NOW MAGAZINE Best of Toronto – Readers’ Pick: Best Local Songwriter : Neil Haverty (BRUCE PENINSULA)

CONGRATS NEIL!!! “The lead singer of the sprawling prog folk collective BRUCE PENINSULA shares vocal duties with a number of other singers, but it’s his talent for songwriting and arranging that’s charmed NOW readers. We loved their last album, Open Flames, too, and gave it a NNNN review.” ~ NOW Magazine

Toronto-based shoe-gazers BELIEFS share a track from their upcoming HDD full-length on Exclaim! TV. Filmed and recorded at Candle Recording (co-owned by vocalist/guitarist Josh Korody), watch BELIEFS perform the slow building “Dead Water”. ~ EXCLAIM!

BELIEFS // SELF TITLED – HDD021 (BUY HERE)

10/17 Toronto, ON – Parts & Labour w/ Amen Dunes
11/10 Montreal, QB – Cabaret Underworld w/ The Men

SCION SESSIONS, DAPS RECORDS, HAND DRAWN DRACULA, & POP MONTREAL
Thursday, September 20, 2012 @ CFC (6388 St-Hubert) 9PM – 3AM
Present A FREE Split 12″ Release Show

Featuring live performances from:
02am – Beta Frontiers
01am – Dusted
12am – Odonis Odonis
11pm – Hooded Fang
10pm – Cousins
09pm – Beliefs

DUSTED releases a music video for “There Somehow”, collaborating with Canadian Director Scott Cudmore. The song, which pairs BRIAN BORCHERDT‘s haunting vocals with a simple guitar, hints at frustration in communication. Cudmore’s filmic take is equally vexed, showing a girl releasing all through a silent scream. It was premiered today via STEREOGUM.

BREEZE ‘PARADISE / REPENT’
HDD019 (BUY HERE)

1. Paradise (in a while)
2. Repent

 
BREEZE is the dream-pop side project of Josh Korody (BELIEFS). “Paradise (in a while)” / “Repent” is a limited pressing of 100 cassette tapes with photography by Laura Lynn Petrick and a music video by Adam Christopher Seward.

BREEZE Release Party
Day+Night Salon, 1389 Dundas St. W. Toronto
September 8th 2012 // Facebook
Photo Gallery: HERE

DUSTED stopped by EXCLAIM! TV for a live performance of “Property Lines” and to the BREAK THRU RADIO studio for a Live Session and a chat with host Maia MacDonald. DUSTED TOTAL DUST OUT NOW // BUY HERE

The new DUSTED video for “(Into The) Atmosphere” made its debut on Pitchfork.tv today. The video is almost as dreamy & lo-fi as the song itself. Watch it above!

“(Into The) Atmosphere” appears on DUSTED‘s debut album, Total Dust, which is available on Deluxe CD, Limited Edition 180-g maroon colored LP, and Premium Digital (MP3, FLAC) in our HDD ONLINE STORE.

PERFUME GENIUS w/ DUSTED TOUR
http://pitchfork.com/news/47362-perfume-genius-announces-north-american-tour/

10.02 Minneapolis MN : Bryant Lake Bowl
10.03 Chicago IL : Logan Square Auditorium
10.05 Toronto ON : 918 Bathurst Space
10.06 Montreal QC : Il Motore
10.07 Somerville MA : Johnny D’s
10.08 Brooklyn NY : Music Hall of Williamsburg
10.09 New York NY : Le Poisson Rouge
10.11 Philadelphia PA : Johnny Brenda’s
10.12 Washington DC : The Hamilton
10.13 Carrboro NC : The ArtsCenter
10.15 Nashville TN : The High Watt
10.17 Fort Worth TX : Fort Worth Modern Art Museum
10.18 Austin TX : Central Presbyterian Church
10.22 San Diego CA : Irenic
10.23 Los Angeles CA : The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood
10.24 San Francisco CA : Swedish American Hall
10.26 Portland OR : Aladdin Theater

DUSTED ‘TOTAL DUST’
HDD016 // BUY HERE

Toronto Release Party
w/ Cousins
Get Well (1181 Dundas St. W.).
More info here: Facebook

 
CBC & EXCLAIM! Artist of the Month
MUCH MUSIC First Spin

 
TOUR DATES

08/16/12 Toronto ON: Open Roof Festival
07/26/12 Toronto CAN: The Mod Club *^
07/15/12 Brooklyn NY US: Glasslands Gallery
07/12/12 New York NY US: Cake Shop
07/07/12 Toronto CAN: Get Well Bar *

w/ Cousins *
w/ Chad VanGaalen ^

 
 
photo by Jules Schill


 
Hand Drawn Dracula label founder JAMES MEJIA discusses the past and the future plans of HDD with Parisian music blog/magazine HARTZINE. Read the full “Who are you Hand Drawn Dracula ?” interview in both English and French at HARTZINE and stream a curated mixtape by James below…

http://www.hartzine.com/interviews/hand-drawn-dracula

HDD MIXTAPE
01. Dusted – (Into The) Atmosphere
02. Shugo Tokumaru performs Holy Fuck’s Lovely Allen
03. Rituals – Life Saver
04. A Place To Bury Strangers – You Are The One
05. Metz – Pigs (Sparklehorse cover)
06. Beliefs – Iron Streams
07. Army Girls – Cold & Alcohol
08. Bishop Morocco – Last Year’s Disco Guitars (A Place To Bury Strangers mix)
09. Little Girls – Nights Out
10. Dopes – All Day Wrong (Sebastien Grainger remix)
11. Wintersleep – Resuscitate
12. Bruce Peninsula – As Long As I Live


HAND DRAWN DRACULA
NXNE 2012 SHOWCASE

01 A Place To Bury Strangers
12 Dusted
11 Rituals
10 Army Girls
09 Beliefs

June 14
El Mocambo
64 Spadina Ave
9PM-2AM / 19+

» Facebook Event

 
 
HAND DRAWN DRACULA presents the HDD 2012 NXNE SHOWCASE at the El Mocambo w/ A Place to Bury Strangers, DUSTED (feat. HOLY FUCK‘s BRIAN BORCHERDT), Rituals, Army Girls, and Beliefs. Friends, supporters, and new HDD bands!

 
Poster by Maryanna Hardy & James Mejia

// A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
APTBS are currently on tour in support of their ‘Onwards To The Wall” EP and upcoming “Worship” LP (June 26th) released via Dead Oceans. Look out for APTBS w/ DUSTED West Coast Tour.

// DUSTED
After six years of constant HOLY FUCK touring, BRIAN BORCHERDT emerged with a new offering of songs, a stripped down presentation, disguised under the name DUSTED. The debut LP will come to life July 10th 2012 on Hand Drawn Dracula (Canada) & Polyvinyl (International).

// RITUALS ~ video
Lo-fi dream punk trio Rituals released a 4 song tape in June 2011, followed by their debut 7’ on Unfamiliar Records. Rituals are currently finishing their new LP for HDD, tentatively to be released this fall.

// ARMY GIRLS ~ video
Toronto two piece Army Girls released their debut EP ‘Close To The Bone’ this fall on Blocks Recording Club and are currently busy recording their first LP. Currently on a month long tour with PS I Love You.

// BELIEFS ~ video
Local Dreampop-Shoegazers (feat. Candle Recording’s Josh Korody) are working on their debut full-length.