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Member Since7/21/2007
Band Websitewww.thewarped45s.com
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Featuring:

JP Desaulniers on Violin


Indispensable Extras:

Annelise Noronha
(The Safe Word Project) Harmonies on WHYPMBGR

Andrew Penner
(The SunParlour Player)
Field Singing & Lapsteel slapping on WHYPMBGR

Brian Pickett
(VooDoo Highway Studios) engineered and mixed WHYPMBGR


Warped 45s Press:


"Winners of the 2009 Rogers Fan Choice Award at North By North East"

10 Day Poem For Saskatchewan, Now Magazine Pick of the Week **** Stars, Aug, 2009

"10 Canadian Acts You Should Be Listening to This Canada Day 2009" The National Post Ampersand.

"The boys, who play dirty country music and uptempo porch rock, seem to have both momentum and energy on their side. Last night's two sets were burners." Ben Kaplan, The National Post Ampersand

"Toronto Sun Top Ten Picks for NXNE", Jane Stevenson

"Best Album of 2008 and Most Destined for Greatness in 2009" Howard Druckman, Eye Weekly Year End Critics Poll

"we rolled over to the Silver Dollar for a very refreshing surprise that goes by the name of Warped 45's. These unassuming, nice country boys in jeans and T's brought us back classic rock of the Tom Petty, Neil Young variety. Solid melodies and solid lyrics, remember when that's what good music was? They remind me of cottage nights in the woods around the campfire in Northern Ontario. This is the music of genuine heart and soul, at times they sounded like a happy Tom Waits, if that is possible. These guys are great musicians, I will be back for them." CBC's "The Hour" Music Blog reporting on CMW 2009

Radiosky was included on: "5 Songs you gotta hear today" Alan Cross, Explore Music

"if I had to pick one band that is going to make it (and by it, I mean have a career, a catalog and a fan base that stays with them as their sound shifts and matures), it would be Toronto’s The Warped 45’s" Bryan Acker, Herohill

The Warped 45s are one of the: "Top 10 best bets for Canadian Music Week: Thursday Night" The National Post Ampersand, Brad Frenette March 12, 2009

"They work hard. They've got good songs. They're rootsy and they know who Merle Haggard is. They probably have warped 45s in their basement. All that's good enough to make me wanna hear 'em". Richard Flohil's Top 15 recommendations for Canadian Music Week 2009

"They’ve come up with six winners here, and we want more" Kerry Doole, Exclaim!

"OTB's favorite new Toronto band" Tandem Press

"This is a lovely recording" Matt Galloway, featured on CBC radio's Here and Now

"Country rock will not go quietly" Tim Perlich, NOW Magazine music feature, June 2008

Influences

The Band, Wilco, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Neil Young, John Prine, Leonard Cohen, Gram Parsons, Guy Clark, The Drive By Truckers, Fred Eaglesmith, Alejandro Escovedo, Pavement, Karate, The Beatles, Steve Earle, Blue Rodeo, The Sun Parlour Players, Justin Rutledge, Bob Dylan, Tragically Hip, REM and MOST IMPORTANTLY, Our friends and family

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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Nov 15 2009 9:00P
New City Likwid Lounge W/ The Canyon Rose Outfit Edmonton, Alberta
Nov 17 2009 7:00P
House Show w/ John Jenkins Smalltown Revival 7pm Golden, British Columbia
Nov 18 2009 9:00P
Cactus Jacks Kamloops, British Columbia
Nov 19 2009 8:00P
The Railway Club (Early Show 8pm) Vancouver, British Columbia
Nov 20 2009 9:00P
The Ottomon Lounge W/ Joshua Cockerill Medicine Hat, Alberta
Nov 21 2009 9:00P
Ironwood W/ Joshua Cockerill Calgary, Alberta
Nov 22 2009 3:00P
Henotic Lethbridge, Alberta
Nov 23 2009 11:00A
Global TV Live Performance Lethbridge, Alberta
Nov 23 2009 4:00P
Live performance on Mountain Radio Blairmore, Alberta
Nov 23 2009 8:00P
Blackbird Coffee House W/ With Joshua Cockerill Coleman, Alberta
Nov 24 2009 9:00P
Pump Jack’s Saloon Weyburn, Saskatchewan
Nov 25 2009 6:15P
Twang Trust - live performace Winnipeg, Manitoba
Nov 25 2009 8:00P
Academy Food Drinks Music W/Katie Murphy Winnipeg, Manitoba
Nov 27 2009 1:00P
CILU 102.7FM Live Radio Performance and Interview Thunder Bay, Ontario
Nov 27 2009 9:00P
Jacks Thunder Bay, Ontario
Nov 28 2009 9:00P
The Townehouse (Habitat For Humanity Fundraiser) Sudbury, Ontario
Dec 5 2009 9:00P
The Dakota Tavern W/ The Schomberg Fair Toronto, Ontario
Jan 15 2010 10:00P
Jimmy Jazz Guelph, Ontario
Jan 24 2010 10:00P
This Ain’t Hollywood Hamilton, Ontario
Jan 29 2010 9:00P
Elmdale House Tavern Ottawa, Ontario
Feb 19 2010 9:30P
Wilno Tavern Wilno, Ontario

