterloo Records in Austin at 4 p.m. CST

First Post In 3 Years?

Yes, it's true. For some strange reason, I've neglected this blog horribly, but stumbled across it in my "favorites" and I've been reading it at work for like, an hour now. God, I feel so old now. The majority of these posts seem so optimistic, and full of love towards people I hardly even know anymore. How time flies, and friends change.

I'm still playing music, and The Champion Heartache is currently mixing our second album which might see a release by early spring. At one point we were ready to press it on vinyl. Now we'll be lucky if it's available on casette. Times are tough financially, but our good friend Billy Blasko (who appears far too many times in previous postson this blog) is at the wheel once again, helping to mix and finish this record at a really great price.

There's nothing else really huge to talk about right now. Since my last post however, I've married Karlie, we bought a house, I have a home recording setup, and she owns a horse. Too funny. Last night was my first night back in a bar hosting an open stage at The Bittmore in Courtice. It was an awesome turnout and great to see so many familiar faces again. I haven't been playing much live, nor has the band. That picture up there is the last gig I played, just after Christmas. It was at Jay and Kerri King's garage, and featured Sunbear, Jonas Bonetta, and a surprise appearance from Blue Rodeo's Greg Kellor. Favorite show of the year, no joke.

Ok, I'm done for now. Just random typing and not much to say other than I hope everyone is doing well, and having a Happy New Year so far.

Dates to mention:

March 29 - SPOON with Deerhunter @ The Sound Academy

June 19 - Pavement, Broken Social Scene and Band of Horses @ Olympic Island

xo