APOLLO GHOSTS – AMETHYST

APOLLO GHOSTS – AMETHYST

January 10, 2025 | Posted in: Apollo Ghosts, Blog 0

Bowing to popular demand and the insurmountable demands of musical enthusiasm and joy we have pressed Apollo Ghosts 7 song jangle garage ripper Amethyst to 10 full inches of sweet black vinyl! The perfect one-size-fits all physical manifestation of an album previously only heard in the digital realms. Our dreams made true!

Apollo Ghosts – Amethyst 10″
In stores January 10, 2025
Limited to 300 copies worldwide

With distortion pedals and walls of feedback, Apollo Ghosts – “Amethyst,” overflows with introspection, defiance, and the frustration of grappling with the world’s ills, contrasting the monotony of daily life with climate anxiety, the rise of autocracies with the rise of apathy. But throughout, the album cements Apollo Ghosts’ status as lifelong underground music defenders and eternal optimists. There are plenty of nods to 90s indie rock heroes Yo La Tengo, Dead Moon, Pavement, Guided By Voices, Eric’s Trip, and Built To Spill.

Amethyst isn’t just purple quartz, it’s a talisman that protects you from the the dangers of overindulgence. It turns thought into action. Wear an amethyst crystal, crank the crappy Peavy amp, record an album over a weekend. Bring it to an island, carry it through the forest, and spend the day ripping out invasive plants. Wildfires will still burn and storm surges won’t stop eroding our shorelines, but maybe an amethyst amulet will remind you to stay awake and keep fighting for a more just world.

Apollo Ghosts – Amethyst
(YC-064)
10″ Vinyl / Digital

Ripping Invasives
Fake Nurse
Sunset Over Ikea
Strawberry Moon
Faded Neil Young Shirt
Rave Heaven
No One Knows Your Mind

NEW MUSIC: APOLLO GHOSTS – PINK TIGER DOUBLE LP!

NEW MUSIC: APOLLO GHOSTS – PINK TIGER DOUBLE LP!

January 11, 2022 | Posted in: Apollo Ghosts 0

Pink Tiger is the 2-part, 22-song epic return by Vancouver’s beloved DIY champs Apollo Ghosts!

Part 1, “Pink” (LP 1, tracks 1-11), is an intimate home recorded acoustic based cycle that grapples with loss, illness, death, and memory. Part 2, “Tiger” (LP 2, tracks 12-22) is an exuberant indie-garage rock celebration of the persistence of friendship, music, and hope. Apollo Ghosts draw on a long history of independent and locally focused music making, from Flying Nun to K Records to their own Vancouver scene, to reinvigorate indie guitar rock songwriter with ambition and poise.

Available March 11th, 2022 exclusively via You’ve Changed Records—the album features the band’s new single, “Spilling Yr Guts”.

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“About seven years ago, I stood around a makeshift fire pit in a clearing on a small gulf island with a group of my best friends. We burned a beer can and made jokes. When I started recording the first half of this record, I thought everything was falling apart. For six months, I could only hear from one ear and the doctor said it could be something quite serious. The cedars were still dying. My dad was still dying.

A year later, we recorded the second half of the record on Gabriola Island. My ear finally cleared up after the sessions were over. We listened to the final masters in the middle of the heat dome summer during the Perseid meteor shower. The heat dome eventually ended. In the fall, Amanda and I planted dozens of trees (Garry oaks, willows, alders and maples) around that fire pit. Our bass player Robbie’s having a baby this spring. Amanda’s started restoring hand-crank sewing machines. She says everything can be mended. It might be too late, but I’m going to keep planting trees every year going forward anyways.

Apollo Ghosts joked that this was a feeble attempt at making our own ‘Tusk’. Some influences this round: The Bats, Dear Nora, Little Wings, Tom T. Hall, The La’s, Beverly Glenn Copeland, disco beats, ocean swims, trees, Lucia Berlin & Lydia Davis, and as always…. the local music scene.”
— Adrian Teacher.

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Apollo Ghosts are a band formed in Vancouver, B.C. Canada in 2008 (founded on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh). Apollo Ghosts live currently feature Amanda P. on bass, Robbie N. on bass, Adrian Teacher on guitar and Dustin B. on drums.

Pink Tiger was recorded by Jordan Koop (Orville Peck, The Courtenays) at the Noise Floor on beautiful Gabriola; a gulf island located in the unceded traditional territory of the Snunéymux First Nation. Additional production and mixing by David Carswell (Destroyer, New Pornographers) at JC/DC Studios in Vancouver.

 

Apollo Ghosts – Pink Tiger
2xLP/Digital – March 11, 2022
Adrian Teacher & The Subs debut ‘Terminal City’ video

Adrian Teacher & The Subs debut ‘Terminal City’ video

May 26, 2016 | Posted in: Adrian Teacher & The Subs, Apollo Ghosts, YCTV 0

Adrian Teacher & The Subs have released a new video and announced a cross-Canada tour to celebrate the release of their new Terminal City LP (YC-028).

Amanda P. from the Subs meticulously created and animated this video for the title track from the Terminal City LP. Watch as a day in the life of a rapidly gentrifying Vancouver neighbourhood is catastrophically upset by an invading horde of giant partying babies.

