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POSTAL CODES | YOUNG LIARS

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Oak and Oar

If you were to pose the question “Who is your favourite Canadian artist or band right now?” you probably wouldn’t be shocked to hear us give a nod to hip-hop: Drake, The Weeknd or The Airplane Boys. But if you were to open up the iTunes, you might find yourself a bit surprised to see Vancouver’s Young Liars topping the Play Count. We had initially planned a Fall/Winter release and had based the whole lookbook video around their track ‘Newton, Forgive Me”. The video turned out phenomenal and hopefully one day we will leak it on here, but we under went a few delays and decided to shelf the collection and move on to Spring/Summer in search of perfection. Sometimes that’s the way it goes. Anyways back to the Postal Codes feature. Young Liars is comprised of Jordan Raine, Tyler Badali, Andrew Beck, Angelo Ismirnioglou and Wesley Nickel. Their story begins as most, nothing out of the ordinary. No big break or industry connection, just hard work and talent. The group wanted to create music that they wanted to hear and decided to build a band that wouldn’t compromise or settle for mediocrity. And like a lot of aspiring musicians, they spend the majority of their time working jobs that they hate, so they do what they love. Ty works manual labor at a warehouse, Wesley is an electrician. Angelo works demolition and Jordan is a web developer. Andrew sells mobile phones at the mall. And somehow after full days of manual labour they still had the steam to put together some of my favourite tracks to date. I highly suggest taking your hard a bit of your earned pay cheque and grabbing a digital copy of their Homesick Future EP now available on iTunes. This is the first track … Continue reading →

POSTAL CODES | KAY BOUTILIER

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Oak and Oar

2011 was a big year for Canadian music: Arcade Fire, City and Colour, Drake, The Weeknd, Shad, Deadmau5, The Sheepdogs, Chromeo, Classified, Justin Bieber - to name a few. It’s safe to say that in 2012 this trend will continue, with new, uncharted Canadian artists making waves in the music industry. Over the course of this year we will be featuring some of our favourite up and coming Canadian musicians from all genres in a feature entitled Postal Codes. Not only was it a big year for Canadians but it was also overall a big year for women’s in hip-hop. You had Nicki Minaj who spent the vast majority of the year promoting her late 2010 release, ‘Pink Friday’. Which, as of November 2011, had sold 1,663,300 copies in the United States alone. Along with the mainstream, we saw the likes of Kreayshawn run with ‘Gucci, Gucci’, which has now been viewed over 30,373,372 times since May of 2011 and just today yesterday I was reading Highsnobiety and see the push for Australian-born female rapper Iggy Azalea. This leads us into our first Postal Code feature: Kay Boutilier. Hailing from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia this hip-hop scarlet first blew up as most Canadian’s seem to do, on YouTube. She than proceeded to take a little trip to LA where she was “discovered” during a BBQ that was attended by Ryan Tedder’s A&R guy (The face and voice of OneRepublic and responsible for writing two of the most played Top 40 songs in North American radio history). This led her to a deal with Interscope and Universal Music Canada. Her four song EP ‘My Name Is Kay’ dropped on iTunes on Dec 20 of last year. Her 80′s inspired flare seems to fit into the highly marketably trends we are seeing with the likes of Kesha and the embarrasment of those jegging wearing … Continue reading →