Happy New Year!

Big things on the horizon for 2010, including new albums from Shad and Living With Lions! But first things first - we have tours to announced! The Wooden Sky have dates across Canada, including a handful with The Rural Alberta Advantage. Ten Second Epic is heading overseas for the first time for dates in Japan with Senses Fail. Shad has also announced a handful of dates in Ontario in February with Grand Analog, where he’ll be debuting new material - must see! Check the tours section for all the details.

All the best in ‘10!

Black Box.

Hey friends,

So when The Wooden Sky embarked on the “Bedrooms & Backstreets” tour last month, they brought along our good friend and world famous (or soon to be) director Scott Cudmore to capture the trip on film. The result is “If I Don’t Come Home, You’ll Know I’m Gone - A Documentary In Pieces”. It’s a dark, weird and beautiful look at some of the unique spaces the band found themselves in, performing songs from the new album as well as “When Lost At Sea”. Part one has just been released. You can view it here, or visit our Vimeo Channel.

Part 2 in the ongoing series will be released on October 14th. Stay tuned, and let us know what you think! The band has also announced their first headline show in Toronto since the release of their album - Friday, November 13th @ Lee’s Palace w/Hooded Fang and Brian Borcherdt. Tickets are available at Rotate This, SoundScapes, The Horseshow and online at ticketmaster.ca. You never know what The Wooden Sky have in store, so make sure you pick up your ticket’s early.

In other news, Ten Second Epic will be on Much On Demand tomorrow prior to their show at Sound Academy with Silverstein! Make sure to check it out. Also tomorrow, Skate4Cancer’s Rob Dyer will appear on LA Ink on TLC - check your local listings for air times.

Finally, we’re stoked to confirm that Crash Parallel has announced tour dates in October with none other than Collective Soul. The dates run across the country, so make sure you check crashparallel.com for more info.

That’s about all the news for now. One love!

Ian

Just a quick update on all the goings-on with The Wooden Sky. Their new record, “If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone” hits stores/online next week. We have a couple of really cool things to tell you about.

1) If you’d like to hear the whole record before you can buy it, the album is being featured on muchmusic.com’s ‘First Spin’ here: thenewmusic.net.

2) Thanks to those first 50 eager beavers who pre-ordered the new record, and picked up some extra goodies for their trouble! The album continues to be available for pre-order at MapleMusic.com, so check it out HERE.

3) The band will be performing a special pre-release in-store at Sonic Boom in Toronto on Monday. They’ll be performing new material from the record, and the album will be on sale there a day early, before you can get it anywhere else. Fore more info on that, visit the event pageHERE.

4) We’ll be announcing the winner of the Exclaim/Fender contest in the next week or so. The winner gets a brand new acoustic guitar for their strumming pleasure. If you haven’t entered yet, make sure to head over to EXCLAIM.CA to get all the details.

5) If you missed it, we’ve announced a fall tour with Elliott Brood. We’re adding a couple more dates in the coming days, and we’ve just posted 10 dates on the U.S. leg of the tour as well up at IFIDONTCOMEHOME.COM so go check it out, and spread the love!

Thats it for now. We’ll have more news next week regarding Ontario shows (including a Toronto headline date) and a special gift from us to you via iTunes!

Let the count down begin, 7 days! Thanks for your ongoing support!

TWS
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weareblackbox.com

Hey friends!

What a killer weekend! Congrats to Classified on a great performance at the MMVA’s, and for taking home the “Much Vibe Rap Video of the Year”! We had a great time there with our artists and all our friends. Make sure to catch one of the million repeats of the MMVA’s airing on Much this week.

NXNE was also a success - Valery Gore played an incredible set at the Reverb on Friday night as part of the Now Magazine Showcase. The Wooden Sky also brought down the house at the El Mocambo in front of a 1AM drunken crowd on Saturday night. Thanks to everyone that came out!

Just a reminder to our American friends that Shad’s record, “The Old Prince” hits shelves down there next Tuesday! You can preview the full record on his MYSPACE.

That’s all for now!
Ian

Hey guys,

Just a real quick note to pass along. CMW was a smashing success for us - Crash Parallel, Ten Second Epic and Valery Gore all played great sets to enthusiastic crowds. Valery’s performance was picked by Now Magazine as one of the best of the weekend. Check it out in the videos section here!

We’re also extremely excited that Shad won “Favourite Urban Artist” at the Indie Awards, which were doled out on Saturday Night. Congrats to our boy, and to all the other nominees and winners.

If you were at CMW, I hope you managed to evade the CMW-plague that seems to have felled so many. We’re headed to SXSW to cough and sneeze our way back to health this week. More news upon our return!

<3 Black Box