{"id":1951814,"date":"2025-08-09T19:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1951814"},"modified":"2025-08-09T19:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:40:17","slug":"van-jams-new-vancouver-music-from-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/van-jams-new-vancouver-music-from-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Jams: New Vancouver music from July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-tab=\"nav--article\" id=\"article\">\n<h3><strong>Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday.\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.straight.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=straight&amp;utm_medium=article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sign up for our free newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><br \/>You can\u2019t catch a bus in Vancouver without tripping over a struggling indie musician trying to figure out how to turn the pain in their soul into 10,000 Spotify streams and a record deal\u2026or even just a level of familiarity that means the Green Auto regulars are excited to see their name on the bill. We all start somewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, we\u2019re collecting jams from local artists both small and not-so-small and giving them a spin each month. Maybe you\u2019ll find your new favourite bop.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>bloom effect \u2014 \u201citero\u201d\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/2UBqlLetC5e9wqUMtqI3va?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always a surreal moment for an upcoming artist when audiences know the words to your songs. For trio bloom effect, that\u2019s true of new single \u201citero\u201d\u2014which, the band members say, was getting the singalong treatment even before it was officially released. The chorus hinges on a piercing declaration of \u201cIt\u2019s now or never!\u201d, grounding an ethereal track that thrums with layers of synth, bass, and tingly hi-hats. Pulling from the members\u2019 Argentine, British, and Canadian music backgrounds, \u201citero\u201d soars as an ode to the one that got away\u2014a wistful figment of the heartbroken imagination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>ZADA \u2014 \u201cAccess Denied\u201d\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/5gTPoqjUKnxu8bhzBQpxyO?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whistler\u2013based artist ZADA is all about juxtapositions: the flow of street dance against stark architecture, the beauty of the mountains hiding their brutal dangers, or the harsh edge of beats butting up against her smooth vocals. \u201cAccess Denied\u201d is broadly an alt-R&amp;B track, gritty yet elegant, with ZADA\u2019s soulful declaration of \u201cNot my fault you\u2019re hypnotized\/You can\u2019t take me out tonight\u201d punctuated by almost siren-like synths. But with songwriting like this, maybe a little hypnotism is to be expected.<\/p>\n<h2>Fake Shark \u2014 \u201cMonster\u201d\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4VihG6lJfT5vu26EYIPB58?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The opening of \u201cMonster\u201d might remind you\u00a0 of a certain era of indietronica, with chunky electro notes evoking the hazy whirl of the mid-\u201900s pop-rock radio. But straightforward comparisons end there. Frontman Kevvy delivers the first verse in a drawling murmur that more closely evokes Bright Eyes or Dry Cleaning, before launching into a singalong bridge and gang-vocal chorus. The song\u2019s shifting modes mirror its subject matter, the confusing feeling of a fallout that you didn\u2019t see coming\u2014making it relatable to everyone who\u2019s ever been blindsided by a friend break-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Anjalica Solomon \u2014 \u201cLate Bloomer\u201d\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/6DgBWTR4Jt7AIbbLkFwK3u?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not often that the clarinet gets to take a starring role in a song. Anjalica Solomon\u2019s \u201cLate Bloomer\u201d is a soft, slow meditation on the power it takes to grow. Solomon leans into piano melodies and their own silky vocal runs, letting their South Asian heritage shine through in the soul-folk track. As a spoken word artist and poet, Solomon usually works with words: but here, the gentle, unhurried production is the star, letting the emotion behind the lyrics settle over you like a weighted blanket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Kate Yahn \u2014 \u201cGraceland\u201d\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/1w3GFftI0srQSAypmVyCam?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The story behind Kate Yahn\u2019s \u201cGraceland\u201d is worthy of an album unto itself. The upcoming folk-pop singer was on a trip to Nashville with some other familiar Vancouver faces, namely Vox Rea and Michaela Slinger. Her grandfather had paid for her ticket, bidding her to head to Graceland for inspiration\u2014but a chance meeting in Memphis turned into a romantic entanglement that ruined her plans. \u201cWe woke up knowing\/That I\u2019d have to leave too soon,\u201d Yahn sings, \u201cOh I wonder\/Will I get back to you?\u201d Here\u2019s hoping she makes it to Graceland one day\u2014the King is waiting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Mark Ledlin \u2014 \u201cWish I Was\u201d\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/49NbdrkcFCdERnptZ1M17c?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to roll your eyes at Mark Ledlin: a former professional hockey player, son of a professional hockey player, who decided to follow his passion for guitar and leveraged a short stint on Germany\u2019s version of <em>The Voice <\/em>into a music career. But small-league sports and small-time music are both punishing careers. Although his sound has some stadium-country bombast, his roots are undeniably practical. When Ledlin laments, \u201cWish I had a couple more zeroes in the bank\/So I got a second job, now I\u2019m working like a dog\u201d it\u2019s not the hollow words of an out-of-touch star: it\u2019s a real reflection of the graft needed to survive, \u201cthe living proof of what hard work does.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Teon Gibbs \u2014 \u201cCasualty\u201d\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/25QZz5PyMZWy2eccsh8Vce?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Teon Gibbs is proud of his past: his birth in Botswana, his formative years in South Africa, Angola, and the U.K., and his current base in Vancouver. That kind of travelling gives people perspective, and Gibbs parlays that into his music. \u201cCasualty\u201d is dark and thrumming, a track that nods to Sade and Sting with an almost cinematic bent to its narrative. Rumbly 808 drum samples underpin the track, and Gibbs\u2019 falsetto musings close it out with a deliberately eerie sense of unresolved tension.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Emma Alves \u2014 \u201cEven a Worm Will Turn\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/1t3GjzRLvR2pDU9md9Cy3e?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Would you still love Emma Alves if she were a worm? The alt-R&amp;B artist wiggles across a whole sonic palette with her latest release, \u201cEven a Worm Will Turn\u201d. Citing WILLOW and Polyphia as influences, the track is experimental without being pretentious. Taking its title from an idiom reminding people that even the meekest creatures can bite back, Alves considers what women have to do to be seen as people\u2014with the end of the track gaining swaggering guitars that lean into blues-rock groove.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/2g54deljUZXtORfZdXahj3?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.straight.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday.\u00a0Sign up for our free newsletter. You can\u2019t catch a bus in Vancouver without tripping over a struggling indie musician trying to figure out how to turn the pain in their soul into 10,000 Spotify streams and a record deal\u2026or even just a level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1951815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22220,22762,22036,22221,26055,21741,22034,22767,21799,22118,21818,21800,23846,23170,23294,21913,309464],"class_list":["post-1951814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-arts","tag-canada","tag-city","tag-culture","tag-dining","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-fashion","tag-film","tag-food","tag-lifestyle","tag-music","tag-nightlife","tag-restaurants","tag-shopping","tag-tv","tag-vancouver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Van-Jams-New-Vancouver-music-from-July-2025.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}