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TOUR DATES

May 21 – Hamilton – The Casbah
May 23 – Toronto – Silver Dollar
May 24 – Montreal – One Man Band Fest
May 25 – Montreal – One Man Band Fest
May 26 – Montreal – One Man Band Fest
May 29 – Halifax – Gus’ Pub
May 30 – Moncton – Plan B
June 3 – New York – Piano’s
June 4 – New Jersey – The Saint
June 6 – Lakewood – Mahall’s
June 7 – Pittsburgh – Garfield Artworks
June 8 – Chicago – Township
June 9 – Chicago – Township
June 13 – Des Moines – Vaudville Mews
June 16 – Seattle – Comet Tavern
June 17 – Vancouver – The Railway Club
June 18 – Kelowna – Fernando’s
June 21 – Edmonton – Wunderbar
June 28 – Winnipeg – Park Theatre
]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=119 CST Oldfolks Home http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=119 We're bringing almost the whole family to Toronto for CMW in a couple weeks. Come join us!

Apparat Organ Quartet
March 20 > The Garrison
March 22 > Drake Underground (Iceland Airwaves)
March 23 > The Hoxton (Iceland Naturally)

Oldfolks Home
March 21 > Global Village Backpackers

Rococode
March 20 > The Garrison
March 22 > Velvet Underground
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We're giving away copies of the new record and guestlist spots to a future Oldfolks Home show in your city.

Here's what you have to do:

* Take a picture or video of us playing to you
* Upload it to the internet
* Post it to Twitter
* #saysomethingright (VERY IMPORTANT)
* Extra point for @oldfolkshome
* Extra point for group friend hugs in the video


This is going to be so easy for you. You've got this one in the bag and you're strutting all around town showing off your game.

The tour dates are:

Feb 23 Winnipeg - Times Change(d)
Mar 1 Regina - O’Hanlons
Mar 2 Saskatoon - TBA
Mar 3 Edmonton - Wunderbar
Mar 4 Calgary - Local 510
Mar 5 Kelowna - Fernando’s
Mar 7 Vancouver - The Biltmore
Mar 9 Lethbridge - The Slice
Mar 21 Toronto - CMW - Global Village Backpackers
Mar 24 Hamilton - The Casbah
Mar 26 Montreal - Quai De Brumes

Head to www.facebook.com/oldfolkshomemusic and LIKE US. We LOVE YOU. Heart Shape.

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Thursday 10:45pm Manitoba Music Suite 1181
Friday 3:00pm Manitoba Music Suite 1181
Friday 11:40pm Manitoba Music Acoustic Room 1162
Saturday 1:00am Manitoba Music Acoustic Room 1162]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=113 CST http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=113
Winnipeg’s Oldfolks Home deliver two song single Say Something Right ahead of full length album to come out late spring. 
The band celebrates with national tour dates in March.

Oldfolks Home’s Ricardo Lopez-Aguilar is ready to hit the road again with an armful of honest electronic pop songs, a new love for life, and a couple of his friends. Ahead of the full length album set for release in late spring, Oldfolks Home is releasing Say Something Right, a Double A Side single featuring “Garland’s Moving to Vancouver” and “It Scares Me.” And in celebration, Lopez-Aguilar is touring straight across Canada throughout March, in a wave of three-dimensional shows performing tracks from Say Something Right and the upcoming full length album.
Stream “Garland’s Move to Vancouver” and “It Scares Me” from the Double A Side Single Say Something Right.


Tour Dates
Feb 23 Winnipeg - Times Change(d)
Mar 1 Regina - O’Hanlons
Mar 2 Saskatoon - TBA
Mar 3 Edmonton - Wunderbar
Mar 4 Calgary - Local 510
Mar 5 Kelowna - Fernando’s
Mar 7 Vancouver - The Biltmore
Mar 9 Lethbridge - The Slice
Mar 21 Toronto - CMW - Global Village Backpackers
Mar 26 Montreal - Quai De Brumes ]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=112 CST Oldfolks Home http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=112
Manitoba and its capital Winnipeg are home to the largest Icelandic population outside of Iceland, so perhaps this is a fitting evolution in the relationship between the two winter-y regions. One surrounded by land, the other by water; both places of much creativity.

Apparat Organ Quartet recently made their North American debut in Seattle for KEXP's Reykjavik Calling. (See the Visuals section.)