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   About The Warped 45s
THE WARPED 45s

10 Day Poem for Saskatchewan

In less than two years together as a band, Toronto-based roots rockers The Warped 45s have been moving at warp speed creatively, rapidly turning heads and opening ears with their stylistically freewheeling and compelling sound. Their self-titled 2008 independent six-song EP scored unanimous rave reviews, garnered strong college radio airplay across both Canada and the U.S., and had such publications as Exclaim! and Toronto’s EYE Weekly citing them as “Destined for Greatness in 2009.”

Those predictions are being emphatically fulfilled this year, as evidenced by the $10,000 cash prize they took home in June by winning the Rogers Fan Choice Award for a triumphant performance at the North By Northeast Festival. The next step in their meteoric ascent is the September 1st release of 10 Day Poem For Saskatchewan. Out on the Pheromone Recordings label and distributed by Fontana North, this debut full-length album is a work of genuinely epic proportions.

Pigeonholing The Warped 45s sound is a slippery task best not attempted. As points of reference, consider the artists the band cite as musical touchstones - Wilco, The Band, Blue Rodeo, Steve Earle, Tom Waits - all of whom defy stylistic straitjackets. The Warped 45s incorporate country, gospel, folk and rock elements with seamless grace.

This is a band with a formidable arsenal of musical weapons, as they feature four vocalists, two songwriters, and multiple multi-instrumentalists (how many groups do you know that include three banjo players?). To further expand the widescreen sound of 10 Day Poem For Saskatchewan, they recruited such talented friends as Romney Getty and Annelise Noronha (backing vocals), J.P.Desaulniers and Alex Cheung (violin), Craig Smith (dobro), Andrew Penner of Sunparlour Players (lap steel) and award winning jazz trumpeter Brownman.

10 Day Poem traverses more territory than most bands cover in a long career. There's the sweetly poetic opening title track ( Dave added the music to lyrics from a poem by David Seymour), the keen social observation of “Progress” and “(Bring on that) New Depression”, the evocative narrative and searing guitars of “Leader of the Lost Expedition” (a song screaming out for rock radio play), the tender elegy of “Radio Sky” (a tune sporting such ace lyrics as “let my headstone be my favourite jukebox loaded with the songs of my friends”), the hauntingly atmospheric “Trestle for a Train” and “To the Daybreak,” and the gospel fervour of “Why Have You Passed Me By Grim Reaper.”

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Dave McEathron explains that “right from the beginning of this band, the mandate was to hopefully begin with good songs and then take them wherever it seemed to make sense musically, regardless of style. So far, people are accepting everything we’ve done so there has been no need to pull it back too far. That’s so liberating as a writer, to think there’s nothing we can’t do.”

The Warped 45s began in 2007 as a collaboration between Dave and his cousin, singer/songwriter/guitarist Ryan Wayne McEathron. Rounding out the band now is keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Kevin Hewitt, drummer Hamal Finn Roye and bassist Alex Needleman (who replaced original member Mark Gabriel).

To record the new album, The Warped 45s set up shop at Green Door Studios , the intimate Parkdale space owned and operated by John Critchley (13 Engines, Elliott Brood). The band first used this as their rehearsal room, and Critchley then came on board to produce, record and mix their EP. That experience proved beneficial when Critchley returned to the console for 10 Day Poem, as he explains: “That gave them a sense of how I like to work and I got to know the people in the band and how they interact.” The producer’s input included ideas on arrangements and instrumentation for some of the album’s most adventurous tracks. “With so many different soundscapes to be built, John was able to help us use the studio as an instrument,” notes Dave.

Great songs are the very essence of The Warped 45s. As John Critchley observes, “It doesn’t really matter how well you sing or play a song if the song is not so good. This band writes tremendous songs.” The previous solo songwriting experience of both Dave and Ryan has clearly stood them in good stead. Dave has extensive gigging and two solo albums under his belt ( 1999’s self-titled debut and 2007’s Passers By, Passers Through), while Ryan wrote and recorded his album ( 2007, Don’t Settle) during a two year stint in Australia.

The gritty authenticity of the songwriting of the McEathron cousins can be traced back to their family background. Dave and Ryan weren’t city kids who learned late to love and appreciate Gram Parsons. They have deep rural and blue collar roots (Ryan’s father was a truck driver, his grandfather a union leader at the General Motors plant in Oshawa), and their families were very musical.

