“The Photograph”, the new single from JF Robitaille and Lail Arad to be released digitally worldwide on June 15th 2018!

During a co-headline tour of Italy in 2016, acclaimed singer-songwriters JF Robitaille (Canada) and Lail Arad (UK) found their duets increasingly in demand. Recording together was the next logical step. A snowy winter of songwriting in Montreal was followed by a month-long residency at the legendary Society Club in London.

The pair tested out their new material over five sold-out nights before hitting the studio with Mercury Music prize winning producer Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Laura Marling). The success of their debut single “We Got It Coming” opened new doors and in Autumn 2017 they embarked on a 42-date tour across 8 countries, from Italy to India, culminating in a sold-out London show and live radio sessions for Loose Ends (BBC Radio 4), Robert Elms (BBC London) and John Kennedy (Radio X).

Their stunning new summer single “The Photograph” was produced by Mikko Gordon (Gaz Coombs, Thom Yorke) at London’s Hackney Road Studios and will appear on the duo’s much anticipated forthcoming debut album.

Join us and IFOA: International Festival of Authors for the launch of LANCES ALL ALIKE, new poetry by Suzanne Zelazo.

In LANCES ALL ALIKE, Zelazo imagines what a friendship between Mina Loy and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – two modernist poets and artists – may have looked like had their work not been suppressed and misattributed to their male peers.

LANCES ALL ALIKE amplifies and celebrates women’s voices, exploring the ways in which the insidiousness of a masculinist cultural climate diminishes the opportunities for women writers to work with, and for, one another.

To celebrate, we’re throwing a modernist salon, perhaps like one that Mina and Elsa would have frequented, complete with readings, collaging, and Exquisite Corpse. Free and all are welcome. Doors at 7.

Suzanne Zelazo is a poet, editor, and educator. She has a PhD in English with a speciality in modernist poetry. Suzanne is the author of the poetry collection PARLANCE (Coach House) and is the co-editor of BODY SWEATS: THE UNCENSORED WRITINGS OF BARONESS ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN (MIT Press) as well as CRYSTAL FLOWERS: POEMS AND A LIBRETTO by Florine Stettheimer (BookThug).

Get all the details on the Facebook event page.

Congratulations to Papermaps on the release of their brand new album, Confessions To Each Their Own Rapture available today on all the major streaming/downloading platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music and Google Play.

If records are more you speed, you can order a 12″ limited edition vinyl LP directly from our online store. The vinyl will be available as next week.

To celebrate the release of their new album, the band will be performing at Lee’s Palace in Toronto (w/ BamBoo, THE MOOKS, The Fadeawaays) tomorrow evening, April 14th. Tickets are only $10, doors at 9PM. For more info, check out the Facebook event.

Papermaps, Confessions: To Each Their Own Rapture

In late 2014, after tireless support for Papermaps‘ second full-length, Darker Lights, (known for it’s alt top-40 track “The Hedonist”),  founding members Dean Marino and Betty Dimo decided to take an extended sabbatical from live performance. Stripping the lineup down to themselves and drummer Johnny Rowe, they spent four years meticulously piecing together Confessions : To Each Their Own Rapture. For the first time in the band’s career, they worked in outside studios, choosing David MacKinnon (Fembots) as co-engineer on the project.

Papermaps will also be celebrating the release of this new album with a live show on Saturday April 14 at Lee’s Palace. Tickets are only $10 and you’ll be first to get a limited printing on vinyl available at the show! For more info, visit the Facebook Event page.

As a taste of things to come, enjoy the band’s handmade video for “Iron Stove” from their forthcoming full-length album, available digitally on April 13th with an LP to follow on April 20, 2018.