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APOSTLE OF HUSTLE

After living in Havana for a year, Andrew Whiteman returned to
Toronto and set up a residency at Ted’s Wrecking Yard, where he
played Brazilian and Cuban songs with band-mates Julian Brown
and Dean Stone. The group, known as Apostle of Hustle, teamed up
with producer David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene) in 2004 and
released their debut album, Folkloric Feel. Their follow-up album,
National Anthem of Nowhere, will be released by Arts &Crafts on
March 6, 2007. The album was produced by Martin Kinack and
Andrew Whiteman at Masterkut in Montreal, The Party in Toronto,
and Andrew’s bedroom. Joined by band members Julian Brown
and Dean Stone, Apostle of Hustle will begin touring in early 2007.

You may quickly recognize the breathy vocals and supple
guitar style on National Anthem of Nowhere. Andrew
Whiteman, the frontman of Apostle of Hustle, is also the
lead guitarist of Broken Social Scene. However, Whiteman
will quickly clear up any confusion you have concerning his
two bands by listing the following differences between
Apostle of Hustle and BrokenSocial Scene:

more nylon, less steel
more faunfare, less fanfare
more pulp, less confession
more swung, less straight
less eighties, more fifties
less wedding, more gondola
less bandroom, more bedroom

“A skinny songwriter with a penchant for skulls once said
‘Music is my boyfriend.’ I suppose I’d go a step further and
say Music is my Pimp.”
–Andrew Whiteman

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National Anthem Of Nowhere is wonderfully unclassifiable, nimbly skipping from euphoric guitar-pop anthems like ‘Justine, Beckoning’ the title track and the more laidback, horn-laced ‘Jimmy Scott is the Answer’ which will be joyfully familiar to BSS fans, to frayed, end of the night laments like ‘NoNoNo’. The album boasts a straightforward pop sensibility, most notably ‘A Rent Boy Goes Down’, and the jangly, spangly ‘’Chances Are’ led by Whiteman’s upfront vocal melodies that hold together the tangents and diversions that make the album so flavourful. Interludes like the Spanish-language ‘Rafaga!” call to mind a more tequila-sodden Calexico jamming with Manu Chao.
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