June 17 – Junction City Music Hall – New Sounds

It’s been a while since we have played live and I’m excited to announce a hometown date: Friday, June 17 at Junction City Music Hall.  Here’s a link to the venue website:

junctioncitymusichall.com/blog/2016/5/20/friday-june-17th-papermaps-beams-the-nursery-8

Here’s the Facebook Event (join!): https://www.facebook.com/events/1002416143208741/

Also on the bill are the amazing Beams and The Nursery – two great Toronto fixtures worthy of your discriminating attention!

Maybe you haven’t seen us since we’ve gone all weird and metal or broody or since I became a dad or stopped cutting my hair…Well, we’re not anymore “metal” or “weird” than we ever were – if you think that then maybe you never really got us anyway (well, maybe we’re a bit more broody, if anything) . Then again, who wants to recreate the same sound over and over again? People change. They grow. Don’t expect the same album from papermaps over and over again. Don’t expect the same papermaps either.  BTW, if you love the old stuff, remember: music lives forever. It has it’s own place in the universe and most of it dwells right here, on the internet (and hopefully in some dusty playlists on some device of future’s past).

Anyway, come judge for yourself…come to the show…

Meanwhile, we’ve been working on this new album and leading up to finishing that I’ve been posting little sample “vignettes” of new music. Here they all are, all collected in one place.

Humbly yours,
-dean

Be Real – rough mix https://youtu.be/9jA1ilGBzhA Toronto: we’ll be at Music City Junction Hall, June 17.

A video posted by Dean of PAPERMAPS (@papermapsmusic) on

 

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A video posted by Dean of PAPERMAPS (@papermapsmusic) on

Tonight at the Dance Cave

It’s time to send out that email newsletter query – you know the one: “Do you want to stay on and receive news about PAPERMAPS?” We’ll be doing that soon…so heads up…meanwhile…we’ll be at the Dance Cave tonight (529 Bloor St. West, Toronto / above Lees Palace) playing live at 8:30PM in support of Tin Star Orphan’s double vinyl release…lot’s of instagraming to follow.

-d

NEW Single Release and Instagram

The estimated release date for this new “detour mix” of I’ve Closed A Door is June 18 but you can stream it now:
https://soundcloud.com/papermaps/ive-closed-a-door-detour-mix
In other news we have an instagram account (with somewhat opaque and interior photos now depicting the very beginnings of the creative process):
http://instagram.com/papermapsmusic
Cheers,

-dean

ps. don’t miss our show, Wed June 18 at the Painted Lady, Toronto. It has NOTHING to do with NXNE.