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Halifax Festival Shows Winter Isn't Dead

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By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) February 2, 2009 1:38 pm
Festival organizer and performer Amelia Curran described In The Dead Of Winter best: "It's like Christmas, only better." More than 50 musical acts performed at five venues around Halifax from Jan. 27 to 31, and Curran and fellow festival organizers Heather Gibson, Tanya Davis and Don Brownrigg outdid themselves. This year's Dead fest...
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Cadence Weapon And Buck 65 Battle The Hall

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) April 28, 2008 3:00 pm
Something funny happened leading up to Friday night's hip-hop double-bill. Every time anybody was told that Buck 65 and Cadence Weapon were performing at The Music Hall, the immediate response was, "Really?" Standing in the building before the latter hit the stage, I found myself wondering the same thing. Besides the massive cityscape...
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Buck 65 Gets Nostalgic In Halifax With The Nova Scotia Symphony

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By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) April 22, 2008 1:00 pm
Buck 65 once had to climb a tree in his yard with a transistor radio in hand to hear rap music on Dalhousie University's campus radio station CKDU's 33-watt signal. Much has changed since the mid-'80s. CKDU currently operates at 3,200 watts — serving the entire urban Halifax regional — and this past weekend Buck 65 returned to that campus as the...
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Buck 65 — Situation

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) October 30, 2007 7:36 pm
I like Buck 65. But don't get me started on the mechanics of that decision. I always found his vocal delivery at odds with itself — it's at once kind of jokey, but also completely engaging. Now that I finally enjoy it wholeheartedly (it's an acquired taste, to be certain), I can say without much doubt that Situation is one of the most ambitious...
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Tragically Hip Crowd Not Aging With The Band

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) February 9, 2007 5:00 pm
I'm from Kingston, Ontario, and the last 26 years of my life have remained almost entirely Tragically Hip-free. I'd never seen the group perform live, owned only a cassette copy of Fully Completely, and have mostly ignored their entire catalogue, save for the singles that played endlessly on the radio and MuchMusic as I grew up. It's weird, too,...
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Buck 65 — Secret House Against The World

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By Matt Semansky (CHARTattack) June 28, 2005 12:33 pm
With each album, Nova Scotia's Buck 65 piles up more props from the legions who find genius in his country-blues style of hip-hop. Despite his undeniable gift for off-kilter instrumentation, Buck's songs go off the rails as soon as he opens his mouth. "The Suffering Machine" drifts on a lush string arrangement and the twanging guitar of "Blood Of...
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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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Buck 65's Here For The Long Haul

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 30, 2011 1:37 pm
It's often said that we live in an era of remarkably short attention spans. The internet, instant messaging and the latest fads seem to have made it even less likely that something will be around in five years' time, never mind 20. Nowadays, artists seem to release one or two albums, perhaps a few more if they're lucky and then hit their peek and...
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I Read The News Today... For June 17, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 17, 2011 3:35 pm
 Those of you who are still stuck in 2005 can check out a new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah track below. "Same Mistake" will appear on their new Hysterical album, which is out Sept. 20. Liam Gallagher is not attending Noel Gallagher's wedding because he's touring with Beady Eye. Convenient excuse. Man, their mum's...
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Sloan 20th Anniversary Tribute Video #8: Under The Influence

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 18, 2011 2:32 pm
Sloanamania continues on CHARTattack as we celebrate the band's 20th anniversary and new album The Double Cross.For the next 10 days we'll be publishing a series Sloan video tributes, one per day.This eighth edition features K-OS, Pink Eyes from Fucked Up, members of Billy Talent, The Two Koreas, The Dears, The Stills, Death From Above 1979 and...
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Sloan 20th Anniversary Tribute Video #6: "Favourite Lyric"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 16, 2011 1:40 pm
Sloanamania continues on CHARTattack as we celebrate the band's 20th anniversary and new album The Double Cross.For the next 10 days we'll be publishing a series Sloan video tributes, one per day.This sixth edition featuring Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), Fucked Up's Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham, Buck 65, Death...
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Sloan 20th Anniversary Tribute Video #1 With BSS, Dears, DFA79, KITH, Billy Talent

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 9, 2011 2:07 pm
Man, it's gonna be Sloanamania all up in CHARTattack for the next little while to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary and new album The Double Cross.Positioning ourselves yet again as the enablers at least partially responsible for why Chris Murphy needs to vaseline the sides of his head in order to fit through doors, for the next 10 days we'll...
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CNN Anchor Helped Write Buck 65 Lyrics

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 14, 2011 3:20 pm
CNN International anchor Hala Gorani might have picked everything up and headed to Egypt earlier this year to report on the collapse of the Hosni Mubarak dictatorship. But before she left, she was doing something very important for a friend in the Canadian music community. Gorani is friends with Buck 65, and happens to be fluent in French. When...
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Video Of The Day: Buck 65's "Zombie Delight"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 28, 2011 3:57 pm
At least one CHARTattack staffer has been waiting for this video for a while, and it's finally here. Buck 65's clip for "Zombie Delight" finds the man whose real name is Rich Terfry adopting a bunch of different personas, from zombie hunter to deranged reanimated corpse to a father warning his family about the undead. It's a wee bit gory in parts...
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Official 2011 Juno Awards Drinking Game

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 25, 2011 10:31 am
Finally. After years of complaining that it's too expensive to fly all their artists out to places like St. John's or Saskatoon, or that there aren't enough limousines to rent in these towns, or that the available bars are too small to host proper after-parties, the Canadian music industry has finally gotten its wish and the 40th anniversary...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 3, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 3, 2011 3:20 pm
Buck 65 has been nominated for two Genie Awards! He's up for best original song and best original score for the work he did on Sook-Yin Lee's Year Of The Carnivore. Elliott Brood are also up for best original song for "West End Sky" from Grown Up Movie Star. Paul J. Spence is also up for best original song for "There's No Place Like Christmas"...
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Buck 65 — 20 Odd Years

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) January 31, 2011 3:01 pm
20 Odd Years represents an interesting mile marker for a man who's spent the last two decades restlessly trying to define his relationship with both hip-hop and music in general. Buck 65 has always seemed intent on positioning himself as the rapping lineal descendent of folk singers and storytellers; a sophisticate Stompin' Tom Connors more...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 21, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 21, 2011 5:20 pm
Buck 65 recently shot a video for 20 Odd Years' "Zombie Delight" (hear it here!) and has released a special behind-the-scenes clip showcasing some of the hilarity that went into the video. See it below: Mother Mother have announced a short North American tour that'll see them playing dates in the western United States and British...
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Video Of The Day: Every Canadian Rapper Ever Appears On George Stroumboulopoulos' Show

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 23, 2010 12:30 pm
A few nights ago, Canadian rappers past and present like D-Sisive, Michie Mee, Buck 65, Maestro and Kardinal Offishall appeared on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. What resulted was a version of Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'." Check it out below.
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 9, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 9, 2010 3:29 pm
Geoff Berner's new album, Victory Party, will come out March 8 through his new label, Mint Records. He's finished with his Whiskey Rabbi trilogy of albums, but don't be surprised if there's plenty of klezmer and songs about drinking on it anyway. Arcade Fire won two CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards yesterday, taking home trophies for Best Song and Best...
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