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Bruce Peninsula — A Mountain Is A Mouth

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 9, 2009 10:51 am

By all logic, Bruce Peninsula should be nothing more than a ludicrous idea. An 11-member band and a choir who play experimental music should be doomed to failure, but Bruce Peninsula seem to defy odds and expectations with this debut. "Steamroller" has one heck of a hook in its chorus, and there's a good chance it will be the first song with a...

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Bruce Peninsula's Release Show Wows Audience

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 23, 2009 1:24 pm

The Polish Combatants Hall is a musty old building located just south of Toronto's College Street and its performance room looks like your average high school auditorium. Its floors also make it look like it could double as a gymnasium on a bit more notice. It even has fold-up chairs. Minus the instruments on stage on Sunday night and hipsters...

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Cuff The Duke Have Groupies

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 25, 2008 12:48 pm

Friday night's Cuff The Duke show at the 'Shoe — the first of two consecutive nights they played there — was entirely enjoyable and entertaining, despite a huge distraction. Oshawa's The Stables got things going with their brand of country. Instead of a bass, they used a small tin washtub turned upside down with a hockey stick tied to it with...

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WATCH: Bruce Peninsula - “In Your Light” official music video

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By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) January 20, 2012 5:08 pm

The bright and enchanting Bruce Peninsula have released a dazzling video for “In Your Light,” one of the highlights off of their sophomore record, Open Flames. With shimmering and imaginative imagery, director and animator Jesse Ewles crafts a rousing clip that looks like something out of a children's storybook. Majestic animated sea...

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BEST OF 2011: Our favourite live acts

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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I Read The News Today... For July 27, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 27, 2011 3:01 pm

Stereogum's released a compilation of artists doing songs from The Strokes' Is This It album to celebrate the LP's 10th anniversary. And you know what? It's a thousand times better than Spin's Nirvana Nevermind covers disc. Montreal's The New Cities are set to release a new album dubbed Kill The Lights on Sept. 13. Some of its songs were co-...

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I Read The News Today... For June 29, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 29, 2011 2:34 pm

Tennis have covered rockabilly and country legend Brenda Lee's "Is It True?" and you can grab the cover over at their website. If you wanted to see The Tragically Hip at Toronto's Downsview Park on Canada Day and you didn't buy tickets... you're shit out of luck. Their festival, which features performances from Weezer, Broken Social Scene, Hey...

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I Read The News Today... For April 15, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 15, 2011 4:34 pm

The Beastie Boys' Fight For Your Right Revisited 30-minute film is screening at Toronto's Royal Cinema on Wednesday. (More Canadian screenings will be held soon.) Hopefully, you get a ticket, otherwise your "future you" is stupid. —MuchMusic Bruce Peninsula member Neil Haverty's cancer is in remission! So to celebrate, the band have started...

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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 26, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 26, 2011 3:54 pm

A special fundraiser's being held for Bruce Peninsula's Neil Haverty, who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Toronto's Music Gallery will host the day-long event on Saturday, and funds raised will go to Haverty and his family to help him treat his illness and recover. —brucetrails.blogspot.com Here's something that's a bit weird, but not at the...

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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 3, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 3, 2011 4:50 pm

CNN called The New Pornographers "the best band you didn't listen to this year but should have" in their Best And Worst of 2010 New Year's Eve special. —LiveDashKanye West + Muppets = awesome. Video evidence: Cancer Bats might be a bunch of guys in skinny jeans screaming into microphones and headbanging, but they also like... sports. And...

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Song Of The Day: Steven McKay's "Slow Down"

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 22, 2010 3:58 pm

Steven McKay's probably better known as the drummer for Toronto collective Bruce Peninsula, and he's also collaborated with Timber Timbre and Ohbijou's Casey Mecija (outside of Bruce Peninula, of course, which she's also a part of). Now he's releasing his self-titled debut album through Outside Music, and "Slow Down" can be found on that record....

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Bruce Peninsula's Music Becomes A "Character" In New Film

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 15, 2010 4:04 pm

There's always been something very religious and even rural about Bruce Peninsula's music. Although the band mix math-rock with old timey folk and gospel, their tunes very much sound like they'd be at home in a small Ontario town where religion's still very much a part of people's lives. Appropriately, their music is used in just such a context in...

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LOLA Festival Returns

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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Heavy Vessel Music Series Launches

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 20, 2009 2:39 pm

I went to the launch of the Heavy Vessel music series last night, which is being organized by Ohbijou's Casey Mecija. It was supposed to be held in a ship in a sandbox at a school on Toronto's Bellwoods Ave., but it got too cold last night, so it had to be moved to the basement of the house on Bellwoods Ave. where Mecija and her sister, Ohbijou's...

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