Flowers Of Hell members become Velour Underground to play your Reed/Cale faves at The Baby G on Tuesdays 8 pm to 12 midnight.
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Lou Reed championed Toronto’s Flowers Of Hell, so this May they’ll be performing two sets of Velvet Underground songs at The Baby G (1608 Dundas St. West) every Tuesday in May as The Velour Underground. Expect fan favourites and a changing array of deep cuts each week, plus a light show. With the similar capacities of the Baby G and NYC’s Max’s Kansas City where the Velvets did their 1970 residency, this is as close as you can get to the real experience! Take a walk on the wild side!
100 tickets available in advance (no charge via Dice right here), remaining tickets available at the door on a first come-first served basis. Doors open at 8 pm. Velour Underground residency at The Baby G continues May 19 and May 26. Check out The Velour Underground in action below.
Check out The Ichi-Bons' performances of "The Witch" and "Little Lil" along with the original versions below.
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Ugly Pop is very pleased to announce our second single from the finest group playing in Toronto today, the mighty Ichi-Bons! Tearing it up on two potent slabs of their patented Desperate Rock'n'Roll, Ichi-Bons are joined here by sax savage Spencer Evoy for maximum blaze. Topside's a delicious, delirious take on an obscure Mel Dorsey rocker from '59, while anybody with an ear for this music will recognize the flip's all-time Sonics scorcher. This is a one-time only pressing of 400. (UGLY POP UP085).
You can get it directly from the Ichi-Bons at their show with The Deltas at Toronto's Legendary Horseshoe Tavern on Friday (May 22) or you can mail order a copy via Big Cartel right here. While you're there, grab a copy of Ichi-Bons guitarist Mamoru Banzai's new "Strollin' At Dawn" 3-song solo instrumental EP – which should appeal to fans of Link Wray – also on Ugly Pop available here.
Get tickets for The Ichi-Bons' double-bill with The Deltas at the Horseshoe Friday (May 22) right here.
Delmore's new Gary Stewart rarities disc One Track Mind makes an ace companion for Jimmy McDonough's new biography of the late honky tonk hero.
Previously unreleased, pre-RCA recordings by the once, future and forever King Of The Honky-Tonks. For nearly two decades, we obsessively scoured the vaults of multiple publishing houses along Music Row, and the endless archives of Gary's closest friend, Tommy Schwartz, all in search of elusive performances rumoured to exist. One Track Mind is Delmore's third deep dive into the Gary Stewart legacy, which began with the Grandma's Roadhouse LP in 2010.
One Track Mind (out July 17 via Nashville's Delmore Recording Society) finds Gary toward the beginning of his career as a songwriter—newly arrived in Nashville from Fort Pierce, Florida, signing first with Cedarwood and then Forrest Hills publishing. Working primarily with early songwriting partner Bill Eldridge, several tunes heard on this collection would be recorded by luminaries of the genre, including Del Reeves ("One Track Mind"), Cal Smith ("You Can't Housebreak a Tomcat"), Jack Greene ("There's a Whole Lot About a Woman (A Man Don't Know)") and Nat Stuckey ("The Snuff Queen”). But no one sang these songs like Gary Stewart.
Also included are a handful of stripped down departures from the Nashville sound. Recorded in Gary's Williamson County, TN trailer, "Beautiful River" is a gorgeous, solo ballad, complete with his signature whistling. Alongside it is a guitar-vocal demo of "The Snuff Queen" -sourced from a beat-to-hell acetate disc- that puts an altogether different country-blues spin on this early Gary classic. (The studio version of "The Snuff Queen", was released as a B side by Kapp in 1970, and later included on the 1975 MCA compilation LP, "You're Not The Woman You Used To Be"). The LP culminates in a jaw dropping, early recording of "Williamson County", which is unlike anything Gary recorded before or since. A singular performance that needs to be heard to be believed, and almost unrecognizable from the polished version recorded for 1975’s Out of Hand, Gary’s debut LP for RCA. The whereabouts of the other songs Gary recorded that day remains a mystery.
What isn't a mystery is that Gary sings every song here with everything he's got. Whether you're new to the powerful artistry of Gary Stewart, or a long time obsessive, there's much to love within these fully loaded grooves. Delmore couldn't be prouder to have the opportunity to bring more Gary Stewart music into the world.
The digital / CD release contains four bonus tracks, including the complete legendary Mowtown session. Delmore released the first two Motown numbers as a Record Store Day vinyl only single in 2018. Gary's demo of the Four Tops classic "I Can't Help Myself" (Sugar Pie, Honeybunch), is heard here for the first time, and all three are making their digital debuts.
Last month, a definitive biography, Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks, was published by Jimmy McDonough (author of the New York Times bestseller Shakey: Neil Young's Biography). Read more about Jimmy McDonough's Gary Stewart biography on The Perlich Post right here. And check out an interview with Jimmy McDonough over here.
Is the Country Music Hall Of Fame next? It's about damn time.
Pre-order a copy of Gary Stewart's One Track Mind via Bandcamp right here. Check out a short documentary on Gary Stewart following the track listing below.
Gary Stewart – One Track Mind
1. One Track Mind
2. Kings And Queens
3. Woman Will Tear The Heart Right Out Of A Man
4. Big Bad Train
5. Living The Life Of A Dog
6. Don't Put A Poor Hand On Me
7. Her Apple Pie
8. My Mind Is On You
9. Iron Bar Motel 02:46
10. The Bottom Of The Pile
11. There's A Whole Lot About A Woman (A Man Don't Know)
Promising UK country rockers Brown Horse hit the Monarch Tavern with the well-crafted songs from their Total Dive album out now. Doors at 7 pm!
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Brown Horse is a Norwich-based country rock band. Rooted in a collaborative approach to songwriting, the six-piece mix guitar-driven 90s alternative rock with the folk and country sounds of the 70s.
In April 2026 Brown Horse released their third album Total Dive on Loose Records. Their strongest and most grounded work to date, it showcases a new level of skill and assurance in the Norwich band’s thoughtful lyricism and musicality. Leaning away from the playfulness and eclecticism of their previous works, Total Dive sees Brown Horse step forward into the darkness with a cautious optimism. With songs from each of the four members (Patrick Turner, Nyle Holihan, Emma Tovell and Rowan Braham) the writing charts a world of small revelations and painful changes. As they move confidently between searing noise and delicate reflection, Brown Horse take time to note the beauty and agony of the mundane; the death rattle of a vending machine, headlights flashing in the eyes of a road-killed fox, the heather-pink of a winter sky.
The new album is the clearest expression yet of Brown Horse’s unique sound - somewhere between Jay Farrar's darker impulses of Uncle Tupelo's country rock, the raw intimacy of early Cat Power, and the haunted landscapes of Magnolia Electric Co., while embracing the self-possessed noisiness of alt rock trailblazers like Built to Spill and The Breeders. Bolstered by the playing of Norwich drummer, Ben Rodwell, and the vocal harmonies of Leeds-based musician, Neve Cariad, Total Dive is the sound of a band coming fully into their own. These are songs inhabited by wide Norfolk skies, thousands of shared miles on the road, the noise of heartbreak and humour, and the echoing silence of long hours spent in strange in-between places.
Tickets for Brown Horse's much-anticipated Toronto show at the Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton) tonight (Saturday, May 16) are $27.75 and available here. Doors open at 7 pm. Check out a couple of Brown Horse's videos after the impressive title track from their Total Dive album below.
