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Ed The Sock — The Unwashed Collection

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By Ian Nathanson (CHARTattack) August 27, 2002 3:08 pm
CityTV and MuchMusic’s stogie-smokin’ stocking gets a chance to show his eclectic music tastes to the masses. A warning label and opening, "Greetings," state this compilation features "real music by real artists," meaning that those of you into sugary sweet pop can go kiss Ed’s, um, derriere. Yet His Royal Stocking’s palette...
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WATCH: Damian Abraham (of Fucked Up) interviews Wavves

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) October 25, 2011 12:04 pm
"I wanna get Marilyn Manson high." That's how Wavves frontman Nathan Williams concludes this short interview with Damian Abraham, host of The Wedge on MuchMusic (and lead growler of the accalimed Canadian hardcore band Fucked Up). As expected, weed comes up in the coversation a handful of times. So does Tyler, The Creator and Drew Barrymore.The...
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Shad Spending The Summer Writing New Material

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 20, 2011 12:59 pm
Summer's best spent kicking back and relaxing, and that's exactly what Shad plans to do this summer. Oh, that and writing some tunes for the follow-up to last year's Polaris Music Prize short listed TSOL. "I'm playing a bit this summer, but it's festivals on weekends, so it won't be too busy, which is nice," he said, after commenting that he'd...
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MuchMusic Video Awards 2011 Winners List

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 20, 2011 8:57 am
Yeah, considering they give half of them out during the red carpet pre-show, the actual awards at the MuchMusic Video Awards aren't all that important to the young superstars of today's broadcast, but here's your complete winners list anyway:UR FAVE VideoFefe Dobson — "Stuttering"  UR FAVE New ArtistJustin Bieber featuring...
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CRTC To AUX: You're Not Allowed To Play More Music Videos On TV

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 14, 2011 2:48 pm
The Canadian Radio-television And Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has told a music television station it cannot have the terms of its licence changed... and the channel in question isn't MuchMusic.The CRTC decided AUX will not be allowed to play more music videos last Thursday. Last July, AUX filed an application with the CRTC, asking the...
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MuchMusic Disbands disBAND In Favour Of Discovered

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 8, 2011 4:41 pm
MuchMusic's disBAND series has been... disbanded. Well, kind of.It's more or less been turned into a new series called Discovered, which will premiere later this year. The show follows six new Canadian bands that want to get, wait for it, discovered by big-shot music execs. Discovered will follow a documentary format, showing what hustling their...
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Fucked Up's Pink Eyes Talks About Relaunched Version Of The Wedge

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 25, 2011 5:18 pm
Earlier this month, MuchMusic announced some exciting news: They were relaunching indie/alternative music show The Wedge! As if that didn't make people want to flip out enough, they were getting Fucked Up vocalist Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham to host it! If you grew up in the '90s, you might be familiar with the show, which was hosted by Sook-Yin...
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Fucked Up Album Could Be Out In May

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 11, 2011 3:20 pm
Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham is one busy guy. We aren't even saying that lightly. Not only is he finishing Fucked Up's David Comes To Life, the follow-up to 2008's Polaris Music Prize-winning The Chemistry Of Common Life, but he's also set to start hosting a new version of The Wedge on MuchMusic at the end of January, is helping produce some of the...
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MuchMusic Revives The Wedge With Fucked Up Singer As Host

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 10, 2011 1:28 pm
Remember how much you used to love The Wedge on MuchMusic? You'd tune in late Friday nights in high school to see whatever was cool or hip in the world that wasn't full of Nickelback and Avril Lavigne. Then The Wedge got cancelled, which was all kinds of "sad face."Well, it's coming back, and what's even more awesome is Fucked Up's Damian "Pink...
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MuchMusic, MTV's Lists Of Most-Watched Videos, Shows Are As Bad As You Think

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 17, 2010 1:52 pm
I'm sure you've all been wondering exactly what videos and TV shows people who watch MuchMusic and MTV find awesome in this new era. Hopefully these little lists will shine some light on that curiosity. Young Artists For Haiti's video for K'Naan's "Wavin' Flag" tops the list of most-watched videos on MuchMusic's website this year. We're actually...
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MuchMusic Forced To Keep Playing At Least Some Videos

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 25, 2010 3:11 pm
Unfortunately for MuchMusic, it doesn't get to play less videos than it already does.Remember how back in May, MuchMusic formally asked the Canadian Radio-television And Communications Commission (CRTC) to have its license changed so it could play 50 per cent less music videos? Well, the Canadian Press reports today that the CRTC denied the...
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MuchMusic Formally Requests To Reduce Music Video Programming, Wants To Remove French Content

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 28, 2010 10:55 am
"MuchMusic never shows videos anymore." That's the common complaint from Canadians who grew up in the '80s and '90s, and saw our version of MTV — which we said we looked on with pride because it actually played music videos — gradually decrease the amount of videos it aired to the point of it playing... well......
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MTV Removes Words "Music Television" From Logo

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 9, 2010 11:26 am
Sorry, what was that about video killing the radio star? It now seems reality TV has finally killed the music video (on TV, at least). MTV has finally admitted what most people have known since at least early last decade: it is no longer "music television." The network, which launched in 1981 specifically to air music videos,...
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Liz Trinnear Is Next MuchMusic VJ

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By Mark Teo (CHARTattack) December 7, 2009 5:14 pm
The search for the next MuchMusic VJ is over. MuchMusic have selected Liz Trinnear, the "super-outgoing" blonde with the "nerdy cool vibe," to occupy the throne. Trinnear joins the golden-tressed lineage of VJs such as Leah Miller, Amanda Walsh, Rebecca Rankin, Rachel Perry, Teresa Roncon, Angela Dorhmann and, heck, we'll even throw Steve...
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Jesse Giddings Is MuchMusic's New VJ

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 30, 2009 2:40 pm
New MuchMusic VJ Jesse Giddings is a musician and former member of Vancouver bands Swingset Champion and We Shot The Moon. Giddings moved to Toronto from B.C. to become a VJ. He was discovered by Elite Models after moving to Toronto and previously managed concert venues, according to his Twitter. Last Friday (Oct. 20) was Giddings' first day on...
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MuchMusic Cancel Going Coastal

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 10, 2008 4:38 pm
Maybe we shouldn't have opened our big mouths. We wrote last week that Going Coastal and Nardwuar (who contributed his interviews to the program) were the only good things MuchMusic had left after it axed The NewMusic, one of its longest-running programs. Well, Much has now canned Going Coastal, too. "It's horrible that a show that's been...
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R.I.P. The NewMusic

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 2, 2008 5:49 pm
MuchMusic has cancelled The NewMusic, one of its longest running programs. The program was included in a list of cuts made last week by CTVglobemedia, the company that now owns MuchMusic. The show's production staff were given the boot along with more than 100 other employees. "What else out there is like The NewMusic right now?"...
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Pink At MuchMusic

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Photographer: 
Jason McLoughlin
Venue: 
MuchMusic
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
September 22, 2008
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