M. Ward

Sasquatch!: Of Montreal Amazes

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By Alyssa Noel (CHARTattack) May 29, 2009 3:05 pm
May 23 I'd prefer to start my day with a Rolling Rock than Starbucks. Cracking the former before noon indicates you're going to spend a day in the blistering heat enjoying a magical spread of the biggest buzz bands of the year. Pouring the latter into your mug means you're back at your desk cranking out doomsday copy in the moderately warm...
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Sasquatch! Festival (photo by Alyssa Noel)
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M. Ward — Hold Time

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) February 19, 2009 2:14 pm
M. Ward wears a number of hats on this disc: country crooner, rock 'n' roller, pop auteur and back porch strummer. This is Hold Time's most notable strength and also its greatest weakness. The variety gives birth to a number of instantly memorable songs, but it also comes off as a little schizophrenic. At 14 tracks but only 42 minutes, one...
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M. Ward Keeps 'Em Rapt

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) January 29, 2007 5:30 pm
I have a pet peeve (among many) in music writing when it comes to singer-songwriters. All too often, every time a troubadour with a guitar and a halfway distinctive voice becomes popular, some scribe inevitably pulls the "next Bob Dylan" tag out of their bag o' cliches. It's patently ridiculous for two reasons. First, there will never...
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M. Ward — Post-War

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By Vish Khanna (CHARTattack) August 22, 2006 12:02 pm
M. Ward follows up the conceptual Transistor Radio with a stunning, reverb-drenched collection of new old-world sounds. Neko Case and Jim James drop by to lend their unique voices to their friend's ingenious songs. "To Go Home" is a pulsating dose of heady imagery and propulsive instrumentation, while "Right In The Head" is an...
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M. Ward — Transistor Radio

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By Brian Wong (CHARTattack) February 22, 2005 3:35 pm
Old world underground, there you are — in the timeless hands of M. Ward. The Portland-based Ward is a singer-songwriter anachronism, determined to revive American folk music — the title alone is a perfect match for Ward's mash notes to past eras. Transistor Radio segues from simple, tape-hiss adorned acoustic numbers to Tom Waits-style cabaret...
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WATCH: M. Ward - "The First Time I Ran Away" animated music video

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By Simone Zucker (CHARTattack) February 2, 2012 4:41 pm
M. Ward has spent the last few years playing in She & Him and Monsters of Folk, but 2012 marks the return of his solo career. Last week the singer/guitarist announced that his eighth album (!), A Wasteland Companion, will be released on April 10 via Merge. Now we get the first glimpse of his new material with "The First Time I Ran Away," set...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 7, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 7, 2011 5:58 pm
Toronto singer/songwriter and former Local Rabbits member Peter Elkas will release a new album entitled Repeat Offender on Feb. 22 through Joel Plaskett's New Scotland Records. He'll be on the road promoting it in March. —peterelkas.com Mike Skinner has officially retired The Streets. We're sad, so we're going to go listen to every Streets album...
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She & Him New Album Details, Tour Dates

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By Valentina D'Aliesio (CHARTattack) January 25, 2010 4:49 pm
Folk-pop duo She & Him, a.k.a actress/singer Zooey Deschanel and indie golden boy M. Ward, have released the track listing for their highly-anticipated follow-up to 2008's Volume One. Their appropriately titled Volume Two sophomore album will be released March 23 through Merge. It contains 11 original tracks along with covers of NRBQ's...
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New She & Him Album In 2010

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By Mark Teo (CHARTattack) December 1, 2009 12:45 pm
Expectations are only rising for She & Him, the folk-pop duo composed of prolific indie everyman M. Ward and actress-turned-singer Zooey Deschanel. We'll know exactly how they react to those expectations sometime next year, when they'll release Volume Two, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2008 Volume One debut. Ward and Deschanel...
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Monsters Of Folk — "The Right Place"

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By CHARTattack Staff September 23, 2009 3:52 pm
Monsters Of Folk's black-and-white clip for "The Right Place," the first single from their self-titled debut album, places the supergroup's members — My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, M. Ward and producer Mike Mogis — in a studio in a trailer. Monsters Of Folk is out now.
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Monsters Of Folk Tour Starting In Vancouver

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 23, 2009 4:01 pm
Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, M. Ward and producer Mike Mogis — who are collectively known as Monsters Of Folk — have announced a North American and European fall dates in support of their upcoming self-titled debut album. The tour kicks off mid-October and runs until mid-November. Canadian dates in Vancouver and...
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Free Monsters Of Folk MP3 Available On Their Site

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 20, 2009 1:54 pm
Monsters Of Folk — the supergroup of Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, producer Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket singer/guitarist Jim James and M. Ward — are offering a free download of a track that will appear on their upcoming self titled debut album. "Say Please" is the first single from Monsters Of Folk, which comes out Sept. 22 through...
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Animal Collective #1 For Fifth Week

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) March 3, 2009 3:22 pm
Chad VanGaalen's former #1 album, Soft Airplane, resurfaced on the campus chart last week for the 21st time, making it the first record in more than a year to hit this illustrious mark and the first in the CHARTattack 2.0 era. I did some digging and noticed how much faster it is with the new chart structure to do a more thorough investigation...
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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) January 29, 2009 4:55 pm
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Zooey Deschanel And M. Ward Become She & Him

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 7, 2008 4:30 pm
She & Him, better known as critically acclaimed indie folkster M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel, will release their Volume One debut on March 18 through Merge Records. Ward met Deschanel when they recorded a version of Richard and Linda Thompson's "When I Get To The Border" for the soundtrack for the 2007 film, The Go-Getter....
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M. Ward Examines Modern Warfare On New Album

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) June 1, 2006 5:00 pm
Singer/songwriter M. Ward has jumped forward in time to find a theme for his fifth album, Post-War, which will be released on Aug. 22 by Merge Records. Ward is hoping to follow up on the success of his 2004 release, Transistor Radio, in which he examined the role of radio and American music before World War II. Post-War will move to the present...
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