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Lab Coast
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http://labcoast.tumblr.com

Dadge-guit/vox; Dave-vocals; Sammie-guit; Dice-bass; Henry-guit; and sometimes: Noah-bass; Monty-guit/drums

Lab Coast began in late 2008. The band revolves around the short, hooky, guitar-laden song written by David Laing and Chris Dadge. Laing conjures up melodies while wandering around city parks and

neighbourhoods, then Dadge fleshes out arrangements and tries his hand at whatever instruments they have lying around. Their music has been likened to early REM, ‘Sic Alps if they were from Calgary” (Rich Kroneiss, Terminal Boredom), and Guided By Voices covering the Las.

Within a year of their inception, the band had completed their first collection of tunes, which was issued as Wilding, first as a self-released disc, then as a tape on the prolific Canadian cassette imprint Scotch Tapes. This album was quickly followed by a split 7” with fellow Calgarians Extra Happy Ghost (on Saved By Vinyl) and their second full-length, Pictures On The Wall, released by the beloved Portland label Eggy Records.

The songs on these albums, recorded by Dadge and Laing using a plethora of instruments and basement-based recording techniques, were well received by radio stations, blogs, and magazines around the world. FFWD Weekly praised their “effortlessly appealing pop songs”, and Weird Canada’s Paul Lawton ventured that the band was producing “some of the best hooks to come out of the city of Calgary in a long time.” Glowing reports from Exclaim!, Coke Machine Glow, AOL Spinner, NOW Magazine, The Independent (UK), and Puck Magazine (Belgium) led to their next two releases on UK label Faux Discx and Night People, the latter being one of the preeminent imprints of the US cassette underground.

Lab Coast’s latest album, Walking On Ayr, is completed and due out this spring on Mammoth Cave Recording Company. The record is their most jam-packed statement yet, featuring a pile of brand-new songs and contributions from the live band members, past and present.

The live, in-person band is comprised of David Laing singing and playing the keyboard, Henry Hsieh (Friendo, Samantha Savage Smith) on guitar, Samantha Savage Smith also on guitar, Dice Parks (Ox, Jane Vain & The Dark Matter) playing the bass, and Chris Dadge (Bug Incision, SSS, Gold, Snailhouse,

Woodpigeon) on the drums. They’ve shared stages  with Grimes, Snailhouse, Chad van Gaalen, Cousins, Woodpigeon, Wild Flag, Uncle Badtouch, the Barr Brothers, Renny Wilson, The Famines, and The Ketamines, and are preparing for a UK tour in May 2013.

Dead Soft
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http://deadsoft.bandcamp.com

We are a very heavy pop band from Vancouver, B.C.

Nathaniel Epp
Keeley Rochon
Graeme McDonald
New album out now via Kingfisher Bluez: https://deadsoft.bandcamp.com/
Blueprint Anniversary Show