Release date: March 12, 2013

NME Review ]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=111 CST Apparat Organ Quartet http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=111








Osborne House is a vital Winnipeg service providing shelter from abuse. Domestic violence is a sad reality for many, and it is in times of crisis that Osborne House is there to provide safe refuge, counseling, and support.

Recently Osborne House was denied $450,000 core funding by the City of Winnipeg and are in a funding crisis of their own.

We at Head In The Sand believe in the important work of Osborne House and in their ability to make a difference. We want this vital resource to remain available to women and children who need it.

That is why we are offering this special fundraising bundle of 8 albums for $50 - with all $50 being donated to Osborne House.

Royal Canoe – Co-Op Mode
Rococode – Guns, Sex & Glory
Les Jupes – Modern Myths
Demetra – Lone Migration
Tom Keenan – Romantic Fitness
Record Of The Week Club
Mike Petkau – Don’t Say A Word
The Liptonians – The Liptonians


Christmas is approaching and you can give a bundle of musical goodness to your friends or family, while knowing that the money is going to an important cause. This campaign will last until December 31, 2012.

A special thanks to all of our artists for enthusiastically agreeing to participate in this fundraiser. And of course, a very special thanks to Osborne House – for offering hope and for being there when you are needed.


GET THE BUNDLE HERE


LEARN MORE:

CBC article

Uniter article

Winnipeg Sun article
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Illustrious performers participating to date: Derek Allard (Royal Canoe), Tom "Twisty" Fodey (The Poor Choices, etc.), Alexa Dirks (The New Lightweights, Chic Gamine), Leah Moore (The Church Choir), Michelle Elrick (poet and backup singer extraordinaire), and Patrick Keenan (hell, you know who he is).]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=110 CST Tom Keenan http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=110

OLDFOLKS HOME INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN


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Paper Lions have been generating some serious buzz for their catchy-as-all-hell new EP "At Long Creek".

Les Jupes will be performing all new material for these shows, trying out songs that will form the next record.

Dates:
Wed Nov 14 > Vancouver > Media Club
Thu Nov 15 > Kelowna > 97 Street Pub
Fri Nov 16 > Edmonton > Avenue Theatre
Sat Nov 17 > Calgary > The Gateway @ SAIT




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Rococode are announcing a co-headline national tour this fall that will see them cross the country in September with Fredericton’s The Belle Comedians to cover the East Coast and Saskatchewan’s Rah Rah through Ontario. Both Rococode and Rah Rah will play at Supercrawl in Hamilton, the Tuesday-famous Nu Music Nite at The Horseshoe in Toronto, and Rococode wrap up the tour with a Lunchtime Live! Series play at Toronto’s epicenter, Yonge and Dundas Square. All dates follow below.

Recently, Rococode saw their latest video for album tracks, Ghost I/II premiered at InterviewMagazine.com. Interview Magazine started in the late 60’s as a pop-culture exchange by Andy Warhol, and still today, offers unedited exchanges of arts, culture and celebrity.

The video for Ghost I/II was produced and directed by Daniel Stewart, and Rococode’s Shaun Huberts (also the author of the recently released photo-based book How To Pack Like A Rock Star which features handy travel packing tips from City and Colour and Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla amongst others).

The haunting video for Ghost I/II is beautifully shot, with stop motion effects and featuring Laura Smith with a ‘Midas touch’ of sorts, turning everything she touches into sand, including Andrew. Ghost I/II is still available for free audio download here:

ROCOCODE / FALL TOUR DATES / 2012
August 25 Squamish, BC Live At Squamish
September 5 Moncton, NB Tide & Boar^
September 6 Charlottetown, PEI Hunter’s Ale House^
September 7 Halifax, NS The Seahorse Tavern^
September 8 Fredericton, NB Capital Complex
September 11 Rochester, NY Bug Jar
September 12 Peterborough Red Dog Tavern*
September 13 Guelph, ON eBar*
September 14 London, ON Call The Office*
September 15 Hamilton, ON Supercrawl*
September 15 Kitchener, ON KOI Fest
September 17 St. Catharines, ON Mansion House*
September 18 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern*
September 20 Ottawa, ON Mavericks*
September 21 Montreal, PQ Petit Campus (POP Montreal)
September 22 Kingston, ON Grad Club*
September 24 Toronto, ON Yonge & Dundas Square – Lunchtime Live! Series
September 28-30 Regina, SK BreakOut West
^w/Belle Comedians
* w/Rah Rah

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This is the band's third European tour in one year, and they are excited to meet some new people in new countries. ]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=96 CST Les Jupes http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=96
There's a thoughtful, hearty interview to go with it - as is their style.

