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Have Not Been The Same Salutes Can-Rock's Glory Days

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) June 9, 2011 2:12 pm
You kids have it so good these days, what with owning your own glockenspiels and having thousands of Facebook friends you can call on to gang-sing in your viral video campaigns and such.There was a time, though, when being a Canadian rock 'n' roller wasn't so easy. Back in the '80s and '90s, if you weren't Kim Mitchell you had to learn to hunt as...
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Have Not Been The Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance, 1985-1995
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By Divine Right Release Free Single About Shaking Titties

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By CHARTattack Staff June 25, 2010 11:11 am
By Divine Right celebrate their 20th anniversary this year, and they've got good reason to be excited about that. Since they formed, they've left an indelible mark on the Canadian indie scene, having released eight full-length albums. They also count current members of Broken Social Scene, Holy Fuck, along with Feist, as alumni.   So they've...
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By Divine Right @ NXNE 2010

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) June 21, 2010 11:40 am
Background/Composition: These godfathers of Toronto indie rock are like the older student in your class who keeps failing because he doesn't give a shit about what the teacher thinks of him. He knows he'll never be rich or famous, and that's the way he prefers it. He smokes dope behind the bleachers at lunch, and if you're lucky, he'll go into the...
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By Divine Right Decode Their Mutant Message

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) December 23, 2009 2:15 pm
Jose Contreras is a mutant, or so he says. The singer/multi-instrumentalist has definitely proven he has the uncanny ability to make catchy pop rock. We also know he played a big part the careers of many of this country's most successful musicians. On disc, Contreras' By Divine Right is mostly a one-man show these days, but in decades past,...
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By Divine Right — Mutant Message

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) December 10, 2009 3:55 pm
By Divine Right started making a name for themselves during the Canadian independent music renaissance early in the last decade, but their output has been more sporadic of late. In fact, Mutant Message is the band's first album in five years. BDR main man Jose Contreras has been busy producing music for the likes of his wife Lily Frost, as wBy...
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By Divine Right Get Their Message Out

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) December 8, 2009 5:19 pm
During Canadian Music Week in 2006, a show that was supposed to take place at Toronto's Social was cancelled by the venue at the last minute. It left Aporia Records performers Morgan Doctor, Pernille, Lily Frost and Junetile with no place to put on a concert that had been planned months in advance. That was when By Divine Right frontman Jose...
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By Divine Right Return With First Album In Five Years

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) November 12, 2009 3:38 pm
Toronto rock band By Divine Right will release Mutant Message, their first studio album in five years, Dec. 8 through Hand Drawn Dracula. The 10-track album will be available as digitally and as a CD and on vinyl. We're also told that "Mutant Message offers a 'no fat' extra trim collection of ten perfect pop songs that sonically range from...
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The Social Shuts Out Bands, But Frost And Contreras Come To The Rescue

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) March 7, 2006 7:00 pm
The Social, a bar on Toronto's Queen Street West, has come under heat for canceling its Saturday night Canadian Music Week showcase due to an anticipated lack of attendance. Five bands (including Pernille, who came from Denmark to play at CMW) had been booked months in advance to play an Aporia Records showcase on Saturday, only to receive news...
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By Divine Right — Sweet Confusion

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By Sofi Papamarko (CHARTattack) July 20, 2004 1:13 pm
Strange that so many music critics have recently been hailing young upstart NYC and U.K. bands as "The ones that got the stoic indie kids dancing." By Divine Right have been getting the young, the old and the terminally cool alike to just totally fucking lose it on the dance floor since 1989. Sweet Confusion is chock full of...
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CMW 2004: By Divine Right

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By CHARTattack Staff February 18, 2004 12:30 pm
Hometown: Toronto, ON Year Formed: August 1989 Band Members: Jose Contreras: vocals, guitar Dylan Hudecki: bass John Hall: drums Brian Borcherdt: guitar Colleen Hixenbaugh: guitar Official Website: www.bydivineright.com Jose Contreras and his crew of misfits just got back from a tour of China. We took advantage of that to ask him about...
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By Divine Right To Take China By Storm

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By CHARTattack Staff November 11, 2003 5:30 pm
This time last year, Wide Mouth Mason made history by becoming the very first North American band to do a tour of mainland China. The lil' band from the prairies did a short tour in support of their Chinese-exclusive greatest hits album, and from all indications, the tour went quite well. Inspired by WMM's Chinese success, another Canadian...
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By Divine Right — Good Morning Beautiful

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By Darrin Keene (CHARTattack) October 2, 2001 11:25 am
This new album from By Divine Right features an expansive, mature sound that maintains the band's old energy while moving the music in new directions. Frontman Jose Contreras has an upgraded line-up that kicks By Divine Right into a new area of the stratosphere. Listen to the beefy drum and guitar interplay on "Supernatural" or the Stones riff...
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By Divine Right @ NXNE 2001

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By Darrin Keene (CHARTattack) June 8, 2001 2:30 pm
Hometown: Toronto, ON Background/Composition: A veritable Can-Rock institution, Jose Contreras works the live stage like few of his peers. The latest version of By Divine Right works his transcendent sound in a grittier, rockier direction, but it's still spell-binding. Achievement of Rock 'n' Roll Expectations 80-100: Band exceeds skill...
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NXNE Preview: By Divine Right Return

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By Howard Druckman (CHARTattack) June 7, 2001 12:30 pm
By Divine Right frontman Jose Contreras says their new album is "more madness, more beautiful," and he oughtta know. Only the big-ass guitars, sweet melodies and huge emotional and spiritual capacities have stayed the same; everything else on Good Morning Beautiful is crazier, prettier, different or some combination thereof. From...
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Holy Jose! They're Back! <P>Photo by Graham Kennedy</P>

By Divine Right Dropped By Label

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By CHARTattack Staff January 26, 2000 12:00 pm
The band that rode a wave of success with their one and only hit, "Come For A Ride," and toured with The Tragically Hip last year on their national tour, has just been dropped by their label of four years, Nettwerk Records. Label representatives have not divulged the reasons for dropping By Divine Right, but Chartattack suspects the...
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And then there was one...<I>photo by Richard Beland</I>

Humble + Fred Picnic At Fort York

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Photographer: 
Jonathan St. Joseph
Venue: 
Historic Fort York
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
August 28, 1999
José Miguel Contreras
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