It's vinyl unveil day!
Our friends at Cups N Cakes have graciously offered to show off our new LP to the world. You can read more on Cups N Cakes here.
If you've already pre-ordered, thank you...we'll be getting your copy in the mail soon.
And local Ottawa drop-offs will happen soon after we're back from Halifax Pop Explosion!
You can still PRE ORDER HERE!
Our new LP 'Cotton Candy Jet Engine' is now available for pre-order!
There are only 212 PINK vinyl copies of the LP, each hand numbered.
The album officially launches on Oct 22, but we'll have streaming information in the coming weeks.
We're releasing this DIY and could use your help to spread the word.
PLEASE SHARE ON YOUR SOCIAL NETWORKS!
Thanks to our supporters, we've sold out of all vinyl we've put out in the past. So we're offering special options for pre-orders:
1. Pre-order now:
Get Cotton Candy Jet Engine on pink vinyl! Each of the 212 copies will be hand numbered inside. Each has the usual nightmare-wrapped-in-a-pop-art-rainbow artwork. Each has a lyrics insert and digital download.
2. Pick up at a show option:
Want to reserve your copy online but pick up at one of our shows in Ottawa, Halifax, Toronto or Barrie? There's an option for that as well.
NOTE: unfortunately we will not have copies at our PBR show on Sept 29th.
3. Ottawa friends option:
We'll deliver to your door and drop in your mailbox/on your doorstep. Just pick that version on the merch page here.
Upcoming shows:
Saturday Sept 29
Pretty Bad Records Weekend at Irene's, Ottawa.
Thursday Oct 18
Saved By Vinyl showcase, Halifax Pop Explosion
Saturday Oct 27
Cotton Candy Jet Engine OTTAWA RECORD LAUNCH Hallowe'en party at Bar Robo
Presented by Ottawa Showbox
Thursday Nov 8
Lee's Palace, Toronto
Saturday Nov 10
Foxx Lounge, Barrie
So psyched for this show! We join SAINT CLAIRE and CHAUTAUQUA on night 2 of Pretty Bad Records' 'Pretty Bad Weekend'!
$15 for both nights, $10 per!
As the awesome poster says, doors at 9pm.
Irene's Pub, 885 Bank St., Ottawa
We're so stoked for this show!
We join a super-group Devo cover band on this stacked bill that includes Man Made Hill and Douce Angoisse.
The celebration goes down at House of Targ in Ottawa on Saturday August 25, 9pm.
You can join the conversation over here on Facebook.
See you there!
From the Targ event on Facebook:
For this momentous moment in history, a cover band has formed and called themselves ARE WE NOT DEVO? WE ARE NOT! Front to back, they will perform Devo's first album, Q: ARE WE NOT MEN? A: WE ARE DEVO! in celebration of its North American release date on August 28th, 1978 – the day that music got a little more weird.
ARE WE NOT DEVO? WE ARE NOT! is made up of these Toronto people:
Vocals/synth – Andrew Payne (Vanity Phase, Century Palm)
Guitar – Fraser Wynne (First Base)
Guitar – Alex Hamlyn (Century Palm)
Bass – Mike Simpson (First Base, Teen Archer)
Drums – Jesse Locke (Tough Age, Simply Saucer, Chandra, Rotten Column, Feel Alright, Century Palm)
MAN MADE HILL (Hamilton)
He will mesmerize your eyes with his body moves. He will pack your ears in a suitcase and take you on a trip through the tone zone. He will stimulate your brain with his humour jokes.
https://manmadehill.bandcamp.com/releases
DOUCE ANGOISSE (Montreal)
Feel the soft anguish of this solid electro pop.
https://youtu.be/Hv51kCu1Ksg
https://douceangoisse.bandcamp.com/
EXPANDA FUZZ
Start the night off in a fuzzy, garagey, droney haze. Sounds like a perfect evening to me.
https://youtu.be/Ox3a0rtQuL0
https://expandafuzz.bandcamp.com/music
19+
$10 at the door
Expanda Fuzz at the The Palomino Smokehouse: By Michael Grondin for BeatRoute (AB)
A huge thanks to Sled Island for having Expanda Fuzz along for your incredible bash this year!
