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LIKE THIS LIST: Ryan Hemsworth

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 21, 2012 1:33 pm
LIKE THIS LIST is a weekly YouTube playlist curated by our favourite artists and musician. Each week's showcase will reveal the wide variety of music that inspires creative minds from all different walks of life.Ryan Hemsworth, one of our favourite new hip-hop producers, was kind enough to put together a list this week. His music uses hip-hop...
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CHARTattack Presents: An Interview with Portugal. The Man

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) February 20, 2012 7:11 pm
Portugal. The Man is a busy band. They already have seven studio full-lengths under their collective belt, plus a handful of EPs. Considering how incessantly hard-working they’ve been, I was surprised at how kind and open vocalist/guitarist John Gourley and drummer Jason Sechrist were. I met up with the band while touring their 2011 album In the...
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PRIMER: Get to know Nick Cave, and his three-decades of musical output

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By Stephen Stanford (CHARTattack) February 17, 2012 4:44 pm
If you have a list of alternative icons you'd love to get into but don't know where to start, get ready to cross some of them off with our new feature PRIMER, in which we guide you through the highs, lows, and occasional confusing bits of the careers of renowned indie icons.This week, Stephen Stanford guides us through the peasoup fog of...
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Five Questions with Sharon Van Etten

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By Colton Eddy (CHARTattack) February 16, 2012 2:06 pm
Tramp, the latest release from American singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, is an impressive record. Vulnerable yet confident, Van Etten's folk-indebted indie rock has earned her a legion of loyal fans that includes some high-profile artists like The National's Aaron Dessner (who recorded and produced Tramp) and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon. I...
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All the Whitney Houston tributes you could possibly need, but probably don't

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 15, 2012 6:11 pm
It's true that in Monday's NETDUMP we wrote that you should only spend your valuable time watching one Whitney Houston tribute, but the Internet has since exploded with mashups, acapellas, and various other musical eulogies that are honest appreciations of her music. So rather than make the presumption of telling you what's best, instead we're...
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LIKE THIS LIST: A Very Special Valentine's Day Playlist

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 14, 2012 6:04 pm
LIKE THIS LIST is a new weekly feature, a YouTube playlist curated by artists and musicians from all over. Each week's showcase will reveal the wide variety of music that inspires creative minds from all different walks of life.This week, rather than churn out yet another pro/anti Valentine's Day playlist, we asked Toronto artist Brad...
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We Hate Canada Too!: Four Folk Songs By Newfoundland Separatists

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By Stephen Stanford (CHARTattack) February 13, 2012 1:10 pm
When a Mainlander thinks of Newfoundland the general imagery is likely that of ruggedly beautiful landscapes, mutilated harp seals, or cheery yet slightly rakish men with incomprehensible accents. Or Rick Mercer maybe, I don't know. The point is, despite it's brief mention in ninth grade Canadian history, most people tend to forget that...
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CHARTattack Presents: An Interview with Gotye

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) February 13, 2012 12:08 pm
Why does Gotye's music video for "Somebody That I Used To Know" (featuring Kimbra) have over 70 million views? Is it the song’s addictive and compelling balance between peculiarity and pop, or because he and Kimbra show all sorts of skin? I met up with Gotye to get the answer to this as well as the the public's most pressing question: "Did you...
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CHARTattack PRESENTS | An Interview With Aaron Bruno of AWOLNATION

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 8:46 pm
"That sounds like home," Aaron Bruno tells me, pointing to the squawking seagull flying overhead. It's a homesick sentiment, but that's to be expected from someone who has been on a relentless touring schedule, performing to audiences of thousands night after night. But Bruno's sense of exhaustion is by far outweighed by his gratitude. The...
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Eight Supergroups with Ridiculous Names

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By Mike Searle (CHARTattack) February 8, 2012 3:10 pm
In case you didn't know, Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz), Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Tony Allen (Fela Kuti) are in a band called Rocket Juice and the Moon. Great, right? Gets better. Today they announced that their currently untitled debut album will be released March 12 via Honest Jon’s (a label which Albarn co-runs)....
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Five Questions with Afie Jurvanen of Bahamas

