FADER PREMIERE
Side A of Highway Transmissions, the new tape from Edmonton-based songwriter Calvin Love, was recorded live at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn during last year's CMJ marathon. He played a tight set of off-kilter guitar jams, including highlights from his New Radar LP and two tracks from his most recent 7-inch. The flip side of the cassette is less focused but just as engaging; it contains a bunch of home-recordings Love made between 2007 and now—a manic collection of crudely-rendered rock songs and fragmented sonics. About 50 minutes in, an emotionally-vacant female voice starts reading a poem over some solemn keyboard chords, making for a sad, spooky, kind-of-perfect ending. Stream the whole thing below, and pick up a physical tape over at Hit City USA, which is releasing it as part of their "Nice Touch" mixtape series. Love also just announced a North American tour with Montreal pop band TOPS; those dates are below.
Stream: Calvin Love's Highway Transmissions Tape
Tourdates:
03/01 - Electric Owl - Vancouver, BC *
03/03 - Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
03/05 - New Parish Music Hall - San Diego, CA
03/06 - Bootleg Theatre - Los Angeles, CA #
03/08 - Black Market - El Paso, TX
03/09 - Old No2 - Laredo, TX
03/14 - Panache SXSW Showcase @ Hotel Vegas - Austin, TX
03/18 - Replay Lounge - Lawrence, KS #
03/20 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL #
03/21 - PJ's Lager House - Detroit, MI #
03/22 - Sneaky Dees - Toronto, ON #
03/24 - Baby's All Right - Brooklyn, NY#
03/25 - DC 9 - Washington, DC #
03/26 - Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA #
03/27 - Signal Kitchen - Burlington, VT #
03/28 - Drones Club - Montreal, QC #
06/19-21 - NXNE - Toronto, ON
* with DJ Jonathan Toubin's Soul Clap
# with Tops
