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PaperThinWalls loves Lindstrom's remix of Sally's 'Time To Let Go'!

Posted 1 day ago by Trevor

LEAD REVIEW TODAY! -- PaperThinWalls loves Lindstrom's remix of Sally Shapiro!

This just in! PaperThinWalls reviews the Lindstrom remix of Sally Shapiro's 'Time To Let Go' off the Remix Romance Vol. 1 CD that's now available.

PaperThinWalls Sally/Lindstrom article!

Woot Woot!

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Laura Barrett Tours West

Posted 12 days ago by Trevor

Our resident Kalimbist (is that a real term?), Laura Barrett, is set to head back on the road across Canada and the US…back I say as she’s currently in Europe with her other band The Hidden Camera’s. You may have heard of them. This tour will see Laura put into practice a few new songs from her upcoming new full length. Her full length debut will be out this late summer…stay tuned for the official announcement. In the meantime have a gander at the video for Robot Ponies.

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Woodhands in Toronto Star / View Magazine Cover Story and new YouTube clips!

Posted 12 days ago by Trevor

Woodhands featured in Toronto Star and make it to the cover of View Magazine in Hamilton!

Yep, that's right, our pals Woodhands were featured in Thursday's Toronto Star and are the cover boys of this weeks View Magazine in Hamilton, the links are below...

Toronto Star article!

View Magazine Cover Story!

Here are a couple links to the Woodhands Sneaky Dee's show they played on May 1, this was their home coming show: Under Attack

Live jam with Paul showin' off his rappin' skillzzzz.

And you can pick up a copy of the CD or limited edition double VINYL in the PBR shop.

Woodhands Myspace

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Pitchfork is down with Sally's 'Remix Romance'

Posted 30 days ago by Trevor

Pitchfork reviews Sally Shapiro's new Remix Romance Vol. 1!

"This collection-- the first of two Sally Shapiro remix sets this year-- is an accomplished, occasionally revelatory recasting of Disco Romance's synth-pop by some of contemporary electronic music's most capable hands, including Junior Boys, Lindstrøm, and the Juan MacLean."

You can check out the rest of the review at: Pitchfork.com

And don't forget Remix Romance out today, pick it up in the PBR shop.

PS. Sally is also a featured artist on the US Myspace site this week, go catch it out and you can hear some tunes from the remix album...

Sally Shapiro's Myspace

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Remix Romance love in the UK

Posted 36 days ago by James

UK critic Simon Reynolds recently posted some wonderful words about Sally Shapiro's new Remix Romance Vol. 1!

"Usually this kind of affair is a pointless collection of insensitively mauled and maculate travesties, but this is a rare case of the complete opposite, maybe because the melodies and vocals are so untarnishably perfect they couldn't be ruined, or more likely they inspired love and respect and tender care on the part of those entrusted with reinterpreting them."

You can check out the rest of the review at: http://blissout.blogspot.com/2008/04/some-records-ive-been-feeling-in.html

And don't forget Remix Romance comes out April 15th! Thats in less than a week!

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The Acorn - New Music Video for Flood Pt. 1

Posted 44 days ago by James

Check out the new music video for The Acorn's Flood Pt. 1 produced and directed by Christopher Mills

Flood Pt. 1 is a modern fable with many hidden meanings in the video's several twists and turns.

A penny falls from the sky and begins a cataclysmic chain of events.

A glacier falls from a subarctic cliff and wakes a giant who sleeps beneath the sea.

The angry giant unleashes his fury in the form of a Tsunami which forms into evil storm clouds that spew rain storms of treasure and gold into a bucolic river, where our hero (and heroine) are picking snails.

The two escape the storm in their small boat, and are carried on this current of disaster. Joined by a wise old snail, they witnesss burning carnivals, Escaped zoo animals, and trashed trailer parks, and other such melee as they make their way to the shore.

They dance with lions, and cross a desert, cluttered with dinosaur bones and hidden treasures, and climb on board a flying turtle who takes them on a harrowing journey into the sky, through the carnival, and to a safe place in the grass.

They plant a snail and are catapulted into outer space, saved by a forgotten satellite.

As they peer down towards the earth, a penny falls from our heroine's pocket, starting the chain all over again.

The video was largely hand-crafted in the winter of 2007 / 08 by a dedicated team of welders, illustrators, dancers, model makers and animators. The story is told using a bizarre range of life-sized dancing drawings, to raw archival video footage, to puppets made of foam to glaciers made out of wedding cake.