And catch Adrian Teacher & The Subs on tour this summer! Subs shows follow in the tradition of Adrian and Amanda’s previous efforts with Apollo Ghosts and CoolTV: radically inclusive, fun, spirited shows full of hooks and celebration. This is not to be missed!
Adrian Teacher & The Subs on tour:
June 03 – Vancouver, BC @ Toast Collective (LP Release Party)
July 12 – Lethbridge, AB @ The Slice
July 13 – Regina, SK @ The Club
July 14 – Winnipeg, MB @ Goodwill Social Club
July 15 – Thunder Bay, ON @ Apollo
July 16 – Hamilton, ON @ This Ain’t Hollywood *
July 17 – Guelph, ON @ Magic Bus (early show)
July 17 – Guelph, ON @ eBar *
July 18 – Toronto, ON @ Delaware House *
July 19 – Toronto, ON @ Monarch Tavern *
July 20 – Windsor, ON @ Phog Lounge *
July 21 – Peterborough, ON @ The Garnett ^
July 22 – Ottawa, ON @ Bar Robo *
July 23 – Montreal, QC @ Poisson Noir ^
July 24 – Quebec City, QC @ P572 *
July 26 – Moncton, NB @ Esquire Tavern *
July 27 – Saint John, NB @ Callahan’s Pub ^
July 28 – Halifax, NS @ Gus’ Pub ^

* = w. Weird Lines & Jon McKiel
^ = w. Weird Lines, Jon McKiel, Jay Arner, and Supermoon

Terminal City is available now through our Mailorder shop and through the efforts of Outside Music Distribution (Canada) and RedEye Worldwide and through all reputable digital sellers.

And for a limited time Apollo Ghosts – Landmark is on sale to celebrate the release of the new album.

New Release: Adrian Teacher & The Subs – “Terminal City”

New Release: Adrian Teacher & The Subs – “Terminal City”

May 3, 2016 | Posted in: Adrian Teacher & The Subs, Apollo Ghosts 0

What happens when the thing you love begins disappearing in front of your eyes?

It’s a heavy question: Terminal City, the debut album by Adrian Teacher & The Subs, documents a rapidly changing Vancouver, an endangered planet, faltering relationships and personal loss. It is a return to classic form – filtering heavy subject matter through the 2 1⁄2 minute frantically upbeat power-pop song, while giving gentle musical nods to 70s UK pub rock scene (think proto-punks like Squeeze or Nick Lowe).

And it’s a return to You’ve Changed Records by the former Apollo Ghosts songwriter, and boy are we happy to have him back. With the Subs in tow, Amanda Pezzutto on drums and vocals and Robbie Nall on bass and vocals, the sound is a hearty continuation of the work of Apollo Ghosts and the short-lived but much-loved Cool TV.

Terminal City was recorded to tape at the Bottle Garden in Montreal by Peter Woodford (Freelove Fenner, Moss Lime) and at JC/DC studios in Vancouver by David Carswell (Destroyer, New Pornographers), and follows 2015’s Calvin Johnson produced Sorta Hafta EP.

Terminal City is available in a limited pressing of 300 copies. Get it now before it’s gone the way of the mom and pop shops, the local grocers, “affordable” rents, and the weather. It is available for Pre-order now from our mailorder shop.

Watch the video for “Victory Square” right here:

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Fare-thee-well, Apollo Ghosts!

Fare-thee-well, Apollo Ghosts!

May 9, 2013 | Posted in: Apollo Ghosts 0

I first head Apollo Ghosts when Paul Henderson told me he couldn’t stop listening to this great band from Vancouver that he wanted to bring out to play SappyFest. Their show that beautiful summer afternoon was extraordinary. Adrian wore a cape. Amanda kept a groovy beat and a smile on her face. Jay was silent, a perfect steady bass player. The songs were fantastic, the band was engaged and deeply present in that specific and wonderful moment, and we, the unsuspecting crowd, sung along happily and with gusto, and we all left carrying a record; unless you were slow to the merch table, sucker, as the records, priced at a lowly $5 sold out instantly.

The next summer Adrian came back to New Brunswick and spent a couple of weeks in town as the Sappy Songwriter-in-Residence, writing tunes for a new record. We hung out, went swimming, had some dinners, drank some wine, went to the drive-in for Paul’s birthday, even jammed a couple times. It was great, easy, summer-living.

I don’t remember exactly when Adrian asked if I’d be interested in putting out the new Apollo Ghosts record; it might have been when he was still in town, but I don’t think so. It might have been later on during some cross Canada phone call; always a pleasure, sometimes just a rap from Adrian left on the answering machine. In any event, I loved the record the first I heard it and I love it even more now that it’s been a part of my life for a year or two, and I’m proud it came out on You’ve Changed Records.

In July 2012 I went on tour for a week with Apollo Ghosts. 6 shows in BC and Washington State. The drives were short, the weather was good, I rode with them in their Subaru and I saw them play some fantastic fun and uplifting punk-rock shows. We ate in health-food stores and drank kombucha as they joked about being west coast hippies. That’s the thing: Apollo Ghosts are good, kind, funny, open people and an absolutely fantastic rock and roll band and both of those things are good and important and inspiring and something to cherish. I want to thank them for taking me along on one of my all-time favourite tours. I want to thank them for the laughs. I want to thank them for believing that this was a good home for Landmark. And I want to thank them for the tunes: “What are your Influences?,” “Day of Glory,” “Guitar Brother,” “Money Has No Heart,” “Lightweight,” “Palm of My Hand,” “Things You Go Through,” “Coca-Cola Admen,” and so many others.

It breaks my heart to miss this last show, oh boy. Adrian, Amanda, Jay and Jarret, my friends, in my heart I’m there dancing and singing along and happy to see you play one last time.

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