Last year the unknown-to-me female fronted group with an all-star backing band was Little Scream, one of my 2011 faves. This time around that honor fell to This Is The Kit, whose backing band included Aaaron Dessner and Richard Reed Perry. The show was good, but it never quite grabbed me like most MusicNow performances [...]

At shows, I get caught up watching the lead singer. Whoever’s voice is responsible for tickling my ear drums typically has my full undivided attention throughout their set. However, sometimes a rogue guitarist or sassy tambourine player steals the spotlight. At the Plants and Animals and Little Scream show this past Thursday at the Crocodile, [...]

Listen to this track from Little Scream and Richard Parry for the Have Not Been the Same – Vol. 1: Too Cool to Live, Too Smart to Die to benefit Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) by Zunior Music Label alongside other wonderful artists like Cuff the Duke, Kevin Drew and Great Lake Swimmers. Find [...]

Plants and Animals, Little Scream, Let’s Get Lost @ The Crocodile | 3/22 | 8pm doors | $12 (Get Tickets) | 21+ With South by Southwest over, bands are back to hitting to road and making their required pit stop in Seattle. This week the emerald city is lucky enough to have one of the best Canadian bands [...]

Secret City Records and Opak are excited to announce their official 2012 SXSW showcase on March 15th at Saint David's Historic Sanctuary, featuring Patrick Watson, Plants And Animals, The Barr Brothers, Little Scream, Leif Vollebekk, and Daniel Isaiah. All of the performing artists hail from Montreal, and Secret City is offering a free audio sampler for streaming and download below.

One of the artists that has been hanging around my inbox for some time now is Little Scream (aka Laura Sprengelmeyer) – currently on tour with Plants & Animals, and which will be touching down here in Edmonton on March 27th at the Starlite Room (full itinerary below). Sprengelmeyer was born in Iowa, but is [...]

Newcomers and comebacks could yield Grammy surprises – Chicago Tribune Diversity marks return of Music Expo in Falls – St. Catharines Standard CMRRA, SOCAN, SODRAC Explore Integrated Approach to Music Rights Management – Broadcaster Little Scream Expands North American Tour with Canadian Dates, Premieres New Video Canadian legend Jimmy Rankin amasses 9 music industry nominations [...]

While Little Scream’s sprawling “Boatman” certainly stood out on their debut LP, The Golden Record, I’d yet to find a version to share online that does justice to live takes witnessed at our own SXSW day party and others last year. Now Laurel Sprengelmeyer has gotten the full troupe together for an excellent kitchen-sink attempt [...]

Laurel Sprengelmeyer, aka Little Scream, shot a live version of her song “Boatman” for the video, and it features not only a choir and the bare aesthetic of a Montreal warehouse space,... Click on the headline to read the rest of the story.

Filed under: News , Video , Exclusive Courtesy of Secretly Canadian Clavicyclette. Say it three times fast if you can. Most folks might get a little tongue tied but Montreal singer and multi-instrumentalist Little Scream has it down pat after using the fantastical piano-bicycle in her new video for 'Boatman (Live With The Clavicyclette).' "My friend Ian had come across the clavicyclette, made by a great piano man in Montreal named Spike Taylor," Little Scream, aka Laurel Sprengelmeyer, tells Spinner. "It's like a dep bike that people use to deliver groceries from corner stores [called Depanneurs in Quebec] but with a ...

Can you believe it? SXSW is less than 2 months away. Today, SXSW announced a ton of bands broken down by alphabetical order. Some of the standouts among the many, many bands include: Bear in Heaven, Best Coast, Caveman, Chairlift, Diamond Rings, The Drums, Eleanor Friendberger, Grimes, Guards, Here We Go Magic, Japanther, Lana Del Rey, Little Scream, M.Ward, Memoryhouse, Metric, Miike Snow, Mr. Gnome, Nite Jewel, Of Montreal, Purity Ring, SBTRKT, Sharon Van Etten, Spank Rock, Stars, Tennis, Vandaveer, We Are Trees, White Rabbits, Youth Lagoon, Zechs Marquise. Hopefully we'll discover even more bands as March gets ...

Little Scream The Golden Record [Secretly Canadian; 2011] by Jeff Milo Rating: Maybe you’re like me and somewhere toward the end of 2011, the knee-jerking snobby side of yourself felt disenchanted by the spin and swell of sycophancy for the cool-weird, the hip-acerbica, the beautiful-snarl of indie songstresses like Vincent">St. Vincent or tUnE-yArDs; those big, glossy, ad-packed zines got it, they seemed to down with it, they’re (trying) to speak your language. I tire of these halfhearted, quick/dirty, faux-edgy-airings from jittery music journos prattling on about -the beautifully-haunting, -the elegantly-caustic, -the pretty girl making scary sounds ...

Little Scream - The Heron and the Fox (Work Drugs Smooth Mix)   For a free download check out…  http://soundcloud.com/work-drugs

If it’s December, then you know it’s Mixmas time at You Ain’t No Picasso! Each year I get a bunch of my favorite bands to contribute themed mixes and share their thoughts about each of the tracks MP3: Little Scream – Cannons Little Scream was my huge surprise discovery of 2011. She blew me away [...]

Here it is, my final list for 2011.  Here are my favorite songs of 2011: 50 "N.Y.E."-  Dinosaur Bones 49 "Little Cigarettes"- Medicine Hat 48 "Old Man Song"-  Anna Atkinson 47 "Apocalypse Pop Song"-  Memphis 46 "Caffeinated Consciousness"-  TV On the Radio 45 "An Argument With Myself"-  Jens Lekman 44 "That Ain't Classy"-  Classified 43 "Sara"-  Chad VanGaalen 42 "Self Portrait"-  Chilly Gonzales 41 "Love The Way You Walk Away"-  Blitzen Trapper 40 "Zero to Stupid"-  Tommy Stinson 39 "Beasts of England"-  Teenage Kicks 38 "Holdin On to Black Metal"-  My Morning Jacket 37 "Losing You"-   REVOLVER ...