Check it out here.]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=95 CST Rococode http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=95
Modern Myths is being released in September in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Thanks, as always, to Shain Shapiro (CIMA) for helping connect the dots to new fans.

We're excited to work with our new UK partners Kobalt/AWAL and Division PR. And with our new Dutch partners Dying Giraffe and Paperclip Agency.

See you in September!
Adam, David, Kelly & Mike


EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
...will be updated as more shows confirmed

Aug 12 > M'era Luna Festival
Aug 14 > Mainz > Schon Schon
Aug 16 > Rees-Haldern > Haldern Pop Bar
Aug 18 > Berlin > The Lido
Aug 21 > Kassel > Warte Furkunst Gallery
Aug 22 > Cologne > Blue Shell
Aug 24 > Obstwiesenfestival
Aug 29 > London > Wilmington Arms
Sept 5 > Glasgow > The 13th Note

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This weekend they'll by joined by label-mates Les Jupes at Sled Island in Calgary and Works-Fest in Edmonton.

You can see all the festivals on the shows page.]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=93 CST Rococode http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=93
See his page for tour dates, and watch the video here:
http://vimeo.com/41468646]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=90 CST Tom Keenan http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=90
I'll be heading out on an Eastern Canadian tour right away with my pal Jenny Berkel! Check out our dates below and go listen to her beautiful music!- www.jennyberkel.com

April 26th, 2012 - Winnipeg, MB - The Lo Pub (with ROYAL CANOE)

May 5th, 2012 – London, ON – The London Music Club(with the State Bird of Idaho)


May 6th, 2012 – Guelph, ON – The Cornerstone (with Sarah Jane Scouten and Nicole Bilyea)


May 8th, 2012 – Hamilton, ON – Homegrown (with Coral Reef & Molly Babin)


May 9th, 2012 – Windsor, ON – Phog Lounge (with Tara Watts)


May 10th, 2012 – Toronto, ON – OCAD Student Gallery (with Lake Forest)

May 11th, 2012- Kitchener, ON - House Show(with Beth Prysnuk) *contact an admin for info

May 12th, 2012 – St. Catharines, ON - The Mansion House (with Parts Per Million)

May 14th, 2012 – Montreal, Quebec – Casa Del Popolo (with David Simard)

May 16th, 2012 - Woodstock, NB - Fusion Cafe

May 19th, 2012 - Sackville, NB - Bridge Street Cafe

May 21st, 2012 - Antigonish, NS - House show (contact for details)

May 24th, 2012 – Halifax, NS – The Company House

May 25th, 2012 - Fredericton, NB - Charlotte Street Arts Centre

May 26th, 2012 - Montreal, Quebec - Le Depanneur

May 28th, 2012 - Toronto, Ontario - The Gladstone Hotel (with the Billie Hollies)

]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=89 CST Demetra http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=89
So - we’re giving it away for free! (And the remixes too.)

Simply sign up for our email list here
or on Bandcamp.

And there’s more. We also shot a video with Aaron Zeghers and Ryan Simmons for the song – we’re pretty pumped about it and excited to share it with you. Its going to debut in the USA on Wednesday – keep your eyes on our Twitter and Facebook or this page.

Here our USA & Western Canada tour dates:
March 8 – Milwaukee – Riverwest Public House
March 9 – Chicago – Pancho’s
March 10 – Omaha – Barley St. Tavern
March 15 – Austin – SXSW (Maggie Mae’s Gibson Room @ 10 pm)
March 17 – Kansas City – The Record Bar
March 18 – Tulsa – Hunt Club
March 21 – Englewood (Denver area) – Moe’s
March 23 – Portland – Kelly’s Olympian
March 25 – Seattle – The Comet
March 27 – Calgary – The Palomino
March 28 – Edmonton – Wunderbar
March 29 – Saskatoon – Vangelis Tavern

See you out there!
Adam, Kelly, David & Mike
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Rococode toured Canada over 2011 and began introducing songs from their full-length, Guns, Sex and Glory to club and festival crowds. Stellar live reviews followed. Early album reviews have been glowing. Mainstream print outlets and the blogosphere have equally praised the band for creating a truly captivating sounding debut. Home-town weekly, The Georgia Straight surmised that Rococode just may be the ‘Next Big Thing.” Music critics seem to be at an early consensus that there is a very special quality to the band and the caliber of the songs on this head-turning debut.

