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LIGHTS — The Listening

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 7, 2009 4:24 pm
Get used to seeing LIGHTS' face and hearing her music everywhere because if one thing comes across when listening to The Listening, it's her potential to be a star. The Listening is a collection of songs that will obviously appeal to a certain target demographic more than others (16-year-olds wearing Old Navy clothing, as her surprise...
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Franz Ferdinand Save Saturday At Virgin Festival Ontario

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 31, 2009 11:37 am
While hundreds of thousands of British and European fans were mucking about in the fields at the Reading and Leeds festivals in England this weekend, Virgin Festival Ontario couldn't even fill Toronto's Molson Amphitheatre, which has a capacity of 16,000 people. Virgin Festival Ontario was originally to be held at Orillia, Ont.'s Burl's Creek...
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LIGHTS Proves Breakout-Ready

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By Sheena Lyonnais (CHARTattack) February 23, 2009 3:54 pm
Not even a snowstorm could prevent hundreds of young girls in headbands from heading to Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre to check out one of Canada's fastest rising new talents: LIGHTS. Sweet Thing were the perfect opener for the pint-sized pop star. Their funk-infused pop performance came complete with "da-da-da" sing-alongs,...
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Lights (photo by Jess Baumung)

S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival 2008

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By Ciara McCann (CHARTattack) June 30, 2008 1:30 pm
With 150 bands performing at this year's S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival, concert-goers were ready to have a rock-filled day starting at 2 p.m. But the excitement was put on hold for the opening bands set to play on outdoor stages as claps of thunder and torrents of rain and hail forced crowds to wait impatiently under the Market Square shelter in the...
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Illscarlett (photo by Ryan Kelpin)

Protest The Hero Homecoming Full Of Screams And Projectiles

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By Ryan Kelpin (CHARTattack) April 28, 2008 3:00 pm
Chants of "Protest! Protest!" echoed through the walls of the Sound Academy from the second the doors opened for Protest The Hero's show. I don't know if people were more impatient or impressed that Protest were headliners for the show with Chiodos on Friday night. Rumours had circulated on the internet that Protest were going to be...
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Protest The Hero's Rody Walker (Photo by Ryan Kelpin)

BEST OF 2011: Our favourite artists on Twitter

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 8, 2011 5:00 pm
The year is winding down, which means that year-end lists are winding up. Without further ado, here are our favourite artist twitters of 2011, selected by CHARTattack's devoted team of contributors, presented in no particular order. Who did we miss?:... Patrick Stickles: @titus_ndronicus Despite starting this account just a few months...
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I Read The News Today... For July 18, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 18, 2011 4:01 pm
Perhaps you've heard about The Horrible Crowes, the new band Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon's in. They've put a new tune called "Behold The Hurricane" up on the interwebs and guess who it sounds like? Bruce Springsteen! Whodathunk? Wanna hear Killers member Ronnie Vanucci's debut solo album? He's recorded it as Big Talk, and you...
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I Read The News Today... For July 15, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 15, 2011 4:13 pm
Trent Reznor would like you to know that the reissue of Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine is a "bullshit" record label move. So he doesn't want you buying it. OK? Stephen Malkmus would like you to come up with another word for "blowjob" here, and the winner will get their lyric recorded by him and a seven-inch single.Swans are working on...
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I Read The News Today... For June 30, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 30, 2011 2:49 pm
Domestic violence awareness groups are planning to protest Odd Future's set at the Pitchfork Music Festival next month. Tyler, The Creator obviously thinks this is "awesome." Tokyo Police Club keyboardist Graham Wright is touring Canada this summer to support his just-released Shirts Vs. Skins debut solo album. He'll be out with Library Voices,...
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Neverending White Lights Album Features LIGHTS, Hot Hot Heat, Pilot Speed, Thornley

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 20, 2011 1:51 pm
It's been four long years of agonizing writing, rewriting, scrapping songs, writing new ones and rewriting them, battling depression and recovering from ruptured vocal cords, but Neverending White Lights main man Daniel Victor says he's finally ready to release his long-awaited Act III: Love Will Ruin album.Victor, who won the best independent...
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I Read The News Today... For June 3, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 3, 2011 3:09 pm
Thrice are returning with a new record dubbed Major/Minor on Sept. 20. It's described as "entirely different" than their last album, which is a relief because if a band literally released the same record over and over again, that'd be kind of, you know, awkward. Angry at mom and dad? Got a lot of xxxaggro bullshitxxx to take out on people you'll...
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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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Avril Lavigne, Pierre Bouvier, Danko Jones, LIGHTS 2010 Readers' Poll Winners

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 10, 2011 12:26 pm
The poll has closed, voting has officially stopped and now it's time to tell you who won our 16th Annual Year-End Readers' Poll.Avril Lavigne inexplicably took two categories this year. She was voted Canada's sexiest woman, with 53 per cent of the votes, and her "Alice" won for best song, with 26 per cent. LIGHTS put in some stiff competition for...
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Sloan, Hedley, Katy Perry Making Late Surges In Year-End Readers' Poll

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 6, 2011 4:33 pm
As the Russian junior hockey team showed us yesterday, just when you think someone or a particular team's won, everything can change. All of a sudden your opponent can come out of nowhere and take the lead or win, and you never saw it coming. (Or in some cases, it might be because you were lazy and stopped trying because you thought the entire...
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LIGHTS, Avril Lavigne In Sexy Name Calling Catfight

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 13, 2010 1:43 pm
This time last year, Tegan And Sara and Avril Lavigne fans were nattering at each other in the comments section of our 2009 Year-End Readers' Poll about who was hotter — the Quin twins or the Sk8r Grrl. This year, fans of Avril — or "Avril LaVagina," as a user named "oaflje" calls her — is battling it out with LIGHTS' fans over who...
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Lights vs. LIGHTS

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 23, 2010 12:07 pm
You know how there's a Ladyhawk and a Ladyhawke? Well, until today there was a LIGHTS and a Lights. Are you confused? OK, let's break this down and maybe remove some of that fuzziness from your skull.LIGHTS (usually stylized in capitals — even though some don't do this, we're going to follow this practice here so we can differentiate) is best...
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As you can see, LIGHTS is OBVIOUSLY wretched

LIGHTS, Hedley, Jian Ghomeshi Help Music Journalist Tackle Racism

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 15, 2010 10:18 am
Toronto music journalist Karen Bliss has partnered with Canadian musicians like LIGHTS, Hedley's Jacob Hoggard, Jully Black, Skye Sweetnam, Nelly Furtado, Chris Bosh and CBC Radio's Jian Ghomeshi to create The Girl With The Pinhead Parents, an anti-racism animation project.Bliss wrote the PSA, which was animated by Halifax's Copernicus Studios. It...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 1, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 1, 2010 11:57 am
Clothes Make The Man are offering a free download of "Dreamless Nights," which aired on Degrassi: The Next Generation. —clothesmaketheman.org LIGHTS is hardcore. No, seriously: Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta and Gallows have remixed two of her songs, which are available on iTunes now. All proceeds are going to The Greater New Orleans...
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