Papermaps have been nominated as one of the Top 10 finalists for “Best Album Art” for their new CD “Darker Lights” at CBC Radio 3’s annual Bucky Awards. The Bucky Awards honour the best in Canadian independent music, and are voted upon by CBC Radio 3 listeners.

Voting is open from now until Friday Nov. 29 at midnight EST. The winners will be revealed on Wednesday December 4. “The Hedonist” which is the first single from the album has been in the Top 10 at Radio 3 for 7 weeks and is currently at # 8.

You can make a difference and help Papermaps bring home a Bucky – VOTE NOW!

JF Robitaille would normally be on stage in clubs and small theatres but over the next week he will be performing in Montreal at the November 23rd book launch for CBC Radio’s Grant Lawrence and just a few days later (November 28) will play a few songs at the Galerie Samuel Lallouz during an exhibit for Toronto artist and photographer Janieta Eyre. JF’s latest video “Black and White” will also be screened at the event. The video incorporates black and white self portraits of Janieta which makes for a striking collage as a backdrop to Robitaille’s performance.

Grant Lawrence hand-picked JF Robitaille to perform at his book launch and reading which happens this Saturday in downtown Montreal at the Drawn and Quarterly book store. The new book “The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie“, is all about his highly conflicted relationship with Canada’s sporting pastime, and as he says “eventually finding my way to the game through rock ‘n’ roll.”

Sparks Music will be launching Robitaille’s 2nd single and fourth video “Saint Catherine” in January 2014.

Papermaps‘ new video “The Hedonist” captures the band performing at a local University of Toronto fraternity house surrounded by a group of students involved in a mattress jumping contest. The video was shot by Toronto photographer/video director Kerry Shaw. Her intention was to take a page from those classic late seventies movies like “National Lampoon’s Animal House” (1978) and Roger Corman’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll Highschool” (1979).

In JF Robitaille‘s newest video, “Black and White”, Robitaille and Toronto visual artist, Janieta Eyre, have discovered a rare moment when two separately conceived bodies of work merge together to create a unified voice. Robitaille’s song “Black and White” serves as a musical landscape and soundtrack to the arresting self portraits created by artist Janieta Eyre.

Janieta Eyre is quickly becoming one of Canada’s most recognized contemporary photographic artists. Her piece, “The Day My Eye Laid an Egg”, which was featured this year on the cover of Toronto’s Now Magazine during the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, confirmed the significance of the work she has created over the last decade.

Robitaille’s composition “Black and White” comes from his recently released album “Rival Hearts” . It is his third video for the album.

Robitaille will perform on November 8th at Casa Del Popolo in Montreal and on November 9th at the London Music Hall in London, Ontario.