If you weren’t afraid of the dentist before, now you will be! In Julie Doiron’s new video for “Consolation Prize,” Fred Squire plays the frightening dentist pointing sharp objects at Julie Doiron’s gums. Luckily, Doiron manages to escape the dentist chair by fending him off with a novelty-sized toothbrush, but not before losing a very magical tooth! The best music video to incorporate dental hygiene, ever.

We are proud to announce a second free mp3 from Doiron’s lo-fi masterpiece I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, the melodic and optimistic “When Brakes Get Wet.”

Jagjaguwar has long known that Julie Doiron is a Canadian National Treasure, but here is proof: June 7th in Bruno, Saskatchewan was declared Julie Doiron Day. The mayor presented her name on a bench, and we are so happy that someone was there to film it.

We have a great video of Doiron performing a solo set at Bob Boilen’s desk for a “Tiny Desk Concert” and the staff of National Public Radio. Musicians who want to rock NPR’s office have to turn down their amps, and luckily Julie can offer a killer performance at low volumes.
Watch (and embed) her Tiny Desk Concert at NPR.

Back in March at SXSW, Julie Doiron and Fred Squire met our friends from the Quad Cities and recorded a Daytrotter session. We encouraged them to rock out as hard as they could for as early in the morning as it was. Results: tremendous.

Doiron will be performing with in Eric’s Trip, with her own band, and with Mt. Eerie at this year’s Sappy Fest in Sackville, NB.

On a recent visit to New York City, JULIE DOIRON dipped mid-afternoon into uber-hip watering hole Heather’s as part of Fader’s Open Bar feature. Julie performed “Blue” from her latest Jagjaguwar release, I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, with drummer Fred Squire. Quoth Fader: “It was something between her old lo-fi power pop and her new heartbreakingly stoic electric folk, and a perfect accompaniment for that glass of red wine just chilling on the bar.” See it at the Fader site HERE and watch the video below.

JULIE DOIRON’S stirring song “Consolation Prize” from the recent release I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day was recently featured as NPR’s Song of the Day.

NPR had these wonderful things to say about how Julie effectively rips the listener’s heart out with the tune: “In ‘Consolation Prize,’ Doiron addresses a man, living in the aftermath of a breakup, who finds that his friends won’t let him leave it behind. ‘People insisted on telling you what a great couple you had been / They insisted on telling you over again,’ she sings over a rumbling bassline. By bringing up the pain wrought from sympathy, she’s effectively doing the same thing, but Doiron isn’t going for a palliative here. For two short, bruising minutes, she wants listeners to live in the ache of loss.”

JULIE DOIRON To Release I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day This March
Since her Polaris Prize-nominated album “Woke Myself Up”, everything has come together in JULIE DOIRON’s world.

On her upcoming record “I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day”, DOIRON has embraced her electric past and made an album which showcases thick distortion and melodic pop not heard since her days with indie heroes Eric’s Trip in the ’90s. It’s part of a desire to get back to her electric days. The past couple of years have seen Eric’s Trip regroup for triumphant reunion tours, and a rekindling of her work with Trip mainstay Rick White. “I Can Wonder…” was recorded at White’s isolated home studio, just northwest of Toronto. DOIRON handled the electric and acoustic guitar parts, White played all the bass and keyboards, and Fred Squire performed all the drums and some lead guitar.

“I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day” — which arrives on the heels of the album “Lost Wisdom”, DOIRON and her bandmate Fred Squire’s recent critically-acclaimed collaboration with Mt. Eerie — presents listeners with an album that reflects both her continued growth as an artist and a renewed optimism as a songwriter as well. As has often been the case, DOIRON’s songwriting is rooted in what’s happening around her.

“I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day” will be released on March 10th by Jagjaguwar in the United States (March 9th in the UK). JULIE DOIRON will be performing at the SXSW Festival this March (details forthcoming).

The album Lost Wisdom by Mount Eerie with JULIE DOIRON & Fred Squire is available in all good record stores now, thanks to our friends at P.W. Elverum & Sun. You can find more information about this album and/or purchase it HERE. Also, they are touring the USA for the month of October in support of the album: 10/12/08 Montreal, QC – Il Motore w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/13/08 Ottawa, ON – SAW Gallery w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/14/08 Toronto, ON – Church of the Redeemer w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/15/08 East Lansing, MI – Scene Metrospace w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/16/08 Pontiac, MI – Crofoot Ballroom w/ Mt. Eerie and NO KIDS and Mirah 10/17/08 Cincinnati, OH – Art Damage Lodge w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/18/08 Gambier, OH – Kenyon College w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/19/08 Delaware, OH – Ohio Wesleyan University w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/20/08 Chicago, IL – Av-aerie w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/21/08 Madison, WI – Gates of Heaven w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/22/08 Louisville, KY – Skull Alley w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/23/08 Bloomington, IN – The Cinemat w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/24/08 St. Louis, MO – Lemp Arts Center w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/25/08 Springfield, MO – Randy Bacon Gallery w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/26/08 Norman, OK – Opolis w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/27/08 Santa Fe, NM – Warehouse 21 w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/28/08 Phoenix, AZ – Modified w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/29/08 Irvine, CA – Cross Cultural Center at UC Irvine (3:00 PM) w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday 10/29/08 Los Angeles, CA – SiteLA (Evening Show) w/ Mt. Eerie and Calm Down, It’s Monday