Paper Route

Tour Dates

04/13/09 The Canopy Club — with Copeland Urbana, Illinois
04/14/09 Chubby Rain – House of Tunes — with Copeland Poplar Grove, Illinois
04/15/09 The Basement — with Copeland Columbus, Ohio
04/16/09 Opera House — with Copeland Toronto, Ontario
04/17/09 Purchase College – Visual Arts Field — with The Cool Kids and more Purchase, New York
04/18/09 Mr. Smalls — with Copeland Millvale, Pennsylvania
04/20/09 Southpaw — with Copeland Brooklyn, New York
04/21/09 Crocodile Rock — with Copeland Allentown, Pennsylvania
04/22/09 The Crazy Donkey — with Copeland Farmingdale, New York
04/24/09 The Rock and Roll Hotel — with Copeland Washington DC, Washington DC
04/25/09 The Brewery — with Copeland Raleigh, North Carolina
04/26/09 The Jewish Mother — with Copeland Virginia Beach, Virginia
04/28/09 Greene Street — with Copeland Greensboro, NC
04/29/09 Free Bird Cafe — with Copeland Jacksonville, Florida
05/02/09 Exit/In — CD release Nashville, Tennessee

Paper Route played with Copeland, This Providence, and Brooke Waggoner at Minneapolis’ Varsity Theater last night. This is an all-ages show, which means it started early. Wow, like 5 o’clock early.

The turnout was really good, mostly underage kids…. so the three bartenders were really lonely. The young photographers were out in droves as well… capturing every movement made by Copeland. Seriously photographers, take it easy.

Brooke Waggoner – I Am Mine

Anyway, of course I got there late, caught a bit of Nashville’s Brooke Waggoner (official/myspace) on stage with her women band of strings and cellos. Most of the songs toward the end was mostly Waggoner and her keyboard… I did end up downloading her free 2007 EP called Fresh Pair of Eyes if you sign up for her mailing list.

Seattle’s This Providence (official/myspace) (formerly known as Sunday Best) did their high energy rock set, I had a feeling I would like them when lead singer Dan Young did Oasis’ “Don’t Look Back in Anger” song during their brief soundcheck. They did a lot of songs from their new 2009 album Who Are You Now?, such as: “Sure as Hell”, “Letdown”, “That Girl’s a Trick”, “Keeping on Without You”.

Florida’s Copeland (official/myspace) started off their set badly (sorry I’m not familiar with the band enough to tell you what song they started, but it was two keyboard-driven songs). Singer Aaron Marsh started singing the first song again on their second song. He realized this right away and pulled the song to a halt and made it an inside joke about time travel and ABC’s “Lost” or something. I think he was really embarrassed about it and claimed that he was “really drunk”. (I think he was kidding though).

Paper Route at the Varsity Theater, Minneapolis (04/11/09)

Like Waggoner, Paper Route are also from Nashville, Tennessee. The band consists of dueling vocals between J.T. Daly (keyboards) and Andy Smith (guitars). Although this sounds cool, it was kind of hard to hear their vocals for this show – perhaps it was the overpowering guitars and drumming or something.

Although I’m complaining, listening to their latest EP Are We All Forgotten (you can hear the entire EP on their official website ), they are sort of going for that distorted vocals-kind of thing.

Already hailed by Filter, Daytrotter, and Paste, as a band to watch out for, they certainly must be excited to launch their second album Absence on April 28^th. I ran into Greg (I’ve been running into a lot of local bloggers lately – it’s weird because I never recognize anyone), who seems very excited about Absence and complains that no one is talking about the album. Well if you pre-order now you get one downloadable song, “Carousel” and a 7-minute documentary tomorrow (April 13^th). Plus buttons.

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