To the McEathron clan, family jams meant musical gatherings, not home-made preserves. Jam sessions at their ancestral cabin near Algonquin Park had a huge impact on both Dave and Ryan. “When I was young I couldn’t wait to play guitar so I could play along with everybody,” recalls Ryan. “Then you want to get good enough that you can actually sing a song in front of all these people.” The thrilling vocal harmonies that are a signature of The Warped 45s, both on disc and in performance, can in part be traced to these exuberant sing-a-long sessions.

The pair’s subsequent blue-collar work experiences also lend the ring of truth to songs like “(Bring on that) New Depression” and “Progress.” In the latter song, Dave convincingly adopts the persona of a worker at a garbage dump, and its timely observation that “we don’t build nothing and we call that the new economy” is the best socio-economic critique you’ll hear this year.

Many of these new songs have already been previewed live. After playing their own Toronto club shows and opening for the likes of Justin Rutledge, The Skydiggers, and Tom Cochrane, The Warped 45s recently won converts to their cause with their first East Coast tour. They’re a formidable live band, combining power and precision, and they’ll be hitting the road in earnest with the new album.

Your own warped vinyl singles may be a source of frustration, but The Warped 45s and 10 Day Poem For Saskatchewan are poised to provide intense satisfaction.




For more information, contact:

Publicist: Kat Stewart at MapleMusic Recordings
Tel: (416) 961 1040 x 277
Email: kat.stewart@maplemusicrecordings.com

Manager: Tina Cooper
Tel: (647) 885 4653
Email: coopert5000@yahoo.ca

Label: Kim Cooke at Pheromone Recordings
Tel: (416) 961 1040 x 239
Email: kim@pheromonerecordings.com





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Nov 21 2009 12:42 AM

Thanks for adding Feed the Homelesss 5, EARLY SHOW 8PM this Wednesday @ Zaphod's.

As long as 200 folks hear about this and decide to show up, it will pay for 500 homeless to eat dinner on Christmas!

It's just 5$ to get in , which pays to feed 500 homeless on Christmas.
lori

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Nov 10 2009 4:08 PM

 Hey Guys...thanks again, we had a blast !!
 Loving the cd, and cannot wait to see you
  all again..safe travels on the tour !!
In Violet Light

In Violet Light



Oct 27 2009 10:33 PM

Heya Warped 45s, Thanks for the friendship and the great tunes. Best wishes from Holland, IVL.
TARANTÜLA

TARANTÜLA



Oct 27 2009 8:46 PM

good to meet you guys at the spill! good set too. let us know next time you wanna come to town! cheers - jay
INDIECAN MUSIC

INDIECAN MUSIC



Oct 27 2009 1:05 AM

Boys - looks like a life altering tour.
I know you are doing it for the right reasons and you'll make us Ontario folk proud. IndieCan Radio looks froward to the tales from the Canadian raod.

Cheers,

Joe C
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Laytrel

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Oct 23 2009 7:57 PM

Congrats on all your success...hope you see ya live again soon!

 

CARACOL

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Oct 21 2009 2:37 PM

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Oct 20 2009 7:51 PM

some bizzare
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Oct 16 2009 9:29 PM

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Oct 15 2009 9:00 AM


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SEARSON

SEARSON



Oct 9 2009 11:06 AM

Thanks for the kind words.

Cheers!
Bryan Arcand

Bryan Arcand



Oct 8 2009 9:33 PM

NEW SONGS! NEW SINGLE! NEW RECORD!
Flash Lightnin’

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Oct 8 2009 1:57 AM

sweet times! label buddies.
-darren
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Oct 1 2009 6:55 PM

Hey! Glad you said hallo! You've been busy too, I see. Super gorgeous music, dude! Are you still in Parkdale/or in the countryside? I'm becoming a Parkdalian again next week. See you at OCFF. xo karyn
Darcy Yates

Darcy Yates



Sep 29 2009 4:30 AM


Right on. Sounds great boys!
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Carolyna

Carolyna



Sep 28 2009 5:53 AM

I was equally as entertained by you boys. Thanks for warmin' them up to HOTT!
you were wonderful.
Again soon!
Perhaps a Kingston show in the early Spring.
:)
The Ale House.
We'll talk.
Carolyna

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The Rucksack Willies



Sep 27 2009 4:39 PM

You guys sound great!
Dan Mangan

Dan Mangan



Sep 25 2009 10:35 PM

thanks! congrats on the great reviews!
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Sep 25 2009 10:54 AM


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Sep 23 2009 6:25 AM

Hey guys! It was a pleasure playing with you! Really enjoyed your set! Unfortunately our set went a little awry at the beginning... But it would be great to play with you guys again sometime soon!

Pj
Willie P. Bennett Remembered

Willie P. Bennett Remembered



Sep 19 2009 6:45 PM

Thanks for honouring Willie P.

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Joshua Cockerill

Joshua Cockerill



Sep 15 2009 8:41 PM

Hi boys,

Sounds great! Look forward to seeing you around.

Cheers,
Josh
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