NXNE Happiness; Homer, Ozzie & the Straw

We are so, so pleased with our friends at NXNE right now. They’ve decided that we should play at our beloved Dakota Tavern on Saturday night.

As if that weren’t enough, they’ve paired us up with Kill Rock Stars’ Horse Feathers and ACTUAL (North) Dakotans Secret Cities, both of whom we’re big fans of, but have yet to meet in person. Also on the bill, our friends New Country Rehab, U.K. duo Smoke Fairies, Montreal’s Chris Velan and Toronto’s Bellewoods. Not to mention the fact that the Handsome Furs are going to be playing a set across the street at the Garrison right before we go on.

On a 100% unrelated note, props to Fuzzy Logic Recordings. Not only are they a great record label, but they’ve been organizing softball games all spring (as in years past), and this has made me really happy.

Shows!

All right, so we gave you a teaser but now you get the whole thing. We’re playing on April 1st – for real! – at the El Mocambo (464 Spadina) with an amazing, ridiculous lineup: Ketch Harbour Wolves, Parks & Rec and Revelstoke.

Yup, we’re really excited too.
Tell us you’re coming!

Before that, though, we’ve got a good ol’ party lined up at the Painted Lady (218 Ossington) this Thursday, March 24th, as in tomorrow. We’ll be sharing the stage with Eamon McGrath, Brodie Dakin and Joel Battle. The Facebook event for that one is right here.

Come hang out with us, won’t you?

Concert footage from the Rivoli show. Also, lots more shows.

Check it out! It’s a video of us playing stuff!

Entire Cities – Wired: Episode 43 from THE iNDiE MACHiNE on Vimeo.

So, a few more shows, too.

This Saturday, the 12th, Simon’s gonna play a solo set along with his favourite songwriter ever of all time, Nich Worby at Opera Bob’s, right next to the Lakeview.

The next night, the 13th, we’re gonna play the Painted Lady for CMW at 10 o’clock. Come if you’ve got a wristband. If not, don’t support crappy corporate festivals. Just don’t.

We’re gonna play the Painted Lady again on March 24th with Eamon McGrath and Brodie Dakin. That’s gonna be much better.

BUT! If you can only come to one Entire Cities show in the next, I dunno, three or four weeks, come to the El Mocambo on April 1st (no joke)! It’s gonna be a killer line up, more info soon.

Thanks Ottawa, Kingston & Windsor! Look out, Toronto!

Of course we’re stoked for our record-setting 2 hour set at our friends’ wedding this weekend. Of course we’re psyched for the Public City 2 Year Anniversary Party next weekend (it’s totally a public party BTW, come meet swanky industry types and help us show ’em what us scrappy kids can do). Of course we’re excited about CMW and NXNE, and a string of sweet shows we’ve got lined up for the spring.

*ahem*

But I wanna pause for a sec and think over the last two weekends of awesomeness. Getting another post from the BEST (and most under appreciated) music blog that we know of, B(oot)log; hanging out with our dear dear Apple Crisp friends in Kingston, and singing Born to Run to TWELVE CRAZY PEOPLE WHO’D DRIVEN FROM NEW JERSEY JUST TO SEE THE SHOW. I don’t, I mean, uh… wow. Just wow.

Then our show at the Imperial Pub (YES IT IS A MUSIC VENUE) with our good buddy (and my songwriting hero), Rueben deGroot. I CANNOT say enough good things about the concert series 50 River Concerts, and especially the driving force behind it, Holly Andruchuk. It’s so good to meet people who (despite their choice of headliners for the evening), are so clearly interest in doing the right thing right. True musical believers.

*swoon*

Then, back to (somewhere in the general vicinity of) my hometown Ottawa, with our label mates (and crushes) Wildlife, where we not only saw old friends and got to play the great stage at Live Lounge , but learned that night that we had been featured by the New York Times, nay, the Pitchfork, of Alt-Country, No Depression. I think I audibly squealed.

And to top it all off, Windsor. Was it crazy to play a show four hours from home on Super Bowl Sunday? Abso-fucking-lutely. But we’re crazy for the Phog Lounge, we’re off our medication for promoter Richard Kasoian’s new band Frontiers, and we’re just generally licking the walls for playing music to anybody anywhere.

There was a fella there in Windsor taking photos of us named Ron Marston. He’s so good at what he does that, that night, he took a picture that not only sums up the last two weeks, but tells the whole story of Entire Cities, at least the way I’ve seen it.

Wavelength tonight!

Wavelength 510 tonight with Andrew Barker’s solo project The Lake Vernon Drowning and Ronley Teper. It’s going to be a good one. Get there early and stay late … Entire Cities is on around midnight and we’ll be playing a bunch of stuff from the new album.

Which, incidentally, looks like this.

Magnificent artwork, as always, by Miss Stefanie Bruce.
See you tonight!

EDIT: It’s here!!

Oh hey, internet.

We’re in the process of making this site look and work better, so keep checking back every so often for content and other awesome things. Sorry we haven’t made a blog post since August — we’re on it!

Some exciting news: we are playing Wavelength 510 at the Garrison this Friday, November 5. Kevin has talked a bit about how awesome this show is going to be, so go read it. Since that will obviously have convinced you, the Facebook event page is right here, where you can tell the entire world that you are attending and then invite everyone else you know. Sweet. There’s also a great poster:

MORE exciting news: our full-length album I Hope You Never Come Home will officially be released on December 7th. More information about the album and, of course, the CD release party will be coming soon. For now, you can hear some of the new tracks (“Zombie Song” and “Gimme a Ride” are up so far) on our MySpace. Drop us a line and let us know what you think!

Maybe CBC is super generous… or a bunch of suckers.

For some crazy reason, CBC Radio 3 has no apparent upload limits, so I’ve posted 2 recent full concert movies there: http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Entire-Cities.

Of course if you want something a little more trimmed down (i.e. not an hour long), you can always head over to our Youtube Channel, where you’ll get live songs from us and other bands we play with, along with whatever else we want to make.