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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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M83's Show Is Superior

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) November 21, 2008 4:04 pm
How engaging a band are on stage is often the penultimate, if not the deciding, factor in a show's greatness. Thursday night presented a study in contrarian approaches to live music. There were two talented acts, albeit one with far more experience, but both talented nonetheless. One drew the crowd in and the other left me feeling a little flat...
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M83 — Saturdays=Youth

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) May 6, 2008 9:19 am
There was a period of time back in the early 2000s when old-school synth-pop really seemed to hit a stride. Daft Punk shocked fans with the disco-infused Discovery. Fischerspooner appeared on the scene with their critically lauded #1. "Electroclash" was suddenly the word on every hipster's lips, but that movement died almost as abruptly...
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M83 — Before The Dawn Heals Us

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By CHARTattack Staff January 25, 2005 11:34 am
It's hard to imagine, but at some point, M83 — a.k.a. Anthony Gonzales — sat down with his massive, masterful debut from last year, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, and thought, "Y'know, this just isn't grandiose enough." Gonzales upped the ante on his second disc, taking Dead Cities' towering synth tidal waves and speeding them...
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M83 — Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

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By Joel McConvey (CHARTattack) July 27, 2004 2:13 pm
This 2003 debut from French duo M83 finally gets its domestic release through Mute records. Like recent efforts by Telefon Tel Aviv and Explosions In The Sky, M83 aim to find themselves through sheer sonic largesse, mixing the shoegazer wash of My Bloody Valentine with post-rock ambition and the melodic sense of seminal electronic acts like...
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WATCH: Anthony Gonzalez of M83 discusses the making of Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

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By Natalia Buia (CHARTattack) December 15, 2011 12:43 pm
Anthony Gonzalez sat down with ABC News to discuss the inspiration behind his critically acclaimed album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. The two-disc album took a year and a half to make but it was well worth the wait, since it has topped a lot of year-end lists as of late. The humble and soft-spoken Frenchman explained he wanted to do something...
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BEST OF 2011: A playlist of our favourite songs

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 7, 2011 9:55 am
The year is winding down, which means that year-end lists are winding up. Without further ado, here are our favourite songs from 2011, selected by CHARTattack's devoted team of contributors, presented in no particular order. What did we miss?:...Our Favourite Songs of 2011 by CHART Attack on Grooveshark Tracklist:"The Bad In Each Other" - Feist...
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LISTEN: Lupe Fiasco's Friend of the People mixtape

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By Mike Searle (CHARTattack) November 24, 2011 3:45 pm
After almost two years wait, Lupe Fiasco has finally released his latest mixtape Friend of the People. Originally slated for a December 2009 release, Friend of the People was shelved due to Lupe’s involvement in Summit on the Summit which, as you may remember, was to raise awareness about the need for clean water in developing nations by climbing...
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WATCH: M83 performs "Midnight City" on Fallon

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By Colton Eddy (CHARTattack) November 22, 2011 10:16 am
Anthony Gonzales and the rest of the M83 crew blazed through their monster jam "Midnight City" on last night's episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The band's latest single is a perfect fit for the program, and the electronic collective delivered a spot-on rendition of the track. It's fresh, hypnotic, and concludes in a triumphant saxophone...
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WATCH: M83 - "Wait" unofficial music video

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) October 24, 2011 7:07 pm
The past few years have seen a huge rise in fan-made found footage music videos, i.e. music videos created by cutting together older existing footage. Despite often existing in a legal grey area (but, hey, what isn't these days), found footage videos have become a sort of indie music folk art. In this unofficial and non-profit music video for "...
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LISTEN: Stream new albums from M83, Real Estate

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 11, 2011 9:18 am
Heads up: Right now you can stream M83's outstanding new album Hurry Up We're Dreaming in full, courtesy of Urban Outfitters (who are, for better or worse, becoming increasingly more involved with hosting/creating music and music videos). And why not wash that down with the excellent new surf-pop affair from Real Estate, Days, streaming in its...
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I Read The News Today... For July 19, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 19, 2011 4:57 pm
Ohbijou are going to spend the early part of the fall touring eastern Canada in support of their upcoming Metal Meets album. There will probably be nothing metal about any of the songs they'll play at the gigs, but hey. Camp Radio, a supergroup of sorts featuring producer Dave Draves (Kathleen Edwards, Gentleman Reg), are set to release their...
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I Read The News Today... For July 7, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 7, 2011 3:39 pm
M83 — also known as Anthony Gonzalez — is touring North America this fall in support of his upcoming new album. The LP is still untitled and doesn't have a release date, but you can see him in Mexican, American and Canadian cities from Oct. 15 to Nov. 22, playing songs from it. Turns out even singer/songwriter Veda Hille's two-year-old son is...
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I Read The News Today... For June 7, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 7, 2011 4:24 pm
The Jimmy Swift Band have broken up. But don't cry! Vocalist Craig Mercer and keyboardist Aaron Collier are still making music as Scientists Of Sound and are touring in support of their new Wealth & Hellness album. M83's next album is going to be a double LP. It's going to be about dreams. Makes sense, since I fall asleep while listening to...
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M83 Want To Be Teenagers

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By Alyssa Noel (CHARTattack) August 14, 2009 11:15 am
M83 are tired. Or at least the man behind the dreamy electronic band, Anthony Gonzalez, is. He's been touring, along with some new recruits, including L.A.-based Morgan Kibby on vocals, since his fifth record, Saturdays = Youth, came out in April 2008. He's been around the world and, much to his surprise and delight, more and more fans keep...
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M83 Take A Rest

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By Alyssa Noel (CHARTattack) July 29, 2009 12:44 pm
It's hard to avoid asking Anthony Gonzalez about his affinity for the '80s. Look at every interview the 26-year-old behind M83 has done in the past year and a half and you'll find it's a common theme. But a mere glance at his most recent album, Saturdays = Youth, which prominently features a Molly Ringwald lookalike on the cover, and you...
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M83 — "We Own The Sky"

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By CHARTattack Staff July 27, 2009 12:54 pm
A bunch of teenagers fart around with kites in a field in the clip for M83's "We Own The Sky." They look like they're having fun until gigantic white 3D shapes start flying towards them through the air. Not to worry — they're just going to turn into confetti.
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Saturdays = Youth For M83

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 11, 2008 3:30 pm
French electronica musician M83 (real name Anthony Gonzalez) will release his fifth album, Saturdays = Youth, on April 15 through Mute Records. The 11-track follow-up to last year's ambient Digital Shades Vol. 1 was produced by Ken Thomas (Cocteau Twins, Sigur Ros) and Ewan Pearson (Ladytron, The Rapture). The nine-minute "Couleurs"...
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