Sloan Working on ‘One Chord to Another’ 20th Anniversary Box Set

--taken from: Diffuser.fm

by Michael Haskoor

Toronto alt-rock outfit Sloan are reportedly planning to release a 20th anniversary vinyl box set of their 1996 album, One Chord to Another, sometime next year, according to Brooklyn Vegan.
The box set will resemble the size and content of the anniversary collection they previously put together for their 1994 album, Twice Removed. You can listen to the original version of One Chord to Another via this link.

Sloan, who released their eleventh album, Commonwealth, in September, will also play the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in April before heading out on a brief U.S. tour this June, which will include a show at Rough Trade in N.Y.C. on June 29. Similarly to last year’s Bowery Ballroom show, the Rough Trade show will be feature a first set where the band will play their recent album in its entirety, and then a second set that spans the remainder of their career.

--taken from: Diffuser.fm

Six Degrees Of The Meligrove Band: How They're Connected To Almost Every Canadian Indie Act Ever

--taken from: Huffington Post (read more here)

by Aaron Brophy

"We go way back with those guys. I think they're one year older than Jay, Darcy and I. From Mississauga. I think they formed when they were 14. They were called Pezz forever. We played a bunch of community centre shows with them," says Small. "I can remember was we were playing a show opening for Sloan at Sheridan College and it would have been right around the time that Between The Bridges came out... Ben [Kowalewicz, Billy Talent's singer] was at that show and saying things like 'I can't believe you got to open for Sloan.' That's amazing. It felt to him at that time it was a fantastic achievement. It felt that way for us, too."

--taken from: Huffington Post (read more here)

Bowery Ballroom / New York, New York

--taken from: Elmore Magazine

by Layne Montgomery

With more than twenty years of experience under their belt, Sloan is an impeccable live act. It was my third or fourth time seeing one of my all-time favorite bands, and they continue to exceed my expectations (besides continually refusing to bust out my favorite song “She Says What She Means.”)

Billed as “An Evening With Sloan,” the band essentially opened for themselves with a short set where each member of the four piece band took center stage for three songs (excluding drummer Andrew Scott, whose nearly twenty-minute “Forty-Eight Portraits” counted for his whole set). This individual spotlighting follows the model of their new record, Commonwealth, where every member, each one a talented songwriter, had a full side of the LP to do whatever they pleased. While the record is definitely good, most new songs were met with a polite disinterest from the crowd, who perked up more during the second set, which was longer and more hit filled. Strangely, the band played nothing from their classic ’90s LP, One Chord to Another, but perhaps that’s because the record is overdue for a deluxe reissue and tour like they did a few years ago for another masterpiece record of theirs, Twice Removed. Minor set list gripes aside, an encore featuring a tender “The Marquee and the Moon,” complete with a twinkling disco-ball above them, and a powerful version of their early single “500 Up” was a moment for the books, which left me leaving the Bowery with a smile on my face.

--taken from: Elmore Magazine

Fruitcake – Will It Last Forever?

--taken from: barfblog (read more here)

by Ben Chapman

Chris Murphy of Sloan (a top-5 band on the pantheon of Canadian rock and roll) pines on Action Pact that ‘nothing lasts for ever any more.’

Fruitcake might.

--taken from: barfblog (read more here)

Sloan returns to New Glasgow

--taken from: New Glasgow News

NEW GLASGOW - Canadian rock and roll icons, Sloan, are returning to New Glasgow in 2015. The Nova Scotia pop pioneers, now based in Toronto, released their 11th album, Commonwealth, in September, and bring their latest tracks to Glasgow Square on March 4.

“Their influence on the music scene in Nova Scotia can still be felt today, 22 years after their first record,” says Carlton Munroe, New Glasgow’s Programs and Events Manager. “Commonwealth once again reaffirms Sloan’s place in the top drawer of Canadian rock and roll, and we’re very excited to have them return to the Glasgow Square stage.”

Each member of the group - Jay Ferguson, Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland, and Andrew Scott - all contribute original compositions to each record, equal partners with equal say over every aspect of their work. Where in the past creative lines have been blurred to create the multifaceted Sloan sound, Commonwealth sees the four bandmates disassociating ever so slightly to create an old-school double album sequenced with each member staking out a single side as their own artistic dominion.

Commonwealth follows 2011’s The Double Cross, which earned Sloan some of the most glowing notices of their acclaimed career.

Pitchfork summed it up best: “Twenty years in, they’ve made one of their best albums…That (Sloan) sound this creatively fresh this deep into their career is a real treat for people who’ve stuck with them through the years. If you’ve never given them a chance before, this is a great time to get to know them.”

--taken from: New Glasgow News