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CHARTattack Office Pool! Guessing The 2011 Polaris Short List

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 9:57am
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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 6, 2011 9:57 am
Today is the day the 2011 Polaris Music Prize Short List gets announced and everyone is getting in on the prognosticating about who's gonna make the top 10.We like a good guessing game as much as the next guy, especially when it involves such intrigues as "Will the Frenchies block vote?" "Who are the gays getting behind?" and, knowing a number of...
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Does This Dude From Abandon All Ships Have A Good Haircut?

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:05am
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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 24, 2011 10:05 am
Last weekend disBand darlings Abandon All Ships were all over the MuchMusic Video Awards. We, however, were more interested in what was all over bass player/"clean" vocals singer Martin Broda's head. Namely, his haircut.Check that puppy out.So, folks, we ask you, is that a good haircut?
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Forty Albums That Probably Won't Make The 2011 Polaris Music Prize Long List

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 2:34pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) June 15, 2011 2:34 pm
On Thursday, June 16, the much-anticipated 2011 Polaris Music Prize long list will be announced. Albums put out last year by Arcade Fire, Destroyer, Timber Timbre, Austra, PS I Love You and 35 other Canadian bands will make this special list, which will then get cut down to a top 10, which then gets voted on at a fancy arts gala in September where...
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Your Friendly CHARTattack Reminder To Vote Today

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 9:17am
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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 2, 2011 9:17 am
CHARTattack would like to remind all our Canadian readers that today, Monday, May 2, is officially a federal election and that you should go vote.Young people, in particular, should get off your asses and vote because — and this isn't just our bong-water conspiracy theorizing here — the fostering of youth voter apathy is one of the tools that...
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The Longest Running Albums On The Campus Radio Chart

Submitted by Chris Burland on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 12:24pm
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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 27, 2011 12:24 pm
Here is the complete list of every album that has been on the Campus Radio Chart for 20 or more weeks since September 1995. The albums are listed in chronological order with each week total.The dates in the brackets indicate the week the record initially entered the chart, followed by the last week of continuous presence before exiting the chart....
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Beastie Boys Trailer Foreshadows What May Be The Greatest Video Ever Made

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Thu, 04/07/2011 - 4:45pm
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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 7, 2011 4:45 pm
Hey ladies... get clicking.The trailer for the new super-extreme 30-minute Beastie Boys video is now online and looks like it's gonna be the greatest thing that's happened since the invention of the fart joke.Check-check-check it: What's your favourite Beastie Boys video?
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Let's Talk About Jacob Hoggard's Moustache

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 11:02am
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 30, 2011 11:02 am
So, we all know Arcade Fire won everything at the 2011 Juno Awards. And Broken Social Scene played, and Tokyo Police Club played, and Neil Young was there, and Caribou won something, and Shad won something, and the ever-present spectre of Bryan Adams was kept to a near-dignified minimum. But all this feel-good righting of the music universe has...
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Hedley's Jacob Hoggard (Photo by Graham Kennedy)

Saxophone-Carrying Interloper Plays George Michael's "Careless Whisper"

Submitted by Kate Harper on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 2:59pm
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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 15, 2011 2:59 pm
What's the one part of George Michael's "Careless Whisper" that you remember? It's the sax part, isn't it? Well, you'll love this. This dude with probably the most epic mullet we've ever seen dresses up in '80s-tastic vinyl pants, barely wears a shirt, sometimes sports an acid-washed jacket and invades public spaces, performing the sax riff from "...
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Watch CHARTattack Contributor Phil Villeneuve Dance To Kylie Minogue On The Subway

Submitted by Kate Harper on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 12:17pm
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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 8, 2011 12:17 pm
Waiting for the subway to show up can be so boring sometimes. There are delays quite often, and unless you've got something to occupy you, chances are you'll be standing there staring at the wall unless you've got a friend with you. But the subway doesn't have to be a boring ride, as CHARTattack contributor Phil Villeneuve has just proven with his...
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What My Face Might Look Like If CHARTattack Wins The CBC Searchlight Best Music Site Contest

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 2:57pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 15, 2011 2:57 pm
A couple weeks ago CHARTattack was nominated as part of the CBC Radio 3 Searchlight contest to find the best Canadian music site.Being of competitive spirit, I promised that if CHARTattack won this contest I would let CBC radio host Grant Lawrence paint my face in any manner he sees fit, photograph the results, and then do whatever he wants with...
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What Does Arcade Fire's Grammy Win Mean?

