"it's just noise"

Its Just Noise from Parker Thiessen on Vimeo.

"we may well be the ones"

"PEACE MAKER"

OUT NOW.

"everyone i know's had the runaround"

Groningen, NL

This tour is one for the ages. Hectic as hell. Lots of hurtles to knock down. Crazy shows.

Here's a video of "Headless Horseman" in Liverpool, UK, in a cemetery at 5a.m.

"everything i know is going to fall apart"

PEACE MAKER limited edition tour shirts available today!!!

The shirts and the records came in today!!! We're all really excited about these. Thanks to Stacey at Merchguy for doing these up nice and fast.








Order online at whitewhale.ca/store or buy them at the merch booth at any of this summer's upcoming shows!!!

19 May - Nottingham, UK @ Spanky Van Dyke’s
21 May - Liverpool, UK @ Leaf Cafe - Liverpool Sound City
21 May - Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Sound City
22 May - Liverpool, UK @ Bumper - Liverpool Sound City
22 May - Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Sound City
23 May - Bath, UK @ Moles Club w/ Eamon McGrath
25 May – Barnstaple, UK @ North Devon College
26 May - London, UK @ the Windmill
27 May - Northampton, UK @ the Bantam
28 May - Utrecht, NL @ ACU w/ Eamon McGrath
29 May - Brussels, BE @ Madame Moustache
30 May - Groningen, NL @ Zuidbroek-Uiterburen
1 Jun - Ghent, BE @ Den Drummer
2 Jun - Freiburg, DE @ SWAMP
3 Jun - Metz, FR @ L’Emile Vache
4 Jun - Offenbach @ Der Waggon
5 Jun - Locarno, CH @ Cantina Canetti
6 Jun - Lucerne, CH @ Treibhaus
8 Jun – Paris, FR @ Le Pop-In
9 Jun - St. Gallen, CH @ Grabenhalle
10 Jun - Hasselt, BE @ Cafe Cafe
11 Jun – Kassel @ Kunstochschule Underground
12 Jun - Eindhoven, NL @ The Rambler
14 Jun - London, UK @ Bull and Gate
18 Jun - Toronto, ON @ 159 Manning
24 Jun - Wakefield, QC @ the Blacksheep Inn
26 Jun - Brantford, ON @ the Ford Plant
01 Jul - Toronto, ON @ the Dakota “Crimes” CD Release Party!
07 Jul - Toronto, ON @ the Dakota “White Whale Wednesdays”
10 Jul - Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
14 Jul - Toronto, ON @ the Dakota “White Whale Wednesdays” w/ Snailhouse
16 Jul - Hamilton, ON @ This Ain’t Hollywood w/ Wax Mannequin
17 Jul - Windsor, ON @ The Phog Wax Mannequin
21 Jul - Toronto, ON @ the Dakota “White Whale Wednesdays”
22 Jul - Montreal, QC @ Divan Orange
28 Jul - Toronto, ON @ the Dakota “White Whale Wednesdays”
Aug 20 - Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore
Aug 21 - Victoria, BC @ TBC
Aug 27 - Calgary, AB @ Broken City w/ Dojo Workhorse and Eamon McGrath
Aug 28 - Edmonton, AB @ Likwid w/ Dojo Workhorse and Eamon McGrath

"there is a light that never goes out"

"Cut Knife City Blues"

w/ The Enemies of England

@ VUE Weekly Studios

Edmonton, AB

"coyotes feel the cold wave of the dark"

Anybody else been on a Norwegian black metal kick lately??

Quench your thirst for heavy by going to see KRANG open for HAIR POLICE and AWESOME COLOR at BROKEN CITY in Calgary on Friday, April 16.

For now, there is only this.

"a chevrolet to your gold rolls royce"

Eamon McGrath - Cut Knife City from Welcome To The West on Vimeo.

"we picked a crooked highway"

Pre-orders of PEACE MAKER are up today! Order from the White Whale site here!! If you order soon, you'll have a copy as soon as they're all manufactured. That's a whole two months ahead of the July 20 release date!!!

"it looks harder than it is"

"tighten your whole throat...you want to make it bounce off your throat if you can"

"will you promise not to rescue me out at sea"

KRANG is number one on CJSR this week!!! Here's some video of them performing live at Broken City in Calgary.

This week: Edmonton. Next week: The world.

Watch for their 7" out on Mammoth Cave Recordings soon.

"i know what you want"

coming soon

GIN THEFT

An envelope gets dropped on your doorstep in the middle of the winter. It's got no return address and nothing printed on the outside, it's just blank. Inside is a guitar string, a sharp, bloody knife, and a cassette tape. On the tape it says "Gin Theft." Do you call the cops, phone your friends, or listen to the tape?

myspace.com/cassettesrecords

"they came from planet d"

cassettes records presents

KRANG

Edmonton, Alberta's KRANG is a behemoth of sorts: a monstrous, slithering trainwreck of bass, drums, distortion, stewing in a pit of dehydrated psychedelic stew. The sound of Black Sabbath and Hawkwind filtered through the 90s lo-fi 4-track revolution, with a lunatic noise wizard at the helm steering the spaceship into oblivion. If you took the deformed, inbred brainchild of Wolf Eyes, Guided By Voices, and Sunn0))) you might be getting close to the mutated monstrosity that is KRANG...but even then, you'd be in some distant land, wandering through the desert, tempted by Satan, sucking on some pebble in hopes of pathetically seeing it all through.

"They Came From Planet D" is KRANG's first Cassettes Records offering, recorded live off the floor in an attic somewhere in the frozen winter labyrinth of downtown Edmonton. This is the feeling of being cooped up in a season. "Sometimes," says Parker James Thiessen, assigned to commandeering KRANG's barrage of digital noise and destruction; "when we jam, it's so loud, that I see spots when we're done."

Well if that ain't mean, I don't know what is.

KRANG - "They Came From Planet D"

CD RELEASE PARTY!!!!

@ Likwid Lounge, Feb 27 2010

$3 cans of Lucky Lager!!!!

"i need a little help from my friends"

"Born On A Train"
(Magnetic Fields)

Darrek Anderson - pedal steel
Tom Murray - double bass
Scott Zubot - violin

Live @ The Haven, Jan 23 2010

"we found things to do in stormy weather"

Harmonica rack with coathanger, guitar pickups, elastic band, chopstick, bulldog clip.

Patent pending.

"how to get ahead when the centre is bleeding"

Live at the Haven Social Club, January 23rd 2010
Darrek Anderson - pedal steel
Tom Murray - double bass
Scott Zubot - violin

Video by Owen Strasky

"i am the electric farmer"

KRANG! record "They Came From Planet D" is done. Keep your ear to the ground for a CD release show coming up.

For now check out some tracks here:

www.myspace.com/krangtheband

"johnny's gonna die"

In case anyone forgot.

"if there is something that i might find"

Expect Speed Freaks Bastards & No Sleep to be out on Cassettes Records pretty soon. It's going to be a mixtape of live stuff from the past three years. To be released on cassette. Very limited copies available.

Pick up Orphanland from some of Edmonton's best record stores right now.

May is confirmed for going overseas again.

"i got a pain down inside can't be denied"

Happy new year.

Peter Simpson of the Ottawa Citizen picked "13 Songs of Whiskey & Light" as the best disc of 2009.

Here's to another great year. Plans right now are to release Peace Maker, head back across the pond in May. Made some great friends in 2009 I hope to see again really soon.