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Your Friendly CHARTattack Reminder To Vote Today

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 9:17am
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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 2, 2011 9:17 am
CHARTattack would like to remind all our Canadian readers that today, Monday, May 2, is officially a federal election and that you should go vote.Young people, in particular, should get off your asses and vote because — and this isn't just our bong-water conspiracy theorizing here — the fostering of youth voter apathy is one of the tools that...
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Let's Talk About Jacob Hoggard's Moustache

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 11:02am
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 30, 2011 11:02 am
So, we all know Arcade Fire won everything at the 2011 Juno Awards. And Broken Social Scene played, and Tokyo Police Club played, and Neil Young was there, and Caribou won something, and Shad won something, and the ever-present spectre of Bryan Adams was kept to a near-dignified minimum. But all this feel-good righting of the music universe has...
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What My Face Might Look Like If CHARTattack Wins The CBC Searchlight Best Music Site Contest

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 2:57pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 15, 2011 2:57 pm
A couple weeks ago CHARTattack was nominated as part of the CBC Radio 3 Searchlight contest to find the best Canadian music site.Being of competitive spirit, I promised that if CHARTattack won this contest I would let CBC radio host Grant Lawrence paint my face in any manner he sees fit, photograph the results, and then do whatever he wants with...
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What Does Arcade Fire's Grammy Win Mean?

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 12:36pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 14, 2011 12:36 pm
About a minute after the Arcade Fire won the Best Album Award at the 2011 Grammys for The Suburbs, my very wise and very conflicted wife posted to Facebook the following status:"Does this mean we should make fun of Arcade Fire more? Or does this mean we get to make fun of the Grammys less?"I can't decide. As a card-carrying member of the...
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Alexisonfire Achieve Rare Feat: A Shock Jock (Sort Of) Apology

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 12:22pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) October 6, 2010 12:22 pm
A bubbling feud between Alexisonfire, one of Canada's biggest rock bands, and the hosts of Toronto modern rock radio station 102.1 The Edge's The Dean Blundell Show morning show has resulted in something that ranks as rare as spotting a unicorn: a shock jock apology.Now, sure, that apology mostly completely ignored the actual reasons why said...
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Fred Schneider Christmas Album Is An Excuse To Discuss Monsters In My Pants

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 9:11am
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) August 4, 2010 9:11 am
The internet has told me that legendary B-52's leader Fred Schneider has signed a deal with Fanatic Records with his new band The Superions to release a Christmas album called Destination... Christmas on Oct. 26.I'm sure it'll be wonderful and amazing and give off the same glow as someone spiking the eggnog, but the real reason I care...
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Better Know A Polaris Music Prize Juror

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 1:49pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) July 21, 2010 1:49 pm
The folks at the Polaris Music Prize HQ have been poking me for a bit to participate in their Better Know A Juror campaign and I finally broke down and did it.The point of the questionnaire is for the semi-secretive Polaris jurors to come out of their shells a little bit and talk about the albums they nominated for the 2010 edition of the prize.If...
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Five April Wine Songs You Need To Know

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 3:27pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 3, 2010 3:27 pm
Crapinations, kids. I just came back from the 2010 Juno Award Nominations press conference and — in a revelation that will become abundantly clear when you read all our "Meet The Nominees" stories we're rolling out — nobody knows who the heck April Wine are. This is a grave injustice. See, in rock lineage, April Wine probably begat...
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Have Danko Jones Come Under The Spell Of Evil?

