Time: 9 p.m.
Cover:$20
THE DUDES - LIVE IN CONCERT
with special guests - THE ZOLAS
APRIL 9TH, 2013
BO' DIDDLY'S (425 21A Street N)
9:00PM
18+ NO MINORS
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The Dudes, a Calgary-based band, infuse an emotional blend of Al Green and Flaming Lips – soul music and early 1990′s distortion. Dan Vacon, singer-songwriter for The Dudes since their start in the late 90′s, has the ability to draw audiences in through his distinct vocal style – a mixture of strong pop melody, sly double entendres, and pure soul.
The Dudes have produced several lo-fi releases since their inception, however their last musical offering, “Brain Heart Guitar”, propelled them from the Calgary independent music scene (where they were voted Calgary’s ‘Favourite Band of 2006, 2007 and 2008′ by FFWD Readers) into a more national spotlight, and spread their understanding of true rock and roll soul. The Dudes toured across Canada numerous times since the release of ‘Brain Heart Guitar’, with the likes of Pride Tiger, Two Hours Traffic, Hot Hot Heat and Finger 11. As well as showcasing at festivals like Halifax Pop Explosion, Pop Montreal, NXNE, Canadian Music Week, The Canadian Junos, and the West Coast Music Awards.
Recently signing to UK label One Four Seven Records for a 2008 UK/Europe release of ‘Brain Heart Guitar’, the band recently finished 2 promotional tours of those regions in 2008, and is now receiving an influx of positive reviews for the album by European blogs and magazines.
Brain Heart Guitar was released in 2007. The band’s second album, Blood Guts Bruises Cuts was released in 2009.
The
Zolas' new album, 'Ancient Mars' feels like an isolated summer between
college semesters. Instantly nostalgic with touches of New York natives
Ambulance Ltd., New York adoptee John Lennon, and the lost riffs of
mid-90’s campus radio.
Big Bio...
After debuting with Tic
Toc Tic in 2009, The Zolas scaled the precipice of cult status across
Canada, thanks to a loyal fanbase carried over from Zach Gray (vocals, guitar) and Tom Dobrzanski’s (piano) earlier years as Lotus Child.
With Ancient Mars, their second album, The Zolas are set to continue
their legacy of postmodern pop. Armed with poetic lyrics, Ancient Mars
trades in the cabaret glitz of Tic Toc Tic for reverbed pianos and hard,
minimalist beats.
In “Strange Girl” a sunny guitar riff blasts
into the perfect mid-‘90s summer jam, while title track “Ancient Mars”
is bouncy and nostalgic, with heaping spoonfuls of Montreal and Brooklyn
avant-pop. If John Lennon and Kanye West met later tonight at a hotel
bar, “Escape Artist” is the song they would write. It’s these kinds of
pairings that Ancient Mars is full of: The Zolas write classic pop
songs and then fuck them up until the hooks have to fight to get out.
As if to offset Ancient Mars’ aesthetic diversity, the lyrics are raw
and focused. The Zolas’ tumultuous songwriting captures the zeitgeist of
being in your 20s, on the cusp of youth and real adulthood. In each
song Gray builds a skeleton of a setting – from outer space to a college
library to a Victorian jail cell – and tells stories fleshed out with
the listener’s own history.
In October, The Zolas teamed up with
Winnipeg’s The Liptonians to release a 7” split single “Cultured Man”, a
quixotic snack in between the two full-length albums.
Dobrzanski
is the band’s on-board producer, having worked with names in indie-rock
royalty like Said the Whale and We Are The City, but for Ancient Mars
production duties were handed over to Chuck Brody (Phantogram, Wu-Tang),
much like how 2009’s Tic Toc Tic was produced by Howard Redekopp
(Mother Mother, The New Pornographers).
Ancient Mars will make its way onto record store shelves Oct 2, 2012.
Details - The Dudes and the Zolas
