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Luke Doucet, Justin Rutledge and NQ Arbuckle @ NXNE 2009

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) June 19, 2009 3:34 pm
Background/  Composition: Six Shooter Records' Outlaws & Gunslingers Showcase featured a series of triple-threat rounds, with Blue Rodeo's Glenn Milchem and Bazil Donovan acting as backup band. The evening's third and final improvised trio — starring three of this country's hottest folk-rock commodities — was aimed at making the ladies swoon...
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Halifax Festival Shows Winter Isn't Dead

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By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) February 2, 2009 1:38 pm
Festival organizer and performer Amelia Curran described In The Dead Of Winter best: "It's like Christmas, only better." More than 50 musical acts performed at five venues around Halifax from Jan. 27 to 31, and Curran and fellow festival organizers Heather Gibson, Tanya Davis and Don Brownrigg outdid themselves. This year's Dead fest...
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Justin Rutledge Is MOR

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 1, 2008 2:19 pm
It seemed like The Warped 45s brought all their friends to their opening slot at Justin Rutledge's show on Friday night. Their entire set was filled with screaming from their female fans (or girlfriends?). Dual frontmen and cousins Dave and Ryan McEathron got tons of screams, and there were even signs for one member, which called him a "hot...
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Justin Rutledge Takes It To Church

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 2, 2008 3:00 pm
The last thing you expect is to walk into a church that's more than 100 years old and see a stage adorned with daisies, photographs and book shelves filled with volumes clearly transplanted from someone's home. This is what Justin Rutledge brought to the stage inside Trinity-St. Paul's United Church on Friday. Most of the props were provided by...
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Justin Rutledge — Man Descending

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 8, 2008 10:45 am
Rutledge's sound has improved and evolved on each release. His third album is no exception. Its subtle and understated arrangements are some of the most beautiful he's written. "Greenwich Time" begins with simple guitar, but by the time it finishes, it's turned into a mini choral opus of sorts, which improves upon ideas...
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Justin Rutledge — The Devil On A Bench In Stanley Park

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By Cameron Gordon (CHARTattack) October 10, 2006 12:28 pm
With friends in high places and an obvious knack for penning quality, countrified folk tunes, it's a wonder that Justin Rutledge has yet to reach a larger audience. Perhaps that will change with The Devil On A Bench In Stanley Park, a 10-track exercise in sorrow and restraint. Featuring contributions from Melissa McClelland, Oh Susanna and a...
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Justin Rutledge And The Junction Forty — No Never Alone

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By Shannon Whibbs (CHARTattack) February 8, 2005 9:22 am
Garnering comparisons to singer-songwriters like Ryan Adams and Gram Parsons, Canadian singer Justin Rutledge and his band, The Junction Forty, have crafted a hauntingly beautiful debut album of gently executed country ballads. Featuring the exquisite pedal steel work of Brothers Cosmoline's Burke Carroll, mandolin by Dan Whiteley (ex-Heartbreak...
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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 Sept. 22, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 22, 2010 1:36 pm
Bedouin Soundclash and Sloan will play a free show tomorrow at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square beginning at 7:30 p.m. It's part of a full day of CBC-related activities, which will also include Jian Ghomeshi hosting his Q Live program with appearances from Zeus and City And Colour's Dallas Green, among others. —The Stroumboulopouli Montreal DJ CFCF's...
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Justin Rutledge On Words, Hawksley Workman And Michael Ondaatje

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 6, 2010 1:20 pm
Justin Rutledge studied English literature and majored in modern poetry at the University Of Toronto, and nowhere can you see that more than on his latest album, The Early Widows. The Polaris Music Prize long listed disc is based on Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero novel, and centres on a character called Cooper, who doesn't have much of a...
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Justin Rutledge Comes Out Of His Comfort Zone For The Early Widows

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 28, 2010 3:37 pm
As a musician, it's pretty easy to get caught in a songwriting and recording formula and make pretty similar albums throughout your career. So Justin Rutledge says he wanted to "shake things up a bit" when it came time to make his fourth album, the recently released and Polaris Music Prize long listed The Early Widows. The album is...
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Justin Rutledge — The Early Widows

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 6, 2010 2:22 pm
It's kind of hard to believe the Justin Rutledge on The Early Widows and the one on his past three albums are, well, the same Justin Rutledge. The Toronto-based singer/songwriter sounds much different on The Early Widows. That's got a lot to do with Hawksley Workman's production. Rutledge handed over the reins to Workman, who's changed things...
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Justin Rutledge — "Be A Man" (Short Film)

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By CHARTattack Staff April 9, 2010 3:30 pm
Justin Rutledge heads to Niagara Falls to conquer one of his fears in Scott Cudmore's (The National, Timber Timbre) short film Be A Man, which showcases Rutledge's new song of the same name. See, Rutledge is terrified of heights and insists he won't perform the tune in a ferris wheel, but he does it anyway. Rutledge's fourth album, The Early...
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City Sonic: Justin Rutledge At The Cameron House

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By CHARTattack Staff August 19, 2009 4:44 pm
City Sonic is a cross-platform series of 24 short documentaries in which Toronto artists discuss the venues where they started their careers. In this episode, Justin Rutledge and his bassist, Blue Rodeo's Bazil Donovan, discuss Queen Street West's Cameron House. Rutledge began his career playing at the Cameron House and played there for just over...
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Justin Rutledge — "A Penny For The Band"

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By CHARTattack Staff July 22, 2009 3:47 pm
Justin Rutledge's gorgeous, string instrument-obsessed clip for Man Descending's "A Penny For The Band" examines how one guitar is connected to Rutledge, his guitarist David Baxter, bassist and Blue Rodeo member Bazil Donovan.
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Hoser's March In Downtown Toronto

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Photographer: 
Aviva Cohen
Venue: 
This Ain't The Rosedale Library
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 6, 2009
Justin Rutledge

Hoser's March In Downtown Toronto

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Photographer: 
Aviva Cohen
Venue: 
This Ain't The Rosedale Library
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 6, 2009
Hoser's March

Hoser's March In Downtown Toronto

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Photographer: 
Aviva Cohen
Venue: 
This Ain't The Rosedale Library
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 6, 2009
Hoser's March

Hoser's March In Downtown Toronto

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Photographer: 
Aviva Cohen
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 6, 2009
Hoser's March

Artists Dish Secrets For City Sonic

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 22, 2009 12:55 pm
City Sonic, a new cross-platform documentary film series in which Toronto artists discuss the bars where they started their careers, will premiere at the city's Drake Hotel on June 17 as part of North By Northeast. The first episodes of Kensington Communications and White Pine Pictures' series of 24 short documentaries will feature Sarah Slean,...
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