John K. Samson's new track "Fantasy Baseball at the End of the World" is available now for streaming adn download.
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On Feb 25, 2019, Winnipeg's Millennium Library installed airport-style security screening. This led to a massive drop in attendance. Many no longer feel welcome in this free public space.
Community group Millennium for All is fighting for welcoming, just, accessible and fully funded libraries.
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"Prayer For Ruby Elm" (DJ Co-Op Remix) available now
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In 2013 director Erika MacPherson asked John to write a song for her film May We Grow, about interconnectedness, life and death, and the global forest, told through one of those condemned elm trees in front of her house in Winnipeg
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Inspired by the search for connection and community, his hometown of Winnipeg, and our individual and collective struggles with addictions to drugs, screens, and fossil fuels, John K. Samson’s new full-length album, Winter Wheat, available now, is a sprawling, masterful and timely work by a writer at the peak of …
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John K. Samson, singer-songwriter for critically lauded indie rock band The Weakerthans, makes his full length solo debut with Provincial. The record contains newly recorded versions of songs from Samson’s previous two acclaimed EPs, “City Route 85” and “Provincial Road 222,” alongside a collection of beautifully evocative new tracks. …
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John lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he's also the managing editor of a small publishing house. His three -song solo EP, Provincial Road 222, is the second in a series of recordings exploring streets and highways in his home province. While the first, City Route 85, was …
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John K. Samson, singer/songwriter for venerated literary minded indie rock outfit The Weakerthans, three song solo record is out now on Anti Records. The Weakerthans latest, Reunion Tour, garnered praise in publications ranging from The New York Times to Spin to Paste Magazine, who said of the album, "If such …
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