Sounds like Malkmus singing Pixies songs with the Heartbreakers.

13 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, FOLK: Folk-Rock

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With a new album being released in March, Smokekiller is ready to be seen and heard. The new record was mixed by Steven Drake (previously mixed the tragically hip, 54-40, among others). Smokekiller will be in Austin, TX for SxSW with the Jen Lane Band. Then a CD release tour with Leeroy Stagger.

It begins with the breaking of a heart and the lighting of a cigarette. Music and inspiration follow, and as the music fills the air, and the lyrics fill the page, so dies the cigarette. Filter and ash, the by-product of lost time while writing. The songs kill the smoke and I write and play them. I have always wanted to be able to perform the songs as they are in my head. Not just to make it heavier for weight sake, and not to make it lighter for softnessâ sake. They are my voice, you donât have to listen, but youâll want to.
Peace, smokekiller.

âthe mellow genius of smokekiller. Smokekiller, a.k.a. John Antoniuk, has evolved into one of the most capable solo players in the city, if not Western Canada.â
Andrew Schwab, editor of the Sheaf. (U of S student paper.)

"mellow but emotionally stirring showâ
Shannon Boklaschuk, Star Phoenix, Saskatoon.

"13 plays with ambient noise and backmasking, showcases imaginative drumming, and also reveals Antoniuk's love of electric guitars - underpinning this sonic growth is what made smokekiller's name in the first place: Antoniuk's sweet melodies and talent as a lyricist."
caitlin ward, planet s magazine

Opened for
Ron Sexsmith
Tegan & Sera
Corb Lund Band
The Waifs
Wide Mouth Mason
Mad Violet
Jen Lane
Leeroy Stagger

Influences include matthew sweet, ryan adams, pixies, dinosaur jr., pavement.

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