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New Music: Thirteen – Big Star Cover

Boom. Married. We’re now officially “Canada’s garage-folk power couple” (I can put things in quotation marks that only I said, right?). In honour of our recent nuptials (held at the amazing Daverne farm house where we did some recording last

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New Music: Gordon Lightfoot Cover for Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day, folks. In honour of the Great White North’s big day, Herohill asked us to be part of an amazing collection of musicians paying tribute to one of the nations most revered songwriters, Gordon Lightfoot. He’s got a

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New Music: Free Download of Tortoise!

In honour of our tour kickoff tonight with Pat LePoidevin at The Tranzac in Toronto, here’s a free download of the title-track of our upcoming album, Tortoise! More raucous than the previously posted “Southern Ontario,” Mathias of The Burning Hell

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New Video and Download: Southern Ontario

Remember a few weeks back when we went to Joey Bruni‘s farm to shoot performance videos for Tortoise? Well, here we are with Anna Atkinson playing “Southern Ontario” live on an old tractor! Speaking of which, press for Tortoise is

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New Music: Construction & Destruction Tribute!

This album has been a very well kept secret for a long time and our track in particular has been ready since February, but it’s finally time to unveil the excellent tribute to our good friends Construction & Destruction! A

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New Music: Laura’s Song (Live Demo)

The story of “Laura’s Song” is two-fold. The first part involves a garage sale last spring where we found an ancient German 6-string banjo, branded Korri. Despite it’s less-than-playable condition at the time, we fell in love with it and

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New Music: Stan & Georgie (Live Demo)

The closer we get to going into the studio to record the new album the more I feel the need to post demos for some feedback. “Stan & Georgie” in particular has been a live favourite since we started playing

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New Music: She Said (To the Robot) Demo

Sometimes a song takes a while settle. This particular tune has been around in various forms longer than just about anything on …Makes Ghost Noises, but didn’t make the cut for that album because it just wasn’t ready. I had

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New Music: People (Live Demo)

Remember way back when I said we’d recorded a full reel of demos on our trusty Fostex R8 (the same session that yielded the live demo for “Tortoise”)? Well, seeing as Laura (re: half the band) is away until February,

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New Music: Happy New Year, Little Dragon Slayer

Everyone’s always optimistic in early January. After all, there’s a shiny new year ahead of you brimming with potential. Of course, you have to wonder what became of the promises of the year before, and the year before that… This

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  • May 25, 2013 - Windsor, ON – Villains w/The Tara Watts Band
  • June 10, 2013 - Toronto, ON – The Tranzac Main Hall w/Pat LePoidevin
  • June 11, 2013 - Peterborough, ON – The Spill w/Pat LePoidevin

More announcements to come!

You can also check out all the amazing art Laura's been working on, including her biggest drawings yet, as well as Paul's occasional cartoon nonsense!
Dog Is Blue Fuzz Pedals

For a limited time you can get these one-off pedals (each one is painted differently by Paul) for the measly sum of $50, but that price is going up soon, so act now!

Buy them off the stage at our shows or get in touch with the builder himself to get one delivered!
iPad Animated “People” Music Video