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Dead Letter Dept.
12+ albums
pop punkpunk rockmelodic punkRating 7 stars - GoodNeed to Rate
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Dead Letter Dept. (formerly known as The Stiffs) have always been the most honest and forthright dudes in Toronto. In a city filled with industry wannabes, Queen St. scenesters, and phony musicianship, Dead Letter Dept. remains a staple of genuine artistic credibility. While watching bands that they have shared stages, drinks and laughs with successfully sell their soul for rock n roll, Dead Letter Dept. have honed their artistic credibility to the accuracy of a laser beam and set its sights on the generic rock consumer. Exploiting the shallow money trench that is the corporate music business, DLD creates heart-wrenching tales of love lost, lacking and lingering amidst anthems dedicated to those who have given into the consumerist ideal of society. Over the tenure (and ten years) of this influential band's career they have worked with legends Mass Giorgini (producer of pretty much every good Lookout! record) and John P. Sutton (rocked bass for the Weakerthans and produced most of Winnipeg's finest bands) while notoriously being known for smashing guitars in basements in the USA, sneaking beers into backstage areas at arenas and coffee houses in Canada, misappropriating attention from mainstream fans at Edgefest 2005 and Edge Electric Christmas and crashing on floors of anyone who will take them during lengthy D.I.Y. tours through unchartered European towns. Dead Letter Dept. have appeared (in the aural sense) on numerous episodes of Kevin Smith's favourite TV show: Degrassi
