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Akron/Family — Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) May 8, 2009 4:48 pm
This album will have an immediate impact. It will either move you or confuse you. If you're not attentive when you throw Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free in your stereo, the thundering drums and wailing guitar solos of its opening track might fool you into thinking you've accidentally put on Black Mountain's In The Future. Taking 2007's Love Is Simple...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 5, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 5, 2011 2:44 pm
City And Colour's Dallas Green and Shad will release a collaborative EP, Two Songs, on Jan. 11. It features, yes, two songs: a new track and a remix. You can preorder it here and here. All the proceeds will be donated to Skate4Cancer. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead will hit the road with Surfer Blood this spring. Trail Of Dead will...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 11, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 11, 2010 2:00 pm
Montreal indie rockers Young Galaxy will release Shapeshifting, their third full-length album, on Feb. 8. The follow-up to 2009's Invisible Republic was produced by Dan Lissvik of Swedish electronica duo Studio. —Paper BagWhite Cowbell Oklahoma will tour Canada with The Schomberg Fair later this month and in early December. Bring a raincoat. Their...
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Akron/Family — "Sun Will Shine"

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By CHARTattack Staff July 2, 2009 2:56 pm
This live video for Akron/Family's "Sun Will Shine," from the recently released Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, was shot by Vincent Moon (The Takeaway Show) during the band's residency at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Union Pool earlier this year.
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LOLA Festival Returns

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 26, 2009 12:40 pm
Final Fantasy, Akron/Family, Bruce Peninsula, Polar Bear, A Horse And His Boy, Canaille and Nihilist Spasm Band, NOMO, and the University Of Western Ontario New Music Ensemble are the musical acts that will play the London Ontario Live Arts Festival (LOLA) from Sept. 17 to 19. Free concerts and programming will once again be held in London, Ont.'...
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Pink Mountaintops Reach #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) May 20, 2009 1:48 pm
Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love rises one place to supplant Metric's Fantasies at #1 on the Canadian campus radio top 50 chart. Don't feel sorry for Metric. They topped the chart for two weeks, which is something neither of their previous two albums accomplished. Live It Out peaked at #2 in October 2005 and Old World Underground, Where Are You...
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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) February 18, 2009 2:25 pm
This doesn't sound wild or free. It sounds sleepy. What the hell happened to the weirdness and the trip, guys? I was nearly napping to this.
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Akron/Family Get Wild And Free

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By CHARTattack Staff February 12, 2009 4:48 pm
The three members of Akron/Family aren't related and aren't from the northeastern Ohio birthplace of Alcoholics Anonymous, but you can believe the rest of what you're about to read. Multi-instrumentalists Dana Janssen, Seth Olinsky and Miles Seaton parted company with bandmate Ryan Vanderhoof and Young God Records for their fourth full album,...
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Challengers Is The Champion Again

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) October 10, 2007 4:30 pm
There's finally some competition among the various college radio veterans for top 50 chart supremacy after months of two albums dominating the charts for weeks, namely the latest releases from Spoon and Caribou. The New Pornographers' Challengers took over #1, only to be supplanted by Weakerthans' Reunion Tour last week. Now the tables have...
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Akron/Family And Megafaun Vans Robbed In Toronto

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By Moya Dillon (CHARTattack) September 25, 2007 4:30 pm
Brooklyn, N.Y.-based freak-folk band Akron/Family and tourmates Megafaun and Greg Davis returned to their vans after a show at Toronto's Lee's Palace on Sunday to find that they'd been robbed. Among the missing items were several valuable pieces of equipment, including: a Deering Siera banjo with a hard case and a pick-up; an olive green, semi-...
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No Rest For Akron/Family

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By CHARTattack Staff August 24, 2006 7:00 pm
Things never seem to slow down for Brooklyn, New York's Akron/Family. The arty ensemble's debut album came out in March 2005 and they've since played hundreds of shows, all while releasing a split album with Angels Of Light and recording a few lo-fi discs that they sell on the road. Next up, the group will release the seven-song, 45-minute...
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Tireless Akron/Family Will Keep Touring Until They Record Two More LPs

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) March 7, 2006 7:30 pm
The arty Akron/Family have been on tour since October and show no signs of slowing down their hectic pace. The Brooklyn, New York four-piece continue to play in support of their split LP with Michael Gira's Angels Of Light project, which was released last year on Gira's Young God label. The psychedelic folk band will cover Canada, the U.S. and...
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