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 12:24pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 23, 2010 12:24 pm
I love the guys in Danko Jones but I'm getting a little worried about them. Word has it they've come under the spell of a dark influence, and we're not talking Axl Rose or any of the sludge metal bands The Mango Kid loves so dearly. It's a little tough to articulate, so it's best that I just explain visually:      ...
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Robin Black Destroys Opponent's Ear

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 1:41pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 9, 2010 1:41 pm
Friend of CHARTattack and intergalactic rock star Robin Black won his third professional mixed martial arts fight on Friday night at the Agression MMA 2 card in Edmonton, Alberta. The big deal with this one is that Black, who's now 3-3 as a fighter, split his opponent Matt Knysh's ear open, causing the referee to call the bout as a technical...
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12 Abbey Road-ism Better Than Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Attempt To Co-Opt The Beatles

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 3:19pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) January 6, 2010 3:19 pm
Apparently Stephen Harper, the ultra-conservative Prime Minister of Canada, is using a recreation of The Beatles' famous Abbey Road album cover as a photo in the 2010 Harper family calendar that they've sent out to friends and supporters. The Harper Family This isn't the first time Harper, who's got a long adversarial history with...
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Lest We Forget: SCTV Doing Chilliwack

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 9:24am
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) October 15, 2009 9:24 am
It's pretty dreary out there today, so peep this: Thanks to Chartattack Hack HC forward Wade Ivan for dredging this up.
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Official CHARTattack 2009 Polaris Music Prize Betting Line

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Mon, 09/21/2009 - 4:15pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) September 21, 2009 4:15 pm
Ooooh, the excitement! The 2009 Polaris Music Prize will be awarded a few short hours from now so it's time to lay down some bets. It's impossible to predict how the 11 Polaris Grand Jury members are going to vote, but if you throw a bunch of music critics in a room drunk on the power and drunk on wine coolers, there are some patterns...
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Ten Ways Kanye West Could've Been More Of A Douche At The VMAs

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 8:41am
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) September 14, 2009 8:41 am
By now the entire world is aware of Kanye West's retarded stage invasion that disrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the VMAs. It was pretty classless, but it could've ended up being far, far worse. Here, then, are 10 things we're glad that Kanye West didn't do in the midst of his awards show faux paus: 10) Smash a Macbook Air. No high-...
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Crazy Frog Is Back!! Awesome!!!!

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 2:53pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) August 19, 2009 2:53 pm
Crazy Frog is making a comeback! Apparently he/it/she? has a new album coming out called Everybody Dance Now. This is weirdly awesome because even though I know I'm going to hate the actual music, because it's going to get played everywhere, people that are going to hate Crazy Frog more than me are going to really, really, REALLY hate it and...
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Rock And Roll Will Never Die?

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 9:51am
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) August 6, 2009 9:51 am
That's not entirely true. So you need to soak it up when you get the chance For the last couple of years I've been discreetly doing something rather macabre. To be clear, I'm not one of those people who drives around rural highways looking for roadkill they can strip the flesh off of to create raccoon skull necklaces. Nor am I holding Ouija...
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Thursday At NXNE 2009

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 11:18am
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) June 19, 2009 11:18 am
Here's what I did last night at NXNE: Melissa Auf Der Maur @ Yonge-Dundas Square: Look, someone's got to say this: She's hot, smart, a positive female role model for the rock world, a proud Canadian, and a fascinatingly artful person. She shouldn't, however, be allowed to have her own band to front. Burning Brides @ Yonge-Dundas Square:...
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Why Your Album Didn't Make The Polaris Music Prize 2009 Long List

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 11:43am
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) June 16, 2009 11:43 am
1) Real people actually like your music. 2) You're not signed to Arts & Crafts. 3) The goddamn internet. 4) You haven't been in a band with Spencer Krug. 5) Not gay enough. 6) Too gay. 7) Traction with Punch Much demo didn't cross over to the pasty liner note-reading dork demo. 8) Moe Berg produced your record. 9) At least two of your band...
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All Hail Sasquatch Dancing Man

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 2:52pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) June 9, 2009 2:52 pm
I don't have a lot of faith in people. They try to run over pedestrians in their cars, they stand in your personal space at clubs or events when there's clearly room not to, and they often smell. But every now and then humanity rises up from it's natural inclination to be stupid and irritating and the people do something like this...
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Kitteh vs. Turntable

Submitted by Aaron Brophy on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 12:25pm
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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) May 13, 2009 12:25 pm
As the not so proud owner of a copy of Wings' Band On The Run with an elaborate series of claw marks across it, I can attest, that yes, kitties love fighting with turntables.
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