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COUSINS TOUR w/ CONSTANTINES, CHAD VANGAALEN

“As part of our Altered States series, Noisey ventured out to Halifax with Cousins to perform on Georges Island. Watch as garage rockers Aaron Mangle and Leigh Dotey take their live set onto the grassy hills of Halifax’s largest island” ~ NOISEY/VICE COUSINS‘ release their Polaris Music Prize Long Listed album The Halls of Wickwire […]

XIV // SUMMER MIXTAPE & LIMITED CASSETTE

HAND DRAWN DRACULA, THY TIME IS NOW! My pal James Meija has been running this little label out of Toronto called Hand Drawn Dracula for a few years now, and I f-cking love everything it releases. I really do. In a very short time, HDD has established itself as one of those imprints whose (very cool) logo on the back cover of a record (or a cassette in this case, I guess) is an instant signifier of carefully curated quality.

BELIEFS // DURAN DURAN TRIBUTE W/ MOBY, WARPAINT

BELIEFS cover “Sound of Thunder” for Making Patterns Rhyme: a tribute to Duran Duran released via Manimal Vinyl with all proceeds going to Amnesty International. The comp features Warpaint, Little Dragon, Moby, Austra and more. “The synth-punk cheese that helped put the New Romantics’ music videos in heavy rotation would, at first glance, appear ill-suited […]

COUSINS // OCEAN (VIDEO) INDIE 88

INDIE 88 Radio premiered COUSINS‘ new video directed by Mackenzie Burke for the summer anthem “Ocean” today. “The hazy, VHS-styled new vid will have you wishing you were at the beach in no time.” “Now, with its latest album, The Halls of Wickwire — its first for relentlessly on-point Toronto indie label Hand Drawn Dracula […]

COUSINS // BODY (Video) via NOISEY

COUSINS The Halls of Wickwire | Limited LP/CD/Cassette/Digital | BUY HERE “Today, Halifax garage-rock power-duo COUSINS release their third LP, The Halls of Wickwire and with it, this badass boxing video for “Body.” New to Hand Drawn Dracula Records, Cousins is one of the hardest working bands around; the album was produced by Graham Walsh […]

doomsquad // head spirit (for our mechanical time)

DOOMSQUAD premiered “a Dada-inspired video” for Head Spirit (For Our Mechanical Time) on The Line of Best Fit. “Doomsquad exist in the crossover spaces, the fringes and thresholds of contrasting opposites, the urban landscapes versus the wild forests, chaos versus intricate arrangement, fear versus refuge.” – The Line of Best Fit

COUSINS // THE HALLS OF WICKWIRE (STREAM) EXCLAIM, PORTALS, IMPOSE

The Halls of Wickwire by Cousins COUSINS The Halls of Wickwire | Limited LP/CD/Cassette/Digital | BUY HERE Ahead of the May 13the release, COUSINS The Halls of Wickwire is available to stream in FULL over at EXCLAIM! Magazine, Impose Magazine, and more. HDD put the band in Toronto’s Candle Recording studio with Graham Walsh (Holy […]

PRAISES // BREATHING IN (VIDEO)

PRAISES EP1 | HDD035 | BUY HERE 1. Breathing In 2. Way Back When 3. The Devil 4. Confessor PRAISES is the solo project of BELIEFS co-founder Jesse Crowe. Following the world-wide critical acclaim of Beliefs, Jesse wasted no time and headed into Toronto’s Candle Recording Studio (Owen Pallet, Austra, F’d Up) to put her […]

COUSINS // MESS (VIDEO) EXCLAIM, SPIN

Halifax indie-rock duo COUSINS premiere their condiment-heavy new video for “Mess” via SPIN & Exclaim! Magazine today! Cousin’s much anticipated third full-length The Halls of Wickwire is set for release on May 13th 2014 via Hand Drawn Dracula. Catch them on tour with Chad VanGaalen throughout North America with more Canadian dates TBA.

doomsquad // kalaboogie (stream) via dazed

DOOMSQUAD‘s debut album Kalaboogie is streaming now in it’s entirety over at DAZED! The siblings have been garnering some serious international praise and are now set to tour North America & Europe this March through June with scheduled dates at Valley Of The Vapors, SXSW, The Great Escape UK, NXNE, and more! “an odyssey as […]

COUSINS // THE HALLS OF WICKWIRE

We’re excited to officially announce Cousins have joined Hand Drawn Dracula! Pre-order “The Halls of Wickwire” ~ released May 13th 2014!