To celebrate the first day of the Halifax Pop Explosion our bearded bass player Dan Ball has volunteered to take part in the 2011 Coast To Coast Polar Bear Challenge! The challenge is to take a winter dip in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans within a 24 hour period, so today at 5PM, Dan Ball will fully submerge himself in the Pacific ocean at Mile-Zero in Victoria, BC. Tomorrow morning Dan, along with the rest of Acres Of Lions, will embark on a cross Canada flight to Halifax, NS to attend the Halifax Pop Explosion, performing a showcase on Thursday, October 20th at The North Street Church. Although we are unfamiliar with both the climate and the terrain in Halifax, the hope is that Dan Ball will re-submerge his >> read more

On of the challenges in the 2011 Peak Performance Project was to write a song about Vancouver to commemorate Vancouver’s 125th birthday. The songs were recorded in the wee hours of the morning in makeshift studios in the bunk houses at the Peak Performance Project Bootcamp in Princeton, BC. The bands had some great producers to work with: Shawn Cole, Garth Richardson, Warne Livesey, Dane Deviller and Winston Hauschild, and big thanks to all the students from Nimbus Recording for their help making these tracks come to life. Acres Of Lions song is titled “City By The Sea” and was produced by the legendary GGGarth Richardson. A big thanks to Garth, and also a big thanks to our friend Cody Beer who came to bootcamp with us and performed on >> read more

Thanks to everyone who supported Acres Of Lions throughout the Peak Performance Project the past couple months! Tune in to 100.5 the PEAK in Vancouver, or listen live at thepeak.fm on Wednesday, October 26th at 3:15pm to hear the announcement of the Top 5 artists! 4th and 5th place will be named, while the top 3 will be listed in no particular order. Those 3 artists will play at our PEAK Performance Project Finale Concert at the Commodore on November 17th, which is when we will announce how they placed, and which of the top awards they will be walking away with! 1st place – $100,500.00 2nd place – $75,000.00 3rd place – $50,000.00 Tickets for the finale at the Commodore Ballroom will go on sale on October 26th through >> read more

Help Acres Of Lions get the video credits right for their single ‘Reaction’. The video features over 100 people, and some of those people were fans or friends of friends that we’d like to properly credit. Here’s the list we’ve come up with so far: www.acresoflions.com/reaction If you know anyone who is in the video that we haven’t credited, please send an email to: info@acresoflions.com to let us know! Also if your name is listed, but we messed up the spelling or you’d prefer a different link or title please let us know about that too. >> read more

Before Acres Of Lions went in the studio to record our latest album Collections we recorded a whole bunch of demo song ideas. Some of those ideas turned into the songs you hear on the record, but the rest of them are just collecting dust on the hard drive down at our rehearsal space in Victoria, BC. We listened through a bunch of the unreleased demo songs last night, and decided to share two of them with you on one condition: You take a couple minutes to help us win $100,500. To get the free songs: 1. Go to peakperformanceproject.com/vote 2. Vote for ACRES OF LIONS! 3. Take a screenshot 4. Email the screenshot to peakpp@acresoflions.com We will email you back with a download code/link for the free tracks. It’s >> read more