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Edgefest 2009 Is Muddy

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) June 22, 2009 3:58 pm
Festivals are great — an entire day of music, hanging out with like-minded people ("You like Metric? I love Metric!! Let's be besties!"), and enjoying the sunshine. Oh wait — scratch that. Sunshine wasn't part of the deal at Edgefest this year. The rain came down all day and transformed Downsview Park into one giant mud puddle. It made...
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Thursday's Taste Of Chaos Set Suffers

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By Sheena Lyonnais (CHARTattack) April 9, 2009 3:31 pm
This was the second last show on the two-month Taste Of Chaos tour, but you'd never know it by the calibre of energy and excitement that all five bands brought to the stage. The tour focuses on hardcore/screamo music, but the crowd focused on fashion. I saw young girls restraightening their hair in the washroom between sets, which is...
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Thursday (photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Cancer Bats Album Release Show "An Hour Of Thick, Brutal Musical Extremity"

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By Keith Carman (CHARTattack) April 23, 2008 2:30 pm
Apparently Tuesday night is apparently the new Friday night thanks to Toronto's metal/hardcore heroes Cancer Bats. Well, every night is the new Friday night if you have the power to incite hundreds of bodies to crawl out of their homes on an evening when homework looms, everyone's gotta get up the next morning and the coming weekend is still...
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Cancer Bats' Liam Cormier (Photo by Jess Baumung)

Cancer Bats — Hail Destroyer

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By Shehzaad Jiwani (CHARTattack) April 22, 2008 1:39 pm
Unless you've lived under a rock for the past couple of years, you should be familiar with the Cancer Bats and their signature brand of riff-based hardcore. The Toronto quartet have dominated the Canadian punk scene since the release of their 2006 debut, Birthing The Giant, and their sophomore effort is here just in time to stoke the fire....
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Cancer Bats Save Gallows In Toronto

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By Shehzaad Jiwani (CHARTattack) February 6, 2008 10:00 am
Though most Canadians probably aren't familiar with Gallows, it's quite a different story in their native Britain. On that side of the pond, the quintet are being touted as the most important punk band since the Sex Pistols. We're all familiar with the hyperbolic nature of the British press, but there are moments on Gallows' Orchestra Of Wolves...
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Gallows' Steph Carter (Photo by Carrie Musgave)

Cancer Bats @ CMW 2007

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By Jamie Hunter (CHARTattack) March 12, 2007 1:00 pm
Background/Composition: Cancer Bats are an intense, brash and talented hardcore/rock band led by a whip-lashing, razor-tongued frontman and a guitar player who sounds like a reincarnation of Dimebag Darrell Abbott. Grade: 97 Comment: Hey kids, you wanna know how to be in a rock band? Check out Cancer Bats the next time they come around...
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Edgefest 2's Smaller Acts Upstage The Headliners

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By Shehzaad Jiwani (CHARTattack) July 18, 2006 3:30 pm
If Edgefest 1 brought the rock, Edgefest 2 definitely brought the punk. Or pop-punk, anyway. Focusing on one genre instead of a mixed bag like previous years produced uneven results, but young punks flocked to the Molson Amphitheatre to see a wide array of mainstream and underground punk talent. One of the great things about going with the...
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Moneen Celebrate Good Times

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By Paul Budel (CHARTattack) June 15, 2006 2:00 pm
One thing I've never understood in regards to Moneen is the oft-used "shoegazer" label. The only way this applied to the band during their set at the Opera House on Wednesday night was when one of their shoes would be roughly at eye-level. Whereas openers Our Mercury and The Junction used driving rhythms and odd time signatures to...
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The Bled Make Eardrums Bleed

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By Shehzaad Jiwani (CHARTattack) March 27, 2006 5:30 pm
The Opera House was filled with energy both onstage and off last Friday when metalcore quintet The Bled rolled through town with hometown boys Protest The Hero. Though the bill featured five bands, lag between set changes was kept to a minimum and soundchecks were brisk to keep the fire burning well into the night. The show started off with...
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Cancer Bats @ CMW 2006

