Brooklyn, NY/Toronto, ON-based indie rock/pop duo The Dream Eaters return with their macabre yet comic new single, “Dead Friends,” a track that transforms loneliness and loss into something strangely celebratory. Blending humour with the surreal, the song tells the story of a trip back to your hometown, only to realize the life you once knew has vanished. Friends are gone, but their ghosts remain – so you invite them over for dinner.
“It’s about taking a trip to your hometown, and the loneliness of realizing that what you knew as your life there has disappeared,” explains Jake Zavracky (vocals/guitar/programming). “So you go back to your apartment and have dinner with their ghosts. It’s humorous and surreal but also about celebrating the moments we shared with the people who have left us.”
What makes “Dead Friends” unique is its unflinching embrace of the macabre through something as ordinary as food. “I don’t know that anyone has ever written a song about making dinner for ghosts,” adds Zavracky. “It’s also about food, and how we use food to show love. Making dinner for people is the best way to show love for your friends.”
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Jenna DeVries releases new cinematic country track, "Malibu Monroe." The single is out now. With her new single, “Malibu Monroe,” Nashville standout Jenna DeVries, already a rising star, blends genres to create a cinematic country-pop storyteller track, all while showcasing the same powerful, unique vocals that have made her one of the most compelling new voices in Nashville.
“One day, I was looking through Pinterest and I stumbled across this photo of Marilyn Monroe before she was famous. She was up on the cliffs of Malibu… I remember looking at the photo and thinking, surely the person who took this photo was in love with her… and maybe she was in love with them. Then I wrote their story… It’s called Malibu Monroe. I think we all deserve the kind of love that makes us feel truly seen - that is what this song is about.”
Produced by powerhouse Don Miggs, the track layers glossy, atmospheric production with DeVries’ unmistakable vocal strength. From the opening escape - “Baby let's get out of town / we can drive with all the windows down” - to the soaring chorus - “Cause you make me feel / like Malibu Monroe / take me to the highest spot on the coast” - DeVries captures the romance of Old Hollywood through a modern lens.
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While growing up in Smithers, British Columbia, Theresa Anne Bromley developed a strong connection to the Telkwa High Road, a place where she spent countless hours dreaming of how she would create a life outside of her small community, and coming up with ideas for the songs that would eventually make that happen.
In 2023, she released her first music as Pony Gold, the EP Take Me Somewhere, which propelled her onto the national stage with its blend of folk, soul, bluegrass and alt-country. Pony Gold is now set to return with High Road Reverie, an 11-song collection that pays tribute to those formative years on the Telkwa High Road, and all the heartbreak and hope it now symbolizes for Bromley.
Produced by Leeroy Stagger and featuring backing by members of City & Colour, fiddler Kendel Carson, and Bromley’s husband Matt on slide guitar, High Road Reverie formally establishes Pony Gold as an important new voice on the Canadian roots music scene, following in the footsteps of Kathleen Edwards, Neko Case and Feist.
“This record reflects both continuity and growth—tying together past and present, and setting the stage for what’s next,” Bromley says. “The album tells my story through raw, honest songwriting, touching on addiction, grief, an adverse small town upbringing, a father imprisoned, the unconditional love of a horse, and the resilience that comes with recovery.”
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Serious Child is back with a hypnotic orchestral-pop single which explores the connections between us all- ‘Dusk on the 33’, out this weekend.
The song tells the story of an old woman riding the bus all day to keep warm, and no-one noticing her. Inspired by a Georgian lullaby, ‘Iavnana (Violet Nana)’, ‘Dusk on the 33’ has a slightly otherworldly off-kilter piano-led psychedelic lilt to it, with the poignancy of the old woman’s story nestled within.
The accompanying video for the track was created via an intergenerational dance project between Three Score Dance Company and MA students from the University of Chichester and perhaps shows that beneath everything there’s an underlying connection between us all in our daily lives. Contemporary dance routines from both and younger dancers meet when Young drives them all on their daily bus commutes as the track’s orchestral pop melancholy grows more and more hypnotic.
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