Pitchfork

Andrew Whiteman isn't just a guitarist in Broken Social Scene. He's also got a good thing going with Apostle of Hustle, too. That band's sophomore LP, National Anthem of Nowhere, is due in Canada on February 6, the U.S. on March 6, and Europe on March 26, on Arts&Crafts. It was produced by Martin Kinack and Whiteman at various stops across Canada, including, in true indie form, Whiteman's bedroom.

The album's first track, "My Sword Hand's Anger", is available for free download from the Arts&Crafts website by clicking on the link at the bottom of this story. Don't like what you hear? Think you can do better?
The band is offering listeners the chance to cover, remix, or reinterpret "My Sword Hand's Anger" as a contest. Submissions will be judged by an Arts&Crafts panel, and one winner will receive studio equipment, a pair of tickets to an Apostle of Hustle show, and a signed 12" copy of National Anthem.

Apostle of Hustle will spend the next few weeks presenting OUIJA, a weekly residency at Toronto's Rivoli and Kingston's Grand clubs. Whiteman and bandmates Julian Brown and Dean Stone will, according to their MySpace blog, "[do] two sets of both intimate minor-key mood music and flourishing interstellar guitar jams." In addition, they've created what they call "the Jukebox Effect", encouraging fans to e-mail their Myspace page with requests for songs the band should cover. "A new song sacrificed each week!" they promise.

Tracklist:

01 My Sword Hand's Anger
02 National Anthem of Nowhere
03 The Naked & Alone
04 Haul Away
05 Cheap Like Sebastian
06 ¡Rafafa!
07 Chances Are
08 A Rent Boy Goes Down
09 Fast Pony for Victor Jara
10 Justine, Beckoning
11 Jimmy Scott Is the Answer
12 NoNoNo

Dates:

01-24 Toronto, Ontario - Rivoli *
01-27 Kingston, Ontario - Grad Club
01-31 Toronto, Ontario - Rivoli #
02-02 Hamilton, Ontario - Casbah
02-03 Kingston, Ontario - Grad Club
02-07 Toronto, Ontario - Rivoli ^
02-09 Ottawa, Ontario - Winterlude
02-10 Kingston, Ontario - Grad Club
02-15 Toronto, Ontario - Rivoli %

* with the Besnard Lakes
# with Alex Lukashevsky
^ with Wooly Leaves
% with Dark Hand and Lamplight