Bran Van 3000

Bran Van 3000 Return Home

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) July 2, 2008 4:00 pm
It may seem like an elitist, overly civic-minded thing to say, but if you weren't in Montreal in 1997 to witness Bran Van 3000's shattering of the glass ceiling that seemed to block so many local bands in that dreary decade, then you truly can't comprehend how this collective of poets, artists, rappers and musicians represented a new horizon for...
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The Chart Time Tunnel: Bran Van 3000's Charting Highs, Lows

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 15, 2011 11:38 am
The Chart Time Tunnel is a a weekly column analyzing the campus radio chart from a decade ago. The summer of 2001 was a carefree season. The world had got past their Y2K fears and the economy was booming. The internet was still relatively fresh to most people, though the dot com bubble had burst and Napster was under investigation. 911 was only...
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The Longest Running Albums On The Campus Radio Chart

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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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Women's Public Strain Threepeats At #1 On Campus Chart

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) November 16, 2010 2:12 pm
That projected big battle between Vancouver and Calgary seems to have been won by the band from the Wild Rose province. Women's Public Strain has retained the #1 spot on the campus top 50 chart for the third week, sitting in the top spot again for the week of November 16, 2010. Meanwhile, Black Mountain's Wilderness Heart (a former #1) continues...
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New Bran Van 3000 Album Coming

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 4, 2010 11:08 am
There you were, going through your CDs earlier this summer when you came across your copy of Bran Van 3000's Glee and MuchMusic's Big Shiny Tunes 2. A wave of nostalgia hit you when you remembered dancing to "Drinking In L.A." in high school, and you sat there thinking, "Ahh, the days when MuchMusic still played videos..."Now, Bran Van hadn't done...
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2008 MuchMusic Video Awards

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Photographer: 
Kate Harper
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MuchMusic Building
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 15, 2008
Kim Bingham with Bran Van 3000's James Di Salvio and Sara Johnston

Bran Van 3000 Return To Live Performing

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) May 29, 2008 4:00 pm
MONTREAL — Montreal music collective Bran Van 3000 will make their triumphant return to the hometown stage after an eight-year hiatus on July 1 in conjunction with the Montreal International Jazz Fest. In a style befitting the group's party-hearty antics and their revolving door cast, the show will be a massive free outdoor concert. Hits like...
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Bran Van 3000: The Only Rule Is That There Are No Rules

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) December 18, 2007 3:30 pm
There's a lack of urgency in Bran Van 3000's approach to making music that today's harder working bands would consider appalling. Their last record, Discosis, dropped in 2001. Rather than trying to capitalize on the momentum it created for them, ringleader James Di Salvio and his crew decided to sit back and let the album age like a fine wine....
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Bran Van 3000 Compare Reunion To Justice League Or X-Men

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) November 8, 2007 4:30 pm
The way James Di Salvio explains Bran Van 3000's reunion after a seven year hiatus, it sounds as if his flock of musicians were acting like homing pigeons, all returning to their roost when some mystic understanding signaled that the time was right. Rose, the third full-length dropped by the party music collective, picks up where 2001's...
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Bran Van 3000 Set To Return

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) October 9, 2007 4:30 pm
Montreal music collective Bran Van 3000, fronted by jack-of-all-trades James Di Salvio, will finally release a new album called Rose on Oct. 30 after a six-year gap since the group released their second album, Discosis. Lead single "Call Me (I'll Be Around Medley)" was released on Oct. 4. It samples The Spinners' R&B hit, "I'...
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Fool Around With Bran Van 3000

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By Amanda Factor (CHARTattack) June 4, 2001 4:30 pm
What other contest would give you the chance to mess around with the vocals of Curtis Mayfield? The Bran Van 3000 remix contest, that's what. Grand Royal is inviting musical tech wizards to fool around with "Astounded" from their new album Discosis. The winning creation will be a B-side on a commercially released BV3 single. The...
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Bran Van 3000 Want To Work With Diamond Dave

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By CHARTattack Staff May 30, 2001 3:30 pm
The new album Discosis was released just yesterday and the Bran Van 3000 clan have been getting all busy conspiring ways to make that "Astounded" song the big patio hit of the summer. With the song currently sitting #12 on the Top 100 for Canadian radio it seems like that bandwagon is already built and starting to roll. We found...
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Bran Van 3000 — Discosis

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By Mike Doherty (CHARTattack) May 29, 2001 12:08 pm
According to Jamie "Bran Man" DiSalvio, "Discosis" is the struggle between thinking and dancing. It's not often one can do both at once, but BV3's sophomore opus enables just that. It's a wildly ambitious album that proves you can move on up and get down at the same time. Hip-hop, dancehall, disco, jungle, power-pop, qawwali... you name it, they'...
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Bran Van 3000 No Longer Goofy Canadians

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By Matt Mernagh (CHARTattack) April 2, 2001 12:30 pm
Over the course of our 20-minute interview Bran Van 3000 attempt to prove that they're no longer goofy French Canadians. Although if you could hear all the laughter and giggling on the interview tape, you'd think that they weren't trying very hard. [Editor's Note: After every quote add a laugh track for authenticity.] Take for example the...
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Top 50 Canadian Albums Of All-Time (40 To 31)

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By CHARTattack Staff June 30, 2000 7:00 am
40. SIANSPHERIC Somnium (Sonic Unyon) 1995 Like a velvet glove dipped in iron, they knew exactly when to punch and when to stroke. Armed with a sinewy intellect and their own brand of gaseous post-rock prescience, they burned a path through the sonic stratosphere. The waves of gentle turbulence and ethereal beauty are still as hypnotic and...
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