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Dear Rouge is a Vancouver-based electronic rock band formed in 2012 by Drew and Danielle McTaggart. ==History== Drew and Danielle McTaggart were both touring musicians under separate projects. They met while in their early touring days, and began dating, before getting married and starting Dear Rouge. The name of the duo is derived from the name of Danielle's home town, Red Deer, Alberta. 〔("Drew and Danielle McTaggart formed Dear Rouge in the summer of 2009" ). "Georgia Straight", July 19, 2013.〕 In April 2012, Dear Rouge independently released their debut EP ''Heads Up! Watch Out!'', a four-song EP on their Bandcamp page,〔("Released 24 April 2012" ). Dear Rouge Bandcamp Page, December 11, 2013.〕 and followed up six months later with their second EP ''Kids Wanna Know''.〔("Released 09 October 2012" ). Dear Rouge Bandcamp Page, December 11, 2013.〕 In November 2012, Dear Rouge won $102,700〔("the winner of the 2012 edition of the contest: Vancouver pop-rock act Dear Rouge." ) "Exclaim! Magazine", November 23rd, 2012.〕 as the grand prize winners of the Peak Performance Project put on by the Music BC Industry Organization and CKPK-FM radio station in Vancouver.〔("The project was created by 102.7 The Peak and Music BC to develop BC based emerging artists." ) "Music BC"〕 In June 2013, Exposure Contest and Dear Rouge partnered up to present a video editing contest in support of their single, "Thinking About You", from their ''Kids Wanna Know'' EP〔("They’re now crowd-sourcing the editing of their latest music video, which somehow they found the time to film." ) "Miss604", April 4th, 2013.〕 The contest drew a wide social media spread, accumulating hundreds of entrants from around the world.〔("184 editors from around the world signed up, 40 made the cut" ) "Exposure Contest", June 1st, 2013〕 In March 2014, the band's second single "I Heard I Had" charted at #3 in Alternative Rock (Mediabase),〔() "Mediabase", December 12th, 2013.〕 #3 in Modern Rock (Mediabase), and at #13 in Canadian Rock (BDS radio). 〔http://charts.bdsradio.com/bdsradiocharts/charts.aspx?formatid=37〕 The band released their third single "Best Look Lately" on April 22nd, 2014.〔http://blogs.theprovince.com/2014/04/22/dear-rouge-release-follow-up-single-best-look-lately/〕 As of September 2014, it has also cracked the Top 20 of the Canadian Alternative Rock and Modern Rock charts. The band signed to the Canadian branch of Universal Music Group in October 2014, and announced that their debut album ''Black To Gold'' will be released through them in early 2015. The band's fourth single, title track "Black To Gold", was sent to radio on January 13th 2015. 〔http://www.universalmusic.ca/press-releases/〕 Black To Gold (Single) was made available digitally on February 10th along with a pre-order for the album. On February 2nd the band announced March 30th as the release date for the album and a tour with Arkells.〔http://www.thatericalper.com/2015/02/02/synth-rock-duo-dear-rouge-announce-march-30th-major-label-debut-black-to-gold/〕 As of May 2015, "Black To Gold" had hit #2 on the Canadian Alt-Rock charts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dear Rouge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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