Montreal’s Winter Gloves are set to release A Way To Celebrate, a new digital-only complement to their debut album, about a girl, which will be available from iTunes on October 6th at a special low price. The digital release is a collection of remixes, live versions, experiments with arrangements & everything that made sense in between, including a recording in a local train station in the band’s hometown.

Winter Gloves has spent the past year taking about a girl on the road across Canada & the US, touring alongside the likes of You Say Party! We Say Die! & Thunderheist, with a solid sprinkling of summer festivals thrown in for good measure. The shape-shifting that happens when you bring a song on the road is an evolution that the band wanted to document; A Way To Celebrate is an archive of this time on the road as much as it is a thanks to the band’s new fans who have supported the original debut album.

Catch Winter Gloves live as they head out on tour throughout Canada & the US with Thunderheist for the chance to buy a copy of a limited physical pressing that will only be made available at the band’s shows!

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November:

13 Los Angeles, CA at The Echo *
14 San Francisco, CA at 330 Ritch *
17 Portland, OR at Rotture *
18 Bellingham, WA at The Wild Buffalo *
19 Seattle, WA at Chop Suey *
20 Vancouver, BC at Biltmore *
21 Victoria, BC at Sugar *
24 Edmonton, AB at The ARTery
25 Calgary, AB at Broken City
27 Winnipeg, MB at Lo Pub

* with Thunderheist

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Montreal glock-rock quartet Winter Gloves has decided to pay tribute to the late Kurt Cobain in lieu of the recent anniversary of his death with a cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Sprit.” The kids chorus & updated dance beat put their own, brand new spin on it!

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Winter Gloves are in the midst of a short N. American Tour with Thunderheist in support of their celebrated debut full-length album, about a girl, on Paper Bag Records. Released after a three song digital-only Let Me Drive EP, the album features these same three songs polished to perfection along with a handful of other 3 minute pop songs.

April:

17 Pyramid Cabaret Winnipeg, MB *
18 Amigo’s Saskatoon, SK *
21 Starlite Room Edmonton, AB *
23 The Warehouse Calgary, AB *
25 The Biltmore Cabaret Vancouver, BC *
28 Tractor Tavern Seattle, WA
30 Rickshaw Stop San Francisco, CA

May:

01 Spaceland Los Angeles, CA
11 DC9 Washington DC
13 Mercury Lounge New York, NY

* w/ Thunderheist

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Brand new video by Winter Gloves for their song “Let me Drive.” The song is from the album About a Girl which is out March 24th in the US & available now in Canada.

This video is essentially a band performance story told in a series of flip books. It’s not really animation done in post, and it’s not fancy sophisticated special effects super-imposed onto pages of paper. The flip books are actually real, using individual photos of the band in various poses and situations that were taken in a separate shoot. Those photos shot on film were translated into a set of images that were put to paper and assembled as flip books that recreated the band’s performance scenes. Motion picture sequences of all of these flip books being ‘flipped’ were then taken in synch with the actual song so that the band performance appears to come to life in the books with all these varying scenes and positions.

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Named “Best New Artist of 2008” by iTunes Canada, the foursome are ready to descend upon the US with their keyboard-heavy, rhythmically-propulsive pop compositions. The guys will first introduce themselves with the three-song, digital-only Let Me Drive EP – which features early versions of several tracks from their forthcoming debut full-length, about a girl. Digital EP comes out 2.10 & full length comes out 3.24 via Paper Bag Records.

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Winter Gloves has also recorded a cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “Someone Great” – boiling down the epic dance track into a compact two minutes that highlight the song’s most memorable bits. Check it out!

“Someone Great (LCD Soundsystem cover)” | download

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