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By Colton Eddy (CHARTattack) February 7, 2012 4:17 pm
While a lot of folk music can make you think of beards, moonshine and Grammys, Afie Jurvanen – aka Bahamas – evokes boats, sunshine and Junos. His 2009 album Pink Strat introduced the world to his singular brand of sedate acoustic melodies, which he's following up with Barchords, dropping today. It's true that no man is an island, but so far...
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WATCH: Arkells performs acoustic rendition of “Book Club”

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 7, 2012 1:42 pm
Thanks to our pals at SIX NINE THREE, CHARTattack’s premiering a backstage acoustic rendition of “Book Club” by The Arkells, off their new album Michigan Left. It's stark, it's joyful, it's got all the makings of a viral hit, so share it with everyone you know before they share it with you.In the intimate glow of a single bulb, the band braids...
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BEST OF JANUARY 2012: Our 15 favourite music videos

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) February 2, 2012 12:31 pm
Sure, you were busy with your “job” or “education” this January, but is that really an excuse for missing out on the myriad of music videos that make the blog rounds every day? Can you truly justify spending your ever-fleeting free time on “family” or “socializing”? You can? Oh, sorry. Well, it's just your luck — we've rounded up our 15 favourite...
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BEST OF JANUARY 2012: Our 14 favourite tracks

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) February 1, 2012 3:14 pm
Another month closer to the end of days. As we continue to count down the days until our meaningless lives come to an end in the inevitable fiery apocalypse, why not enjoy our 14 favorite songs that we featured on CHARTattack this month:...Mesita – “You or the City” La Sera – "Please Be My Third Eye" Porcelain Raft – "Unless You Speak From...
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CHARTattack PRESENTS | An Interview With The Barr Brothers

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 30, 2012 6:41 pm
It's hard to articulate what makes Barr Brothers' eclectic debut album so listenable. In ten songs, the quartet flows from delicate folk to agile blues, but there's something more at play. A spirit to the album, equal parts bravery and humility. Some of that can be chalked up to good songwriting. The rest might be a product of the makeshift...
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Get To Know... Actual Water

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By Maxim Morin (CHARTattack) January 24, 2012 11:54 am
After a half-hour phone interview with Anthony Price, Gary Arthurs and Siena DeCampo of Actual Water, it’s easy to see the real motivation behind their haphazard garage-rock outfit: They just want to hang out with one another. It’s also easy to incorrectly assume that they have zero ambition, that they don’t expect to be heard, and that, in...
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Nine songs about solitude by notorious recluses

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) January 23, 2012 2:02 pm
There are fewer things more valuable in the music industry than a little bit of mystery, so when an artist shuns press, touring, or the public sphere in general, people start to pay attention. This list celebrates some of our favorite shut-ins who keep us curious with their reticence. ... 1. R. Stevie Moore - “I Like To Stay Home”Like a lot of...
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Five Questions with Brann Dailor of Mastodon

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By Colton Eddy (CHARTattack) January 20, 2012 11:07 am
Last year, American heavy metal band Mastodon released The Hunter, their fifth studio album. It was a hit, earning scads of praise, and not just from metal-centric outlets. In fact, the group has, especially in the past few years, become regarded as one of metal's most inventive acts, and they've consequently found themselves to be one of the few...
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CHARTattack PRESENTS | Fifteen Noisy, Messy Songs

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 17, 2012 11:59 am
Feeling sluggish this morning? Same. But we've put together a little pick-me-up for you. Today we salute those artists who can make something beautiful out of dirty, messy noise. Noisy music has a sort of inherit spirituality: While angels up in heaven are plucking away at their tiny angel harps, us miserable humans are stuck on Earth, maxing out...
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'90s Nostalgia | Remember Savage Garden?

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By Natalia Buia (CHARTattack) January 12, 2012 4:06 pm
On this very day in 1997, the number one song in the U.S. was a romantic gem from two Aussies wanting to stand with you on mountain and bathe with you in the sea. Daniel Jones and Darren Hayes make up Australian pop band Savage Garden that penned "Truly Madly Deeply" that would go on to become the most played song at prom and wedding...
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