Last week Woodpigeon released a holiday song online (get “xoxmas” here). Not to be outdone, label-mate Christopher Smith has not only recorded a Christmas song himself, but has also made a video for it.

While this one-upmanship may suggest that Smith and Woodpigeon’s Mark Hamilton have a competitive relationship (which may well be the case) the pair of them actually get along quite well and are collaborating on not 1 but 2 EPs to be released in 2010. Christopher Smith + The Beckon…

You probably know a Christopher Smith.  There are a lot of them.  There are even a lot of musicians with the name, so there’s bound to be a lot of confusion in the coming months with links to the wrong Smith site.  The Christopher Smith I’m writing you about isn’t much known outside of Vancouver.  While he can be considered a newcomer, he’s been playing galleries and bedrooms around East Vancouver for years and those who do know Christopher (this…

We’ve been watching Christopher Smith play shows in and around the Main St. community of Vancouver for years, and have been looking forward to releasing his debut for just as long. We love the simplicity and beauty of all of Chris’s songs and are just really excited to sign a new Vancouver artist.

While Smith’s debut full length release, The Beckon Call, won’t be out until February, you can expect to hear a lot more of him in the months to…

It seems like Woodpigeon only just got home from their last European tour, but Mark Hamilton will be heading back over from May 9-23 for solo dates, including his first tour of Ireland all backed by a band including not one, but two ukuleles. He’s sandwiched the tour between visits to Bulgaria and Sweden, further ensuring his status as the envy of college backpackers the world over.

There will be a few Canadian dates in June and July, including NXNE and…