Boompa Records is pleased to introduce this Toronto-based twosome with the release of their debut record. Acclaimed duo Colleen and Paul release their self-titled album on July 27, 2010 in Canada and on September 14 in the US and Japan. After a successful tour of Nova Scotia this June with the Dave Bidini Band and with Sarah Harmer in Hamilton, the duo is currently returning from tour dates in the US. Colleen and Paul are Colleen Hixenbaugh from By Divine Right…

Boompa Records is proud to release The Beckon Call, the debut full-length from Vancouver-based Christopher Smith. Due out May 11, the record harks back to times long past—days both you and Smith alike are too young to have even known.

Having started out as a visual artist, Smith’s pieces were exhibited in galleries throughout Vancouver before he had even finished high school. When work began on his first complete album, Christopher retreated to his studio of choice—a bedroom. Modest in execution, the…

The Salteens started Boompa Records to put out their sophomore album, Let Go Of Your Bad Days. That was 7 years ago, and since then Boompa has released a lot of other albums while the Vancouver-based band has remained largely silent. We are proud to announce the end of that irony. On May 11 Boompa Records will release the Moths EP in Canada, Japan and the USA, in advance of the long awaited Salteens LP, Grey Eyes, due out late this summer.

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Having just released their third overall lp and U.S. debut, Die Stadt Muzikanten, Woodpigeon will focus on the album track, “Spirehouse”, for a new video and 5-song EP available right here. The video, filmed at a farm outside Calgary, was directed by Beau Lark and Jeff Way, capturing the shimmering beauty and sense of urgency within the song. The Spirehouse EP features three new, previously unreleased tracks as well as a remix by Shipshapen.

Calgary, Alberta’s Woodpigeon will release their third lp and U.S. debut, Die Stadt Muzikanten, March 9 through Boompa along with their sophomore lp, Treasury Library Canada. Led by prolific songwriter, Mark Andrew of the Hamiltons, Woodpigeon has garnered glowing critical acclaim both in their home country and as well as in Europe, where the band has toured extensively the past two years. Hamilton was inspired to write Die Stadt Muzikanten during one of his European travels to Germany and Austria where is…

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…

Reverie Sound Revue has released a new video for “You Don’t Exist If I Don’t See You”. The song is the latest from their recent full length Reverie Sound Revue, and the video is a perfect example of how a mess can be truly beautiful.

Watch it here.

We are proud to announce details of the latest full-length album titled, Die Stadt Muzikanten from Alberta-based Woodpigeon (a.k.a. Mark Andrew of The Hamiltons). His third full-length album and follow up to his internationally acclaimed Treasury Library Canada is set for release, January 12, 2010. Produced by Arran Fisher, the fifteen tracks on Die Stadt Muzikanten move and contort like a film soundtrack. Lush, grand moments complement Mark’s signature cinematic “pretty-pretty-pop” sound. The album is currently available for pre-order via the Boompa online store.

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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…

Thanks to Spinner for hosting the latest blog tour video! Lisa Lobsinger and Patrick Walls perform “The Leisure Lost” off Reverie’s debut LP, which Rawkblog recently named one of the top albums of the year, calling it “a flawless summer soundtrack.”

Of the blog tour, Reverie’s Marc De Pape told Spinner:

“The four or so years it took to make the record reflect the distance and time between each of us, but I feel like it also removed certain pressures that go with being in…