COALITION MONTHLY NEWS: FEBRUARY 2020

Feb 1

We’re happy to announce that the iconic Amanda Marshall has joined our artist roster at Coalition Music! You can learn more about her here.

January also saw Charissa join the Coalition family. We look forward to working with her on future projects! You can listen to an acoustic version of her song,'Lonely Lately', here!
You can catch Charissa's performance at The Dakota Tavern on Thursday, March 5th! Tickets are available here!

Scott Helman collaborated with Ria Mae in the latest episode of 'The Hotel Sessions' in which they covered '3 Nights' by Dominic Fike!

The music video for Simple Plan's latest single, 'Where I Belong', with State Champs and We The Kings was released just in time for the holidays as a gift for their fans!

Have you heard the Frank Walker remix of Scott Helman's "Everything Sucks" yet?

Stream it here!

Scott Helman will be returning to the Budweiser Stage in Toronto this coming June to join his friends Walk Off The Earth! Click here to get tickets now!

The Tea Party has announced their tour with Big Wreck, Headstones and Moist entitled “Saints and Sinners 2020”. You can get tickets here.

Nice Horse will be playing the Dakota Dunes Casino in SK on Feb 14 & 15!

On February 8, The Proud Sons present "An Evening with The Proud Sons & Friends", a SOLD-OUT show at the Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club in Winnipeg, MB.

For more information, click here!

This month Simple Plan will be joining Bowling for Soup for the "Together Again! You're Welcome" Tour in the UK with special guests Not Ur Girlfrendz

For tickets and more information, click here!

The band announced that they will be heading to Indonesia in the spring to perform at LaLaLa Festival in Bandung on April 19th!

The guys will also be returning to the happiest place on Earth from March 13th-16th to play Walt Disney World's Epcot Centre Garden Rocks Concert Series! Get tickets here.

Kyle Gruninger is back on the road as Khashoggi in the second-half of the North American Run of 'We Will Rock You', a Queen-themed rock musical that kicked off its North American run on September 3.

The musical runs until February 19. Click here for tickets and information!

Simple Plan played the Good Things Festival, as well as two additional dates in Australia.

The Simple Plan Foundation made a $10,000 donation to the Australia Red Cross last month after the band's Australian tour to help those affected by the fires currently raging across the country.

Congrats to Scott on being nominated for 'Single of the Year' at the Juno Awards for 'Hang Ups'!

The CP Holiday Train wrapped up its journey in December, with Scott Helman performing shows from Montreal to Calgary! The train brought in a total of $1,495,060.00 and almost 240,000 Ibs of food in 2019. The overall total now stands at 4.7 million pounds of food and $17.6 million raised for food bands across North America!

Scott also shared his year-in-review for 2019. Check it out!

Myles Castello played at the Monarch Tavern in Toronto, ON on Friday, January 17.

Johnson Crooked played at the SPEAK Music Be Kind Festival at the Tranzac Club in Toronto on Jan 18th!

Human Kebab curated a playlist of some of his favourite DJ's for National DJ Day which happened on Jan 20th. You can listen to the playlist here! Keep your eyes out for more remixes coming soon!

Some of our artists have made the move to TikTok! Make sure to check them out below:

Scott Helman
Nice Horse
Myles Castello

Spotlight: The Tea Party

With a career spanning thirty years and nine major-label releases, The Tea Party, composed of Jeff Martin, Jeff Burrows, and Stuart Chatwood, have successfully gained the attention of fans on a worldwide level. In addition to selling over 1.8 million records worldwide, they have toured a countless number of times throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia. Much of the band’s success can be attributed to their larger-than-life stage presence. The Black River EP is the first record from The Tea Party since 2014’s The Ocean at the End. The release is a kickoff to a year-long celebration, as the band will be embarking on their 30th year together in 2020.

You can listen to the Black River EP here.

Employee Spotlight

Mariel Gonzalez - Label Services Manager⁣
What was your first concert?⁣
In Canada, Switchfoot in Oshawa back in 2004⁣
What podcasts are you currently listening to?⁣
This American Life, Ron Burgundy Podcast, Reply All, Stuff You Should Know, Bon Appetit Foodcast
What would you do if you had an entire year off?⁣
Travel and eat my way through the world! I would make sure to stay 2-3 months in Japan, India, Thailand, Italy, Greece & Spain⁣
What do you do with your time off/what hobbies are you into?
⁣Anything food related: cooking & seeking out the newest eats in the city. Board games, bowling, and karaoke.

Throwbacks of the Month

Take a look back at some of the anniversaries our artists are celebrating in January!

• January 21st marked 23 years since Our Lady Peace released their album "Clumsy"! Listen to it here.

• Simple Plan released their official music video for "Perfect World" 12 years ago on January 12th, 2007.

• USS released their album, "New World Alphabet", on January 13th, 2017!

• Scott Helman released his Hotel Session with Alessia Cara on January 30th, 2019. Listen to their cover of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" here!

Drawing inspiration from Malcolm Gladwell's Podcast Revisionist History, Revisionist Playlist attempts to bring to light great songs that did not get back the juice they squeezed.

Listen to this playlist created by Mat and Cole from our team here!