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Pink Mountaintops — Outside Love

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) May 8, 2009 1:59 pm
After the intensity of Black Mountain's last album and the subsequent shows the band performed in support of it, it's easy to see how Outside Love came to fruition. Stephen McBean's stoner-country anthems feel like campfire jams. The vibe is carried further by McBean's lyrics on "Holiday" ("Everyone I love deserves a holiday in...
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Pink Mountaintops One-Off Solo Gig

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) November 10, 2008 4:46 pm
From the outset, this didn't seem to make a lot of sense. Stephen McBean's other band, Black Mountain, played no less than three shows in a week here at the end of September, and you'd think the man might be tired of touring. Then a friend in the know cleared it up — McBean was in town for a wedding and wanted to play. Ah. Well then, carry on (...
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Pink Mountaintops' McBean The True Canadian Idol

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) June 12, 2006 3:30 pm
As another season of American Idol winds down and another round of Canadian Idol gears up, the key problem with the shows has become more evident than ever: perfection. Perfection is boring. It leaves no room for creativity and is simply tailor-made to be absorbed clinically by radio listeners. Standing opposite to the Idol machine is the...
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Pink Mountaintops — Axis Of Evol

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 7, 2006 12:51 pm
It's one thing that Stephen McBean found time to record a Pink Mountaintops album in the midst of Black Mountain's big year. It's another thing entirely that Axis Of Evol is another triumph for Canada's new king of fuzzy rock. The second record from McBean's other mountainous band is an expansion on the anti-formula of their self-titled debut. Not...
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I Read The News Today... For June 17, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 17, 2011 3:35 pm
 Those of you who are still stuck in 2005 can check out a new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah track below. "Same Mistake" will appear on their new Hysterical album, which is out Sept. 20. Liam Gallagher is not attending Noel Gallagher's wedding because he's touring with Beady Eye. Convenient excuse. Man, their mum's...
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Pink Mountaintops — "Execution"

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By CHARTattack Staff August 6, 2009 5:05 pm
Stephen McBean is nowhere to be found in the clip for Pink Mountaintops' "Execution," which features an all-girl band playing and singing the song in a dimly lit room. It's a pretty interesting concept, considering McBean can be heard singing on most of the Outside Love track.
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Pink Mountaintops Climb Back To #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 9, 2009 1:21 pm
When it comes to analyzing trends on the charts, there's a time to dive and make wild predictions and then there are more often times where arms-length observation is necessary. With the current battle at the top of the charts, only time will really tell who will be the ultimate victor between Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love and Metric's...
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Pink Mountaintops Reach #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) May 20, 2009 1:48 pm
Pink Mountaintops' Outside Love rises one place to supplant Metric's Fantasies at #1 on the Canadian campus radio top 50 chart. Don't feel sorry for Metric. They topped the chart for two weeks, which is something neither of their previous two albums accomplished. Live It Out peaked at #2 in October 2005 and Old World Underground, Where Are You...
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Pink Mountaintops Romance Novel

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) May 15, 2009 1:36 pm
Stephen McBean does little to buck his stoner rocker image with his long messy hair and beard. He resembles a backwoods hermit who eschews the public to practice his art. When he answers the phone at his Vancouver home, he sounds like he just finished a wake-and-bake. Outside Love, the third album from McBean's Pink Mountaintops project,...
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Pink Mountaintops — "While We Were Dreaming"

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By CHARTattack Staff May 5, 2009 4:19 pm
Black Mountain frontman Stephen McBean is ditching his band once again for his Pink Mountaintops side project — and his project's latest music video. The lo-fi video features a seated McBean playing an acoustic guitar, with superimposed black and white images of a cabin in the woods "While We Were Dreaming" is from Pink Mountaintops'...
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Pink Mountaintops' Wedding Album

