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Two fresh EPs from Animal Parts 2013 will be remember as the year of all animals. JCo and his mammal partners have done it again, taking precious January hibernation time to record two EPs of new music. Keep your ear to the tracks, for news coming down the rails. Tour dates to follow. Meanwhile, to hold over your growing appetites, you may be able to come across AP at the following places, at the following times. 05/24/13 - Montreal, QC Grumpy's Bar w/ Dear Sister 10pm 05/25/13 - Quebec, QC L'espAce w/ Dear Sister 10pm 05/31/13 - Orillia, ON The Brownstone w/ Dear Sister 9pm 06/05/13 - Toronto, ON Cameron House w/ Dear Sister 10pm 06/13/13 - Toronto, ON Dakota Tavern (NXNE showcase) 9pm - 10pm Animal Parts does America It's last call for JCo's bus to Chicago, and he's had to hide the beast in the overheard. The fury guy don't mind much, considering the birds eye view of his master's bags. Warm breathes on his sleepy head. And this is the way they will travel well into Novemburr. One bag filled with clothes, topped with guitar. In the other, his guitar speaking machine and toothbrush. Animal Parts has come to America to play, and strengthen the muscles in his back. Living out of sandwich bags. Keep your ears tuned to the yelps and howls coming from local bars near you. what's behind that tree? With cont'd love, Mr Beast 10/05/12 – Chicago IL The Bird’s Nest w/ Joe Taylor 10/07/12 – Indianapolis IN Indy’s Jukebox w/ Laura Balke, Lovely House, Ryan Murphy 10/09/12 – Louisville KY Highlands Taproom 10/10/12 – Bloomington IN Bear’s Place w/ Moor Hound 10/12/12 – Nashville TN The National Underground 10/13/12 – Carrboro NC The Station w/ members of Rogue Band of Youth 10/17/12 – Wilmington NC The Satellite Lounge 10/18/12 – Asheville NC The Root Bar 10/20/12 – Raleigh NC Local 506 10/23/12 – Stroudsburg PA Sarah Street Grill 10/24/12 – Baltimore MD Joe Squared North Station 10/25/12 – New York NY The Living Room (Googie’s Lounge) 10/26/12 – Pittsburgh PA Hambones w/ Ursa Major 11/01/12 – Seattle WA Skylark Café w/ Ellen Reed, Sarah Goodin 11/02/12 – Portland OR Ella St Social Club w/ Northeast Northwest, Landon Jenkinson, Hip Hatchet 11/07/12 – Fort Worth TX The Basement Bar 11/13/12 – Austin TX The Beale St Tavern w/ Brandy Zdan 11/17/12 - Austin TX House Concert All US dates are solo performances. This tour is made possible in part by a grant from the Ontario Arts Council's National and International Touring Program Animal Parts on the road through Canada Today at hungry music our mouths are stuffed with food. Turkeys stuffed with frogs legs. Chicken stuffed with more chicken. Some green things. Peanut butter cookies. Giving our bodies a final feast before hitting the Canadian highway and being forced to survive on JCo’s notorious wildflower smoothies (it’s no cookie). All saying, to those beautiful residents of Western Canada, we’re headed your way. And we’re bringing new blood, touring as the five piece for the first time. That makes ten arms to hold you!. And there’s more. We’ve come bearing more gifts than usual. The Cockerill man himself has collected 70 pages worth of his writings into a limited run of 50 books. Words he has set to music. Words still unset. Many words you will recognize. Many are new. Each hand numbered and signed. Wondrous all! So be warned. There are good times to be had. To be ready to sing along, download the music today at animalparts.bandcamp.com or on iTunes 09/07/12 - Thunder Bay, ON* The Black Pirates Pub 09/08/12 - Winnipeg, MB Rose N' Bee Pub w/ Scott Nolan 09/10/12 - Saskatoon, SK Bud's On Broadway 09/14/12 - Waterton Lakes AB Waterton Lakes Opera House 09/15/12 - Twin Butte, AB Twin Butte Country General Store 09/16/12 - Coleman, AB Blackbird Coffeehouse 09/17/12 - Edmonton AB Blackdog Freehouse 09/21/12 - Calgary AB The Ironwood Stage & Grill, w/ Cory Woodward 09/22/12 - Red Deer, AB The Hideout 09/25/12 – Dauphin MB Bruce's Fire House 09/28/12 - Kingston ON TIR NAN OG 09/29/12 - Montreal QC Grumpy's Bar Heed the call. Come All. Signed, Mr Beast Animal Parts in Stores Today!! On this day seemingly like the others- birds aflutter, sidewalk sleepers akimbo - what we've been waiting on has finally crawled its way down the pipe. Spit into the river one by one, the members of Animal Parts have bathed, shaved, combed their hair with their fingers, and come bearing gifts. Presented with copies of their new album “Animal Parts”, I solemnly swear to get these little packages into the hands and ears of music loving mammalites everywhere. Be it on itunes. Be it on bandcamp. Be it in the record store in your neighborhood where you’ve secretly bought Frampton Comes Alive!. The shelves have been stocked. The animal is waiting. A sign that he loves you. To sweeten your pots, you can now stream the album (front to back and back again) here: animalparts.bandcamp.com/ Animal Parts Tour Dates Announced Us here at AP and co. are itching in our furs to get the band out on the road and out of our hair! Here are the 2012 North American tour dates: 08/23/12 – Toronto, ON The Dakota Tavern, w/ Tarantuela 08/24/12 – Montreal, QC Grumpy's Bar, w/ The Picture Show 08/25/12 – Orillia, ON The Brownstone Café, w/ Kirty 09/07/12 - Thunder Bay, ON The Black Pirates Pub 09/08/12 - Winnipeg, MB Rose N' Bee Pub w/ Scott Nolan 09/10/12 - Saskatoon, SK Bud's On Broadway 09/14/12 - Waterton Lakes AB Waterton Lakes Opera House 09/15/12 - Twin Butte, AB Twin Butte Country General Store 09/16/12 - Coleman, AB Blackbird Coffeehouse 09/17/12 - Edmonton AB Blackdog Freehouse 09/21/12 - Calgary AB The Ironwood Stage & Grill, w/ Cory Woodward 09/22/12 - Red Deer, AB The Hideout Suite 411-37400 Highway 2 09/25/12 – Dauphin MB Bruce's Fire House 238-3rd Ave. N.E. 09/28/12 - Kingston ON TIR NAN OG 200 Ontario St 09/29/12 - Montreal QC Grumpy's Bar 1242 Bishop St 10/05/12 – Chicago IL The Bird’s Nest 10/07/12 – Indianapolis IN Indy’s Jukebox 10/09/12 – Louisville KY Highlands Taproom 10/10/12 – Bloomington IN Bear’s Place 10/12/12 – Nashville TN The National Underground 10/13/12 – Carrboro NC The Station 10/17/12 – Wilmington NC The Satellite Lounge 10/18/12 – Asheville NC The Root Bar 10/20/12 – Hillsborough NC The Farm 10/23/12 – Stroudsburg PA Sarah Street Grill 10/24/12 – Baltimore MD Joe Squared North Station 10/25/12 – New York NY The Living Room (Googie’s Lounge) 10/26/12 – Pittsburgh PA Hambones w/ Ursa Major 11/01/12 – Seattle WA Skylark Café 11/02/12 – Portland OR Ella St Social Club 11/07/12 – Fort Worth TX The Basement Bar 11/13/12 – Austin TX The Beale St Tavern 11/15/12 – Houston TX The Mink Bar All US dates are solo performances. *This tour is made possible in part by a grant from the Ontario Arts Council's National and International Touring Program "King Of Kings" unleashed! We at HungryMusic are not the only ones with deep belly callings. We've heard several rumblings of Gorillas in the mangroves. Other reports from the fields suggest new women are being bred. We've come bearing gifts, an offer to assuage the looming forces. Our friends JC and co. from the Animal Parts faith have unveiled a beast of their own, the guitar thrashing, drum stick spinning, helicopter arm flailing track "King Of Kings". If you are the type to worry, the sounds of this track among tracks are more than ample to flesh out any threatening forces. Indeed, open up all the windows and doors, turn all dials up as close as they get to eleven, and by heavens, thou wilt be safe. thou art loved by the Animal himself. listen or buy it here animalparts.bandcamp.com/ or here www.cdbaby.com/cd/animalparts Don't forget to eat something. Signed, Mr. Beast Greetings From Animal Parts What happens when a man submits to the sum of his parts? Mustn’t it be gruesome, being overtaken by your inner animal? But behave, all you ‘fraidy teddy huggers! Beware, all premature party shufflers! Look behind the curtain to see who’s standing with his back to the cloth… Formerly known to perform under his Christian name, Joshua Cockerill has been reborn. He has spent years traveling with his guitar (and sometimes without), dismantling a chest of drawers, writing speeches for unnamed local politicians, secluding himself in a cabin and it’s adjacent snow fort, and collecting evidence against his useless organs (some of which he’s had removed). As evidence, Mr. C no longer looks like the kid he once did. He dresses sharper. Has more hair. And has found his voice while on vacation in the forests of Ontario. In fact, his new batch of 2012 music has qualities of a man having come to terms with his inner animal. “I've always considered myself a stray horse” he admits. Indeed, he has succumbed to his primal corners, and now re-emerges with fellow mammals as Animal Parts. But Don’t fear the name or look into the sun! They wouldn’t make their music noises, just singing and singing, without its meaning something. Simply ask musical guru Billy Vitt, who claims ‘Animal Parts’ new album ‘Animal Parts’ “had me exceeding the speed limit and crossing the lines. I haven’t had more fun since I was a school boy and forced to wear shorts.” And so it is. From the horses mouth. The birth of something truly unknown. Finally, answers to the murmurs of “who does he see when he turns out the lights?” The music can be yours on August 21st, 2012: a day for going outdoors to feed old bread to unbeknownst birds. I leave you with this final thought, dear reader, from the album’s shortest title, a reference to the overhead fluf fluff fluttering of a chickadee in flight, “Behave, and you will hear it too.” Fair is well and peas to all.

All songs written by Joshua Cockerill (SOCAN © 2012). All Rights Reserved. Made In Canada. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited by law.