Shine Your Face has climbed up to the top of Earshot’s ‘International’ chart which means that our new record is the most played World Music album on Canadian college and community radio right now. If your local station isn’t playing it give them a call and request a track from Shine Your Face.
In a review published in The Toronto Star the other day John Goddard gives Shine Your Face 3 out of 4 stars and calls the new Mr. Something Something record “the group’s most accomplished work yet.”
Read the review in its entirety here.
Last week, The Toronto Star ran an article about the SoundCycle, our bicycle powered sound system. The paper also sent a camera team over to our rehearsal space for a demonstration of the system in action. If you’re wondering how the SoundCycle works and would like a detailed explanation, watch this video.
Hello friends,
We’ll celebrate the launch of our new album Shine Your Face with two shows at Supermarket in Toronto tonight. We’ll have an 8-piece band including a 3-piece horn section so don’t miss this show.
The first show starts at 8 pm, the second at 10 pm. Doors at 7:30 pm.
Hello friends,
if you missed us on CBC Radio’s arts & culture show Q this past Friday you can catch most of the show as a podcast here. We played four songs live on the air and chatted about activism, dancing, bicycle powered shows and our new record Shine Your Face of course.
The British compilation The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival which features a track from our 2007 album Deep Sleep, a collaboration with Ikwunga the Afrobeat Poet, has climbed to #8 on the European World Music Charts. The compilation is also getting great reviews around the world. Australian music magazine Cyclic Defrost calls Di Bombs “one of the cleverest and overtly political songs on the album”.
Get your copy here.
Dear friends,
If you haven’t been getting our newsletter for some time we apologize. Last year we switched to a green mailing system hosted by a company that offsets all its carbon emissions. In the process, however, some of you were lost in the shuffle because of technical difficulties. We’re trying to correct that now; so if you get an email asking you to confirm your subscription to the Mr. Something Something newsletter, it’s just because we want to be able to tell you about our new album and the summer tour and our bicycle-powered sound system and all the good activist events going on around the country and….well, you get the idea.
Hope to see you soon.
- Johan
The track “Di Bombs” from our 2007 album Deep Sleep, featuring Ikwunga the Afrobeat Poet, is included on The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival, a British compilation that will be released in more than 50 countries today. The album features such great artists as the legendary Tony Allen, Antibalas and Fela’s son Seun Kuti. We are proud to be in such good company.
Hey Friends. For any yoga practitioners out there (or anyone who wants a good reason to try yoga for the first time), read on:
Larry and some other Somethings will be providing LIVE beats and sounds at Yogaspace (148 Ossington Ave) for Madelaine Côté’s Vinyasa yoga session on Saturday Feb 28th from 7 to 8:45pm. $20 pre-reg/$25 at the door.
For more info please check out: http://madelainecote.blogspot.com/
The music editors at online retailer CD Baby has included our album Deep Sleep on a playlist of their favourite Afropop. Mr. Something Something is featured along bands like Antibalas and NOMO. The CD Bab y editors write: “we’ve picked artists whose irresistible use of rhythm is sure to get you up and dancing through the remainder of these cold, winter months.”
