Our first all-new music podcast of 2010, bustin’ at the seams with early-new-decade hits from Basia Bulat, Matthew Barber, and Woodpigeon, and a 90 Second Egg with banjo phenom Old Man Luedecke.

Last week Woodpigeon released a holiday song online. Not to be outdone, label-mate Christopher Smith has not only recorded a Christmas song himself, but has also made a video for it.

Smith and Woodpigeon’s Mark Hamilton are collaborating on 2 EPs to be released in 2010. Christopher Smith + The Beckon Call will also open Woodpigeon’s Vancouver CD release show on January 16th at the Biltmore in support of Die Stadt Muzikanten out earlier that week.

Smith’s debut album, The Beckon Call, will be released in the Spring of 2010. The Keepsake EP is available here, or through iTunes and emusic. While “Christmas Day” isn’t on either, you can download it free below along with the track Piece by Piece, from the Christopher Smith’s EP Keepsake.

• Downloads

• “Christmas Day” for Christmas
• “Piece by Piece” from Keepsake

Sourced from: Boompa

Woodpigeon has toured Europe so extensively over the past couple of years that the band hasn’t played more than a handful of shows at home in Canada.  And so we‘re very, very pleased to announce Canadian tour dates including record release celebrations in Vancouver and Calgary in support Die Stadt Muzikanten, out January 12 in Canada.  In addition, Die Stadt Muzikanten will include a bonus album recorded with Howard Bilerman, Steve Albini and Husky Hoskulds; 12 new songs entitled BALLADEER / to all the guys i’ve loved before.

There’s still time to pre-order Die Stadt Muzikanten here, and if you do you’ll not only get the album by January 12, but you’ll also get acoustic versions of each song.

Here are free downloads of the album-track “Empty-Hall Sing-Along”, and to celebrate the holiday season, “xoxmas”.

• Downloads

• “Empty-Hall Sing-Along” from Die Stadt Muzikanten
• “xoxmas” for Christmas

Upcoming shows

Jan 16: Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore Cabaret
Jan 22: Calgary, AB – Broken City
Feb 11: Toronto, ON – The Drake Underground
Feb 12: Guelph, ON – Jimmy Jazz
Feb 13: London, ON – TBA
Feb 15: Hamilton, ON – The Casbah
Feb 16: Sudbury, ON – The Townehouse
Feb 17: Kingston, ON – The Mansion
Feb 18: Montreal, PQ – La Sala Rossa
Feb 19: Quebec City, PQ  – Le Cercle
Feb 21: Ottawa, ON – The Blacksheep

News Release Sourced from: Boompa Records