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Burn The Louvre release their debut LP Silhouettes
Hamilton-based indie rock band Burn The Louvre has recently released their debut LP Silhouettes, which features 11 singles that were released throughout 2022. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by engineer and producer Mickey Ellsworth.
Lead vocalist and guitarist Jordan Speare had begun working on Silhouettes even before the addition of Sean Cooper, the band’s guitarist and vocalist. As a result, Speare recorded as a solo artist for the first time and invited friend Andrew Billone of Silvertone Hills to play lead guitar and bass on all 11 tracks. Additionally, fellow singer/songwriter Stephanie Deshane joined Speare on the fun duet “Alison”.
After the completion of Silhouettes in late 2018, Cooper answered a “Musicians Wanted” Kijiji ad that Speare had posted. The two quickly hit it off and began jamming together, leading to the re-imagining of Burn The Louvre as a duo. Speare praised Cooper’s ability to add unique leads to pre-recorded songs, giving them different nuances while maintaining the original vibe.
Silhouettes is now available on all major streaming platforms and can be listened to wherever music is available. Burn The Louvre’s debut LP is sure to please fans of indie rock and showcases the talent of these two musicians from Hamilton.
Their most popular song on the platform is “Lost With You,” which has garnered over 16,000 plays so far. Coming in second is “Hey Stacey” with just under 10,000 plays. And at number three is “Nice Guy,” which has already received over 4,000 plays on Spotify to date.
But their success doesn’t stop there. Burn the Louvre’s music has been making its way across the globe, with airplay in countries like Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Greece, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Uganda, and all across Europe via The European Indie Music Network.
It’s clear that Burn the Louvre is on the rise, and music fans everywhere are taking notice. With their unique sound and heartfelt lyrics, it’s no wonder they’re quickly becoming one of the most talked-about indie bands in the scene.
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Tokyo Soul Singer Tyrone Hashimoto Releases New Single Oct. 2, Plays Tokyo Jazz Club Same Night
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Tyrone Hashimoto (born Shunichi Suzuki), a Tokyo-based singer-songwriter,, plans to release his latest single, "Wake Up in the Morning Sun," across streaming platforms on October 2, per his production company Teddy Bear Productions. The artist will celebrate with a live performance by the Lakeside Struttin’ Band at Sometime Jazz the same evening.
The song arrives as the latest entry in what Hashimoto has called the "Music Cruise" series, an ongoing project now in its seventh installment, according to prior coverage of his work. The announcement describes the new track as an offering of encouragement, framed around the idea that a better life is within reach.
Hashimoto has built a four-decade career that spans well beyond his nine solo albums, all recorded in English, and a catalog the announcement puts at more than 600 original songs. He’s written jingles for McDonald’s, KFC, Nissan, Canon, Sharp, Kodak and Tokyo Disneyland, among other clients, and took a bronze prize at the Cannes Commercial Film Festival in 1994 for a Panasonic spot. One commercial job, for the Japanese coffee brand UCC, reportedly involved bringing James Brown into the studio to sing for the ad.
Originally from Yaita in Tochigi prefecture, Japan,, Hashimoto won the Grand Prix at the first All Japan Folk Music Festival at age 17, citing Simon & Garfunkel and Peter, Paul and Mary among his early influences. He went on to work with Haruomi Hosono’s Tin Pan Alley project, played a role in Yellow Magic Orchestra’s debut album, and became an original member of La Orquesta Del Sol, described in the announcement as Japan’s first major salsa band.
His American profile traces back to a 1987 visit to Seattle, where local press and broadcasters, including KIRO, KUOW and NBC affiliate KING5, covered his music; a KING5 documentary profiling the artist that was subsequently distributed to 37 additional U.S. markets. He has also taught voice and guitar to more than 1,000 students, including Japanese musicians Sugizo, Miyavi, Takeru and Junya Enoki, and recently received an honorary doctorate in music education from University of Perpetual Help System DALTA in the Philippines.
For Studio CarryOnHarry, the throughline here isn’t the single itself but the career behind it: a working musician who has moved fluidly between recording artist, jingle writer and educator for going on 40 years, in two countries, without a signature hit driving any of it.
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Song 1’s New EP “What The ….” Leans Into Five Tracks of Deliberate Disorder
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London indie-punk band Song 1 have released a new five-track EP called What The…., following a year of lineup changes and what the band describes as a shift toward sharper, more off-kilter songwriting.
According to the announcement, the record lands following months of roster adjustments that solidified the five-member configuration, and the record is framed as the sound of that lineup settling into place. The band describes the title not as a literal question but as a kind of shrug, an expression of the loose, sideways attitude that runs through the tracklist.
The EP opens with “Feeling Sideways,” which the band positions as the reset point for this new phase, constructed from restless grooves and crooked rhythms, per the band’s description. The focus single, “Crooked,” follows, built around jagged guitar work, live drums and a melodic bassline, with the line “I move crooked but I land just right” serving as the track’s stated thesis.
“Morning Sun” is described as a tonal shift toward something wider and brighter, using imagery like a “paper weight sky” to move from heavier material toward something more lifted. “Not Lost” continues that throughline lyrically, with the band pointing to the line “I’m not lost, I’m just aligned / With the beat that hides between your time” as a statement of purpose. The EP closes with “My Shadow’s Got Its Own Mind,” which the announcement calls a late-night, low-lit close to the record, framing the band’s embrace of unpredictability as a deliberate stance rather than a lack of direction.
Taken together, the band and its team describe What The …. as the clearest statement yet of Song 1’s identity: an alternative indie-punk work anchored in big hooks, live-wire guitars and knowing self-awareness about not fitting a mold.
Studio CarryOnHarry will be watching whether “Crooked” gives the band a genuine breakout moment beyond the EP cycle, since focus singles built around a clear lyrical hook are often where a band either finds a wider audience or doesn’t.
No compass or straight lines required, as the band themselves put it, just an audience willing to turn it up.
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