Death From Above 1979

Death From Above 1979 — Romance Bloody Romance

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) November 8, 2005 10:16 am
This record of remixes and b-sides is a perfect complement to You're A Woman, I'm A Machine. Kicking off with a stellar cover of La Peste's "Better Off Dead," the 13 track record consists mostly of remixes of "Romantic Rights" and "Black History Month," both of which appear four times, but the artists reimagining the...
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CHARTattack PRESENTS | Fifteen Noisy, Messy Songs

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 17, 2012 11:59 am
Feeling sluggish this morning? Same. But we've put together a little pick-me-up for you. Today we salute those artists who can make something beautiful out of dirty, messy noise. Noisy music has a sort of inherit spirituality: While angels up in heaven are plucking away at their tiny angel harps, us miserable humans are stuck on Earth, maxing out...
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BEST OF 2011: Our favourite live acts

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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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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 #4: "My Favourite Sloan Album"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 12, 2011 1:42 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 fourth edition is about the rich nerd debate, "What's your favourite Sloan album?" Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene, members of The Dears and...
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Sloan 20th Anniversary Tribute Video #2: "My Favourite Sloan Song"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 10, 2011 2:21 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 second edition features Jason Schwartzman, Joel Plaskett, Rob Benvie of The Dears/ Thrush Hermit, Fucked Up's Damian Abraham, Dave Foley of The...
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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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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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K-OS Records Weezer Cover With Billy Talent Frontman

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 31, 2011 3:33 pm
Genre-bending rapper K-OS' next album will likely feature a duet between himself and Billy Talent lead vocalist Ben Kowalewicz covering Weezer's 1995 alternative nation hit, "Say It Ain't So."The pair covered the song during a mostly-hits K-OS performance at Toronto's Masonic Temple that was being recorded for a live album and (presumably)...
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Death From Above 1979 Confirmed For Osheaga 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 31, 2011 11:57 am
Facial hair already looks to be in abundance at this year's Osheaga Music & Arts Festival in Montreal.Eels announced yesterday that they were playing the July 30 and 31 festival. After a bunch of whisperings on the interwebs (and maybe partly because of this story), organizers have now confirmed that, yes, Death From Above 1979 will perform at...
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Death From Above 1979 SXSW Riot: Behind-The-Scene With Their Tour Manager

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 23, 2011 3:07 pm
We here at CHARTattack are well acquainted with how crazy a good ol' Death From Above 1979 show can make the kids. So when we heard the band played a secret show at South By Southwest 2011 that kinda, sorta started a riot, we figured if we couldn't actually be there to bask in the chaos, we could at least live it vicariously by tracking down the...
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Death From Above 1979 Fans Get Rowdy At SXSW

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 21, 2011 4:47 pm
"Death From Above 1979 playing South By Southwest! OMFG!!!!"That was probably what ran through many minds on Saturday night when the Toronto duo played a surprise show in a tented parking lot stage set up at Austin, Texas' Beauty Bar as part of this year's SXSW. As you might expect, tons of people showed up, seeing as it was the first reunion show...
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The Grist 13 And Shitty 7 — February 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 9, 2011 5:46 pm
The Grist 131. Sega Toilet Video GamesNobody will ever accuse Sega engineers of having piss poor imaginations. 2. The Dears' Degeneration StreetIt's their best album since their last album!3. ThundersnowHow is this not a metal band's name yet? 4. Epic Meal Time Gets A TV ShowThis is a cooking show I can respect.5. Charlie Sheen...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 8, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 8, 2011 3:03 pm
The Trews will release their new Hope & Ruin album on April 12 through Bumstead Records. They're touring Australia in March, and North American gigs will undoubtedly be announced soon... —thetrewsmusic.com The recently reunited Death From Above 1979 have announced their first show in the U.K. in five years. Jesse Keeler and Sebastien Grainger...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 4, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 4, 2011 4:42 pm
Death From Above 1979 have posted a statement about their reunion on their website. Sebastien Grainger's called 2011 a "yes" year. More people should definitely say "yes" to more things more often. —deathfromabove1979.com The Beatles and Apple are definitely BFFs now. They're so buddy-buddy these days that iTunes will drop two previously...
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Death From Above 1979 Are Back!

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 19, 2011 7:19 am
Death From Above 1979 have returned!The juvenile thrash rock duo of Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger were a surprise inclusion in the 2011 Coachella Festival lineup announcement last night. The band will have marquee billing and perform on the same day as Kanye West, The Strokes and Duran Duran, amongst others. This is wonderful news,...
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Pumping: Death From Above 1979 - Romance Bloody Romance

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) March 13, 2009 4:44 pm
Is it really that wrong to fantasize that MSTRFRFT would disappear and that Sebastien and Jesse all man-hug and suddenly everything becomes magical and fuzzy rock songs about makin' babies suddenly appear out of thin air? Can we not be allowed this dream?
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Sebastien Grainger Stages Return

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 17, 2008 3:56 pm
Of all the Canadian bands who broke up long before their expiry dates came due, Death From Above 1979 remain among the most popular. Their songs still get piles of radio play and you can't go a week without seeing their T-shirts on the street. But if anything good — besides MSTRKRFT, sort of — has come from a bad situation, it's frontman/drummer...
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Death From Above 1979 Officially Split

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) August 4, 2006 6:00 pm
Toronto duo Death From Above 1979 have called an end to their short-lived but successful stint as a band. Bassist Jesse F. Keeler admits on the band's website that DFA have been beyond repair for quite some time: "I'm sure by now most of you assume the band isn't happening anymore since there are no shows, no work on a new album, etc....
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