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Neko Charms Stanley Park Singing Ex

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By Brian Pascual (CHARTattack) September 2, 2008 3:48 pm
If you're staging a two-day festival that welcomes music fans from all over into the heart of Vancouver's gorgeous Stanley Park, you want Nardwuar The Human Serviette greeting them. It just makes sense. Arguably one of our country's most polarizing icons, Nardwuar is also Vancouver's number one ambassador — unabashedly proud of his hometown's...
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Neko Case (photo by Brian Pascual)
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Sasquatch 2008 Day One

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By Quinn Omori (CHARTattack) May 28, 2008 2:00 pm
For the first time in it's seven-year history, the Sasquatch Music Festival stretched over a full three days. Memorial Day might not sound like an appropriate excuse to party, but with nearly 100 artists and comedians sharing three stages, our American neighbours and hosts did a fine job of demonstrating how to properly celebrate a long weekend...
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Destroyer — Trouble In Dreams

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 18, 2008 4:00 pm
If Dan Bejar's discography is any indication, 2008 is year one of Destroyer's usual four-year plan, which goes like this: Official release, soundtrack or EP, official release, year off. Check it out. It's uncanny — he's skipped every fourth year since 1996 (mind you, two of the hiatus years saw the release of New Pornographers records). Anyway, at...
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Destroyer — Notorious Lightning And Other Works

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By Joel McConvey (CHARTattack) January 25, 2005 11:21 am
Asking why Dan Bejar does things is missing the point — his singular, stubborn weirdness is part of his charm. But if necessity is a moot point when dealing with these five tracks from 2004's Your Blues, re-recorded over one weekend with fellow Vancouver eccentrics Frog Eyes, quality is another. Your Blues' draw was its unique combination of...
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Destroyer — Your Blues

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By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth (CHARTattack) March 9, 2004 10:27 am
Dan Bejar’s pop songs — over the course of almost a half dozen Destroyer albums and two as a member of The New Pornographers — have started to get a bit samey over the past couple of projects. To break the cycle, the elusive musician has come out strong with Your Blues, which verges on being a concept album. Rather than coming off as a...
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Destroyer — This Night

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By Joanne Huffa (CHARTattack) October 8, 2002 1:07 pm
Vancouver’s Dan Bejar — the central figure in all things Destroyer — is the reigning king of intelligent non-dance music. Over the past seven years, Destroyer have released a string of albums that combine fascinating (and copious) lyrics and Bejar’s deadpan voice with unusual song structures that still manage to fit under the catch all pop...
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I Read The News Today... For June 24, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff June 24, 2011 3:10 pm
Jack White and Stephen Colbert have recorded a tune dubbed "Charlene II (I'm Over You)," which they debuted on The Colbert Report last night. It's available for download on iTunes now and hard copies are also up for purchase on seven-inch vinyl through the Third Man Records store. Check out the single below: Courtney Love burned her...
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Destroyer's Kaputt Holds On To #1 On The Campus Chart

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) March 15, 2011 3:30 pm
Destroyer's Kaputt took over a month to gain the #1 album spot, and it ain't letting it go that easy as it stays put for a second week on the campus chart for the week of March 15, 2011.PJ Harvey's Let England Shake jumps up a spot to #2, with Rural Alberta Advantage's Departing hopping two places and forcing Braids' Native Speaker — a former #1...
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Destroyer's Dan Bejar (Photo by Ted Bois)

Destroyer's Kaputt The New #1 On The Chart

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 8, 2011 3:54 pm
Destroyer is no longer the long-suffering chart bridesmaid, as Kaputt finally nudges Braids' Native Speaker out of the top spot and takes over the #1 album position for the week of March 8, 2011.Below this close battle, there's a new challenger streaking into their collective rearview mirror. PJ Harvey's Let England Shake rockets 24 places to sit...
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Destroyer's Dan Bejar (Photo by Ted Bois)

Destroyer — Kaputt

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) January 25, 2011 4:52 pm
It's been a couple of years since the last full-length album from Destroyer's Dan Bejar. The man has not let the grass grow between his feet, though, continuing his work with The New Pornographers as well as releasing spirited Bay Of Pigs and Archers On The Beach EPs.In many ways, Kaputt is a utter departure from the typical Destroyer template....
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 19, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 19, 2011 5:30 pm
In today's segment of news most people reading this website probably won't give a damn about, Panic! At The Disco's new album, Vices & Virtues, is out March 29. First single "The Ballad Of Mona Lisa" comes out Feb. 1 and you can check out a preview of it below: The Rural Alberta Advantage have announced tour plans in support of their...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 6, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 6, 2011 3:26 pm
Damon Albarn is scoring a short film called The Boy In The Oak. It's a film adaptation of the book of the same title that was recently released by his sister, Jessica Albarn. Jude Law will narrate the movie. —The Playlist Amon Amarth want you to grow your best viking beard to win a prize pack that includes a lock from vocalist Johan Hegg's beard...
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Damon Albarn (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Video Of The Day: Destroyer's "Kaputt"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 6, 2011 1:43 pm
Destroyer's hilarious new video for the title track to their upcoming Kaputt album finds a nerdy kid imagining himself surrounded by tons of bathing suit-clad women swathed in cigarette smoke... until his mom bursts into his room and starts yelling at him. In another scene, a dying man claws his way through the desert to be met by dancing women...
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Destroyer's Dan Bejar (Photo by Chris Frey)

Destroyer Albums Being Reissued... On 4/20!

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 1, 2010 2:29 pm
Destroyer's song titles are often epically (the only time I'll ever use this word on our site, promise) long and feature imagery like something you either dreamed or hallucinated last night, depending on what you were doing. So, appropriately, three of Destroyer's albums will be reissued by Merge Records on April 20. Dan Bejar and company will...
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SappyFest 2009 — Sunday

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Photographer: 
Aviva Cohen
Venue: 
United Church
City: 
Sackville, NB
Date: 
August 2, 2009
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SappyFest 2009 — Sunday

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Photographer: 
Aviva Cohen
Venue: 
United Church
City: 
Sackville, NB
Date: 
August 2, 2009
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Destroyer Releasing Two Long Songs

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By CHARTattack Staff May 21, 2009 3:08 pm
Destroyer will release a two-song, 21-minute EP titled Bay Of Pigs on 12-inch vinyl through Merge Records on Aug. 18. The title track from Dan Bejar's band is their "first foray into the ambient disco market," according to the label. It's more than 13 minutes and deals with the failed 1961 American invasion of Cuba. The song was...
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Destroyer's Dan Bejar (photo by Chris Frey)

New Pornographers Cover Destroyer

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 6, 2009 11:38 am
You know how the folks responsible for the Dark Was The Night compilation have been streaming a track a day on the disc's MySpace page? Well, they've put The New Pornographers' version of Destroyer's "Hey, Snow White" up today. You can only listen to the song for 24 hours, so go listen to it while you can! While it might seem like a...
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The Stanley Park Singing Exhibition - Day One

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Photographer: 
Brian Pascual
Venue: 
Malkin Bowl
City: 
Vancouver, BC
Date: 
August 31, 2008
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The Stanley Park Singing Exhibition - Day One

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Photographer: 
Brian Pascual
Venue: 
Malkin Bowl
City: 
Vancouver, BC
Date: 
August 31, 2008
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