Dirty Beloved

It just seems like only a few weeks ago we were issuing our release for Letters From A Broken Home and here we find ourselves at the close of 2009.  From transit strike to H1N1 pandemic to global recession.  What a year it’s been!

Challenges aside, the band emerged from the studio after a winter of recording in May for the CD release and enjoyed a busy schedule promoting the effort up to the last show of the year on Dec. 9 @ The Rainbow.  The year has held many highlights including a number of positive reviews of the CD both at home and abroad, radio play in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, a show at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, Ontario where such greats as the Rolling Stones have previously graced the stage and opening for 70’s rockers Prism at the Ottawa Exhibition in front of an estimated 2000+ people.

While we’re taking a moment to reflect on the year, we are also eagerly looking ahead to 2010.  A fair amount of writing has taken place as the year progressed and we now find ourselves getting ready to return to the studio.  Those who were at the Nov. 7 or Dec. 9 show will have already received a preview of one of the new tracks.  If you missed either of those shows, don’t fret.  At the rate the songs are coming together, we’re anticipating a release sometime late spring.  Who knows, we may even release some preview tracks ahead of time.  Come back and check the site often or hook up with us on Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace to keep up on the latest news and events.

Until then friends, wishing you the best in 2010.

Happy New Year!

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“You Let Me Drown” featured on sampler included with issue #38 of UK based melodic rock magazine Fireworks.  We’re stoked that it’s the issue featuring none other than KISS on the front cover!

Fireworks Magazine

Order your copy today!

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‘Take Good Care’ has been added to the playlists for L.A. based KRXX and it’s UK affiliate WRXX.  Drop in and check ‘em out!

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With the video crew on site getting ready for the week at SuperEx, we decided to record our Aug. 20 dress rehearsal for the Prism show which took place two days later.  Figured it’d be rude not to share. 

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Will post additional tracks in the days to come.

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This week IndieCan introduces Dirty Beloved as part of episode 138.

http://www.indiecan.com/radio.htm

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IndieCan is now available on XM Satellite Channel 87 THE VERGE.

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer so far.  We’ve been working hard in the background while rotating through a bit of vacation time and hope to have some interesting show announcements for you soon.

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The requests have been coming in and we’re happy to announce that the wait is over.  “Letters From A Broken Home” is now available online at CD Baby and iTunes.

Get your copy today!

For those who missed last Friday’s show, a replay is now available at B-Sides for a limited time and also directly at UStream.tv .

Congrats to the winners of the T-shirts and CDs.

Enjoy!

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Support local television

As Indie bands, we know all to well the challenges faced by the little guy in the media industry.  The issues faced by local television threaten to remove this service all together.  Local television has helped many of us promote our music in the past so it’s time to return the favour.

To read up on the issues please check out http://www.atv.ca/ottawa/promo/ilovelocal/index.html.

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* Schedule update *

Please note that the Ustream.tv show has been moved to May 29.

This week Dirty Beloved is the featured artist on B-Sides with Letters From A Broken Home being played during the live Ustream.tv show on Friday May 29 at 11pm EST.  Looks like there will be some free giveaways during the show so be sure to tune in!

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Following the successful launch earlier this month, reviews are now starting to come in for Letters From A Broken Home. The folks at Psychotic Philosophy who previously provided a review for our 2007 debut A World Made For You, were good enough to review our follow up effort earlier this week.

“Letters From A Broken Home” is simply more straight forward rock. Dirty Beloved may be moving into more aggressive territory, but they never sacrifice melody. If anything, “Letters From A Broken Home” is more accessible then their debut. This is not your cookie cutter hard rock platter, though. Dirty Beloved still infuse slower reflective parts, haunting vocals and guitars and that solid back bone groove that was the foundation of the debut.

The full review is available here.

We welcome all reviews. If you have one to submit, please let us know.

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