Last.fm Discover Session
Last.fm had Wintersleep in last June in New York City for a little session. Videos are now posted here.
July 30, 2010
Black Camera Europe
Black Camera has just been released as the second European single. Just a reminder that European tour dates start early September in Germany and end in Switzerland!The video for Black Camera is below and behind the scenes footage can be found HERE. Stay tuned for news on a new video for "Trace Decay" :)
July 14, 2010
US Tour w/ The Hold Steady
Just announced! US Tour with The Hold Steady Sept. 20 - Oct. 7. Most shows go on sale this Friday, July 16th. Deets are on the tour page.
July 6, 2010
Montreal In-Store show
There's a free in-store performance this Saturday, July 10th at the Apple store in Montreal (1321 Rue Ste-Catherine Ouest). All are welcome!
June 29, 2010
New Inheritors Vinyl
The New Inheritors double vinyl is now available in the online store! Purchases of the LP also come bundled with a copy of the CD.
June 25, 2010
Fall Tours Announced
September, October and November will be busy touring months with shows booked in Europe (Germany, Switzerland, UK, Belgium) and a national Canadian tour. Both tours are on sale now and ticket info is posted on the tour page. There are a few dates this summer also, including a show at Molson Amp in Toronto with City & Colour, Tegan and Sara and Ra Ra Riot, Sonic BOOM festival in Edmonton, an outdoor show in Saint John and a free show at Ottawa Bluesfest!
May 31, 2010
New Inheritors Display at Criminal Records
For the next couple of weeks, Graeme Patterson's diorama featured on the cover of New Inheritors will be displayed at Criminal Records in Toronto (493 Queen St. W). If you're in the area, stop in and take a look. You can read his notes about the artwork here, or to view more of his work, visit his site.A big thanks to the Foglight Films crew who recorded the take away show below at Truck America in April.
May 21, 2010
BLACK CAMERA
Plus, check out behind-the-scenes footage here.
May 13, 2010
NEWBURY COMICS PRESALE
The US tour starts in a few weeks and the CD is in US stores on June 1 but you can pre-order a copy from Newbury Comics today and get a bonus signed CD booklet.A limited # of booklets are available.
May 3, 2010
Album Pre-Orders
CD presales for North America will start tomorrow, May 4th in the Wintersleep.com store or digitally on iTunes (Canada / Europe). European customers can pre-order the CD from the OneFourSeven store.
Tour Dates / Tickets Presales
New dates have just been announced in Halifax (May 20th) and Toronto (May 26th). Ticket presales for these release shows start today if you'd like to order your tickets ahead of the pack. Check out the tour page for info.May tour dates in Europe are happening right now. Last night was Camden Crawl, and tonight - Birmingham. New CDs are being sold at shows as well.
Tickets are on sale now for June tour dates with Matt Pond PA in America and August 28th and September 4th shows in Toronto (Molson Amphitheatre w/ City & Colour, Tegan and Sara and Ra Ra Riot) and Edmonton (SONiC BOOM w/ Bad Religion, Weezer, City & Colour).
Hope to see you out there,
XO,
-Wintersleep
April 9, 2010
New Site / Europe & US tours
As you may have noticed, the website has changed!! Please have a look around and let us know what you think. If you click on the album cover on your right, it will expand to give you a better view of artist Graeme Patterson's New Inheritors diorama. He has written a little piece explaining the inspiration behind it, which is posted in the media section of the site if you wanna check that out..In other news, US tour dates for June have just been announced with Matt Pond PA. The tour starts June 3rd in Philadelphia and ends in New York City on June 27th. European tour dates are also posted on the tour calendar for May. Euro dates start on the 2nd at Camden Crawl, which sounds like an interesting way to begin a tour.. Very excited.. See you soon! Keep an eye out on the blog section if blogs tickle your fancy..
PS -- "Black Camera", the new single from our aforementioned New Inheritors record is now available for download via Itunes Canada.
Xo,
-ws
March. 12, 2010
New Inheritors
It's officially official - the new album New Inheritors will be released May 17th in Europe and May 18th in North America!Feb. 22, 2010
Masters done and done.
Hey all. Masters done and done. Artwork very close. Olympics!! Just so you know, we don't get to see anything live. Busy bees. In an attempt to make us feel better, Mike's roommate said he paid $50 to go to a Bobsled event in the 80s and that you essentially wait in the snow for 15 minutes and then you see intermittent blurry figures whizzing past you for about 2 minutes, and then that is what you see.. That was the 80s and wasn't a hockey game, but it makes me feel slightly better about not being able to see an actual event. Although he did say that he saw some other pretty amazing things too... I guess Bobsled is not the event I'd really go see live if I had the chance to see any event of my choice. Been watching other events pretty intensely on TV actually. The Biathalon in particular is pretty mind blowing. Ski as fast as you can cross-country and then after about 15 minutes lie down and shoot at a target 50 meters away, and if you miss you have to do another lap. Anyone wonder what these people do before & after the Olympics? I can guess that the CIA & special forces know. Will have some touring updates very soon.Depending on where you live, a little month of March side project news to hold you over in the meantime-- Contrived will be doing some shows in eastern Canada in March & also in March, Postdata is doing a bit of a sporadic-places-in-Canada tour, if that is a type of tour you can do. Just click on the band name to link to the tour dates part of their respective websites. Thanks so much. Stay tuned!! Hope to see you in BC..
ws
Feb. 12, 2010
They Shoot Music Don't They?
While in Vienna with Editors and Maccabees last November, the TSMDT team caught up with Wintersleep and filmed a session outside in Simmering. You can see the session with performances of "Miasmal & the Yellow Bellied Freaks" and "Astronaut" on the They Shoot Music website, and on youtube.Jan. 25, 2010
Mix complete.
We have finished mixing our fourth album. The order is yet to be determined, even some song titles are TBC. We gave of ourselves a dead-line of the end of next week to decide on which title we are going with. Two options remain and we will let you know ASAP what the header of this record will be.Mastering will be sorted in February. Very confident that the record will still be out May 18th (17th in UK/EU).
We are thick into the artwork process as well. We are very fortunate to have an artist that we have admired over the past few years named Graeme Patterson on board to do the honors this time around. Very excited by the progress. We are making some great headway and we will show you a preview when we have something together!
Thanks again to Tony Doogan, such a pleasure working with such a force. We feel very lucky to be able to make a fourth album. and in such great company. wow, wow, yay! Thanks to all.
Jan. 12, 2010
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We will post some fun stuff here from now on, could get a bit random.
