Betty Dimo

The Big Sleep & Dean’s Year End List

It’s that time again as the year winds down to its end.  2014, with only 7 live appearances, can be seen as, “the year we took a break.” Yes, we took it slow as newest member/collaborator, Andy Soto returned to Paris, France and long-time member Bobby Lee departed while I concentrated on my new full-time day job: Fatherhood. I should also mention that we canned our annual East Coast tour in Autumn of 2014 (with my apologies to the CMJ Music Marathon and TWM/iM Fest). Meanwhile, Betty Dimo and myself kept it alive as a three-piece by enlisting drummer extraordinaire, Johnny Rowe and by continuing to write and rehearse new material. More on that later…

…anyway. As always, here is the list (5th annual!) of albums I purchased on vinyl with the 2014 time-stamp:

Alvvays: Alvvays
The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream
Swans: To be Kind

And as always, this list does not include the older and records and reissues I purchased in 2014!

In a lot of ways it was an encouraging year especially when a band like Swans can still release relevant and mind blowing records and a band like The War on Drugs can climb to the pinnacle of musical success in this modern landscape (read: sad future).

Expect to hear new music from us in 2015. We have been working on it. In fact, we have booked the studio and will be recording (demoing) 4 or 5 new songs this coming Monday. You won’t hear these demos. Maybe as bonus tracks sometime in the far future. The only way to hear these new songs right now is to come out to future shows. I’ll be sure to post some pictures here and on our instagram.

Happy Holidays!
-dean

Reunion Video Posted!

Hi There!

Some of you might have noticed we have posted our “official” video for Reunion on YouTube!

Papermaps – Reunion (Official Video)

This is the “official” video for our first single, Reunion. It’s totally homemade (or rather fan-made) except for the fun (read silly) stuff we did in our rehearsal space. We asked fans to send us clips of themselves answering the question: If you could send a message back in time to yourself at age 16, what would you say? As it turns out, a lot of people showed interest in the project, most people had ideas about what to say and a few people actually got up the nerve to submit a clip. Nonetheless, we took what we thought were the best clips and cobbled together this video with the help of video Editor Chris Minns and Jay Sad.

This video is dedicated to all the BRAVE SOULS who submitted a clip! THANK YOU!

BTW: Feel free to do your own video responses! We might do an “update” in the future.

Another detail you may have noticed is that we have a 5th member!  Please welcome Betty Dimo (Bass Guitar/ Keys / Vocals) to Papermaps!  We will be talking more about Betty (and updating our bio and pictures) in the very near future!  In fact, we have many exciting things to report for October!  This will all get covered in the next post!

Until then

Cheers!

-dean