Here’s the new video for Waiting For Christine. Animated by Ryan MacKeen, Directed by Marc Morrissette, Ryan MacKeen, and Sylvie Smith. Design Concept by Serena Malyon. Thanks to everyone involved and to Van Gogh for the colours.

Our talented pal Andy Swan along with Emily Jeffers put together a video for ‘Not That Kind’, starring Miche Jette. The song is off the year-old SWEATER EP.

Summer’s been good so far. Hope yours has too. A beaver slapped it’s tail at me last weekend. We have a couple more videos ready for ya soonish… and 13 brand new tunes slowly getting worked on… And some possible Euro action this fall. And Breaking Bad starts up again soon. What’s Walt gonna do next?

Also, if you’re in a Spotify-friendly zone, I was asked recently to come up with a playlist of influences and HERE SHE IS.

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Here’s our steamy new video for Pool Hoppin’, put together by our talented buddies Josh and Peter from VULTURE CULTURE. Thanks, dudes.

We commemorated Friday the 13th by playing our favourite Royal City song. Thanks to Jim Guthrie for sitting in with us that evening and to Nick Tiringer for putting this video together.

I was very sad to hear the NEWS that Todd Simko has passed away. I was lucky enough to meet and work with him back in the mid 2000′s when he mastered the first two octoberman releases and he was a very warm and genuine man with a wicked, dry sense of humour (my favourite kind). Deepest condolences go out to his family.

Marc

AUX TV just premiered the Japanese author Haruki Murakami-inspired animated video for “Wind Up Bird.” It was animated by my old buddy Mitch Papineau. Thanks, Mitch!

CBC gave me the opportunity to dish out props to some inspiring music-makers. Read the Q&A HERE.

The new album is out TODAY and it’s CBC Music’s ‘Featured Album of the Week’ (wow, thank you, ceeb!). Stream it then decide whether to buy it, steal it, forget it ever happened, or stream it again. Update: they’ve also posted a track-by-track interview HERE.

Thank you to Dawn from Saved By Vinyl for putting it out and to all of the players: Marshall Bureau (drums), Tavo Diez de Bonilla (bass), Shaun Brodie (trumpet), Randy Lee (Violin), Jim Guthrie (synth, guitars, harmonies, banjo), Dave Mackinnon (piano), Justin Nace (lapsteel), Francois Turenne (guitar), Melissa Dalton (harmonies), Jeremy Strachan (saxophone), Andy Magoffin (harmonies), Howie Beck on the mix, and Jeffry Lee on the artwork.

It can be purchased digitally thru iTunes and Zunior.
Vinyl and CD’s can be ordered through Bandcamp.

We snuck in a second song for Exclaim! TV, a sort of homage to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.