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 12:36pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 14, 2011 12:36 pm
About a minute after the Arcade Fire won the Best Album Award at the 2011 Grammys for The Suburbs, my very wise and very conflicted wife posted to Facebook the following status:"Does this mean we should make fun of Arcade Fire more? Or does this mean we get to make fun of the Grammys less?"I can't decide. As a card-carrying member of the...
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Nardwuar's Video Vault Chapter 2 Set To Debut This Weekend

Submitted by Blatant Propaganda on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:10am
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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 22, 2010 10:10 am
Nardwuar The Human Serviette will be assaulting television sets all over the nation this weekend when Nardwuar's Video Vault Chapter 2 airs on Aux TV on Sunday, Oct. 24 at 8 p.m. Says his Nardness, "It's an hour long special of some of my fave interviews from the past couple months. Everything from Drizzy Drake to Black Flag To Florence And The...
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CHARTattack Photographer To Manipulate The Rockers Of The '90s

Submitted by Blatant Propaganda on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 9:52am
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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 22, 2010 9:52 am
Long-time CHARTattack photographer Graham Kennedy is remixing and reimagining his archives next month when he presents a new set of works at Toronto's OZ gallery.Kennedy will focus on manipulating images he shot of iconic grunge, rock and metal artists in the '90s, rendering his all-too-familiar subjects into something completely different....
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Alexisonfire Achieve Rare Feat: A Shock Jock (Sort Of) Apology

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 12:22pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) October 6, 2010 12:22 pm
A bubbling feud between Alexisonfire, one of Canada's biggest rock bands, and the hosts of Toronto modern rock radio station 102.1 The Edge's The Dean Blundell Show morning show has resulted in something that ranks as rare as spotting a unicorn: a shock jock apology.Now, sure, that apology mostly completely ignored the actual reasons why said...
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Official CHARTattack 2010 Polaris Music Prize Betting Line

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 3:03pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) September 15, 2010 3:03 pm
The 2010 Polaris Music Prize will be awarded in Toronto on Monday, Sept. 20 when a bunch of this nation's music critics will get together papal conclave-style in an old Masonic temple to drink beer and decide what the best Canadian album of the year was.While last year's winner seemed relatively easy to predict — Fucked Up were the lone rawk act,...
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Seven Imaginary Responses To Lady Gaga's Meat Dress

Submitted by Kate Harper on Tue, 09/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 14, 2010 3:00 pm
Unless you spent the last 48 hours or so in some kind of a coma, you're probably aware that Lady Gaga appeared in a meat dress — yes, she was dressed completely in raw meat — at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards.She'd appeared on the cover of the Japanese edition of Vogue Hommes wearing a meat bikini last week, so this kind of wasn't anything...
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In Defense Of... Korn

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 3:34pm
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 3, 2010 3:34 pm
In Defense Of... is an ongoing CHARTattack column where our contributors stand up for otherwise maligned acts past and present. Yeah, yeah, I know. Nu metal sucks and blah blah fucking blah. But can we please think about a few things for a second and just not knee-jerk react? I get that the image of A.D.I.D.A.S. tearaways-clad, long-haired dudes...
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CHARTattack Contributor Phil Villeneuve Visits His Grocery Store, Dances To Scissor Sisters

Submitted by Kate Harper on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 12:03pm
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 13, 2010 12:03 pm
Some of you might remember back a few months to when we featured a video of CHARTattack contributor Phil Villeneuve dancing to Robyn's "Fembot" in Toronto's Eaton Centre.Well, Phil recently opened his fridge to discover there was absolutely nothing in it. This was obviously a problem, so he went to his local No Frills at Toronto...
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CAPTIONattack: Please Articulate Your Feelings About This Buble-Bubbles Photo

Submitted by Kate Harper on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 3:57pm
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 12, 2010 3:57 pm
We just received this photo in our inbox from Warner Music and I'm going to call it "Bubbles Meets Bubbles" for now.But really... we know at least one of our readers can come up with a hilarious, D-Listed style caption for this photo, so we're going to open this up to you guys.Please leave your suggested captions below. Don't...
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Buble meets Bubbles

Grand Forks, N.D. Would Like You To Know There's An Emo Epidemic

Submitted by Kate Harper on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 1:13pm
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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 12, 2010 1:13 pm
We stumbled across this report, which was once shown on Grand Forks, N.D.'s local news, this morning. We know it's three years old and everything, but this story about emo kids is pretty priceless. See, as the sheriff in this report explains, they aren't "what you'd call gothic" 'cause they don't wear "...
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