We are Everywhere!! (Well, Almost)

March and early April will be the time to catch Papermaps live! We plan to woodshed in the rehearsal studio / recording studio to finish our next album (currently 53.33% done). Here are the dates so far. The tentative ones are unconfirmed (I will be updating this post, so check back).

Thursday March 8th, La Sala Rosa, Montreal (w/ Montreal’s MAK $10)
http://www.facebook.com/events/300390863361058/

Saturday March 24th, Hard Luck, Toronto (CMW Showcase, 10pm, Wristband or $10) First Toronto show of 2012! Let’s go HOMETOWN!

Friday March 30th, Zaphod’s, Ottawa (“Eug-Know Fest” w/ Fire and Neon, Aardwolf – $6 – doors 8pm)

Tuesday April 10th, Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ~~~ Tentative!!!

Friday April 13th, APK Live, London (w/ Hands and Teeth)

cheerio,
-d

Can’t Make a Living

Hi,
Well, I’m now a columnist.
Toronto’s the iNDiEMACHiNE.COM have decided to add regular columns to their already excellent website and they’ve asked me  (along with some other local characters) to contribute! My soon-to-be-weekly column, CAN’T  MAKE A LIVING starts today.  As a special introduction CMAL is scheduled to run for the next 5 weekdays and will appear weekly thereafter.

CMAL is about surviving the world of indie music.  I plan to make it mostly anecdotal and opinion driven, but I will use real world examples and quotes to back me up from time to time. My first topic of discussion is what I call The Big Why, of making music – you know, that sinking feeling you get every once and a while when you wonder if you should quit and start leading a “normal” life.  For me, this is a very complex, perplexing, quixotic issue – so why not tackle it first? Good thing they are running the first 5 installments daily, because it’s going to take me 8 or 9 segments just to touch on this topic (and without using words like quixotic).   WARNING: If you are one of those people (and I know there’s a lot of you out there) that make music “for the pure love of it,”  and don’t see yourself as an artist – you might not dig the first 6 installments or so, but I implore you to stick with it.  I will (eventually) champion your point of view but not before getting some of the header stuff out of the way first.  You’ll know what I”m talking about if you keep reading.

Anyway, I’m really excited about this! Here’s an excerpt from my first installment: Perseverance Part 1: The Big Why:

There’s a great lyric from the Walkmen song, We’ve Been Had:
Well I’m a modern guy I don’t care much for the go-go
or the retro image I see so often telling me to
keep trying maybe you’ll get here someday
keep up the work, kid. ok
I close the book on them right there
Sometimes this verse epitomizes how I feel about music. Every so often I’m hit with what I call The Big Why – basically, that moment of existential crisis when you ask yourself, “why am I still doing this?” If it hasn’t happened to you yet (oh fellow indie musician), I guarantee it will at some point. It might be on some sore and hung-over morning after a tour or during a family function when your cousin (twice removed) asks why you’re over 25, not in school, and still working at Starbucks. Let’s face it – being an indie musician these days can seem like a lot of hard, thankless work…
Here’s links to the rest:

[click here to read the rest of PART 1]
[click here to read the rest of PART 2]
[click here to read the rest of PART 3]
[click here to read the rest of PART 4]
[click here to read the rest of PART 5]

cheers,

-d

More Shows

H A P P Y  * V A L E N T I N E S ! ! !
FROM
P A P E R M A P S
<3 <3 <3

We have a string of shows coming up in early 2012, starting with a support slot with Amos the Transparent at Maxwell’s in Waterloo on February 23.

Dates in Waterloo, Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa are confirmed and we have our eyes set on London, St. Catharines, Kingston and (maybe) Toronto again. After this burst of live activity we plan to disappear again for little while to finish up the new album, which is 43.33% done – so come out and see us!  Show information is updated here: http://papermaps.net/blog/shows/

-d