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Gonzales — Soft Power

By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) June 3, 2008 2:27 pm

Easing out from under Feist's rock, Gonzales gleefully reveals himself in the sunshine with Soft Power, a deliriously good-time album of soft rock, disco, piano balladry and pop. The album blurs the lines between hipster and easy listening. It starts with Abba, is then rolled in Bee Gees, pounded with Sebastien Tellier, sprinkled with Charles...

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Feist Audience A Little Too Respectful

By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) May 28, 2007 3:30 pm

Leslie Feist has attained that oh-so-seldom found niche in indie rock (it's a space also inhabited by Montreal's Arcade Fire): an appeal that extends beyond blogs, dirty clubs and college radio. The crowd at Friday night's first of two sold-out performances was as varied as any I'd ever seen, with toddlers and esteemed grandparents mingling with...

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Official 2011 Juno Awards Drinking Game

By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 25, 2011 10:31 am

Finally. After years of complaining that it's too expensive to fly all their artists out to places like St. John's or Saskatoon, or that there aren't enough limousines to rent in these towns, or that the available bars are too small to host proper after-parties, the Canadian music industry has finally gotten its wish and the 40th anniversary...

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16th Annual Year-End Readers' Poll - Sexiest Canadian Man

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 8, 2010 10:26 am

#4 The Throw Your Underwear Award Male (Sexiest Canadian Man)online survey Next Question: #5 The Throw Your Underwear Award Female (Sexiest Canadian Women)

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Chilly Gonzales — Ivory Tower

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 6, 2010 4:37 pm

It's best if you approach Ivory Tower, Chilly Gonzales' latest offering, less as a complete studio album and more as the soundtrack to his film about chess of the same name. That's because it's got a few traditional "songs" and several instrumental piano pieces from Gonzo. It wouldn't be any kind of Gonzales project if it didn't display his...

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Chilly Gonzales Connects "Obsessional Qualities" Of Music, Chess

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 28, 2010 4:08 pm

You could be forgiven for scratching your head when Chilly Gonzales announced he was making a movie — and companion album — about chess earlier this year. Sure, Gonzales is a bit of a wacky fella, but after all, what the heck does chess have to do with music? Well, a lot, apparently. It turns out Ivory Tower, which stars Gonzales and Tiga as...

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Chilly Gonzales — "Never Stop" (Chilly Gonzales Rap)

By CHARTattack Staff June 30, 2010 11:15 am

"Never Stop (Chilly Gonzales Rap)" will appear on Chilly Gonzales' upcoming new Ivory Tower album, which is out Sept. 14 through Arts & Crafts. Although this is a remix of the tune, you can already tell the album's going to be much different for Gonzales, since he's clearly... rapping.

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Chilly Gonzales - Never Stop (Chilly Gonzales Rap)

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Peaches, Feist, Gonzales, Tiga In Indie Flick

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 7, 2010 10:27 am

Peaches recently performed Peaches Christ Superstar, a one-person version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar, in Berlin, Germany, so she knows a thing or two about musical theatre. But now she's moving on to a different medium. She's in a new film called Ivory Tower, which also includes spots from Feist, Chilly Gonzales, Tiga and...

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Chilly Gonzales At The Olympic Winter Games

Photographer:

Trevor Hargreaves

Venue:

Orpheum Theatre

City:

Vancouver, BC

Date:

February 17, 2010

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Feist Overshadowed By Gonzales At Vancouver Olympics Show

By Brian Pascual (CHARTattack) February 18, 2010 6:08 pm

This was another in the series of Cultural Olympiad shows during the Vancouver Olympics to feature the talents of Canada's diverse musicians. Who better to kick off the night than one of the country's most eccentric yet respected exports, piano virtuoso and erstwhile funnyman Chilly Gonzales? Of course, it doesn't hurt that he will be forever...

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Peaches And Gonzales Set To Redo Jesus Christ Superstar

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 11, 2010 11:32 am

Peaches and Gonzales are silly people with penchants for over-the-top theatrics. So it only makes sense that they're staging a version of Jesus Christ Superstar in Berlin, Germany next month. The Canadian musicians' rendition of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1973 musical will run from March 25 to 27 at Berlin's HAU 1. Peaches will...

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Gonzales Reinterprets 50 Cent For "Pianist's Envy" Mixtape

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 10, 2010 1:21 pm

Those of you who enjoy puns about Freud (such as this or these — no joke, I actually own a pair) will likely find the title of Gonzales' upcoming new Pianist's Envy mixtape amusing. In what the musician is calling the "first ever 'piano mixtape,'" Gonzo lays piano over top hip-hop and pop tracks, including songs by Kelly Clarkson,...

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Gonzales' Superproducer: "D.O.V.E."

By CHARTattack Staff January 22, 2010 4:18 pm

Here's the first episode of Gonzales' Superproducer comedy series, in which he plays a grumpy producer using rather "unorthodox" methods to get his clients to perform at the best of their abilities. In this episode, Gonzales takes exception to being compared to Clovis, confuses his client with his keyboard skills and really, really...

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Jarvis Cocker Helping Gonzales Out At London, England Gig

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 8, 2009 2:56 pm

Jarvis Cocker will be Gonzales' special guest at the Canadian musician's first night of his residency at London, England's Pigalle in November. Gonzales will play shows at the club every Wednesday night that month, and the ex-Pulp frontman will join him on Nov. 4. Gonzales will have other guests with him on the nights of Nov. 11, 18 and 25,...

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