Canary Mine Hamilton CD Release April 27, 2012

Toronto/London folk-hop rockers Canary Mine – fun combo of folk, rock, country, blues and hip-hop – release new full-length and seventh album ‘Between a Rock and a Heartbreak.

Toronto/London folk-hop rockers ‘Canary Mine’ release a new video and their new full-length and seventh independent album ‘Between a Rock and a Heartbreak’. The special guest opener is Hamilton’s Infinity Factory.

WHERE: The Casbah (306 King St. W.) in Hamilton, Ontario.
More Ontario CD launch shows will be in Toronto on April 20, in London on April 21 and in Waterloo on April 28, and the band will tour Canada this summer.

WHEN: Friday, April 27, 2012 at 9:00 p.m.

HOW MUCH: Tickets are $15.00; available in advance at www.canarymine.com (advance ticket purchasers receive a free CD), or at the door. Subsequently, the new Canary Mine album will be available on itunes.

QUOTE: “satirical, a bit unruly, wise-ass, tuneful (any group sporting a song carrying the refrain of "My balls are blue!" and whose debut CD was titled Bitter, Better, Happy, Horny gets my attention) —and how can ya beat that?” – Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange, 2012.

YOUTUBE: New video (released April 12) and second track on the new album;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-q3I2gf2c2w

The new video features Canary Mine guitarist James Lanbro (aka Jimi Maze) and he explains the idea behind the song, “I wrote the bulk of ‘Chips Cashed In’ after a very bad work experience. My workload and hours and cost of living were increasing. My pay was decreasing. Negotiations for a new work contract ended in a stalemate. I spent a month in a farmhouse outside of London tending to the animals and songwriting – ‘Chips Cashed In’ was one of the songs from that session. Although the lyrics are very personal, it was written from the perspective of a protestor in the 1919 Winnipeg Worker’s Strike, which I was reading about at the time.”

Canary Mine drummer Carl Welch states, “Our band name is an ode to Canadian mining communities such as Cape Breton and Sudbury. ‘Between a Rock and a Heartbreak’ (album cover art by Dave Vossen) reflects our experiences as a Canadian traveling band (humorous yet heartbreaking), and we are completely proud and excited to share the new songs. ”

Since releasing their 2004 debut album ‘Bitter, Better, Happy, Horny’, Canary Mine received airplay on CBC radio and charted nationally on top-10 lists on college stations. They performed live with artists such as Tim Hus, Elliott Brood and Tom Wilson and comedians Neil Hamburger and Shawn Hitchins, and two of their songs – “Rock Song” and “Cool Breeze” – were featured in the 2007 Allan Moyle (Pump Up the Volume) directed film Weirdsville.

Four Canadian tours and six releases later, Canary Mine took a hiatus to create the new album. Using three different studios and engineers added to the eclectic sound (Shawn Davison at disposablemedia Studio in Kitchener, Steve McGonigle at Blackbox Studios in Edmonton and Wayne Bond at Chateau Le Pink in Waterloo) and raised the bar for production values on the new 12-song LP.

Canary Mine is an eclectic gathering of creative performers and each member draws from their own unique background to create new original songs. Carl Welch (drums) played with numerous heavy metal bands and is also the drummer in Sarah and Jeff, Mim Adams (keyboards) was a darling of musical theatre and is a vocal professor/instructor at York University and Mohawk College, Joe Arnup (bass) was a jungle DJ and recently won first place provincially in the Netriders IT Skills competition and James Lanbro (guitar) also moonlights as a high-profile sound technician (clients include Canadian Prime Ministers and Queen Elizabeth II) and was a radio DJ and hip-hop MC.

Formed in 2003, Canary Mine has released two studio albums (2004’s Bitter, Better, Happy, Horny and Maybe Yo’ Momma in 2005), two live albums (Live From A Suburban Basement, 2004 and Live Tear From The Palindrome, 2006), a holiday EP (X-Traordinary X-Mas X-Travaganza, 2007) and a compilation (Beginnings, 2009).

More Quotes:

“Canary Mine seems to be an amalgamation of a little bit of everything. This is thanks to the diverse musical background of this sprawling band. The result of this “little bit of everything” approach is an album full of memorable tracks. Rating: Really Good.” – Grayowl Point Blog, 2012.

“touching on rock, country, honky-tonk and blues ...this is one group that isn’t afraid to experiment.” – Scene Magazine, London, ON, 2012.

“It’s always important to have a good first impression, and the opening salvo of Canary Mine’s debut album, Bitter, Better, Happy, Horny, certainly accomplishes that. ‘Rock Song’ throws down the gauntlet better than any heavy metal band could ever hope to. ‘Does humour belong in music?’ For Canary Mine, the answer is a resounding yes.” – Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 2004.

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