{"id":219613,"date":"2019-06-20T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=219613"},"modified":"2019-06-20T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:00:14","slug":"canadian-indie-rock-outfit-rheostatics-release-first-new-song-in-over-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/20\/canadian-indie-rock-outfit-rheostatics-release-first-new-song-in-over-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian indie rock outfit Rheostatics release first new song in over 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rheostatics became a staple of the Canadian indie music scene after forming in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke during the late 1970s. (File photo<\/a>: Simon Law\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO \u2014 Fifteen years after Rheostatics last released an album of new material, the Canadian indie rock band is back.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere Come the Wolves,\u201d a six-minute song structured in three parts, landed Wednesday on digital music platforms ahead of a full-length album due later this year.<\/p>\n

Vocalist Dave Bidini tweeted to fans saying he hopes the song \u201cterrifies and makes you weep, not in an entirely bad way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rheostatics became a staple of the Canadian indie music scene after forming in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke during the late 1970s.<\/p>\n

They hit their peak popularity in the mid-1990s when their songs \u201cClaire\u201d and \u201cRecord Body Count\u201d were regularly played on MuchMusic.<\/p>\n

The band’s most recent album, titled \u201c2067,\u201d was a loosely themed project exploring the state of Canada 200 years after Confederation.<\/p>\n

In the years after its 2004 release, the band disintegrated.<\/p>\n

Bidini went on to become publisher of the West End Phoenix, a monthly broadsheet community newspaper for Toronto’s west end, while occasionally resurrecting parts of the Rheostatics line-up.<\/p>\n

The 12-track album \u201cHere Comes the Wolves\u201d is slated for release on Sept. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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