CREDITS

Production Company - Number Four Films Incorporated

Producer / Director / DOP / Animation / Post FX - Christopher Mills

Dancer / Puppeteer - Andrea Spaziani

Editor / Post FX - Marc DePape

Assistant Editor - Winston Hacking

Art Direction / Production Design - Geordie Lishman, Nicole Aline Legault

Props Builders / Craftspeople - Reuben Baker, Cameron Balmer, Kayleigh Bathurst, Shawn Begin, Letisha Crombie, Daniel Flavelle, Anthony James, Kyle Jordan, Ionela Klompmaker, Aaron Lavigne, Nicolee Layne, Daniel Morrell, Chris Neves, Paula Nichols, Patrick Rhodes, Dylan Croucher, Anthony D'amato, Galen Dafoe, Rachel Dormon, Jason Edmunds, Dayna George, Andrew Gilbert, Brett Gosling, Ryan Kitagawa, Carmelo Magno, Peter Mendler, Robynne Meringer, Kennett Morgan, David Newman, Brittany Pap, Shadat Patwary, Laura Pitcher, Michelle Spencer, Ryan Stephens, Julisa Stuart, Rachel Weller, Julisa Stuart, Jennifer Wilson, Kevin Zimny, Special Thanks to Durham College

The Acorn - Flood Pt. 1

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Woodhands Bringing Sexy Good Times to MTV Live

Posted 45 days ago by James

The band who've been refered to as a "Two-headed indie Timberlake" and " The sex bomb Tom Jones was talking about" WOODHANDS will be bringing some sexy good times to MTV Live this Wednesday April 2nd

If you live in the Toronto area and want to come and join in the fun call 1-888-491-6888 or email liveaudience@mtv.ca and show up to the Masonic Temple (888 Yonge Street) by 5:00pm!

If you can't make it out - no worries - just check your local listings to see when you can catch it on TV. MTV Live is broadcast at 6pm and 11pm EST

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New Live Under Byen Videos from Siamesisk

Posted 46 days ago by James

In April 2007, Under Byen performed with the Danish Radio Sinfonietta in an old concert hall in Copenhagen. The audience of 1500 people enjoyed the exclusive concert consisting of five songs; four from ‘Samme Stof Som Stof’ rearranged by former Under Byen pianist Thorbjørn Krogshede and composer Carsten Fundal into a carefully crafted audio expansion of Under Byen’s distinctive theatricality. Pretty as a music box and grandiose as a full-scale symphony, Siamesisk successfully and intriguingly echoes the ancient ebb and flow of the sea against the Danish coast.

The new live EP Siamesisk was released last week and now we have some awesome live videos of the concert! You can watch the entire concert below.

If you haven't had a chance yet, don't forget to order a copy of Siamesisk from the Paper Bag Shop. Siamesisk is a limited edition EP which means theirs only 2000 copies availible (and less than that, now that it's been releases!). Get your copy ASAP before they're all gone!

Plantage

Af Samme Stof Som Stof

Siamesisk

Onkel

Tinder

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Laura Barrett at SXSW

Posted 48 days ago by James

Laura Barrett wowed audiences this past March at the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin Texas. Check out the video below where Laura previews a new song to CBC Radio3's Grant Lawrence.

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Surprise! Sally Shapiro’s Disco Romance Gets Double the Remix Treatment

Posted 52 days ago by James

Surprise! Sally Shapiro’s Disco Romance Gets Double the Remix Treatment

Paper Bag Records is pleased once again to give the world more of Sally Shapiro! Sally's 2007 debut Disco Romance will now get double the remix treatment with the release of Remix Romance Vol. 2, a second remix record of Sally's acclaimed album, set for digital-only release soon. This second round of remixes is scheduled to follow April’s release of Remix Romance Vol. 1.

Written and produced by Johan Agebjörn, Disco Romance saw its breakthrough European release last year and has continued to meet with overwhelming worldwide praise. The LA Times and The Boston Globe both published rave reviews, and USA Today called it “ear candy, ethereal, featherweight dance pop.” Pitchforkmedia gave it an 8.5/10 and a place in the top 50 albums of 2007, while Spin gave it 4-star review.

As she previously admitted, Sally and Johan found it very difficult to decide upon a track-list due to the overwhelming volume of good quality remixes that she had to choose from for the original Remix Romance. There were over forty remixes to choose from and with Remix Romance Vol. 2, Sally vows that no first-rate remix will go unreleased!

Even more International artists/hardcore Shapiro fanatics were handpicked by Paper Bag Records and Shapiro’s producer Johan Agebjörn to be featured on the record. Among this fantastic selection of artists are Russian Futurists, Dntel, Solvent and Johan Agebjörn himself (who flaunts a Norwegian Electrojazz mix that had previously only been offered on the European release of Disco Romance). In addition to those tracks, Alexander Robotnick, famed old-school Italo-Disco producer, offers up a remix of “Anorak Christmas” that gives the song a fun 80's-prom-night twist all are sure to enjoy.

“It's kind of mad to release two remix albums, but I hope that people will agree with us that it was a good thing to do - Sally's voice seems to interest a lot of musicians to work with,” said Agebjörn.

“It's flattering of course, especially when it's producers that you admire,” he said.

Remix Romance Vol. 2 track listing:

1. Time to Let Go [CFCF Remix]
2. I Know [SLL Remix]
3. Find My Ghost [Dntel Remix]
4. Skating in the Moonshine [Solvent Remix]
5. I'll Be By Your Side [Russian Futurists Remix]
6. Time to Let Go [Spitzer Remix]
7. Anorak Christmas [Alexander Robotnick Remix]
8. Hold Me So Tight [Dyylan Remix]
9. Find My Soul [Johan Agebjörn's Norwegian Electrojazz Mix]
10. Jackie Jackie [Dyylan's Subzero Nocturne]

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