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BEST OF 2011: Our favourite live acts

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 9, 2011 4:51 pm
 The year is winding down, which means that year-end lists are winding up. Without further ado, here are our favourite live acts of the year, selected by CHARTattack's devoted team of contributors, presented in no particular order. What did we miss?:...LCD SoundsystemThe deathbed was Madison Square Garden and the death rattle was a three-...
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LISTEN: Braids' eight-song playlist for Artist Mixtapes

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) November 3, 2011 1:02 pm
For their fifty-fourth mixtape, ArtistMixtapes.com calls on Montreal avant-pop quartet Braids to select eight songs that they love. These folks are undoubtedly among Canada's most promising up-and-coming acts, and their debut LP Native Speaker was shortlisted for the 2011 Polaris Prize (which went to Arcade Fire, because of course it did)....
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I Read The News Today... For July 22, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 22, 2011 3:28 pm
Bush have released their new "The Sound Of Winter" single, and it's like Bush Lite. C'mon, Gavin, where's the anger from Sixteen Stone? Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy's releasing a children's book called Wildwood on Aug. 30. Carson Ellis, his wife, did the illustrations. You can read the first four chapters by clicking "Like" on the book's...
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Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island Makes It Six Weeks At #1 On Chart

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 19, 2011 1:31 pm
Chad VanGaalen is slowly entering the heights of chart royalty as Diaper Island, his latest album, continues to dominate the campus radio chart for the week of July 19, 2011. It holds the #1 position for a sixth straight week. But as amazing as this feat, it isn't even the longest-running VanGaalen album at #1. Three years ago, VanGaalen released...
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I Read The News Today... For June 10, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 10, 2011 4:12 pm
The good folks behind The MuseBox have put together a North By Northeast mixtape featuring all their artists that are showcasing at the festival. You're welcome. Get the fuck away from Star Wars, Fred Durst. This is just wrong: If you need to hear some good ol' fashioned back porch exorcisin' tunes this summer, The Schomberg Fair may be...
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I Read The News Today... For April 29, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 29, 2011 3:39 pm
Of course it would only be natural that Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Magnum would stop being a recluse by doing something like scoring music for a mind-controlled instrument designed by The Apples In Stereo's Rob Schneider. Of course. It's only natural. (Even though a mind-controlled instrument is kinda, you know, not natural?) The Donnas on a...
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I Read The News Today... For March 8, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 8, 2011 3:33 pm
The New Pornographers are among those playing the inaugural Festival For Humanity from May 27 to 30 in Vernon, N.J. Other illustrious acts on the bill include Third Eye Blind and... Soul Asylum. What is this, 1996? —festivalforhumanity.com Surprise! Daniel Victor's Neverending White Lights are back. Victor and company are playing two shows at...
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Braids' Native Speaker #1 On Chart For Fifth Straight Week

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) March 1, 2011 3:04 pm
Braids' Native Speaker appears have grown roots at the top of the campus radio chart. The album holds the #1 position for a fifth straight week. Over that five-week period, Braids have racked up some very impressive numbers for a relatively unknown band with a debut album. This week, Native Speaker received 1,576 points (compared to the #2 album...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 23, 2011 5:27 pm
Gord Downie's playing some U.S. dates in support of last year's The Grand Bounce. He'll head south of the 49th parallel in April, will play a set at this year's Coachella and will also support City And Colour on a few U.S. dates in March. —gorddownie.com Braids have announced a few more North American dates that'll take place this spring,...
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Braids' Native Speaker #1 For Fourth Week

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 23, 2011 11:52 am
The changes that have dominated the past two weekly campus charts continue this week, with significant shifts in every part of the top 50 chart. The top 10 for the week of Feb. 22, 2010 is dominated by newer releases, with half of the entries appearing in their third week. This is a drastic contrast to those charts from a month ago that featured...
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Braids' Native Speaker Remains At #1 For Third Week

