{"id":25720,"date":"2017-06-10T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=25720"},"modified":"2017-06-09T21:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T01:15:13","slug":"pony-release-diy-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=25720","title":{"rendered":"PONY release &#8216;DIY&#8217; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25721\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/c1215a44-5a28-4990-bd58-94d469e2cc92.jpg?resize=750%2C498\" alt=\"PONY\" width=\"750\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/c1215a44-5a28-4990-bd58-94d469e2cc92.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/c1215a44-5a28-4990-bd58-94d469e2cc92.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/c1215a44-5a28-4990-bd58-94d469e2cc92.jpg?resize=624%2C414&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Toronto&#8217;s PONY have released the video\u00a0for their track <em>DIY. T<\/em>he video is the band&#8217;s first and is being released to\u00a0go along with\u00a0the start of their US tour, which brings them to NYC this weekend for the first time, playing at Baby Castles on Sunday and Baby&#8217;s All Right on Saturday with Slaughter Beach Dog, Active Bird Community and <a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/2017\/03\/12\/casper-skulls-reveal-nighthawks-announce-sxsw-spring-tour-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casper Skulls<\/a>. Watch <em>DIY<\/em> via YouTube below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xnB8Z4Fbt0Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bielanski said about the video:\u00a0<em>&#8220;We filmed DIY with our beautiful friend Shawn Kosmerly from Here Kitty Kitty Productions.\u00a0It was such an amazing time and DIY style, which we love. We ended up trading our van for a day to rent the studio space from our babely friends at Kastor and Pollux. The song is about finding ways to love yourself even when you feel like no one else does. It was really nice to share that experience with so many beautiful and talented pals.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>More about PONY?<\/strong> The band 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/2017\/03\/28\/pony-shares-alone-tonight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Alone Tonight<\/em><\/a>, that will make up their first release on Buzz records, a 7&#8243; due out this\u00a0spring.<\/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 class=\"p1\">PONY&#8217;s debut 7 inch is due out now on Buzz Records. It&#8217;s available for purchase <a href=\"http:\/\/hivemindpr.us10.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=04780c244c226dd8f0096243b&amp;id=6ffe67e1c0&amp;e=998dd35436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Tour dates<\/h4>\n<p>06\/10 Brooklyn, NY &#8211; Terrorbird x Northside Fest day party @ Baby&#8217;s All Right #<br \/>\n06\/11 New York, NY &#8211; Baby Castles<br \/>\n06\/12 Rochester, NY &#8211; House Show<br \/>\n06\/17 Toronto, ON &#8211; Longboat Hall @ The Great Hall ~<br \/>\n06\/23-24 Calgary, AB &#8211; Sled Island<br \/>\n07\/20-23 Fisher&#8217;s Paradise, ON &#8211; River &amp; Sky Fest<br \/>\n# w\/ Slaughter Beach, Dog, Active Bird Community, Casper Skulls<br \/>\n~ w\/ Chastity Belt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Toronto&#8217;s PONY have released the video\u00a0for their track DIY. The video is the band&#8217;s first and is being released to\u00a0go along with\u00a0the start of their <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=25720\" title=\"PONY release &#8216;DIY&#8217; video\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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},"categories":[23,25,28,29,30,36],"tags":[1869,1824,6055],"class_list":["post-25720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-live","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","category-toronto","tag-buzz-records","tag-diy","tag-pony"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/c1215a44-5a28-4990-bd58-94d469e2cc92.jpg?fit=750%2C498&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-6GQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24884,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24884","url_meta":{"origin":25720,"position":0},"title":"PONY shares &#8216;Alone Tonight&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"March 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Toronto's PONY have shared\u00a0Alone Tonight, the second single debut 7\", which will be out\u00a0via\u00a0Buzz Records. 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