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) May 4, 2009 3:35 pm
Black Mountain mastermind Stephen McBean is set to drop a new record with his other colourful hillside project. Pink Mountaintops will release their third record, Outside Love, on Tuesday through Jagjaguar. McBean says the album was inspired by a wedding that he and Thee Silver Mount Zion violinist Sophie Trudeau performed at last summer in...
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Get Free Pink Mountaintops Track

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 15, 2009 1:53 pm
Stephen McBean's Pink Mountaintops project are offering a free MP3 of "Vampires" from their upcoming Outside Love that you can download here. The disc is the third Pink Mountaintops album and first since 2006's Axis Of Evol. McBean's Black Mountain bandmates, drummer Joshua Wells and vocalist Amber Webber, will release an album with...
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Pumping: Pink Mountaintops — Outside Love

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) February 25, 2009 2:17 pm
It's taken awhile, but all the various projects projects of the Black Mountain Army — Black Mountain, Lightning Dust, Blood Meridian and Stephen McBean's other side, Pink Mountaintops — are finally coming into more focus. Basically, Pink Mountaintops is Black Mountain without the riffs... and now without the sex jams of the first album....
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Pink Mountaintops Album Coming

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 6, 2009 1:01 pm
Black Mountain may have been getting most of Stephen McBean's attention (and a Juno Award nomination) lately, but that will change when a new Pink Mountaintops album comes out on May 5 through Jagjaguwar. Outside Love features appearances from Black Mountain's Amber Webber, Matt Camirand and Joshua Wells, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial...
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Pink Mountaintops To Play Gig

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) October 21, 2008 3:40 pm
Vancouver hippie rocker Stephen McBean takes turns with his two Mountain themed bands, and while he's been busy lately with Black Mountain, his Pink Mountaintops are returning to the spotlight. Well, at least for one show. Pink Mountaintops will play on Nov. 7 at Toronto's trendy Drake Hotel (get yourself some Drake juice!). Tickets go on sale on...
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Pumping: Pink Mountaintops - Axis Of Evol

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) September 5, 2008 1:22 pm
We love all you guys in your hippie army, but we think we're gonna just give our heart to Black Mountain (and maybe a bit to Lightning Dust) and just pretend we don't know the rest exist.
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Vancouver Buzz: Black/Pink Mountaineer Stephen McBean Starts Bands With Everyone

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By Trevor Hargreaves (CHARTattack) October 27, 2006 4:30 pm
I recently caught up with elusive Black Mountain/Pink Mountaintops frontman Stephen McBean, who filled in the blanks about the myriad projects and weird jibberish that's been keeping him busy lately. "Hey, ummm, I'm trying to quit smoking and my mind is slow," says McBean. "The Acid Chairs will form in 2009 at the same time that...
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Pink Mountaintops And Black Mountain Stay Busy

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) April 5, 2006 5:30 pm
Busy doesn't begin to describe the members of Vancouver's Pink Mountaintops, who just wrapped up a successful U.S. tour by opening two shows for The Flaming Lips in New York City and will soon be hitting the road again in support of their new Axis Of Evol album. Pink Mountaintops' touring band share members Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Joshua...
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McBean Erupts Again With Pink Mountaintops

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By Brian Pascual (CHARTattack) March 9, 2006 7:00 pm
The ball just keeps rolling for the colonel of the Black Mountain army, Steve McBean. Seemingly incapable of rest, the man has released three albums — one every year — since 2004 (two as the Pink Mountaintops, one as Black Mountain). He's also toured extensively, culminating in a much ballyhooed opening slot for Coldplay last year. McBean just...
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New Releases: Neko Case Leads The Flood

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By ChartAttack.com Staff (CHARTattack) March 6, 2006 6:00 pm
Last week there was nothing to talk about. This week, there's just too much. We begin with a former indie queen who's about to take the crown back from reigning monarch Feist. Neko Case's Fox Confessor Brings The Flood is her first studio album in four years and, without spoiling too much, it's worth the tremendous wait. Not that Case has been...
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