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Sasquatch!: Of Montreal Amazes

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By Alyssa Noel (CHARTattack) May 29, 2009 3:05 pm
May 23 I'd prefer to start my day with a Rolling Rock than Starbucks. Cracking the former before noon indicates you're going to spend a day in the blistering heat enjoying a magical spread of the biggest buzz bands of the year. Pouring the latter into your mug means you're back at your desk cranking out doomsday copy in the moderately warm...
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Sasquatch! Festival (photo by Alyssa Noel)
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Animal Collective — Merriweather Post Pavilion

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) January 21, 2009 5:11 pm
It's probably time to give in to the hype. Animal Collective's eighth studio album is the culmination of the band's creative output culled into their own experimental/neo-psychedelic/indie rock masterpiece. Every note falls into place, fitting just like a puzzle, on the follow-up to 2007's excellent Strawberry Jam. Merriweather Post Pavilion's...
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Animal Collective — Water Curses

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) May 6, 2008 4:54 pm
Animal Collective return with the follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed Strawberry Jam in the form of a four-song EP. While three-quarters of the songs were recorded during the Strawberry Jam sessions, a press release about Water Curses states, "All tracks find Animal Collective exploring strange new waters." The title track has AC's...
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Animal Collective Need More Of The Present, Less Of The Future

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) September 11, 2007 3:30 pm
You never know what to expect when you're seeing a band you not only like, but really admire, for the very first time. Animal Collective, now based out of no-fixed address, are fearless and renowned for making the music they want that's unfettered by the traditional constraints of verse-chorus-verse. Band members come and go as they please,...
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Animal Collective — Strawberry Jam

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 11, 2007 1:25 pm
There are only a few acts in the world who function so highly that everything they produce is scrutinized on another level. For years, this list was privy mostly to Radiohead, Bjork and Wilco, but the latter two have fallen off the wagon while the former's next step is probably the most highly anticipated album of the year (or whenever it finally...
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I Read The News Today... For April 20, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 20, 2011 3:00 pm
If you've been waiting over three years to hear some falsetto folk crooning, you won't have to much longer: Bon Iver's self-titled sophomore album is out June 21. First Rusty reunited... now SIANspheric have reunited. Or will reunite on May 14 to play a show with stoner rockers Quest For Fire in Hamilton, Ont. —Facebook Diamond Rings has signed...
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I Read The News Today... For April 11, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 11, 2011 4:34 pm
TheScore sports television network is releasing a compilation called TheScore Rocks on April 19. It'll feature all the jock rock jams you'd expect to hear at sports games, like tunes from Nickelback, Disturbed, Billy Talent, Shinedown and more. Limp Bizkit's Gold Cobra album has been pushed back to June 28. Can't they just push the release date...
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I Read The News Today... For March 15, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 15, 2011 3:53 pm
Halifax's Quiet Parade are heading out on the road this April to support their Please Come Home (We Hate It Here Without You) album. —Acadian Embassy If "I want my band to be the next Nickelback" is running through your head on a constant basis and you feel absolutely no shame whatsoever for thinking that, you should enter 99.3 The Fox FM...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 17, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 17, 2011 4:44 pm
Braids have announced some new North American dates in support of their Native Speaker debut album, which comes out tomorrow. They'll tour with Columbia, S.C. chillwaver Toro Y Moi in March. —FacebookCould this be a new era in Arcade Fire's history? One where they say "yes" to things? They're confirmed to perform at this year's BRIT Awards on Feb...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 27, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 27, 2010 1:42 pm
Here's a tip: don't slice up a tendon in your hand, especially if you play guitar. Devo have been forced to postpone all their upcoming tour dates for the rest of the year because guitarist Mark Mothersbaugh severed a tendon when a glass shard cut his right thumb through to the bone. Yeowch. Someone has deemed Die Antwoord's video for "Zef Slide"...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 12, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 12, 2010 2:26 pm
Now that Weezer are no longer signed to Geffen, it's time for their former label to cash in the way EMI did with that Radiohead with that box set: Death To False Metal, a collection of 10 unreleased Weezer tracks, will come out through Geffen on Nov. 2. —NME Former Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page is touring the eastern U.S. this November. —...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 28, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 28, 2010 11:47 am
Revealed (by The Onion): Justin Bieber is a "well concealed 51-year-old pedophile." —The OnionAnother day, another Pete Doherty drug arrest. This time it's for cocaine possession, and it's linked to a filmmaker's death. —NME Rufus Wainwright has announced some dates in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Europe to take place during October...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 10, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 10, 2010 1:12 pm
Tegan And Sara are auctioning a signed Yamaha guitar and two tickets to see them in Toronto with City And Colour. The proceeds go to War Child Canada. —eBayLuke Doucet's new album, Steel City Trawler, is out Aug. 31 through Six Shooter. Protest The Hero have just released a guitar tabs book for their 2006 Kezia debut album. Now all you...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 3, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 3, 2010 12:55 pm
Evolve Festival organizer Jonas Colter was arrested by a Mountie in Halifax last weekend and charged $4,500 for postering. The Chronicle Herald Yellowcard are releasing a new album on Hopeless Records after a two-year hiatus. They'll continue to be overshadowed by more popular emo bands that no one gives a crap about, either. Alternative...
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Pantha Du Prince Featuring Animal Collective's Panda Bear — "Stick To My Side"

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By CHARTattack Staff February 24, 2010 2:16 pm
What if the Yeti, Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot or whatever you want to call it was really just a dude dressed up as a tree, with branches and bark glued all over him? There's something along those lines in German DJ Pantha Du Prince's video for "Stick To My Side," which has to be one of the most creative and weirdest videos I've seen...
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Animal Collective Holding "Psychedelic" Art Show At Guggenheim Museum

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 18, 2010 12:40 pm
On March 4, New York City's Guggenheim Museum will be invaded by hipsters. That's because Animal Collective are holding a "psychedelic" art show called Transverse Temporal Gyrus there to celebrate the museum's 50th anniversary. NME.com reports the New York indie rock quartet recorded music exclusively for the show, which they say will...
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Animal Collective ODDSAC Trailer

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By CHARTattack Staff January 27, 2010 1:26 pm
Here's the trailer for Animal Collective's ODDSAC, their film and "visual album" that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday (Jan. 26). I think it goes without saying that it features weird, psychedelic images, swirly music and lots of things flashing, but then I can't just leave this post with one sentence in it, can I?
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Animal Collective — "Brother Sport"

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By CHARTattack Staff January 8, 2010 2:00 pm
By now, there's basically a formula on how to make an Animal Collective video: a) use lots of bright colours and/or paint b) these colours/paint should preferably swirl around, make seizure-causing flashes or go "splat" on the screen c) throw in some animations of weird creatures flying at your face looking like they're going to eat...
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Animal Collective — Fall Be Kind EP

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) December 23, 2009 12:55 pm
Animal Collective were apparently unsatisfied with simply releasing one of the year's best albums in the spring, so they're offering this five-track EP to cap off what's been a banner 12 months for the Brooklyn, N.Y. trio. But whereas Merriweather Post Pavilion found the band's sound more taught than ever, propulsively moving forward to heavy...
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Tegan And Sara's Sainthood Conquers All For Third Week At #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) December 15, 2009 2:39 pm
This must be Tegan And Sara's year. Not only do they have the most popular album on the Canadian campus chart for a third consecutive week, they're also leading handily in every category they're eligible for in CHARTattack's 15th Annual Year End Reader's Poll. Join in and vote often. Let's have a look at the campus chart for the week Dec. 13...
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