Hi!
We are breaking our Holiday Hiatus with a hometown show at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern, Thursday February 7! Joining us will be Toronto’s Alright Alright as well as our studio-mates MESA MESA who are a fantastic sounding band and the amazing VISTAVISION will also be making a rare live appearance! Deets:
FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/547064551972239/
Showgopher: http://showgopher.com/#!Toronto/2013-02-07/HorseshoeTavern
Hi,
It’s the Holiday Season and while most bands work feverishly during these weeks, we here in PAPERMAPS have decided to take a 3-week sabbatical. We’ll be reconvening in January and plan to play our hometown February 7 at one of our favorite venues in town (hint, it has the word “shoe” in its name – more details and to come). Since distilling the lineup down to Betty, Bobby and myself, we’ve been working on new material with hopes of a summertime 2013 release and tour(s). Our secondary hope is to preview much of that new material at our February 7 show. Let’s keep the fingers crossed…
Every year I do a little “year end” list of vinyl albums that I purchased that year – not counting records from previous years, oldies or classic albums, etc., which I shamefully buy a lot of…As always, some of these records were the soundtrack of my year, while others collected dust…but something convinced me to buy them…Here they are in no particular order:
Tender New Signs – Tamaryn
Crayon Wars – Wendy Versus (ok, I played on this album, but it did come out on vinyl)
Self-Titled – Paper Beat Scissors
Clear Moon – Mount Eerie
Lowbanks – From East to Exit (ok, I produced this…but it came out on vinyl)
The Only Place – Best Coast
Worship – A Place to Bury Strangers
Wild Peace – Echo Lake
Self-Titled – Metz
Self-Titled – VISTAVISON (I also produced this one, but it’s out on vinyl now and one of my faves)
And there you have it…the 4th annual “Dean’s Year End List.”
Not counted here, but given honorable mention is the seminal post-rock/neo-jazz band, Talk Talk and their 2012 reissued/remastered Spirit of Eden.
Cheers and Happy Holidays,
-dean
While I’m waiting for my morning toast to slightly burn, I thought I’d write an update here to let you know what we are up to here at camp Papermaps. It’s springtime and for us that means buckling down and working on more new material from the next album… SO we will be taking a break from playing live in April with the exception of a solo show I will be performing at the El Mocambo Club on Thursday April 26th. This will be just me and my guitar performing Papermaps songs from the past and future! Here’s a facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/132363823557351/
I hope to see you there! I’ll also be playing guitar with Tin Star Orphans and also appearing will be the excellent VISTAVISION !!!
Meanwhile, we’ll keep writing songs and attempting to record them. Shows will be sparse between now and July — but we’ve got something REALLY BIG planned for JULY/AUGUST 2012… stay tuned for more hints and announcements!
The toaster just rang . . .
-dean