Today we're announcing that we've signed the Montreal post-punk outfit Ribbon Skirt to put out their debut record Bite Down on Mint. The album's out April 11!
Formerly known as Love Language, Ribbon Skirt are a band from Montreal led by Anishinaabe musician Tashiina Buswa. They have captivated audiences across Canada and the US including SXSW, New Colossus, Sled Island, Sappyfest, Flourish and POP Montreal.
To be Anishinaabe is to move through the world in respect and reciprocity, taking what you need and giving back whenever you can, while always acknowledging the gift that is the journey itself. It’s a way of life that was interrupted and severely damaged by the ravages of settler colonialism.
Ribbon Skirt is a Montreal-based post-punk band led by Anishinaabe musician Tashiina Buswa and guitarist Billy Riley. Their sound is raw and enveloping, channeling angular guitars, driving rhythms, and lyrical threads that explore memory, love, grief, and Buswa’s relationship to her Indigenous heritage.
Watch the new music video for “It’s About Time!”, the title track from Future Star’s sophomore LP, out now on Mint Records.
Heaven For Real are having fun with us. On Hell’s Logo’s Pink, their latest mini-album; twin Canadian songwriters Mark and J. Scott Grundy traverse a withering limboscape while sporting wide-eyed grins. Lyrical themes of spiritual ambivalence (“All That Remains”), doomer delusions and devotions, acute grief (“Biting Down With The Fangs''), solipsism, and ephemeral love (''Wichita's”) float with the band’s signature sonic buoyancy atop a refreshingly dark sea of material.
Today Montreal's knitting announce their debut LP Some Kind of Heaven, out on Mint September 6!
What started out as a pandemic hibernation project is now the fully fledged Montreal indie-rock-unit knitting. With “sinuous, bouncy guitars…and choruses that have the potential to metamorphose into earworms” (FME), knitting makes guitar driven and lyrically introspective indie rock evoking the nostalgia of 90s alternative rock bands like Pavement, Pixies and Sonic Youth.
Ever since they were an adolescent, Mischa Dempsey has been eager to rock, cutting their teeth as a bassist and songwriter in bands from eastern Canada’s resolute DIY scene of the 2010s. It was through this wider scene that Dempsey first met future collaborators Andy Mulcair and Sarah Harris–playing a show with Mulcair in a Beatles-themed BnB venue in rural Nova Scotia, and Harris at a music festival in St. John’s, NL.
