Marj

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Julien is a Vancouver based songwriter. With diverse, catchy melodies, hard hitting breakdowns and a https://julienamar.bandcamp.com/track/murder

02/09/2026

Sunday night noodling when the guitar is a little bit out of tune but it kinda works

Going to turn this one into a song

Photos from Marj's post 12/06/2025

It's now been one week since the show so I think it's time to finally hang up the unhinged all caps posting for an APPRECIATION POST (okay, maybe just a little all caps, as a treat)

Thank you so much to everyone who has listened to the album, purchased the album and/or came to the show. I truly cannot express my gratitude in words well enough to convey my appreciation here. While I'm grateful for every time someone plays one of my songs on Spotify so I can get 1/28th of a penny or whatever, it is really special and sososo nice to play a proper show with my band again to a lovely, engaged audience.

Hoping to play more in the coming year. Stay tuned for deets. If you need to get ahold of me, I'll be noodling around on my acoustic and making pizza bagels in my apartment 🍕🎸

Photo/video credit: , (also, thank you so much for rides to/from the ferry and helping haul all my gear!!) and

11/28/2025

THE BIG DAY HAS ARRIVED. MY ALBUM, TRUST THE CROWS, IS FINALLY OUT FOR CONSUMPTION BY THE MASSES.

IT'S A SNEAK PEAK INTO WHAT GOES ON IN MY BRAIN,
IT'S AN ODE TO A NUMBER OF MY FAVOURITE GENRES AND ARTISTS, IT'S A GENERALLY MAD ROMP THROUGH THE MUSICAL GALAXY,
IT'S A BIG OL' MIDDLE FINGER TO MINDLESS TRIBALISM AND AUTHORITARIANISM
IT'S A FRUITLESS PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE
IT'S ME PLAYING A BUNCH OF INSTRUMENTS (BUT NOT THE SAXOPHONE)
IT'S A REDISCOVERY OF THE JOY IN PRODUCING MUSIC
IT'S PROBABLY NOT FOR EVERYONE (AND THAT'S OKAY!)

(IT'S ALSO COMPLETELY SELF FUNDED SO UHHHH PLEASE BUY MY ALBUM ON BANDCAMP, I HAVE SPENT WAY TOO MUCH MONEY ON THIS THING OR AT LEAST DM ME "YOU SHOULD REALLY APPLY FOR MORE GRANTS)

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK BRENDAN LOFTING AT ANDREW CONROY AT , TOBIAS SOLEY (SAXOPHONE ON BOSS GIRL), THE HOMIES (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE), THE JAZZERS, THE LIVE BAND ( ), THE SMASHERS, THE NAOMI .art , THE RIDE GIVERS, THE RELEASE SHOW VENUE , THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS, AND ANYONE WHO READ THIS FAR WITHOUT BEING PART OF THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED CATEGORIES

GIVE ALL THE TUNES A LISTEN THROUGH START TO FINISH, OR JUST KIND OF AIMLESSLY SKIP THROUGH UNTIL YOU FIND ONE YOU LIKE. I WON'T JUDGE

RELEASE SHOW TONIGHT, LET'S GOOOOOOO

11/27/2025

UPDATE:

DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, JONAH OCEAN WILL BE REPLACED BY FOR THE OPENER!

WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO PLAY SOME TUNES FOR YOU ALL!

SEE YOU IN TWO DAYS! BE THERE OR BE AN EQUAL SIDED RECTANGLE IFYAKNOWWHATIMSAYIN

11/14/2025

TRUST THE CROWS

COMING TO VARIOUS ONLINE MUSIC STREAMINF PLATFORMS AND BANDCAMP NOVEMBER 28TH

ALBUM RELEASE SHOW AT

LINK TO TICKETS IN BIO

10/28/2025

I just released a song last weekend called "paisley" -

It was written shortly after Trump's inauguration and talk of "51st state" nonsense.  It discusses hypocrisy on all levels and a breakdown of existing VERY imperfect systems to be replaced by even worse ones. There's a potent visual metaphor for this going on with the demolition of the White House right now...It also touches on the fascist in group/out group mentality that many of his followers seem to ascribe to, blaming all their problems on immigrants/LGBT+/vaccines/whichever foreign country they are told to hate that week by the dear leader, as well as the classic Goebbels "accuse the opposition of whatever you're doing" strategy that is fully in place right now. It's baffling to me how many would-be-career-ending-in-other-era scandals have happened in the last few months. It's overwhelming ("the tide can hide what the cameras shot etc.) and the song discusses how I see people around me everywhere minimizing or making excuses for the severity of how bad things currently are.

Finally, all this hypocrisy is also a vessel for me to reflect on times when my actions have been hypocritical (paisley, noticing patterns in my behavior). As an endlessly self-analytical artist, I can't help but get a lil' ~introspective~ too.

Hope ya dig it ya'll, it's out on the major music streaming platforms (speaking of hypocrisy...). Don't worry, ill be returning to unhingedposting soon.

Next two songs out on the 1st :) full album and release show at on the 21st!! Poster coming soon..

Heroic fawn picture unrelated

Photos from Marj's post 10/23/2025

2 MORE SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO BE RELEASED ON THE 1ST OF NOVEMBER??

BEFORE THE FIRST ONE FROM THE ALBUM EVEN COMES OUT??

WHEN I HAVEN'T RELEASED MUSIC IN LITERAL YEARS BEFORE THIS???

WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?! THE PEOPLE SAY
HOW COULD YOU DO SOMETHING SO ILL-ADVISED?? THE MUSIC PROMOTERS SAY
WHY IS THE ZZZ OFF CENTER? THE ARTIST PEDANTS SAY

WELL GUESS WHAT, THE ONLY QUESTION I'M ANSWERING HERE IS THE LAST ONE AND THE ANSWER IS "BECAUSE I MADE THIS ONE ON CANVA MYSELF AND I DIDN'T NOTICE IT WAS A BIT OFF UNTIL I'D ALREADY HIT THE UPLOAD BUTTON"

MORE TIME OUTSIDE AND SLEEPWHENURDED COMING TO AN AUDIO STREAMING SERVICE NEAR YOU

ONE IS A RAP AND THE OTHER HAS EVIL TRAIN CONDUCTOR ENERGY

I SINCERELY HOPE YOU DIG THEM, READERS OF MY UNHINGED SOCIAL MEDIA RAMBLES

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