NQ Arbuckle’s Love Songs for the Long Game Out Now. Listen to the New Record HERE. NQ Arbuckle On Tour with Whitehorse.

NQ Arbuckle adds “All Apologies” to the band’s small but instructive library of covers, a collection that also includes songwriter Vic Chesnutt and Nova Scotian poet Alden Nowlan. NQ’s take is found on Love Songs for the Long Game, the forthcoming album out May 19, 2023.

NQ Arbuckle announces Love Songs For The Long Game, a new album out May 19, 2023. To introduce the collection, the two-time JUNO Award nominees share a new song “No Hands Bicycle,” today. In more Spring news, NQ Arbuckle joins Whitehorse’s tour with shows across Ontario in May-June, 2023.

Reassuringly familiar, if a little bit flashier, the longsuffering but thankful NQ Arbuckle wins another battle against the urge to cut and run with “Love Songs For The Long Game,” his first new music in six years. For an artist whose songs have always grappled, at least in part, with the panic that comes with both asking and answering the question “Why am I doing this?” NQ Arbuckle has found his place writing seafarer songs for drinking on dry land, for our labours of love large and small.

Toronto’s Dakota Tavern will host the making of NQ Arbuckle’s upcoming live album this March. Buy tickets and be a part of the album. Tickets here: March 24 and March 31

NQ Arbuckle crosses the border and is now officially available in the U.S. The boys are already in the international airwaves thanks to stations like: RADIO FREE AMERICANA, KDNK, RADIO VAGABOND, WCNI, and WOUB.

It’s been six years since the last NQ Arbuckle album was released. The story of the time in between XOK and The Future Happens Anyway (coming April 29, 2014) isn’t one of drama or tragedy, band hiatus or break-up.

Drunk dudes from Huntsville or Lethbridge or St. John’s or wherever hang on every word. Everyone sings, mostly louder than the band. The word motherfucker is a compliment. Every show is an uprising, a groundswell. Don’t let the self-deprecation or inebriation imply that NQ Arbuckle isn’t serious about the music.

We are currently putting the finishing touches on the artwork of NQ Arbuckle‘s new album, “The Future Happens Anyway,” a work that was four years in the making! I’m guessing that the album title might have something to do with how long this album has taken to come to fruition. I promise you, my friends, it will be well worth the wait! NQ is undoubtedly still THE dude.