OLD UGLY

Say hello to Travis Bretzer!

OLDUGLYCO — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:46:09 +0000

Travis Bretzer has been a satellite of OU for a long time now. His personality and talent, which are inherently intwined, have created a pop rock monster of mythic and monolithic proportions. Making Love, our first record with Travis, is going to blow a hole in your head. I hope you’re ready cause we certainly aren’t.
The album drops on June 8th at Elevation Room. Check out the first single, ‘Billy and I’, right here and check out the facebook event and poster below for more info on the show.

The first single from Making Love, Billie and I:

Photo Credit: Evan Prosofsky

OLD UGLY DENIM FEST + Tour Schedules!

OLDUGLYCO — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:23:46 +0000

We have a ton of news! Doug Hoyer & Jessica Jalbert start their cross Canada tour tomorrow and Jom Comyn starts his on the 25th! See Jess & Doug’s dates here and be sure to come to their tour kickoff on the 10th at Wunderbar and their tour return on June 2nd at Elevation Room. You can see Jom Comyn’s dates here and be sure to catch his tour kickoff on the 25th at Wunderbar and his tour return show on June 16th at Elevation Room.

On June 9th we are doing the first OLD UGLY DENIM FEST at Wunderbar! Don your Canadian Tuxedo and join us for nearly our whole roster (sans Jim on tour, Teddy in NYC, and Flora in London). It starts at 4pm and costs only $7. Here’s the facebook event with the schedule and all that.

Here’s some visuals (these link to fb events):

Rare Pleasures

OLDUGLYCO — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:49:04 +0000

Ghibli’s all new Rare Pleasures hits the street and the 0′s and 1′s tomorrow, dear friends. Vue Weekly has already given it the 4 star seal of approval and that is surely just a taste of what is to come. Rare Pleasures is the finest collection of Ghibli house experimentation yet. Do not sleep! Check it out here. We are sponsoring about six untouchable shows between here and the 5th of May. We strongly suggest you make it out to as many of them as possible. Just click the poster image to be transported to their facebook events for more information. Stay golden, pony boys (& girls). ♥

New Jom Comyn Record.. sort of

OLDUGLYCO — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:55:57 +0000

Jom Comyn, known to the govt as James Cuming, has done an incredible thing. He’s gathered several peers from our corner of the Edmonton scene and compiled an entire record of Irish folk songs, a couple of which are even originals. OLD UGLY is proud to get behind this record and encourages you to spend your hard earned dollars on a copy and come see the sure to be legendary release show on St. Patrick’s Day at Wunderbar. Here’s the album, here’s the event. In further news, this same man is having his last show with the infamous Mandemic backing band. If you have ever seen Jom Comyn & the Mandemic, you know they can both brorogue parliament and brocreate like brobbits. Do not miss this MEGA PARTY at the Yellowhead Brewery on April 7th. As well, The Joe’s new project, Help, is playing with the mind melting King Vulture on March 21st at Wunderbar. It will be a very dark evening. Here’s the event page.

New Videos

OLDUGLYCO — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:01:42 +0000

OLD UGLY has finally started embracing the future with these here moving pictures we’ve been putting out so many of lately! We hope you enjoy these two incredible new videos for Jom Comyn’s “Hatchet In Garage” (produced by Mike Robertson for Highwire Films) and Doug Hoyer’s “Oh, The Wind Will Blow” (produced by Dylan Howard). Enjoy below!

In other news, OLD UGLY’s Tyler Butler has landed a record deal with Yer Bird Records, who will be re-releasing his Winter King record very shortly. This rerelease is also accompanied by a great deal of moving pictures by the aforementioned Dylan Howard. Check out the Yer Bird page here and the specialized winterking.ca page where they are one by one posting a takeaway show styled video for each song on the record.

The OLD UGLY Rap Video Trilogy

OLDUGLYCO — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:21:17 +0000

Mitchmatic’s new record is finally out. These are songs he’s been working on incessantly for the last two or three years. I can’t wait to see what he comes out with now. This could be the beginning of a long out pouring of quality Mitch Holtby raps. The other great thing about “It’s Probably Raining” finally being released is that the Mike Robertson produced music video was released alongside the record, thus completing the OLD UGLY RAPZ/HIGHWIRE FILMS music video trilogy featuring the lovely Joleen Ballendine. Her character doesn’t change throughout my (The Joe) video for You’re Cool, Mikey Maybe’s video for Hush, and Mitchmatic’s video for “Why Don’t You Know.” It is one and the same person. We didn’t realize this as we were at first creating it but Mike or Mikey pointed it out (can’t remember) while we were filming for his video and the observation has proven true. So enjoy in sequence our Edmonton rap video trilogy (and Mitchmatic’s new record, streaming below):

The Tip of the Iceberg Festival!

OLDUGLYCO — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:20:06 +0000

Edmonton Next Gen, a department of The City of Edmonton, has asked OLD UGLY to put together a day festival of excellent local music in the downtown heated tent complex built for winter festivities in Churchill Square! Come join us for a dozen of Edmonton’s very talented musicians (truly only the tip of the iceberg).

FREE, FULLY HEATED TENT, ALL AGES

Presented by Edmonton’s Next Gen & OLD UGLY Recording Co.
http://edmontonnextgen.ca/
http://olduglyco.com/

links to music:

THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG FESTIVAL 2012

Two New Records Coming Soon

OLDUGLYCO — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:06:27 +0000

We have three big shows coming up, two of which are CD Releases! The long awaited follow up to Mitchmatic‘s Two Weeks Off is finally arriving on February 3rd—”It’s Probably Raining.” And Phil Holtby, the master mind behind the psych folk creations of DoT has spent the last six months perfecting his neo-grunge sound with his 90′s rock incarnation, Catgut. His new live-off-the-floor full length recording, “Goosegg Smooshkeg” is dropping on the 22nd of January! And in other news, Dylan Khotin-Foote, once an OLD UGLIAN under the instrumental project Kumon Plaza, has returned from his European tour with Foxes In Fiction, performing as Happy Trendy. This return marks his 18th birthday and we are celebrating with his first Wunderbar show! This day has been a long time coming!! Click on the poster images for the facebook events with all the details.

ANOTHER OLD UGLY CHRISTMAS

OLDUGLYCO — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:28:26 +0000

OLD UGLY has gathered it’s wherewithal along with a dozen of our talented extended family and friends to create a massive Christmas record for all of you. We hope it finds you in tremendous cheer, and if Christmas isn’t your thing, hopefully this can carry you through in one piece! Enjoy, darlings! Drink it back!

December at OU

OLDUGLYCO — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:18:55 +0000

We have three huge shows this month! One of which is a CD release for GHIBLI’s brand new Snowclone EP and another which acts as the release party for ANOTHER OU CHRISTMAS, an album featuring most every OLD UGLIAN and a ton of extended family!! Both those records will be available on bandcamp the day after the show. The shows this month are few but concentrated in their glory. Click the poster image to link to the facebook events where more information will be available for you thirsty little goonies. P.S. Old Ugly put out 14 albums in the year 2011. Holler.