Thanks also to Mike Bell for putting us on his Theyyscene's TOP 5 LIST for Friday at Sled...what an honour to be named alongside these incredible acts: http://theyyscene.com/2018/06/22/mike-bells-top-5-sled-island-2018-picks-for-friday/
Until next time, Calgary!
Expanda Fuzz at Sloth Records. Photo by Arif Ansari
Expanda Fuzz: by Petr Maur
Ottawa Explosion is just around the corner and we kick of the fest this year on June 13th playing the 27 Club.
DETAILS:
The 27 Club Ottawa - 27 York St, Ottawa
8:30pm / $10 or wristband
Expanda Fuzz
Fruit and Flowers
Foam
The Heavy Medicine Band
Right after OXW winds down, we're off to Calgary to play Sled Island!
We've got two shows:
Thursday, June 21st
SLOTH RECORDS PRESENTS
Slow Tide - 1pm
Bad Buddy - 2pm
Expanda Fuzz - 3pm
The Garrys - 4pm
Friday, June 22nd
PALOMINO (upstairs)
Expanda Fuzz - 11:30 pm
Expanda Fuzz at the Ship & Anchor in Calgary
Hey friends!
On Saturday May 19th we return to the stage, raging full of new fuzz-up freak-outs from our new LP (which we'll be announcing soon...be sure to sign up to our newsletter to get details first!)
We join Chris Landry and the Seasick Mommas for a fun show that also includes legendary lounge lizard and lover of hot dogs, THE Remi Royale!
It's Chris Landry's big 4-0, so come out and celebrate with us at Irene's, 9pm.
Facebook details are here.
Photo from Sled Island 2017, by Arif Ansari.
We psyched to announce we're playing two of our very favourite festivals again this summer.
June 13th, we kick off Ottawa Explosion at the 27 Club in Ottawa.
Explosion was our very first show 2 years ago and we're thrilled to be a part of this amazing, underground DIY fest again this year.
You can get early bird tickets from the Ottawa Explosion site here.
The following week, from June 20 to 24, we're at Calgary's Sled Island!
Home of our friends at Saved By Vinyl, we're so happy to be heading west again this Summer.
Watch for our show updates at Sled coming soon!
This limited cassette comp is streaming on Episode 109 over at Cups now!
We're thrilled to be a part of this - our first compilation!
Cups N Cakes have been such great supporters during the early days of the Expanda Fuzz journey, so we're excited to contribute an unreleased track to this sexy, cool looking cassette!
In fact, the track is one of the very first songs we ever wrote and recorded. Expanda Fuzz history, folks!
Find out more about the comp here.
You can order it from Cups N Cakes now. And we'll also have a very limited handful for sale at our Ottawa Explosion show on June 13 at the 27 Club...more details on that show coming soon.
This week we've got two shows on tap with our pals Miesha and the Spanks!
Thursday March 22
Montreal: Barfly (4062A St. Laurent Blvd)
9pm
Friday March 23
Ottawa: Bar Robo (Ottawa Showbox presents!)
692 Somerset St W
9pm
Get our first album Bleuets here:
"This two-piece would be equally at home playing to the beard-strokers at a Warhol Factory Party as they would be ignoring their neighbour’s angry knocks for making too much racket in the garage". - Sled Island
"Sometimes some stripped back rock'n'roll is just enough, add in the darker garage edge, and that's enough boxes ticked for me!" - Beehive Candy
"Expanda Fuzz may be my new favorite band." - Brent Oliver, Artistic Director, Up + DT Festival, on Twitter.
About:
Expanda Fuzz was conceived attempting to rip apart a Pink Floyd song with a distorted bass and a fuzz-driven guitar through a ripped speaker cabinet...while playing to a Roland 404 sampler. The result of that experiment can be heard on the duo’s new record ‘Bleuets’, where they showcase their brand of catchy, droney, post-punk songs that hook heavily into a psych-garage sound.
Think Kim Deal fronting the Velvet Underground, or Mary Timony jamming with Suicide. And while that initial Pink Floyd cover has yet to surface, many more Expanda Fuzz releases are planned for 2017.
Photo by Andrew Carver
Photo by Andrew Carver