New EP "WitchRock" - Why the title?

Hey everyone!

It's been a while since we last blogged. So I figured I'd get my ass to it because I wanted to share with you guys why we named the album WitchRock. Its important that you understand... It's not meant to be a contrived thing.

For this EP we were so blessed to get Rick and James to work on this album with us. We have so many of the same musical tastes - its crazy. We love those guys. We love them for understanding our message, our sound and most importantly our sense of humour. Just like our listeners. You guys who know us through our music, get it. We love you for that.

For the longest time ( almost 10 years now to be exact) - ML has always had a really hard time fitting into a genre (genres are bullshit lol). And sometimes we find it really hard to answer the question when we get asked - What are you?

Our response would be.. we are a rock band? indie rock band? I dunno.

We are 3 best friends (sisters really) who play music together and who are completely self taught. How do you categorize that? People are always so serious when they ask us that and we just crack jokes.

In the studio we were recording the album and the sound was changing and taking a life of its own. Again we were faced with having to put ourselves in a category... FUCK. lol

We sat there and scratched our heads thinking, "Well we don't even know what to call it anymore"

Being quite the satirical bunch that we are - Rick and James exclaimed "WitchRock!"... we had a good laugh. The genre was created.

We were finally part of something that was ours and now yours. And we hope you guys enjoy the journey with us.

For those of you who don't know the inside story...People ask us if we are witches all the time. Constantly.

We believe in a bit of everything.

Here's the new album trailer... ENJOY!!

Happy Holidays!

X  Lexi, French, Nadia

Magneta Lane @ Indie Week 2012

This coming Saturday, meet us here...xx

Magneta Lane, Black Box Revelation & Girl In A Coma live in TORONTO, July 24th 2012!

Hey All!

It’s Summer and you know what that means... MORE live music!!!!!
We have another summer show coming up next week and we want you to be there! For those of you that can't make it, don't fret! we do have plans to hit the road very soon. Stay tuned for details on all that.

We will be opening up for Girl in a Coma & Black Box Revelation on Tuesday July 24th at The Garrison here in Toronto.

Girl in a Coma - Smart

Black Box Revelation - Lust or Love

This is a 19+ event. Tickets are available at Rotate This/Soundscapes now!

Magneta Lane will be hitting the stage at 9pm / Doors are at 8:30pm. Some of you have requested posters for the show. We have created some in limited edition.The poster was created by Nadia.

Merch will be available at this show as well.

Visit the official Facebook event page here: EVENT PAGE

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @magneta_lane: ML TWITTER

Facebook : ML FACEBOOK

Merch site : SHOP ML MERCH

Thanks everyone! We hope to see you at the show! This is gonna be a hell of a good night.

XX
Lex, Nadia and French

WAR Child Canada - Compilation Tracklisting

Hi Everyone!

Here is the tracklisting for the War Child CANADA compilation as promised. Look out for Magneta Lane's exclusive acoustic track "Three" recorded for War Child Canada. You will not find this song anywhere else! Release date is set for June 1st/2012! You will be able to get your copy via iTunes!

A lot of really awesome Canadian artists got together to put out acoustic versions of some of their songs, we were so excited to get the tracklisting for this.

All proceeds go to War Child. To read more about this great cause please go here:

WAR Child Canada

Here you go....

WAR CHILD COMPILATION TRACKLISTING

Arkells - On Paper
Cuff the Duke - Count On Me
Dinosaur Bones - Sharks In The Sand
Young Rival - The Ocean
Talk In Blue - Maritime
Paint movement - Caught In The Act
The Elwins - Sitting' Pretty
Graydon James - Waste Of Time
Morgan Cameron Ross - Jenny
Birds of Wales - My Lady In July
Ohbijou - Iron & Ore
Rich Aucion - It
Topanga - The Shield
Still Life Still - Tools
The Reason - Come & Go
The Snips - Oh Brother
San Sebastien - In Or Out
Wildlife - Skulls
The Junction - No Road
Magneta Lane - Three
Michou - Celebrate Love
We Are The City - Happy New Year
Spencer Maceachern and The Fabulous Yawn - Song Title TBA


A lot of announcements coming at the end of the month/summer for Magneta Lane.
For now follow us on twitter:

ML Twitter

Have a great weekend!
xxML

In time you'll drop dead and I'll come to your funeral in a red dress

Hey Everyone!

Magneta is back in the grind, yup new music is on the way. We want to update you guys on a number of things that are going on with the band! We've been really busy with a number of things.

FIRST THINGS FIRST...THIS FRIDAY!

Drake Hotel 4/20 SHOW!

ML will be sharing the stage with Low Level Flight at The Drake Hotel April 20th!! We will be playing our new songs off our upcoming EP. Tickets are $10 at the door and doors are at 8pm. We hit the stage at 9pm.

