Stagger’s fourth full length release, Everything Is Real, is out today in Canada. This is also the fourth Leeroy Stagger release that Boompa has been a part of. The new record features performances by Bobby Furgo (Leonard Cohen Band), Tim Easton (New West Records), Evan Phillips (The Whipsaws), Steve Bays (Hot Hot Heat), Neal Casal (Ryan Adams and the Cardinals), as well as Scottish songster Roddy Hart.

Here’s what’s in store for Boompa Records this year: new web site, Circlesquare, Woodpigeon, Leeroy Stagger, Patrick Brealey, The Salteens, and Woodpigeon again! And now in more detail:

Circlesquare: Songs About Dancing And Drugs

Today is the day that Circlesquare’s highly anticipated record Songs About Dancing and Drugs is finally available in Canada. This is the kind of album that comes around once in forever, and we are proud to partner up with electronic label K7! on its release. Visit the Boompa online shop and…

Leeroy Stagger is bringing Depression River to Europe next week as he sets out on the Don’t Feed The Bear Tour. His fifth UK tour in 3 years will bring the Canadian songwriter across the pond for a month of dates in support of his latest record starting in Aberdeen, Scotland on November 4th.

Leeroy will be on the road with his Glaswegian pal Roddy Hart, heading to some remote and not so remote parts of Scotland supported in part by Tune Up.…

Depression River, Beautiful House, and the Tales From the Back Porch EP are all now available through emusic, the subscription-based service that lets you own, not rent, music in high quality MP3 format.

You can hear Leeroy and his friend Matt Hopper sing an acoustic version of “Just In Case” from Beautiful House by visiting Leeroy’s MySpace page. The song was part of Leeroy’s Sony Connects performance.

Leeroy will be doing a bunch of touring in the next couple of months, starting tomorrow night in Vancouver when he’ll play in support of Jason Isbell. Check out all the tour dates here.

For those of you who can’t make it out to any of these shows, you can visit Leeroy’s MySpace page where he’s uploaded a new, unreleased song called “Sleep Under the Stars.”

Last but not least, there are tour plans in the works for Europe this fall, so keep checking back…

Leeroy Stagger’s third full-length album, Depression River, is in stores today in the USA. The Canadiana troubadour’s follow-up to 2005’s critically acclaimed Beautiful House, has drawn early comparisons to Steve Earle’s Copperhead Road and Neil Young’s Harvest. Out through Boompa Records, Depression River is a deep and moving album filled with heartfelt confessions and observations shaped by a not-so-idyllic childhood in the rural outskirts of Victoria, British Columbia.

“Depression River is a reference to the town where I grew up. It’s this really small town…

While Depression River won’t be available in stores in the USA for another month, you can get it now digitally through iTunes and other fine online retailers. Maybe you saw Leeroy Stagger at one of his recent American shows, but didn’t feel like carrying home that heavy CD. Now you can buy it online in its light-weight format, now with more zeros and ones!

Leeroy Stagger has another few shows in the Mid West, before returning to America’s hat for Canadian Music Week.…

Tune into Urban Rush today to see Leeroy Stagger perform a song off his latest album, Depression River.

Urban Rush airs on channel 4 in Greater Vancouver today at 5pm, 7pm and 11pm, and then again tomorrow at 1pm, 7am and noon. You can also tune in on southern Vancouver Island tomorrow at 5pm on channel 4 in Victoria, and channel 11 in the Cowichan Valley.

Leeroy Stagger, is gearing up to release his third full-length album, Depression River, on Boompa Records. The album, produced by John Ellis (Be Good Tanyas), will be released April 3, in the USA and distributed through Caroline.

“Depression River is a reference to Shawnigan Lake, the town where I grew up. It’s basically this really small town on Vancouver Island,” explains Stagger. “A lot of bad things kind of happened to me when I lived there, the most significant being the death of my…

Not long ago, when Barney Bentall told Leeroy Stagger about his plan to organize a series of benefit shows in the style of the Grand Ol’ Opry, he knew immediately he wanted to be involved. Barney and his friends took the Grand Cariboo Opry to Winnipeg a week ago. This weekend will see Leslie Alexander, Ridley Bent, Dustin Bentall, Wendy Bird, Cameron Latimer and Leeroy Stagger play the Opera House in Ashcroft, BC. Tickets available by phone from the Ashcroft…