Early Day Miners - The Treatment - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Digging Roots' 2022 album embraces themes from residential schools to reclamation, climate change to baamaadziwin (the good life). Co-produced with Hill Kourkoutis, Zhawenim (which means to love unconditionally in Anishinaabemowin) is a journey that travels oceans, lands and hearts raising resistance through pure, powerful joy. As a collection, Zhawenim expresses the revolutionary act of giving and receiving love. The album looks beyond to a future that waits to be claimed by the next generation. Album Tracks 1. She Calls Me 2. Tall Grass 3. Healer 4. Skoden 5. Light Me Up 6. Cut My Hair 7. No Breaking 8. Ak47 9. Sweetwater

Shortly after the early 2018 of their debut demo, Canada's Traveler had a good problem on it's hands. The reception - from fans and critics - was so positive that founding member/primary songwriter/guitarist Matt Ries (also of Gatekrashör and Hrom) had no choice but to take what was originally a side-project and turn it into a full-fledged band. In 2019, Traveler is ready to meet the demand with it's self-titled first full-length album. Traveler, who are now rounded out by vocalist Jean-Pierre Abboud (also of Gatekeeper), second guitarist Toryin InchJuniorInch Schadlich, bassist Dave Arnold (ex-Striker) and drummer Chad Vallier, tracked drums at AB Records, guitars at Ries's home studio and vocals at Richhobo Studios. Ries cites his bandmembers musical abilities as one of the driving factors behind the album's multi-faceted nature, from Abboud's potent delivery, to Schadlich's shredding capabilities and the powerful rhythm section of Arnold and Vallier. A complete lineup will also be the realization of another of Ries's goals To make Traveler a live band. The self-titled album comprises three songs from the band's debut demo, along with five brand-new compositions. Ries worked with Abboud to come up with some of his most demanding vocal parts to date - ensuring a lively, spirited approach that captures the vocalist's sheer strength and diverse range. Abboud also has the less-than-enviable task of singing songs in E-standard tuning. One of the most rigorous tunings that is often reserved for vocalists with the ability to Inchreach the rafters,Inch Abboud and Ries show they're perfect torchbearers for the time-honored style of classic metal where big, brash choruses, soaring leads and manic drums lead the way. Traveler's Inchlet it ripInch approach pays dividends across the self-titled album. They have gone above and beyond, now heading into terrain where only a few

Following Third Man Records' reissue of The Belair Lip Bombs' (the tag's first Australiansigning) 2023 debut album 'rich Life' last year- which gained widespread praise including a4/5 NME review, 7.8 Pitchfork review by LauraSnapes, a Guardian Ones To Watch pieceand a 'Best Rock or Punk Work' award at the Victoria Music Awards - the Melbourne four- piece are gearing up to their eagerly anticipated second album 'Again' on 31stOctober. Helmed by Maisie Everett (guitar, keys, vox) and fleshed out by a talented trio of musicians in Mike Bradvica (guitars), Jimmy Droughton (bass) and Daniel Devvlin (drums), it was recorded with producer Joe White of Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever. ('Again')cements the Lip Bombs (as a long-term fixture in the current indie scene)). InchHey YouInch, the first single to be taken from the record, captures the band's widescreen songwriting and innate knack for soaring melodies. Album Tracks 1. Again and Again 2. Don't Let Them Tell You (It's Fair) 3. Another World 4. Cinema 5. Back of My Hand 6. Hey You 7. If You've Got the Time 8. Smiling 9. Burning Up 10. Price of a Man