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By Matt Semansky (CHARTattack) March 6, 2006 11:30 am
Hometown:  Toronto, ON Background/Composition: Four-piece play greasy, dirty, loud-ass metal. Grade: 89 Comment: If you like having your eardrums split in half and your innards reduced to a quivering, gelatinous goo, Cancer Bats are the band to see. They punished the audience with ferocious intensity. Achievement of Rock...
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Cancer Bats' "Bat Sabbath" Set At Sonisphere Exists And It's Wicked, Bro

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 22, 2011 12:43 pm
To most people, Bohemia is usually associated with bohemians. You know, dirty, long-haired hippies who don't shower, shave their armpits (if they're women), are probably vegetarian, wear "peasant" dresses and who smell like patchouli from incense they've been burning in their spare time, but which doesn't quite cover up their B.O. stink. At first...
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I Read The News Today... For July 8, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 8, 2011 4:14 pm
The Dropkick Murphys' Sept. 8 and 9 hometown stadium shows at Boston's Fenway Park both sold out in less than an hour. That's going to be a hell of a lot of drunken "Irish" people in one place. With a lot of swearing. And probably several fights. The Black Keys' follow-up to last year's Brothers is finished and should be out by the end of the year...
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I Read The News Today... For June 28, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 28, 2011 2:53 pm
The Besnard Lakes will release a new EP dubbed You Lived In The City on Sept. 20, which features music they recorded for an interactive documentary earlier this year. They're also touring with Malajube this fall. Brother have been forced to change their name to Viva Brother. Viva non-stop band names. Wilco's new album is going to be called The...
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I Read The News Today... For June 21, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 21, 2011 12:23 pm
Cancer Bats are working on the follow-up to last year's Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones, which they say should feature plenty of Sabbath-esque riffs. And, y'know... screaming. That, too. Anet Mook, singer for '90s indie rockers Cay, died earlier this month after she was hit by a bus in Amsterdam. Her funeral was held last Thursday.Your mom...
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Cancer Bats Tear Toronto Apart

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 20, 2011 4:27 pm
It's appropriate that 3 Inches Of Blood's T-shirts have "BLOOD. HOCKEY. HEAVY METAL" written on their backs. While there wasn't any blood (that I could see, at least) or hockey at Toronto's Mod Club last night when the Vancouver metallers opened for hometown hardcore heroes Cancer Bats, there certainly was a LOT of sweat, and the "blood" and "...
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I Read The News Today... For April 6, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 6, 2011 3:06 pm
Death From Above 1979's Sebastien Grainger and Josh Reichmann are good buds, having formed the classily-named Bad Tits together last year. Now Grainger's offered his remixing skills to Reichmann, and has done a version of Reichmann's "All Day Wrong," which will be found on Reichmann's upcoming After Live album. —Spinner "SMASH BEEP WOOOOOOSH CLANG...
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Cancer Bats Announce Canadian Spring Tour

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 1, 2011 5:21 pm
Cancer Bats are road animals. No, seriously. The second they finish a tour, they start another one. They're doing that beginning May 4, when they launch a Canadian jaunt that'll see them playing select dates with 3 Inches Of Blood, Barn Burner, Wasters and Ancients. It comes right after a European tour in March and April with Vera Cruz. Vocalist...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 18, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 18, 2011 3:40 pm
Vincent Moon of The Takeaway Show shot a nearly 20-minute video of The Luyas at October's Pop Montreal... and it features a paper forest! Check it out below. The Horrors' follow-up to 2009's Mercury Prize short-listed Primary Colours will be out sometime in July. That's the official word from frontman Faris Badwan. In the meantime, he's...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 25, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 25, 2011 4:20 pm
Rancid guitarist Lars Frederiksen has formed a new band called The Old Firm. They're an "Oi!" punk band. We know this because their Facebook page describes their genre as "Oi! Oi! Oi!" Anyway, they'll be releasing a seven-inch vinyl single "soon." Those of you who were really confused by Calgary indie rock band Braids, and were all like, "I...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 3, 2010

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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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