Carly and I played at the CHUM Radio Fanfest during Canadian Music Week last Friday. We had a blast, met a lot of wicked artists. The lineup included Carly, Katy Perry, Our Lady Peace, Plain White T’s, Lights, Serena Rider, Divine Brown, Kreesha Turner, Eva Avila.
Here’s a super rough video of Tug Of War from someone in the crowd.
Virgin Radio 95.3 Vancouver is currently playing 3 WineCellar produced songs.
1) Tug Of War - Carly Rae Jepsen
2) Coming Home Soon - Adam Woodall
Jeff Winskell and Virgin have been a great help in getting our music out there. Thanks guys! They added Tug Of War early on, which helped get other stations nationwide on board. They’ve also taken a chance and are the first to add Adam’s song a couple of weeks ago as well as Bucket, Carly’s 2nd single.
Carly Rae Jepsen’s video for “Tug Of War” just reached #22 on the MuchMusic Countdown this week. The song, co-written by Carly and myself and produced at the WineCellar, has already hit Top 10 on radio in Canada. Pretty cool video that Carly put together earlier this year. Check it out if you haven’t already.
The Video:
Carly Rae Jepsen’s 2nd single, the WineCellar produced and co-written title track from her debut album Tug Of War, is a smash Canadian radio hit. Reaching #8 on AC and #12 on Hot AC, the song has a weekly radio audience of over 3 million people a week and is propelling Carly’s career to the next level.
The numbers:
-#8 BDS Spins (AC)
-#12 BDS Spins (Hot AC)
-#9 Canadian Songs in Canada
-#36 Billboard Canadian HOT 100
-#14 BDS Audience (Top 10 most increased - 3,170,000 listeners)
-#23 Video (MuchMusic Countdown)
-10,000 spins and counting
“SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDERS” HITS #15
Carly’s first single, a cover of John Denver’s classic tune “Sunshine On My Shoulders”, was released to radio nationwide in mid July. It’s had a great run on AC radio so far, hitting #15 multiple weeks, and staying Top 20 for over 10 weeks now.
“Tug Of War” was co-written by Carly and myself, and I produced, mixed, and performed all the instruments on both songs at my studio The WineCellar. You can listen to either song at my myspace here.
WineCellar produced artist Julie Neumark just got signed to Hyena Records out of Europe. I had a great time with Julie producing, performing, and mixing her debut album “Dimestore Halo” last year. Hyena will be releasing the album in Europe later this year.
Here is an excerpt from her 4-Star review in “Revolver Magazine”:
” **** - Musical borders vanish, banjo travelling through a rock & roll landscape, dirty slide guitar and echo’s of old Delta blues in harmony with lovely ballads full of therapeutic selfpity (Wreck Of A Woman).
One of the best debuts this year!” (Revolver Magazine - 2008)
Check out some of Julie’s tunes at her myspace here.
DEBUT ALBUM - TUG OF WAR - TOP 10 ON iTunes
I recently finished producing, co-writing and performing on Carly Rae Jepsen’s debut record which came out on September 30th. Carly made it to the #3 spot on Canadian Idol last season. She’s a huge talent, both as a singer and a songwriter. The album made it to Top 10 on iTunes in its first week of sale. Check her out here.
I played a great show with Vancouver local Hip Hop band DNA6 for the bands Video Release show at the Red Room on July 24th. The band got a great review at CityInTune.com…Check the full review out here, and check out DNA6 here. The video is below.
“So up stepped DNA6 and… they really came out blazing and had amazing energy throughout their whole set.
A lot is said about the root trio of DNA6 of Alex Maher, MC Dosia (Brett von Brendel) and M. Prime (Mario Vaira), and rightfully so.
They’re a talented trio to say the least with a great MC/soul dynamic that perfectly in both tone and personality - but with a sound so dependent on the rhythm section, I have to sing some praises for bassist David Spidel and drummer Ryan Stewart for not only holding down but driving the beats for DNA6.
Spidel’s walking, optimistic and jazzy hip-hop bass lines a la Tribe Called Quest provide a constant point of interest, and Stewart pops the beat in all the right ways to make your head bob, without over complicating it. So let it be said, without such tight, talented rhythm players like these guys - DNA6 would still shine.
But these guys add to the brilliance of that shine.”
The song “Give It Up”, co-produced and co-written by John Dexter of Dexter Entertainment and myself, has been picked up for an upcoming episode of Robson Arms. Keep posted for airtimes.
Myc Sharratt has won “Best Male Vocalist” at the Vancouver Island Music Awards this past week for his work on his WineCellar produced album, Blueprint. Myc was also nominated for 4 other awards (see below) at the ceremony. Congratulations Myc…Check him out at www.myspace.com/mycsharratt.
Montreal Singer / Songwriter Ketsia has the top downloaded album on Puretracks for the last 2 weeks (April 17 - May 1 2007) with the release of Ketsia: The Queen of Montreal, co-written / produced / recorded / and mixed by Ryan Stewart at the WineCellar. Her album beat out Timbaland and Hilary Duff for the top spot. Go to iTunes or Puretracks to check out her album, or check her out in our listening section. www.myspace.com/ketsiamusic
