Probably one of Team Poule’s all time favorites: Bravestation. And after being busy and silent for a while they are back with a new banger. Actors features their crisp production along with Devin’s warm vocals, a perfect team. It’s really amazing to see how, coming from a great EP five years ago, they steadily perfected their sound. Actors is another cherry on their cake – and comes with the promise a new EP to be out on Culvert Music this summer. All you need.

And if you call Toronto home, you are in luck. The trio is playing The Drake Hotel tonight May 29th and Ottawa tomorrow and some more dates end of June. Hallo.

Red hot new this one. Freedom Fry just finished a residency at The Echo in LA – and had the audience participate in the making of this song, how cool is that. The claps and group vocals and screams you hear might just belong to someone you know. Freedom Fry are loving life and the hear and now and that is something that’s always a plus in Team Poule’s book. Catch them on a stage near you this summer. This is 21.

If you are anything like Team Poule – which I hope you are not – you will have a thing for 60s infused pop music with a dreamy edge to it. Luckily Team Poule has you covered here and this one attached below is the latest offering by Toronto’s Grounders. Drawing Space is a great spring song with happy drums and tingling guitars. And more good news: after years of extended plays and tours their self-titled debut album is out now on bandcamp and about to be released in Europe June 15th. Summer soundtrack anyone?

They are playing New York and Philadelphia this week and range of dates in Canada next month – which is next week, so click here for a nice list of times, places and venues.

Ever wondered what forest-techno sounded like? Moglebaum came up with just that and while the techno part is quite self-explanatory the forest comes in form of a violin and saxophone. Now before get all violin mixed with electronic sounds, ugh, been there done that, wait a minute and give this one a proper listen. It’s actually quite amazing and unlike anything.

And this is just the recorded sounds. Wait til they get up on a stage. I reckon that is where the magic happens. Luckily, Moglebaum play Hamburg’s Volt June 3rd, and Lunatic Festival in Lüneburg June 5th before they are off to play a festival in Bulgaria, June 13th. Hit that.

Whoa whoa whoa here comes a BIG one. Canadian pop machines Scenic Route To Alaska have been bathing in praise by their local press and rightly so. They sound like a camping trip, like river-winds, like pine trees and like long shadows and orange air. Their album Warrington came out last summer and won a whole lot of awards over in Canada. Europeans however are in luck now because the trio is in the middle of a grand tour playing a number of gigs in Germany right now and three dates in London in June before heading back to Canada. If you are in Hamburg tomorrow, May 20th, come out to Astra Stube. After that they are off to Leipzig, Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt a whole range of smaller cities, so look out for that Darmstadtians and Hildesheimers, all dates are nicely listed here.

Meanwhile, the brilliant album Warrington is up on bandcamp, and the opening track Paris is attached below for your convenience.