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Vancouver synth-rockers Dear Rouge just announced a fall North American tour with Rah Rah. The husband and wife duo lead by Drew and Danielle McTaggart are touring in support of their debut album Black To Gold which features hit singles “I Heard I Had,” “Best Look Lately,” along with the title track “Black To Gold.” All three singles from this release have hit the Top 3 at Alternative and Modern Rock radio in Canada with momentum continuing to grow domestically and internationally for the band. All of the band’s upcoming North American shows are listed below.
Dear Rouge also revealed a new music video for “Tongues” from Black To Gold. The video premiered on Much Music and is available to share via YouTube. Dear Rouge’s Danielle McTaggart says, “This is the most fun we have had shooting a video because we finally got to perform like we do at our shows. It was a full day of non-stop action. Spinning around, strapped to a camera, working the stairs. Although it was tons of fun we definitely needed a few days to recover.”
Dear Rouge’s debut album Black To Gold helmed by Drew McTaggart and producer/ engineer Ryan Worsley,) boasts an expansive sonic palette with punchy guitar hooks, uplifting synth layers, and the sincerely powerful vocal delivery of Danielle. The title track “Black To Gold” is an unabashedly 80’s influenced affair as Danielle’s vocals pierce through the uptight synth-drums to announce, “We came too far to be looking back”; summing up the organic beginnings of the duo and the stream of creativity that has kept them looking forward, excited of what is to come, rather than to the past.
With powerhouse vocals punctuated by Dear Rouge’s instantly recognizable blend of dynamic guitar hooks and uplifting synth layers, Black To Gold showcases the development of the band and lives up to high expectations after being named by CBCMusic as one of the 15 most anticipated Canadian indie albums of the year. Last month the band won the 10th annual SOCAN Songwriting Prize for their song “I Heard I Had.” The SOCAN Songwriting Prize is an annual competition that identifies 10 outstanding songs written by Canadian emerging songwriters over the past year, as selected by a panel of esteemed music industry experts, and invites the public to vote for the winner.
USA TODAY proclaims, “More and more pop artists are drawing from ’80s influences, but none make a better case for the trend than this Vancouver duo, whose erupting synths and charged vocals here will surely become a summer-soundtrack staple.”
Noisey calls “Black To Gold”, “a gritty, razor-sharp synth-rock record full of arena-sized bangers, with glossed over, moody 80s-esque pop rollers and understated ballads peppered throughout.”
“It’s a beautiful thing when a highly anticipated album proves to be every bit as amazing as you hoped it would,” affirms Addicted Magazine
DEAR ROUGE NORTH AMERICAN FALL TOUR DATES:
October 14 – Red Deer, AB – Beer Haus
October 15 – Calgary, AB – Commonwealth Stage
October 16 – Saskatoon, SK – Louis’
October 17 – Winnipeg, MB – Park Theatre
October 20 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Smiling Moose
October 21 – New York, NY – The Studio at Webster Hall
October 23 – Halifax, NS – Halifax Pop Explosion*
October 24 – Moncton, NB – Tide & Boar Ballroom*
October 25 – Fredericton, NB – The Capital Complex *
October 27 – Quebec City, QC – Le Cercle
October 28 – Montreal, QC – Divan Orange
October 29 – Ottawa, ON – Mavericks
October 30 – Kingston, ON – The Mansion
November 3 – Kitchener, on – Wax
November 4 – Hamilton, ON – Studio Theatre
November 5 – Toronto, ON – Mod Club *
November 6 – Guelph, ON – Guelph Concert Theatre
November 7 – London, ON – London Music Hall
November 8 – Detroit, MI – The Shelter
November 10 – Lakewood, OH – Mahalls
November 10 – Lakewood, OH – Mahalls
November 11 – Newport, KY – The Southgate House Revival
November 12 – St. Louis, MO – The Demo
November 13 – Chicago, IL – Schubas
November 14 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
November 15 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
November 18 – Edmonton, AB – The Starlite
November 20 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
November 21 – Victoria, BC – Distrikt
EUROPEAN TOUR w/RAH RAH:
December 2 – Aachen, DE – Musibunker
December 3 – Hamburg, DE – Kleiner Donner
December 4 – Rostock, DE – Stadpalast
December 5 – Dresden, DE – Ostpol
December 8 – London, UK – The Islington
December 9 – Liverpool, UK – Studio 2
December 10 – Preston, UK – The Ferret
December 14 – Vienna, AT – Haus der Musik
December 15 – Munich, DE – Glockenbachwerkstatt
December 16 – Basel, SL – Lady Bar
December 17 – Freiburg, GE – The Great Rang Teng Teng
*not w/ Rah Rah
For the latest tour dates and more information on Dear Rouge visit:
@DearRouge
For any press inquiries, please contact:
Caroline Borolla at Big Hassle Media
