Daniel, Fred & Julie free download and tour dates

Canada's smallest collective Daniel (Romano from Attack in Black), Fred (Squire from Shotgun and Jaybird) and Julie (Doiron) to venues larger than Fred's garage where the album was recorded. On the off chance that you haven't already heard any of it (I'm sure that this doesn't apply to anyone anymore) they're offering up a free sample ahead of their tour dates.

Grab a copy of the Gambler and his Bride (mp3)


Then go see them with Baby Eagle at:

April 07 Fredericton, NB Charlotte Street Arts Centre
April 08 Charlottetown, PE Baba's Lounge
April 09 Halifax, NS North End Church
April 10 Sackville, NB Mount Alison Chapel
April 12 Quebec City, PQ Le Cercle
April 13 Ottawa, ON Zaphod's
April 14 Waterloo, ON Jane Bond Cafe
April 15 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern
April 16 Kingston, ON Grad Club
April 17 Montreal, PQ Green Room

Julie Doiron Interview at Thick Specks

Matt McKechnie at Thick Specks starts off his piece on Julie Doiron by saying that she was "recently pegged as 'the first lady of Canadian Indie music'." - I don't know who pegged her that but I can't disagree. Several months ago I was giving Ro Cemm of the Line of Best Fit a heads up that Julie was headed to the UK on tour and I told him that she was the unofficial Queen of Canada and unofficial only because of our obligations under that whole commonwealth thing. She, or rather her album I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day ran away with the most votes in our first Shadow Polaris Prize.

Anyway, to the point - Thick Specks has a great interview up with Julie:

"MM: This is a question I always ask to give the reader some context – thinking back to your early years, what made you want to pursue music, in your earliest memories?

JD:(laughs) My earliest memories of wanting to do music? Ohhh. I mean, I remember the really early ones of fantasizing all the time. I was 6 or 7 and I was really into Olivia Newton John and Blondie. I had a tape-deck and I would sing into this tape-deck. I used to tell EVERYONE I wanted to be a singer. They'd say 'What do you want to do when you grow up? And I'd say 'I want to be a SINGER!' Then I sort of outgrew it for a while and went to school for photography and all that stuff but – this idea of pursuing music was still there. I taught myself how to play guitar when I was 10. Then it kinda stopped, then I started playing piano and saxophone, and then when I was 15, I found the same guitar in the basement that I originally played when I was 10 and I re-learned things again. And from there, I actually stuck with it. My parents told me if I was actually into playing guitar that they'd get me guitar lessons. They brought me a Yamaha acoustic guitar instead of the one from the basement with the craziest action ever! (laughs) But I still had no inclination to actually truthfully pursue it as a career until i was actually in it. When we started Eric's Trip, it was just supposed to be a band that would just...rock out in the basement, ya know? I had no intentions of getting on a stage with music – at all. But uh...then all of a sudden, I was doing it and ET broke up and I didn't know what else to do so I just kept doing it. I liked it – so I kept doing it. But yeah – my earliest memories would be Olivia Newton John and Blondie – two very different styles but I guess they were important influences. K- tel records were also a huge thing for me. One of the coolest gifts I ever got was a toy record player from Sears, or whatever, a portable one -"

Go Read the whole thing!

Free Julie Doiron Show in Toronto on Saturday

This Satruday (Jan 9) in Toronto at the Coburg (533 Parliament St.) Julie Doiron is playing a free show with Constantines Will Kidman opening. Show starts at 10 p.m.

Facebook Event is Here

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Julie Doiron Tour Dates: Western Canada, US and Japan

Julie Doiron, winner of NxEW's Shadow Polaris and the #1 Campus Radio artist of the year according to Chartattack has announced her first round of 2010 tour dates, they will see her through a good chunk of the US, Western Canada and Japan!

Go see Julie and friends at

01/12/10 Asheville, NC Grey Eagle
01/13/10 Newporte, KY The Southgate House
01/14/10 Bloomington, IN The Bishop
01/16/10 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
01/18/10 Winnipeg, MB Royal Albert Arm
01/19/10 Saskatoon, SK Amigo’s
01/20/10 Edmonton, AB ARTery
01/21/10 Calgary, AB Broken City
01/22/10 Spokane, WA Empyrean Coffee House
01/23/10 Vancouver, BC The Biltmore Cabaret
01/24/10 Northern Olympia, WA
01/25/10 Seattle, WA Triple Door
01/26/10 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
01/28/10 San Francisco, CA The Independent
01/29/10 Brookdale, CA Historic Brookdale Lodge
01/30/10 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
02/01/10 Lo Jolla, CA UCSD-The Loft
02/02/10 Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room
02/03/10 Tucson, AZ Club Congress
02/05/10 Dallas, TX House of Blues-Pontiac Garage
02/06/10 Austin, TX The Mohawk
02/10/10 Tampa, FL New World Brewery
02/12/10 Atlanta, GA The Earl
03/05/10 Tokyo Shibuya Japan
03/06/10 Yamagata Japan
03/07/10 Sendai Japan
03/09/10 Nagoya Japan
03/11/10 Kyoto Japan
03/12/10 Matsumoto Japa
03/13/10 Tokyo Shibuya Japan

'Spill Yer Lungs' by Julie Doiron on Q TV

Chart: Julie Doiron (NxEW's Shadow Polaris pick) #1 on Campus Radio for 2009

Back in September after a lengthy process that involved taking a list of nearly 100 albums and whittling it dow to shorter and shorter lists until we had a #1, NxEW readers declared Julie Doiron's I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day our Shadow Polaris Winner for 2009. I always knew our readers were smart. After campus radio charts from across Canada all year long Chartattack says that Julie's album was #1 on Campus Radio nationwide for 2009. Because campus and community radio and public broadcasters are driven by the tastes of the hosts, the tastes of the listeners and the tastes of volunteers rather than the needs of advertisers, the formulas of international mega corporations I will always consider the campus charts more valuable and honest than any others. You can see Charts full top 100 here.

If you don't already have this album ... what are you waiting for? Seriously, how many good reviews, how much acclaim, how much positive feedback could you possibly need? Go here for info.

All Our Noise Interview: Julie Doiron

Via Washington, D.C. blog All Our Noise

Interview: Julie Doiron from All Our Noise on Vimeo.

Another Free Sampler from Zunior: Jill Barber, Rose Cousins, Daniel, Fred & Julie and More.

In the hope of getting you to buy more music Zunior regularly hands out free samples. Their latest sampler is up with songs from Jill Barber, Parkas, Daniel, Fred & Julie, Cousins, Prairie Cat, Rose Cousins, the Consumer Goods, Silver Starling, Picastro, and Mushkat.

Download it at http://www.zunior.com/product_info.php?products_id=2759!