Tales From a Dog-Eared Notebook Pt.2


Meanwhile, the beautiful David Kleiser artwork was finished last Friday, approved and sent OUT so the first run CDs of Darker Lights are now in production. That means that some selected media outlets and people dear to our hearts will be receiving their complimentary promotional copies in the coming weeks, probably in September. Exciting! People, if you feel entitled to a comp copy please contact me with your mailing address and the reason why you think we might forget you. You probably already have my contact info but it can be found here. BTW, we are still playing the Rivoli this Saturday night. Canadian tour dates shall be announced in the coming weeks.

Thanks for reading.

-d

Tales From a Dog-Eared Notebook Pt.1

It’s July 30 and we’ve been sitting on the final mastered and sequenced sounds of our latest album, Darker Lights since July 5th!!! Needless to say we’re itching to share or at least do something over here but there’s a bit process still going on.  Some of that process is too boring to mention here (i.e. talk of “focus tracks,” exact release dates, mail out times and long leads, etc. etc.,) but some of it is freaking cool. For instance we are collaborating with one of the most exciting young visual artists (and talented musicians) in Canada, David Kleiser to design and illustrate our album cover.   Those of you who may have ordered our limited edition vinyl for Inferior Ghost probably received, as a bonus insert,  a print of his excellent poster for our August 28, 2012 appearance at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern.

All these meetings over copious amounts of coffee in the well-lit offices at Sparks have been fruitful. Soon we will announce a release date (we’ve narrowed it down to 2 possibles) and other exciting news.

Also coming soon will be some Fall season tour dates.

Meanwhile, we’ll be making a hometown appearance at the Rivoli, Saturday August 10 with friends Duck Duck Goose Goose and Wild Domestic. But you know this already, don’t you?  Here’s the FB event. Please join!

https://www.facebook.com/events/202725856557587

Cheers,

-dean

NXNE 2011

This year, the good people of NXNE have wedged us between two great international acts:  NYC’s all-girl  indie-electro outfit, Lunic and San Diego’s surf punks, Writer. So if you go to NXNE to some great local acts but mostly rare international acts, then the Rivoli is the place to be on Saturday night!

We hope to see you there!

Show Deets:  Papermaps at NXNE

Where:  The Rivoli  (332 Queen St. West Toronto, ON)
When:  Saturday June 18th,  12AM (music starts at 9pm)
Cost:  $10 or wristband gets you in

Official Lineup at the Rivoli (June 18).

The Dress Whites (Tdot www.thedresswhites.ca) 9pm
Thees Uhlmann and Band (www.thees-uhlmann.de) 10pm
Lunic (NYC http://lunicmusic.com/) 11pm
Papermaps (Tdot http://papermaps.net/) 12am
Writer (San Diego http://writertheband.com/) 1 am

FB Event:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135292946546259