Music journos have called Current Swell Vancouver Island’s answer to surf rock. Originally a backyard party band from Canada, they gelled into something (give or take a few personnel changes) and then ...

Current Swell are celebrating their tour with some free music. The indie/roots rock band, who kicked off their winter outing earlier this week, have made the tunes available via a download on their ...

The laidback acoustic folk-rock tunes of Current Swell are known to conjure up the feeling of a campfire jam on a beach. You can almost smell the salt air when you hear the quicksilver voice of singer ...

Barring those reprobates in Twisted Solicitor, the richest indie band in B.C. is most likely Victoria’s Current Swell. Which, not coincidentally, is also one of our province’s hardest-working groups, ...

Where: The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington St. Cost: $8/advanced; $12 at the door. Tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets. Current Swell singer/guitarist Scott Stanton’s pre-tour checklist is ...

Cultivating the unique moments when a first take becomes the final cut, or when a fleeting idea turns into a fully realized creation, has become something of an unofficial philosophy for Current Swell ...

Vancouver Island rock group Current Swell have announced plans for a hefty North American tour, including plenty of Canadian stops. To celebrate the trek, they've also shared a new single. "High Life" ...

When the members of Victoria roots rockers Current Swell sat down to write and record Long Time Ago, their 2012 recording, it was a six-month process from conception to completion. For their followup, ...

Current Swell plays a home gig at the Royal Theatre on Saturday night. When: Saturday, Nov. 9, 8 p.m. Tickets: $46.50-$57 from the Royal McPherson box office (250-386-6121) or rmts.bc.ca After 17 ...

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Once Scott Stanton and David Lang started casting about for a songwriting strategy for the fifth Current Swell album, they realized the perfect one had been staring them in the face all along: they ...

When the Georgia Straight reaches Current Swell’s Scott Stanton on the phone, the singer-guitarist is engaged in a quintessentially British Columbia pursuit: cleaning his boat after an afternoon spent ...