Sloan - 2008 Tour Dates (2 shows @ Bowery), new album

sloan sucks

Sloan rocks!!!!

Sloan is somewhere in between sucks and rocks!!

They's ain't got no stance!!! Pa Leez.. Makes me want to throw a produce plastic bag full of steamy shit at each o dem...

Let's do it!! Yeeeaaahh!!

I thought their last album, Never Hear the End of It, was solid. I wonder if the new album will have 30 songs?

yea, that stance is aggravating....steamy...

its got 13 tracks, its real concise and Andrew/Jay are the stars.

The new album is really good I think... you can stream the whole thing at their Yep Roc page:

http://store.yeproc.com/album.php?id=13402

And Sloan always bring it live.

better than 99.9999999% of the god-awful bands this blog covers

Sloan = good solid power pop band who put on a good solid show. I'll be buyin' tickets.

sloan slucks

sloan socks

PR:
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The follow up to last year's 30-track epic Never Hear the End of It, new album Parallel Play finds the Canadian quartet in top form. A June 10 release date and a summer U.S. tour are planned.

In accordance with Sloan's unique creative dynamics, band members Jay Ferguson, Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland and Andrew Scott each contribute three songs to Parallel Play (with Andrew clocking in at 4).

Patrick Pentland says of the Sloan process, "I think we create better separately than when we try to do it together. Some times collaboration works, but we're such different people, and all of us are capable song writers and producers, that it doesn't make sense to try to force the band to adhere to some preconceived idea of the typical rock band architecture."

Less a conscious answer to NHTEOI's ambitious unabridged length, Parallel Play is a boiled down continuation of the musical concepts put forth on their last album and a further exploration of the band's four-songwriter dynamic. A term taken from the science of developmental psychology, parallel play is a behavior seen in young children in which they enjoy independent activities in the company of other children, something the four boys in Sloan know a lot about.

The track listing and songwriting credits for Parallel Play are as follows:

1. Believe In Me - PATRICK
2. Cheap Champagne - JAY
3. All I Am Is All You’re Not - CHRIS
4. Emergency 911 - ANDREW
5. Burn For It - PATRICK
6. Witch's Wand - JAY
7. The Dogs - ANDREW
8. Living The Dream - CHRIS
9. The Other Side - PATRICK
10. Down In The Basement - ANDREW
11. If I Could Change Your Mind - JAY
12. I'm Not A Kid Anymore - CHRIS
13. Too Many - ANDREW