COME TO OUR FILM SHOOT

SIMONE AND IAN ARE PLAYING THIS DUET SHOW ON SUNDAY JANUARY 18 AT A STORE CALLED "SMASH" IN THE JUNCTION. IT'S A LIVE FILM SHOOT AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO COME TO IT.

IT STARTS AT 6 PM AND IS WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE.

2880 DUNDAS ST. W.

E-MAIL US WITH ANY QUESTIONS.

NOTHING'S ALRIGHT LIVE

This is from Christmas in July at the Horseshoe Tavern-
our record release. Thanks to Tony Romano for the footage.
I'm getting a good editing program soon. Feature length coming...

Toronto Star: $100 45's

Popular music critic Ben Rayner, from the Toronto Star wrote about us here .


In other news.

EXCLAIM: Regional 7" Series

Check it out.

Dusted Review

Dusted wrote a really thorough review of Forest of Tears - Thanks.

"Life might seem good on the northern rim of Lake Ontario – the Loonie is strong, Cito Gaston is back in the dugout – but Toronto’s One Hundred Dollars are here to remind us that, at close enough range, things are shitty everywhere. For starters, the six-piece country outfit cites leukemia as its honorary seventh member; lead guitarist and co-songwriter Ian Russell was diagnosed while the group was prepping its first EP for release – the poignantly titled Hold It Together. Yet even without that weighty bit of back-story, the 12 songs on the band’s full-length debut are deeply expressive of frustration, ache and loss.

Singer Simone Schmidt – who’s got a raw, world-weary drawl akin to Freakwater’s Catherine Irwin – brings the listener unabashedly close in the first few seconds of the leadoff track, “Careless Love.” It’s been 10 years and a handful of failed follow-ups since critics first swooned over the opener to Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, yet this track feels like a worthy passing of the torch. Schmidt’s song – a weary lament about a sloppy lover – has the same profane, arresting quality as Williams’ masturbation fantasy, only it works to opposite effect; “I lie on my back and moan at the ceiling” has been supplanted by “I never come but it don’t matter / I could be any other girl / My head planted on that pillow my eyes fixed up above / Is this what they meant when they sang Careless Love?” If I can still hear the former at the grocery store 10 years later, the latter feels deserving of more than a sliver of the same attention.

From here, Schmidt and Co. roll through a cycle of hardscrabble ballads about killers waylaid by inclement weather (“Snow and Rain”), lesbian lovers on the run from bigoted eyes (“Hell’s a Place”), and long shifts in a northeastern Ontario gold mine (“Fourteen Hour Day”). I’m not sure whether Russell or Schmidt do the bulk of the writing, but the results are uniformly impressive – these are songs that avoid sweeping generalities, training their gaze on small details like a hitchhiker’s thumbs in Quesnel and sooty boot stains on a flight of porch stairs in Timmins.

Veteran producer Rick White (Eric’s Trip, Elevator) knows enough to keep the no-frills backing of acoustic guitar, bass, organ and drums low in the mix, but he’s pretty generous about Stew Crookes’ pedal steel, which offers Schmidt a worthy foil. It dips and swoons through the waltz-time “Nothing’s Alright” and blankets her vulnerable vocals in “No Great Leap” (“If being poor’s my life’s crime / My body’s prison’s eastern standard time”). Instrumentally, things get gnarled towards the record’s end – the droning, low-hanging psychedelic haze of “Tirade of a Shitty Mom” and the naked slide notes of “Snow and Rain.” Yet, One Hundred Dollars is a band that sounds best putting their downbeat, idiosyncratic stamp on traditional roots forms. Forest of Tears is unrepentantly bleak, but some bummers are better than others and this one’s among the best of the year."

- Nathan Hogan, Dusted Magazine

Regional 7" Part 1: Release

Friday, December 12th is the date slated for the release of part 1 of the Regional 7" Series. It's also the date of our release party at the Silver Dollar. Advance tickets can be purchased at Rotate This and Soundscapes soon.



Regional Seven Inch Series sees singles on 7" records released all throughout the country on a variety of labels. The A side of each record necessarily deals with a subject thematically linked to the region out of which the label is based. So there are songs about cancer treatment in Toronto, and work shortage in St. John's, Newfoundland, and VLT gambling and the oil economy in Fort McMurray and cycles of colonization in Vancouver. This series will run indefinitely.

The cover art on this one is by Matt McInnes out of Hogtown.

One Hundred Dollars is playing at the Dakota in Toronto on Saturday November 15 with Steamboat. Come harness your Chi with us.

Our GOdfathers' Halloween

WE PLAY THE FUCKED UP HALLOWE'EN WEEKEND ON THURSDAY

FUCKED UP
FINAL FANTASY
$100
VIVIAN GIRLS
KATIE STELMANIS

David Eliade says it's sold out. Whatever, maybe you can get a ticket at the door. And go to the afterparty to see the two best rock n' roll duos in the city:

LULLABYE ARKESTRA
TROPICS

HUNTER & COOK MAGAZINE LAUNCH

Our friend Tony Romano & Jay Isaac just released this magazine called Hunter & Cook. It's got some good work in it. We played a show for it on OCtober 9th. Zach Sllotsky at takemorephotos.com took these pictures:

Regional Seven Inch

Regional Seven Inch is a series of 7 " records which will be released on a variety of Canadian music labels over the next year. The A side necessarily deals with an issue true to the general region of the label. Our first release, 14th Floor has already been blogged about by university student, Paul Mortimer (please see two blogs down, thank you). For those of you struggling internally with the question "What is a seven inch record?" please see the video below. Of course, we won't just hand the answer to you- a seven inch is different for everyone- no two people perceive them the same. But the kind of information we give you should help you on your way to understanding what a 7" is to you.





If you know of a good label in Saskatchewan, please let us know. Thank you.