{"id":4298,"date":"2012-10-03T08:41:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2012-10-16T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:10:21","slug":"ladyhawk-return-with-no-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/10\/03\/ladyhawk-return-with-no-can-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladyhawk return with No Can Do<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vancouver\u2019s dirty alternative rock and roll band Ladyhawk have announced the release of their third studio album, No Can Do<\/em>, and now they are touring for the first time in years.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost everything is different since our last album. It\u2019s been about four years since we toured or focused on the band at all,\u201d says Ladyhawk guitarist Darcy Hancock. \u201cWe\u2019re just all in totally different places in our lives and coming at it with a different angle, just a little bit more fun rather than making it priority number one in life. It\u2019s an easier-functioning project now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bewildered, perplexed, bored: we promise Ladyhawk will be more interested on the stage (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Having slipped under the radar and having only played a few shows in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, and Victoria in the last three years, it\u2019s possible that Ladyhawk have lost a lot of momentum, but old fans who were wondering whatever happened to the band are rejoicing over the news of their new album and Canadian tour.<\/p>\n

Hopefully for Ladyhawk, there are enough of those fans left to gain that momentum back, and their new material is powerful enough to remind those fans what they loved. <\/strong>According to Hancock, Ladyhawk are just glad people haven\u2019t forgotten about them completely.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s new album is a step forward: it\u2019s more structured with a focus on recording quality and perfectionism. Their sound has shifted towards a more fun and danceable rock and roll sound that invokes visions of Pilsners being shotgunned in back alleys. And there appears to be a lot less pain behind the songwriting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new album still sounds like the band, but the songs are a little bit less jammy and more focused. More poppy and less rock and roll, I guess,\u201d says Hancock. \u201cWithin that pop sound we are definitely more punk rock than we have ever been. We didn\u2019t know which direction we were going in; we just kind of wrote songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the band\u2019s past albums incorporated a lot of darker lyrical content, droning synths, and a melodramatic sound, Ladyhawk have been known to release all energy possible during their shows. Victoria has felt that energy.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast time we played Victoria there was lots of crowd surfing, so I hope there\u2019s a lot more of that,\u201d says Hancock. \u201cThe more audience participation the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vancouver\u2019s dirty alternative rock and roll band Ladyhawk have announced the release of their third studio album, No Can Do, and now they are touring for the first time in years. \u201cAlmost everything is different since our last album. It\u2019s been about four years since we toured or focused on the band at all,\u201d says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-issue","category-october-3-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}