“The air in the house is different now,” says Ryan Boldt, the creative force behind The Deep Dark Woods. Boldt’s house is now full of pets and plants, and happiness. It’s a house by the ocean, far from the rural prairie landscapes of his childhood and a defining feature of The Deep Dark Woods’ sound and lyrics.

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 video treatment, shot in ultra slo-mo, that makes art out of all of the awkward milliseconds, reflexes and micro cringes that go unseen in reality’s standard frame rate.

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?

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 for low-light conditions, Modern Love’s intuitive UX creates a fully immersive experience of interpersonal harmonics in ultra rich waveshape sonics.

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.”

The journey through Zaki Ibrahim’s expansive catalogue concludes with 2018’s The Secret Life of Planets, available worldwide on Friday, March 12. From the stomach-flipping dives of “Dangerous” to the night sky echoes of “Galileo,” The Secret Life of Planets is essential Zaki Ibrahim listening.

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2020 sync highlights included blockbuster placements for The Dead South’s “In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company,” which hit the Global Shazam Top 50 after it appeared in Netflix’s Umbrella Academy Season 2. The song also recently appeared in American Gods (Starz). As the size and scope of the rosters grow, Six Shooter’s publishing reach continues to expand in new directions. “Temi will be instrumental in helping us grow our publishing and sync divisions,” says Temple, Director of Licensing & Publishing.

The Dead South announce Served Live Venue Bingo, a creative fundraiser that shines the light on venues around the world to promote and support the work being done to stabilize the live music industry during the pandemic - and beyond - by three organizations: NIVA (#SaveOurStages, USA), Music Venue Trust (#SaveOurVenues, UK) and CIVC (#SupportCanadianVenues, Canada).

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. Our artists have been consistently recognized in national award programs, including the JUNO Awards, Polaris Music Prize, SOCAN Awards, Canadian Folk Music Awards, and others.

The Dead South always planned to document the Served Cold World Tour, which would take the band from their hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan through 200 shows in over 20 countries. Now, with show postponements into 2022, the band offers fans a snapshot of their lauded live show with Served Live, a double live album and complete set list collection recorded at venues across North America, UK and Ireland in 2019-2020.

Our first release of 2021 is The Dead South's Served Live, their first double live album, a true rite of passage for any band. Remember the olden days when The Dead South could actually serve us live? That seems like so long ago that it could have been when The Dead South’s old timey outfits were still the current fashion of the day! Served Live will be out later this month