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Malajube Bridge The Divide

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) March 16, 2009 3:25 pm
Quebec's Malajube — I hazard to label them a "Montreal band" — have released the best Canadian album of 2009. Labyrinthes is true to its name since it's a jumbled, sometimes confusing and unstructured rock album of the new century. The record isn't concerned with modern verse-chorus-verse conventions, yet it closely follows the lush...
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Malajube — Labryinthes

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) February 11, 2009 4:02 pm
Malajube returns with an even more idiosyncratic, off-kilter pop masterpiece after 2006's Trompe L'Oeil proved that Montreal's francophone rock community was just as capable of cracking the worldwide marketplace as its anglo counterpart. Opening track "Ursuline" is a difficult-to-penetrate six-minute epic with sparse vocals. The...
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I Read The News Today... For June 28, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 28, 2011 2:53 pm
The Besnard Lakes will release a new EP dubbed You Lived In The City on Sept. 20, which features music they recorded for an interactive documentary earlier this year. They're also touring with Malajube this fall. Brother have been forced to change their name to Viva Brother. Viva non-stop band names. Wilco's new album is going to be called The...
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I Read The News Today... For June 22, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 22, 2011 12:18 pm
Ohbijou's third album Metal Meets will be released on Sept. 27 through Last Gang. We're reasonably certain there's going to be nothing "metal" about Ohbijou meeting up with Last Gang. Kill The Lights, Champion, Malajube, Les Breastfeeders, Radio Radio, and a bunch of bands you've never heard of if you're not from Quebec are part of Bonsound's free...
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Malajube — La Caverne

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 29, 2011 3:55 pm
Malajube recently said they doubt La Caverne, their fourth studio album, will be their third album to be long- or- short-listed for the Polaris Music Prize. I seriously doubt they're right, since their track record clearly says otherwise and La Caverne is yet another great work of pop from the Montreal francophone quartet. There's a lot to love...
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Song Of The Day: Malajube's "Synesthesie"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 16, 2011 4:49 pm
Malajube will return with their fourth studio album, La Caverne, on April 19. It'll inevitably be the subject of a lot of Polaris Music Prize discussion over the next few months, since the Montreal francophone quartet's past two LPs — 2006's Trompe L'Oeil and 2009's Labyrinthes — were both short listed for Polaris Music Prizes those respective...
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I Read The News Today... For March 1, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 1, 2011 3:54 pm
Toronto alt.country singer/songwriter Royal Wood was nominated for a Juno Award last month, and to celebrate he's announced a Canadian tour that'll take place this month, April and May. He's out in support of last year's The Waiting, and will find out if he wins the songwriter of the year Juno later this month. —royalwood.ca Regina indie rockers...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 21, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 21, 2010 3:49 pm
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's not even Superman! It's an actor in the Spider-Man musical falling 20 feet onto the stage and being taken to hospital! —CNN The soundtrack to Blue Valentine, the upcoming movie starring Ryan Gosling (Lars And The Real Girl, Half Nelson) and Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain, "Dawson's Creek") features tunes...
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Malajube — Controle EP

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) December 18, 2009 2:02 pm
A limited edition four-track EP culled from the Montreal group's Labyrinthes sessions, Controle is representative of the unpredictability of the francophone indie rockers' latest album. It features some of the band's most easygoing and pristine melodies, as the repetitive riff of "Hochelaga" and the cutesy piano work on the instrumental "Jam...
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Malajube In Controle With New EP

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 10, 2009 3:17 pm
Malajube have just released Controle, a brand new, four-track EP of songs that didn't make it onto this year's Polaris Music Prize short listed Labyrinthes. The four songs were cut during the Labyrinthes sessions, and the EP, which was released on Tuesday (Dec. 9) is available now on limited-edition vinyl. Only 300 copies of the screen-printed...
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Malajube To Release Limited Edition Vinyl EP, Want To Watch Olympic Hockey

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) December 2, 2009 5:23 pm
Montreal's Malajube are approaching tours from a different direction these days. After playing a dizzying array of live dates in 2007 to support their second full-length, Trompe-L'Oeil, the four-piece (vocalist/guitarist Julien Mineau, keyboardist/vocalist Thomas Augustin, drummer Francis Mineau and bassist Mathieu Cournoyer) opted for a...
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Malajube at M For Montreal 2009

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Photographer: 
Cindy Lopez
Venue: 
Metropolis
City: 
Montreal, QC
Date: 
November 21, 2009
Malajube (Photo by Cindy Lopez)

Malajube at M For Montreal 2009

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Photographer: 
Cindy Lopez
Venue: 
Metropolis
City: 
Montreal, QC
Date: 
November 21, 2009
Malajube (Photo by Cindy Lopez)

Malajube at M For Montreal 2009

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Photographer: 
Cindy Lopez
Venue: 
Metropolis
City: 
Montreal, QC
Date: 
November 21, 2009
Malajube (Photo by Cindy Lopez)

Malajube at M For Montreal 2009

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Photographer: 
Cindy Lopez
Venue: 
Metropolis
City: 
Montreal, QC
Date: 
November 21, 2009
Malajube (Photo by Cindy Lopez)

Malajube at M For Montreal 2009

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Photographer: 
Cindy Lopez
Venue: 
Metropolis
City: 
Montreal, QC
Date: 
November 21, 2009
Malajube (Photo by Cindy Lopez)

Malajube at M For Montreal 2009

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Photographer: 
Cindy Lopez
Venue: 
Metropolis
City: 
Montreal, QC
Date: 
November 21, 2009
Malajube (Photo by Cindy Lopez)

Malajube — "Luna" (Take Away Show)

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By CHARTattack Staff November 26, 2009 3:55 pm
La Blogtheque sent someone to this past summer's Festival FME in Montreal and shot a bunch of Take Away Shows/Concerts A Emporter with Canadian artists like Mother Mother, Clues and Malajube. In this episode, Malajube perform "Luna," from their Polaris Music Prize short listed Labyrinthes' acoustically in a park. You can see the music...
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Fucked Up Are M For Mistreated In Montreal

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) November 23, 2009 5:22 pm
Why don't I give the M For Montreal alliteration game a try, since everyone else was doing it this past weekend? M stood for music, Montreal, (venue) Metropolis, bands such as Malajube, the new Molson beer M and even people's names, like M For Metropolis host MC Gilles, during the three-day local music showcase. Well, after Saturday's huge...
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Fucked Up's Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham (File photo by Zack Vitiello)

Feist, City And Colour, Kid Koala Playing Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 29, 2009 11:35 am
Feist, Malajube, Kid Koala, Hey Rosetta!, City And Colour, The Rural Alberta Advantage and Chromeo are among those who have been added to the lineup for the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Stars, Joel Plaskett, Steve Earle, Broken Social Scene, Ron Sexsmith, Iron And Wine and K'Naan will also play the event, which is intended to...
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