Woodpigeon returns with a new digital EP, For Paolo, available now on iTunes and Bandcamp. Led by songwriter Mark Andrew Hamilton, For Paolo was inspired by his parents and the cassette tapes they played on long, family drives across the prairies of Canada.

Hamilton said, “My parents were always the type to find an artist and album they liked and then listen to it non-stop in the car for years. It’s these tapes which, whether I liked them at the time or not, formed an…

Colleen and Paul release this charming new video from their self-titled debut album. Directed by Virpi Kettu, the video was shot in one day during a drive out to the countryside. Watch more live C&P videos here.

The Salteens first full-length in 7 years, Grey Eyes, is in stores now. You can preview the album in its entirety on the Salteens’ official site, salteens.com.

Woodpigeon spent the summer in the fields, woods and meadows but is set to emerge with the coming of autumn. You can find BALLADEER / to all the guys i’ve loved before in stores on vinyl and digitally online, along with a new digital EP, Our Love is as Tall as the Calgary Tower today.BALLADEER was originally only available as a bonus CD included with Woodpigeon’s critically acclaimed third album,Die Stadt Muzikanten, released this past February.

BALLADEER was recorded at home in Calgary and in a Dublin hotel, and…

The Salteens are set to return with their first full-length in 7 years, Grey Eyes, in stores October 12. The band, led by songwriter Scott Walker, made an initial ripple in the pond earlier this year, releasing the Moths EP and appearing on the much heralded Nickelodeon children’s show, ‘Yo Gabba Gabba.” In addition to Grey Eyes, the Salteens have announced they will take part in next month’s ‘Yo Gabba Gabba’ Canadian tour (full dates below). While on the tour, the…

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 pAmidst several attempts at completing a full length album the band was taken off task by numerous personal upheavals, artistic miss-directs, and an appearance on iYo Gabba Gabba/i--clearly a confusing time. Pulled together from a number of recording sessions that took place during 2007 and 2008, a href="http://salteens.bandcamp.com/album/moths" target=_blank">Moths is a document of songwriter Scott LD Walker’s angers and frustrations, resulting in a typically Salteens-like call to arms in attempt…

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…