Hope to see you there! The night is young! Nadia created a pretty awesome poster for the show. Check it out below!




Witch Rock EP

Our Ep 'Witch Rock' has been pushed back to the summer. We felt that it sounded more like a summer record. The title Witch Rock was inspired by Rick and James (our producers) during recording. We sat there talking about music genres and how the EP didnt really fit in anywhere (always the black sheep haha) and so they created one for us,just for fun. We thought it perfectly tied in with the theme of our record, the celebration of our most inner villains. Nothing makes us more curious than a witch. The witch is the ultimate villain. The ultimate bad girl. And we celebrate her, in others and in ourselves.

The EP consists of four singles and will come out on Splendor House Records - our new record label. We are currently working on getting a trailer done for the first single, that should be out by the end of may with the official release date. We are also taking new promo pictures this month with the talented Stephanie Luong. Please view her works here :
Stephanie Luong Photography
She rocks! We'll have those for you very soon!


Now for those of you that asked....
The EP tracklisting is as follows:
1. Burn
2. Good For
3. Leave the light on
4. Lucky

We are looking forward to touring over the Summer, but tour dates and plans at the moment are still TBA. However, once we have set dates you all will be the first to know! We are excited to play the new songs live this friday in Toronto for the first time! We have been working really hard getting our shit together. We are so excited for you guys to hear it!

War Child Canada

We wrote and recorded a new acoustic song exclusively this past March for War Child, called 'Three'. It will be released this Spring on their compilation. We will have more details on that in our next blog.

Splendor House Records

We have just launched The Official Twitter account for Splendor House Records! We will have an Official website for you soon, for now check out our splashpage at
Splendor House

Follow us on Twitter:
SHR Twitter


Merch

We will have some cool new merch in the next couple of months with the new official band logo.

Heres the link for our merch site:

ML Merch

look out for some deals on the older inventory in the next couple of weeks!
We are also working on a new website for ML - which will include new artwork. yay!

Thanks guys/ladies! If you have any questions email us at info@magnetalane.com or for more random rants don’t forget to follow us on twitter @magneta_lane :

ML TWITTER


And dont forget to Like our Facebook page:

ML Facebook


xo!

L, F and N

P.S. Sorry for the awful grammar. Typed this uber fast.

NEW MERCH STORE, NEW ML SINGLE NEWS , NEW LABEL...NEW YEAR!

Hey Everyone!

It has been a while since we sent our last update and we apologize for that! Our band email got spammed and crashed, so if you have been trying to reach us though email and we haven’t replied that is why. We have set up a new email where you can send us your questions or requests: admin@magnetalane.com

The band had a very low key 2011 but still a fun one playing TIFF, attending the Indie Awards, Indie Week, touring with Scottish band Glasvegas and a lot of other great moments. We took the time this year to sit down and re-evaluate what we were going to do with our next release. Sometimes time off can be a good thing, especially when making such an important decision. We have written and are continuing to write some new material but have decided on a new single. You guys will be able to hear the new track at the end of March/early April. The exact date TBA only because we are finalizing a couple of details in our plans so we want to make sure everything is executed with great timing.

The new ML single is called "Burn". Our sound has evolved and we are extremely excited to bring this forward to everyone. The Album (still debating on whether it will be an EP now or LP first) was produced by Rick and James of Finger 11. And they have tremendously helped us to grow as songwriters and have been so much fun to work with and will continue to work on the ML release with us this year. The release is being mixed and mastered by Jon Drew who at this point is the 4th member of Magneta Lane and has known us for almost a decade now.

We will also have touring news as the year moves along.


Please catch us on...

Twitter: www.twitter.com/magneta_lane

Facebook: www.facebook.com/magnetalane

for more frequent updates and random thoughts.




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MERCH STORE!

Magneta Lane is proud to launch it's official Merch Site.We have recieved many requests throughout the years and figured it was about time we were able get it out to everyone. Witch Rock Merch is officially up and running! You can purchase Magneta Lane band tees,pins and cds at the moment. We are working on expanding our inventory and adding more graphic t-shirts, hoddies and more music. We will keep you updated once these items are added! For more information or to get your hands on your very own Magneta Lane merchandise visit our store at...

http://magnetalane.myshopify.com/






SPLENDOR HOUSE RECORDS

We also started up our own record label which will be launching soon. After years of trying to find our legs in the musical world of ours we decided that it was time to expand our horizons and put all our knowledge to use. Splendor House Records is proud to announce that it will be releasing Magneta Lane's album titled "Witch Rock" this 2012. We will have more info available on Splendor House Records coming soon. Splendor House's distribution has been picked up by a major label which we are very excited to be joining forces with. We will make that announcement shortly and include information on other artists that will also be on our roster.

Thanks for reading!
Much Love,

Lexi French Nadia