Gun Control

Wee’d – I Think I Just Wee’d Myself – Kingfisher Bluez 7″

This one is a long story, which is included on a little note with added to the package. The short version is, Kingfisherbluez had a spot in their single’s series, but only under very specific conditions. We were more than happy to oblige with an iPhone recorded song from our two-piece band days, and that is what was captured on this one-sided 7″.

You can preview the track here. If you make it a…

Stories About Stories About Stories

And the drive into the depths beneath

Summer – New Song

The best song is a finished and released song, so go sit in the corner other songs I can’t bring myself to listen to again to keep tweaking the sibilance. Back in May Oliver from the band Bellows opened up an invitation for anyone to participate in a song a day challenge. It was a cool challenge that went swimmingly for 2 days until I was reminded of how much I had forgotten about recording, and…

Photos courtesy of Amanda Silberling at amandasiberling.com Interview with Mathew Lee Cothran of Elvis Depressedly/Coma Cinema Back in March Steve got to interview Mat Cothran for our favourite Vancouver music magazine Beatroute. While appropriate for the format, soooooo much had to be cut! So now we’re going to the other extreme with an almost raw transcript of Steve and Mat’s chat. Edited for…

Where the hell have we been? One of the problems with being a DIY band is that when you dedicate yourself to doing things yourself, you have to spend time actually figuring out how to do the things. Sometimes these are things that you can learn rapidly, execute, and forget all about them – like when we made this website and had to forget everything we knew about HTML, learn CSS, figure out how…

Last night on my way home from the Alex Cameron charm your face off experience I ducked into a cafe/bar that just started a new open mic night. Open mics are curious creatures, though uniformly named and conceptualized each is very different. Some are baby artist play pens, where one in ten songs might be originals, and three and ten songs are just trainwrecks of execution. Other nights are the…

The neck cramp used to be the distinct malady of the big reader or the overly ambitious and generous lover. Yet, almost instantly our spines curved downwards towards our phones. How shocking one found this when they finally noticed directly corresponds with the degree of neck ache. To the shoulder blades? “Oh, so this is what the passage of time feel’s like. Interesting.” Down to your office job…

There’s a phenomena in Canada, and probably any other cold place but the experiential science that informs the following only relate to Canada, in which the outside tries to kill you. Often this intent is obvious, windows scab over with a crystalline pattern that represents the end of entropy in death, doors refuse to open, and there’s a either a density to the air that encourages hibernation, or…

Gun Control – Volume 1 – Now Available!

We did it. We did it months and months ago. We were ready to do this, but the Universe did not want this to be done. We’re now on way better terms with the Universe, going to hang out and play foosball on Thursday.  So now it is done, and all that’s left to do is listen.   Available Digitally Everywhere – Click This

Gun Control Song of the Day – Liz Phair “Stratford-On-Guy”

Photo by Mark Payerl Exile In Guyville by Liz Phair is a track by track response to The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. Phair has said she tried to treat each track as a response to Mick Jagger’s corresponding track. Phair elaborated with Rolling Stone in 2010: So “6’1″ ” equates to “Rocks Off.” In his lyrics he’s coming back from a night out, he’s doing the walk of shame. It’s early morning,…

Gun Control Album Release Show Feb 4th – Here’s “City of No”

Every so often there’s a thing to be done at a place that goes by many names and way less often it has something to do with the masters of the 7 Times Recorded song; Gun Control. Beneath the hustle and the bustle of a city that is often as uselessly self aware as a philosophy undergrad with a crippling student loan an album will be released; Volume 1 by Gun Control. Others will join in on…