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Lollapalooza 2009 Was For The Kids

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By Mike McCann (CHARTattack) August 14, 2009 3:54 pm
Festivals like last weekend's Lollapalooza are supposed to be irresistible to music fiends. You know, like Yogi Bear can't say no to a picnic basket. I attended the first seven Lollas back when it was a) a traveling carnival and b) more culturally relevant, so I've struggled the last few years between wanting to go to the new "destination...
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Weakerthans Show They're Universal

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By Shayne Stephens (CHARTattack) April 2, 2009 1:14 pm
Despite music writers' obvious affinity to taxonomy, there are some bands that manage — frustratingly — to remain unclassifiable. Winnipeg's now decade-old darlings The Weakerthans are one such conundrum. The band boast a seismic catalogue of catchy, mostly chorus-less tracks that somehow successfully capture the universal experience via...
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Weakerthans (photo by Graham Kennedy)

VFest Toronto Day One

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) September 8, 2008 4:46 pm
There are a few steadfast indications that it's the end of summer in Toronto: university kids are running rampant downtown, the streets are abuzz with film nerds for the Toronto International Film Festival and the Virgin Festival invades Toronto Island for two days. After a horrendous ferry ride over (media had access to a VIP ferry, but it was...
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Foo Fighters (photo by Chris Ramey)

Constantines Don't Experience Much Love For Kensington

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By Shehzaad Jiwani (CHARTattack) May 2, 2008 2:00 pm
You know how a friend says that you're "exactly like someone" they know, but you're nothing alike when you finally meet your supposed doppelganger? I'd imagine that's how Attack In Black feel when they're constantly compared to Constantines, and it was interesting to see the two bands playing back-to-back for this very reason. Attack...
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Constantines (Photo by Jason McLoughlin)

Constantines — Kensington Heights

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) April 15, 2008 11:23 am
There comes a point in the career of most Canadian indie bands when they figure out their following probably won't get much bigger and they decide what they really want to be. The Constantines have decided they want to be the band they've toured much of North America with: The Weakerthans.So, on Kensington Heights, the Cons don't sound...
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Constantines — "Hard Feelings/Easy Money"

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 12, 2008 5:16 pm
The Cons' association with Arts & Crafts is already reaping rewards in the form of their first seven-inch single on aesthetically pleasant white vinyl. "Hard Feelings" seems a perfect reintroduction. A frenetic piece of work complete with the chin-up threat "You can tell by the way we walk/We got hard! hard! hard! hard! hard feeling," the...
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Constantines — Tournament Of Hearts

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 27, 2005 2:38 pm
The Constantines' third full-length record marks the end of Three Gut Records, but rather than eulogize, Tournament Of Hearts is more a call to arms. While the last two Cons records were full of greatness, it seems they've always performed at three-quarters of their potential. On TOH, they are unequivocally at 100 per cent. From the opening beat...
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The Constantines — Shine A Light

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By Joanne Huffa (CHARTattack) August 18, 2003 2:19 pm
Toronto-via-Guelph’s Constantines are media darlings to the highest degree. Fanboys (and, to a lesser extent girls) and critics alike trip all over themselves as they attempt to come up with bigger, shinier adjectives with which to describe this gang of rock ‘n’ roll contenders. And while I don’t believe that Shine A Light is musical perfection,...
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The Constantines — The Modern Sinner Nervous Man EP

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By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth (CHARTattack) April 16, 2002 1:32 pm
This three-song EP, released on U.S. label Suicide Squeeze, marks The Constantines’ formal introduction to the American market. Toronto’s grand saviors of post-punk rock are probably saving their true gems for the follow-up to their mind-blowing self-titled debut, but while these songs aren’t the best that the Cons have laid down, they’re still...
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The Modern Sinner Nervous Man EP

WATCH: Bry Webb (of the Constantines) performs “Viva” in his kitchen

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 16, 2012 5:38 pm
It doesn't get much more intimate than this. Bry Webb, best known as the gravelly voice behind the (possibly-defunct) Canadian indie rock outfit Constantines, recently released his first solo effort Provider, which showcased his fragile folk songwriting -- a stark contrast to his work with the Cons.Webb invited Southern Souls into his house and,...
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WATCH: Bry Webb (of Constantines) performs solo material in studio

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) November 10, 2011 7:37 pm
While we continue to wonder when (and if) we can expect a new record from Canadian rock outfit Constantines, frontman Bry Webb is bracing himself for the release of his first solo effort, Provider. While his band is known for their jagged, balls-to-the-wall rock, on this record Webb reveals a side himself other than the gravelly sing-shout we've...
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I Read The News Today... For July 6, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 6, 2011 2:59 pm
Cuff The Duke are playing a free show in Guelph, Ont. with Constantines' Bry Webb, hometown folk rockers Your Neck Of The Woods and singer/songwriter Donovan Woods. It goes down July 16 at the alley behind the Red Brick Cafe on Douglas Street from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Music writer Lorraine Carpenter is heading on a mini tour of Ottawa, Toronto and...
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The Chart Time Tunnel: Tricky Woo's Last Stand At #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 10, 2011 11:31 am
In two weeks, it's the first anniversary of the last time I wrote a Chart Time Tunnel. It was about that time CHARTattack shifted to a new platform and access to all of the charts on CHARTattack ended. Since then, we've been re-inputting the weekly charts again with some success. The weekly charts from September 1995 through to October 2001 have...
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Tricky Woo (Photo by Roger Aziz)

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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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 20, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 20, 2010 12:14 pm
Former Inbreds singer/bassist Mike O'Neill is helping Halifax indie rockers In-Flight Safety record new material. —TwitterDallas Green has written a song about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster called "At The Bird's Foot." But he says it's different from many of the other songs about the tragedy because he focuses...
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Song Of The Day: Baby Eagle's "Day Of Our Departing"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 11, 2010 11:25 am
For those who don't know, Baby Eagle is probably better known as Constantines singer/guitarist Steve Lambke."Day Of Our Departing" is the opening track to his third Baby Eagle album, Dog Weather, which is out Tuesday.This time, he's joined by a backing band that includes Attack In Black's Daniel Romano, Shotgun Jimmie and...
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Baby Eagle's Steve Lambke (Photo by Davida Nemeroff)

Constantines Going On Hiatus

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 11, 2010 10:58 am
If you were hoping a follow-up to Constantines' 2008 Polaris Music Prize long listed Kensington Heights would be released sometime soon, it looks like you're out of luck. It also looks like the band won't be doing anything anytime soon. Singer/guitarist Bry Webb told CBC/Exclaim reporter Vish Khanna that the band are "slowing...
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Constantines Release Daytrotter Session

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 18, 2010 3:45 pm
Constantines are the next Canadian act to have recorded a session for Daytrotter, the website for the Illinois-based Horseshack studio. Singers/guitarists Bry Webb and Steve Lambke, keyboardist Will Kidman, bassist Dallas Wehrle and drummer Doug MacGregor recorded four songs for Daytrotter. They laid down "Sub-Domestic" from 2003's...
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Constantines, Ladyhawk Playing Secret Toronto Show?

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By Mark Teo (CHARTattack) December 16, 2009 3:01 pm
Tucked away amongst puppy videos, "would you rather" polls and stories of drunken escapades, Ladyhawk's cryptic blog mentions that they're playing a secret Toronto show on Thursday (Dec. 17). Math-minded sleuths will also be able to figure out from said blog that the secret show will be with the Constantines. "If you live in...
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Ladyhawk's Duffy Driediger (Photo by Jess Baumung)
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