{"id":24884,"date":"2017-03-28T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24884"},"modified":"2017-05-28T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T13:44:24","slug":"pony-shares-alone-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24884","title":{"rendered":"PONY shares &#8216;Alone Tonight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24886\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/f9b49769-42c1-4828-bf28-b74644b43b07.jpg?resize=700%2C465\" alt=\"PONY\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/f9b49769-42c1-4828-bf28-b74644b43b07.jpg?w=700 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/f9b49769-42c1-4828-bf28-b74644b43b07.jpg?resize=300%2C199 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Toronto&#8217;s PONY have shared\u00a0<em>Alone Tonight<\/em>, the second single debut 7&#8243;, which will be out\u00a0via\u00a0Buzz Records. Following on the heels of their single <em>DIY<\/em>, <em>Alone Tonight<\/em> is another immaculately-realized lovelorn powerpop song\u00a0with the feel of an early 90s college radio classic, propelled by\u00a0a chiming guitar hook that underpins frontwoman Sam Bielanski&#8217;s reflections on a stagnant relationship, Dragons&#8217; Den, and learning to be ok with being alone.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I wrote &#8216;Alone Tonight&#8217; when I was in a super codependent\/comfortable relationship,&#8221;<\/em> she tells FADER. <em>&#8220;We would literally do the exact same thing every day, which included watching 5 or 6 episodes of Dragons&#8217; Den on Netflix. I realized that we had absolutely nothing to talk about anymore and we just watched TV all the time to kind of hide the fact that maybe we weren&#8217;t &#8216;meant to be.&#8217; It&#8217;s very much about how in the end I realized being alone, as scary as it was at the time, was way better than settling for someone who I basically just watched TV with.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Take a listen to <em>Alone Tonight<\/em> via Soundcloud below.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F313954191&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=757474\"><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>More about PONY?\u00a0<\/strong>PONY began in\u00a02014 as an idea hatched by\u00a0singer\/guitarist Bielanski and a friend in her\u00a0Toronto bedroom. <em>&#8220;We were both dating dudes in the same shitty band at the time&#8221;<\/em> she says,\u00a0<em>&#8220;and they were really shitty dudes, so we started writing songs about how our boyfriends sucked and eventually that turned into us starting a band.&#8221;<\/em> As the pair wrote more songs\u00a0they began recruiting additional members to round out the line up, and after a few early changes settled on a four piece arrangement of Bielanski, bass player Eva Link, drummer Matt Sandrin and guitarist Stephen Giroux.<\/p>\n<p>The band recorded an EP\u00a0and\u00a0started playing shows in Toronto,\u00a0rapidly\u00a0attracting attention as they refined their sound &#8211;\u00a0a strain of punk-inflected guitar pop that sits in a lineage with 80s UK acts like Talulah Gosh and the Dolly Mixture, 90s groups like The Breeders and Veruca Salt, and their Canadian powerpop forebears Cub &#8211; and\u00a0began\u00a0appearing on bills with their eventual Buzz Records labelmates Casper Skulls and Greys, as well as acts like\u00a0Colleen Green, the Coathangers, Chastity Belt and Nicole Dollanganger in 2016. In the fall of that year\u00a0the band returned to the studio to record the singles, <em>DIY<\/em> and <em>Alone Tonight<\/em>, that will make up their first release on Buzz records, a 7&#8243; due out in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>PONY are currently preparing for upcoming winter and spring tours, and\u00a0working on their debut EP for Buzz, which they expect to release in the fall of 2017. For her part Bielanski is excited about what the future holds for her and her bandmates, and despite the band&#8217;s almost accidental\u00a0origins, has a clear vision of what PONY means to her.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I wanna see the world with my three best friends, but that&#8217;s not all of\u00a0it,&#8221;<\/em> she says.\u00a0<em>&#8220;A few times\u00a0younger girls have come up to me at our shows and said &#8216;that was really cool, what you did, I&#8217;ve always wanted to do something like that&#8217;\u00a0and it&#8217;s just like then go, go and do it! Pick up a guitar and make some noise and scream about your feelings, and just do it. That&#8217;s the goal of the band to me,\u00a0to show people, primarily women who maybe haven&#8217;t been exposed to enough other women playing music, that it&#8217;s not easy by any means but its definitely attainable. If it&#8217;s something that you want to do then you can fucking do it and you don&#8217;t have to give a shit about if you&#8217;re cool or if dudes are going to be condescending or whatever, you can just make some noise with your friends.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PONY&#8217;s debut 7&#8243; is due out via\u00a0Buzz on May 12th.<em> Alone Tonight<\/em> is available for purchase\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hivemindpr.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=04780c244c226dd8f0096243b&amp;id=4d5e420817&amp;e=998dd35436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/04780c244c226dd8f0096243b\/images\/96cf9d26-5c23-4a13-ba15-ee3046cd7b19.jpg?resize=564%2C798&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Alone Tonight PONY \" width=\"564\" height=\"798\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Upcoming Dates<\/h5>\n<p>April 22nd &#8211; Toronto, ON &#8211; Lee&#8217;s Palace w\/ Weaves, Casper Skulls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Toronto&#8217;s PONY have shared\u00a0Alone Tonight, the second single debut 7&#8243;, which will be out\u00a0via\u00a0Buzz Records. Following on the heels of their single DIY, Alone Tonight <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24884\" title=\"PONY shares &#8216;Alone Tonight&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,28,30],"tags":[6056,1869,6055],"class_list":["post-24884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-alone-tonight","tag-buzz-records","tag-pony"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/f9b49769-42c1-4828-bf28-b74644b43b07.jpg?fit=700%2C465","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-6tm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25720,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=25720","url_meta":{"origin":24884,"position":0},"title":"PONY release &#8216;DIY&#8217; video","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"June 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Toronto's PONY have released the video\u00a0for their track DIY. 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