Shining a modern light on the roots of North American popular music, Patrick Brealey blends elements of folk, country, cabaret and blues to deliver lyrically driven songs with a uniquely powerful voice. And on July 14th, in collaboration with Boompa Records, his release of Mercury in Songbirds provides the perfect pairing to this matchless mix. Boompa and Patrick Brealey make for a perfect pairing too. He’s a part of the family, having first met Boompa’s Rob Calder in grade school, and having…

We are thrilled to announce the signing of Reverie Sound Revue. We have been friends with (and huge fans of) the band since the early days of Boompa, and we were more than a little upset when they broke up a few years back. Then they decided to get back together to make more music, and we drank scotch and danced a little, and might have broken into song.

It took a little while to finish (a few years) because the…

Watch the new video for Circlesquare’s “Dancers” directed by Bienvenido Cruz — brilliantly translating Robert Longo’s series, Men in the Cities, into motion. The video features dancers Miles Faber and Vincent Noiseux (from So You Think You Can Dance Canada), Julie Chapple and Alison Denham.

From Circlesquare’s new album, Songs About Dancing and Drugs.

DJ Laura C Chord (nom de guerre lost on our American neighbours) of BreakThru Radio (BTR) has been kind enough to put together an entire show all about Boompa Records.

DJ Laura C Chord hails from Canada and has been hosting and producing a specialty show on BTR called The Scenic Route since November. She discovered Boompa by way of the Salteens, a band she’d been a fan of for years.

“I felt that it was important to showcase a label that I had…

Just as the hit drama The L Word lights up over 6 million screens weekly with its cast of vibrant characters, so do the show’s soundtrack albums fire up the iPods and CD players of loyal fans. The show delivers The L Word: The Third Season. The two-CD set in stores January 31 embraces twenty-four songs by a cherry-picked roster of stellar artists, deftly incorporating a refreshing variety of genres: folk, electro, country, soul, pop, classical.

Featured are songs by Tegan and Sara,…

The City of Vancouver joins 1,500 cities and 100 million people worldwide to celebrate International Car Free Day (carfreedayvancouver.ca) with a fun, free street festival:

Car Free Day Street Festival
Thursday, September 22, 2005
12 noon to 8 pm
Water Street from Richards to Carrall

Car Free Day focuses awareness on the social, economic and environmental benefits of reduced car use. It is one of the sustainability initiatives undertaken by the City of Vancouver, presented in partnership with Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST) and the Gastown Business Improvement Society.

Highlights include:
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Natasha Thirsk’s first adventure after The Dirtmitts was born out of three years of creativity centered around Studio 9 in Los Angeles. Catlow’s Boompa Records debut, Kiss the World, is exactly the kind of gutar-based angular pop that suits Thirsk’s sexy-sinister vocal style best. With instantly accessible melodies and enough eccentric charm to win over fans of Rilo Kiley, Blonde Redhead and The Breeders, Kiss the World has been highly anticipated by tastemakers across North America.

Essentially a solo project on record, Catlow is now…

CAROLINE DISTRIBUTION AND BOOMPA RECORDS SIGN EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

(Vancouver - July 28, 2005) — Only one week after publicizing a new distribution partnership with EMI Music Canada, Vancouver’s Boompa Records also announced today it has finalized another new exclusive distribution agreement, effective immediately.

The new partnership is with New York-based Caroline Distribution, which also has a secondary office in Los Angeles, CA and sales representatives across the country. Boompa Records teaming up with Caroline signifies the debut of Boompa Records and its releases in the…

Rob Calder received the following email today. What do you think, should we sign them?

Rob,

Mike and I have formed a musical collective and we have decided to offer you and Boompa Records the first opportunity to sign a band that will bring nations to their knees and that will make Kings weep with the knowledge that despite their royal splendor they will amount to but a fraction of our splendid worth. Mike wants to call us “Too Rude Guses” I opt…

EMI MUSIC CANADA AND BOOMPA RECORDS SIGN EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

Vancouver’s Boompa Records announced today it has finalized a new exclusive distribution agreement, effective immediately.

The new partnership is with EMI Music Canada, joining their intimate roster in the Associated Labels Division. Boompa Records teaming up with EMI in Canada ends a two-year relationship with
 MapleNationWide/Universal.

“It’s been a good run for us at MapleNationWide,” said Scott Walker, President of Boompa Productions. “It’s been a real pleasure to work with their team and our company’s ongoing…