Six Shooter Records joyously welcomes three talented, inspiring new staff to the label, including Andrea Aguilar who joins as the new Director of Digital Strategy and Marketing, Meghan Borthwick as Marketing Department Coordinator and Julian Staniewski as Operations Manager. Long titles, but the short of it is that the label has again leveled up in […]
Established in 2000 in Toronto, Six Shooter Records is a full-service music company with a diverse roster that includes artists in the genres of Americana, country, rock, and avant-garde. In addition to being a label and a publisher, the company also provides artist management services. Since its inception, Six Shooter has released over 140 albums. […]
EXPECT NEW MUSIC ON 4/20. BOY GOLDEN’S DEBUT ALBUM ARRIVES THIS SUMMER. Learn and Burn: Boy Golden hosts “Roll With Tokyo Smoke” Virtual Workshop on 4/20. Join here. Six Shooter Records is thrilled to welcome Boy Golden, a new artist from Winnipeg, MB, to the label. A chrysalis in a 1940s lemon lounge suit, Boy Golden is […]
Written by David Morrison Being useless at everything else and because music is on my mind as many hours per day as koalas are asleep, I’ve spent the majority of my working life cheerily toiling away in record stores. Thirteen years into my employ at the fabled Fascinating Rhythm in Nanaimo, BC, that situation – […]
New video for “Everything Reminds Me” adds small daily rituals up to something big and beautiful. Watch here. It wasn’t easy when I think about itLiving in the house of changing facesDavid Blue “The air in the house is different now,” says Ryan Boldt, the creative force behind The Deep Dark Woods. Boldt’s house is now […]
“A trippy Harold Edgerton moment for the 21st Century.” Watch Whitehorse perform Modern Love at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern Friday, March 26. Live stream tickets here. Whitehorse’s “I Wanna Make Promises (That I Can’t Keep),” is a loping, laidback wishful think, travelling from aisle 9 to cloud 9 and back again. Today, the song gets an absurdist, mad scientist […]
Written by Tabassum Siddiqui Do you feel like a relic in a new age? Caught between an appreciation for the innovation of the digital era and a nostalgia for the tangible nature of something maybe a little more analogue? For me, Whitehorse has always nailed that feeling with their music, which nods to the past […]
Listen to their first single, “I Wanna Make Promises (That I Can’t Keep)”. Get tickets for Whitehorse’s album release show at The Horseshoe Hootenanny (live stream) on Friday, March 26, here. Introducing Modern Love, the latest edition from dual-booted songwriting CPU Whitehorse. Designed for life at 25,000 frames per second, Modern Love offers premium processing and emotion-capture capabilities. Optimized […]
WRITTEN BY DEL COWIE In a previous edition of The Horizon Line, Anupa Mistry perceptively wrote that through Zaki Ibrahim’s music “it’s possible to access the version of Toronto that, perhaps, only exists as a feeling. Zaki’s music is an atmosphere unto itself.” It’s a sentiment with which I wholeheartedly agree and it transports me […]
THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANETS RELAUNCHES WORLDWIDE MARCH 12. WATCH “CUT LOOSE” HERE. “A vintage soul and R&B feel to it, with sprinkles of both nostalgia and future by way of synthesizers and 808s.” – okayafrica “Despite its title, Planets is less liturgical science fiction and more soulful and sublime, focusing on the cosmos of human experience.” […]
Don’t be fooled, folks! The image below is of a fake Instagram account created by someone claiming to be our VP of Marketing + Publicity, Emily Smart, and we’re sharing it to spread the word that it is a scam. Some friendly reminders to artists: we don’t offer record deals via DM, nor will we […]
High Priestess Publishing Expands Roster With New Signings Lana Winterhalt And Jesse Northey. High Priestess Publishing and Six Shooter Records are pleased to welcome Temi Argyropoulos to the team as Publishing and Sync Manager, a role that will see industry veteran Argyropoulos working with a wide scope of repertoire including the label’s extensive 20-year catalogue, Six […]