Beginning in February, Rococode will embark on a Canadian tour crossing that will span six weeks and include a stop for CMF in Toronto in late March. A brand new video for lead album track Empire, directed by Vancouver photographer and cinematographer, Sean Cox was recently shot in Vancouver and will be revealed soon. Check the bands site www.rococode.com for full show details and ticket avails.

ROCOCODE
/ FEBRUARY, MARCH & APRIL 2012 /
CANADIAN TOUR DATES

Feb 17 – Vancouver, BC – CBC Toque Sessions
Feb 17 – Vancouver, BC – Café Deux Soleils
Feb 24 – Nelson, BC – Hume Hotel Spiritbar
Feb 25 – Kelowna, BC – Global Music Fest
Feb 26 – Lethbridge, AB – The Slice
Feb 28 – Edmonton, AB – Wunderbar
March 1 – Saskatoon, SK – Amigo’s
March 2 – Winnipeg. MB – Lo Pub
March 3 – Thunder Bay, ON – Crocks
March 7 – Montreal, PQ – Divan Orange
March 8 – Peterborough, ON – Red Dog
March 9 – Ottawa, ON – Mavericks
March 10 - Quebec City, PQ – Le Scanner
March 13 – Charlottetown, PEI – Baba's
March 14 – St Andrews, NB – Red Herring
March 15 – Fredericton, NB – Capital Complex
March 16 – Halifax, NS – Grawood
March 21 – Hamilton, ON – Casbah Lounge
March 22-24 – Toronto, ON – CMW
March 26 – St Catharines, ON – Mansion House
March 29 – Regina, SK – Artful Dodger
March 30 – Calgary, AB – The Gateway
April 4 – Vancouver, BC – Electric Owl
April 6 – Victoria, BC – Lucky Bar]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=85 CST Rococode http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=85
She is now charting at #7 on CBC Radio 3 and #2 on Exclaim's Roots chart.

And to top it off, Uptown Magazine gave her the cover of their annual Local Heroes edition.


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We're excited to be working together, and excited to have begun building the Head In The Sand family from its humble home in Winnipeg to coast-to-coast across Canada.

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Head In The Sand won Independent Record Label of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards.

Thanks to all of our artists for working just as hard as us.

Thanks to our partners at Killbeat, Paquin Entertainment, K-U-M Publishing, Endearing/Bearsuit Publishing, The Instrument Village, and Target Concerts.

But most importantly, thanks to everyone who has bought a record of one of our artists and told their friends about what we're doing. You are golden.

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During her last tour of Eastern Canada, in the merry months of May and June, she played a show with a guy named Mark Beach in the pretty city of Montreal. In a very short time they realized they were musical soul mates, and have been since been crafting their sound as a dazzling duo in a beautiful studio in Winnipeg's Chinatown.

Come out, come out - to hear the duo debut heart filled songs about the solitude of the arctic, lost love laments, mummies on mountains, the destiny of the soul, emergency exits, and lone migrations....


October 4 - Edmonton @ Haven Social Club-8:30pm


October 6 - Regina @ Creative City Centre w/ local act TBA - 8:30pm


October 7 - Brandon @ Lady of the Lake - 9:00pm


October 8 - Winnipeg @ Pop Soda's


October 9 - Thunder Bay @ Katimavik House concert


October 12 - Hamilton @ His Glory Disco w/ Jenny Berkel & David Simard

October 13 - Toronto @ The Boat w/ Repartee, The Shocks
Keith Hamilton

October 15 - OCFF Niagara Falls @ The Marriott Hotel
Manitoba Music Showcase-11:00pm

October 16 - OCFF Manitoba Music Showcase 1:00am

October 20 - WINNIPEG - David Simard, Jenny Berkel House Show at 248 Arlington
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Modern Myths will be released in Germany, Austria + Switzerland on September 2nd, and a tour supporting Handsome Furs will follow shortly thereafter.

Here's our new German label:
The Instrument Village.

Danke!



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Winnipeggers can join us for the album launch party at the Plug In Institute Of Contemporary Art January 15.]]> http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=72 CST Les Jupes http://www.headinthesand.ca/news.php?ID=72