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) February 16, 2011 10:52 am
It's a tale of two charts this week on the campus radio Top 50 for Feb. 15, 2011. The top ten is almost a carbon copy of last week. But below that point things are in a major upheaval with a mix of new entries, re-entries and big rises and falls.First up, Braids' Native Speaker continues its chart dominance, holding onto the #1 position for a...
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Braids' Native Speaker Retains #1 On Chart For Second Week

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) February 8, 2011 2:54 pm
While the date at the top of this article reads Feb. 8, 2011, in the world of chart compiling we recognize the Chinese New Year as the true beginning of when things start to pick up around here. Finally we're seeing music released in 2011 beginning to control the upper echelons of the campus chart.For the week of Feb. 8, 2011, Braids' Native...
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Braid's Native Speaker Is The New #1 On The Chart

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 1, 2011 1:37 pm
It's good to some fresh titles at the top of the campus chart after a couple of months of relative stasis. Half of the top 10 this week are only in their sophomore charting week. That's a wonderful response to my understated "call to arms" over the past two columns. In fact, one of those two-week newbies has captured the #1 position. Braids'...
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Video Of The Day: Braids' "Plath Heart"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 27, 2011 4:11 pm
Braids' video for "Plath Heart" is a bizarre collection of textures, and it looks like it was shot inside a model tunnel or diorama of some kind. Halfway through, the fibres, hairs, strands of dried grass or whatever the heck they are, get lit on fire and the result is a flurry of flashes that would probably prompt an epileptic to have a seizure."...
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Imaginary Cities Grab #1 On Chart

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) January 25, 2011 2:31 pm
While there has been an overwhelming reluctance of radio programmers across the country to dip their collective toes in the growing batch of new music released since the holiday period, the tide does seem to be turning, slowly. There are now 16 albums with 10 or more weeks' service on the campus radio chart for the week of Jan. 25, 2011, but at...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 12, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 12, 2011 4:26 pm
M.I.A. has released a surprise EP of remixes of "Internet Connection," which was a bonus track on last year's /\/\ /\ Y /\. —Pitchfork The Kills are releasing a new album titled Blood Pressures on April 5. It's the follow-up to 2008's Midnight Boom and was recorded at Michigan's Key Club Studios. Guitarist Jamie Hince produced it. Gorillaz have...
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Song Of The Day: Braids' "Plath Heart"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 21, 2010 3:25 pm
Here's another one that'll appear on Braids' upcoming Native Speaker debut, due out Jan. 18. This tune is less of a slow-builder than "Lemonade," which we've previously heard from the Calgary quartet. "Plath Heart" hits you right away, and it's actually similar to much of the material fellow Calgarians Women have released, both on their 2008 self-...
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Song Of The Day: Braids' "Lemonade" (Green Go Remix)

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By CHARTattack Staff December 8, 2010 11:29 am
Guelph, Ont.'s Green Go have remixed Calgarians Braids' "Lemonade," from their upcoming Native Speaker album. The electro quintet have kept the swirly, trippy background sounds of the original track and added synthesizers and a beat that would fit nicely on one of their own records. One would think two styles as disparate as Green Go's and Braids...
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I Read The News Today... Dec. 2, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 2, 2010 2:00 pm
Drake will host the 2011 Juno Awards, which will be held at Toronto's Air Canada Centre on March 27. Maybe this will make the event a little more interesting to you youngsters, seeing as your mom loved last year's awards because Michael Buble won everything.Calgary's Braids have recorded a session for Daytrotter. You can download an MP3 of them...
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Song Of The Day: Braids' "Lemonade"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 11, 2010 3:54 pm
Braids' "Lemonade" is a sleepy, slow-building, nearly seven-minute swirling, ambient piece that recalls a less acid washed and less hipster-friendly Animal Collective. The band are formerly known as The Neighbourhood Council, and have opened for bands like Deerhunter. It's easy to see why.The Calgary quartet's Native Speaker debut album will be...
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