Wendy Versus

Holiday Sabbatical and Dean’s Year End List

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

DRAKE HOTEL JULY RESIDENCY!

By the time you will have read this, we will have performed our first in a series of five appearances at the Drake Underground (located in the basement of the fabulous Drake Hotel – 1150 Queen St. West, Toronto (west of Ossington)) presented by famous ELVIS MONDAY guru William New. Don’t miss the next one! Or the next one! Or the next!! We will be changing up our set every night and every set is being recorded as work towards a possible future live album.    Fab singer/songwriter Ryan Guay will be starting each night and fab songstress Allie Hughes will be topping each evening off.  In addition, we also have hand-picked special guests joining us each week. Here’s the program:

July 2 // Soi Disant 10:15PM // PAPERMAPS 10:45PM
July 9 // Jay Sad 10:15PM // PAPERMAPS 10:45PM
July 23 // JF Robitaille (MTRL/NYC) 10:15PM // PAPERMAPS 10:45PM
July 30 // Jenn Mierau (MTRL) 10:15PM // PAPERMAPS 10:45PM
August 6th  // WENDY VERSUS 10:15PM // PAPERMAPS 10:45PM

Wow, that’s a lot of shows! Hope to see you there!

-d

Wendy Versus

Hey,

Wendy and I have another musical project (yes, you read that right).  The project is called Wendy Versus and as you can probably guess, Wendy writes and sings the songs  (and I play guitar and press record).  Anyway,  I’m blogging this here on PAPERMAPS DOT NET because we are currently streaming 2 new tracks from the forthcoming Wendy Versus album (entitled Crayon Wars).   Check it out on our other website, WENDY VERSUS DOT COM:

http://wendyversus.com/blog/2012/01/tracks-redux-new-songs-up/

Thanks!

-dean