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A Piece Of Canadian Rock History, As Rheostatics Play Final Show

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) April 2, 2007 4:30 pm
I can't back it up with statistics, but there's a good chance that I've seen The Rheostatics more than any other band over the past 20 years. When the group were firing on all cylinders, there were few better. But there was also a period in the late '90s and early this decade when I rarely went to their shows because their choice of material and...
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Rheostatics Tribute: The Secret Sessions

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By Shannon Whibbs (CHARTattack) March 27, 2007 7:32 pm
This loving tribute to a seminal band is a testament to just how close-knit the musical community can be in Canada. Secret Sessions covers The Rheostatics' vast discography, and was recorded and produced under the radar as a surprise for the band. It's also a surprise for the rest of us, since the contributing artists include Weeping Tile and The...
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The Chart Time Tunnel: Rheostatics

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) January 29, 2010 1:44 pm
There are times in this business where the lines between one's personal and work life intersect. I've come to know a number of musicians socially after working in the music business for over 20 years. One of the first dates back to time when only a handful of people knew of Dave Bidini's band, Rheostatics. Bidini and I both worked at Radio...
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Can't Find Large Rheos, Supersuckers & Souljazz Covers?

Submitted by Chris Burland on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 9:54am
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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) January 27, 2010 9:54 am
On the day when the world is raving over the latest technology from the ever-expanding minds of the Apple Company, I thought I'd add a bit of focus on content needed for these new techno-gadgets. I'm the proud owner of a 80-gig iPod and when I add some older music from my vast CD collection, I like to add a good-sized scan of the cover....
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Rheostatics Reuniting For One-Off Performance

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 16, 2009 3:16 pm
The Rheostatics will reunite as part of an event honouring Canadian author, playwright, screenwriter and musician Paul Quarrington next Saturday. The defunct Toronto band, who split up in 2007, will be the special musical guests at an event to be held at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre as part of the International Festival Of Authors. Former...
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City Sonic: Laura Barrett With Martin Tielli At Art Gallery Of Ontario

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By CHARTattack Staff October 9, 2009 3:46 pm
City Sonic is a cross-platform series of 24 short documentaries in which Toronto artists discuss the venues where they started their careers. In this episode, Laura Barrett explains how a Rheostatics show at the Art Gallery Of Ontario influenced her as a songwriter. The interplay and banter between Barrett and former Rheostatics singer/guitarist...
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Pumping: Rheostatics - 2067

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) July 31, 2009 12:23 pm
The art on the back of this album has the band members converted into postage stamp profile shots and Tielli's worth the most at four cents. How do you think that makes Tim Vesely feel, with his sad one cent value? And how did Bidini ever abide by being characterized as a two-center?
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Rheostatics - Night Of The Shooting Stars

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) June 5, 2009 2:26 pm
Every now and then you have to throw an old Rheos record on just to remind yourself how ahead/behind/beyond/completely disconnected from time they were. If this is supposed to be simple hoser music I ain't hearing it, eh.
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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) February 13, 2009 5:49 pm
Peter Tork turns 67 today. Even if he wasn't in The Monkees, I'd still enjoy saying his name and occasionally incorporating it into my personalized version of the Rheostatics' "Torque, Torque" that occasionally runs through my head.
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Did Morrissey Crib From The Rheostatics?

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 5, 2009 5:24 pm
Rheostatics don't often get their proper due or respect, and that's the case yet again. They may no longer exist, but they remain a highly influential band — even outside this country. You may have seen the inside sleeve for Morrissey's new "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" single, in which Moz and several other men pose nude with...
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The Violet Archers May Need To Wear Sunglasses At Night

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By Keith Powell (CHARTattack) April 29, 2008 3:30 pm
The Violet Archers have enough Canadian indie music star power to make Sunshine At Night, which happens to be the title of their sophomore album. The Toronto-based pop-rock group are led by former Rheostatics singer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Vesely. He's joined on Sunshine At Night by vocalist/pianist Ida Nilsen (Great Aunt Ida, Buttless...
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Rheostatics' Tim Vesley Opens up 2006 Alone!

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Rachel Verbin
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The Drake Hotel
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Toronto
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January 9, 2006

Martin Tielli Looks To Rheostatics-less Future

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Massey Hall
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Toronto
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April 2, 2007

Dave Bidini Closes The Book On The Rheostatics

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By Shannon Whibbs (CHARTattack) October 31, 2007 4:00 pm
"The Rheostatics broke up quietly." This is the opening line of Dave Bidini's latest McClelland & Stewart book, Around The World In 57 1/2 Gigs. It's enough to make all grieving fans clutch dramatically at their still-aching hearts as the author, singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist sets the scene with one of Canada's most...
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Local Rabbits, Inbreds Weeping Tile And Others Record Secret Tribute Album To The Rheostatics

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By CHARTattack Staff March 21, 2007 5:30 pm
After 21 years together, prog-pop, Can-rock band The Rheostatics will play their final show on March 30 at Toronto's Massey Hall. As a surprise going-away present, fellow musicians and fans quietly put together a tribute to their friends and colleagues and called it Secret Sessions. The album was curated by Zunior.com's stealth master, Dave...
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Dave Bidini Takes On Sex, Drugs And That Elusive Five Hole

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) November 28, 2006 5:00 pm
Rheostatic Dave Bidini has exhibited a bookish obsession with Canada's favourite pastime in recent years. He first traded his guitar for a pen and tackled the topic of hockey in 2001 for his book Tropic Of Hockey. That was followed by The Best Game You Can Name last year. Bidini has just written a third hockey book, though this latest venture...
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Rheostatics' Announce Their Final Concert

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) September 8, 2006 5:00 pm
Seminal Canadian rockers the Rheostatics have decided to call it quits after their March 30, 2007 show at Toronto's Massey Hall. Though they've suggested that the band may continue in some new form, mainstay members Dave Bidini, Martin Tielli, Tim Vesely and Michael Phillip Wojewoda have announced that the Massey performance will be the last...
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Rheostatics Marathon A Nod To Stompin' Tom

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By Tim Melton (CHARTattack) October 17, 2001 4:00 pm
What do you do when you've damn near done everything under the musical sun — from soundtracks, to children's albums — and have covered almost every base on the musical map? If you're Toronto's Rheostatics you prepare to release your sonically heaviest album, Night Of The Shooting Stars, due October 23 on Perimeter Records and courageously book...
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Martin Tielli — We Didn't Even Suspect That He Was The Poppy Salesman

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By Tim Melton (CHARTattack) September 11, 2001 10:31 am
As with every Rheostatics release Martin Tielli has lent his genius to, it really comes as no surprise that his first solo album brims with the same kind of bent greatness we've come to know and love. Poppy Salesman is a mostly acoustic affair, so don't expect any of Martin's ferocious electric playing, but in the absence of electricity the 11...
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Adios To Don Kerr

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By Amanda Factor (CHARTattack) May 29, 2001 12:30 pm
Get out your hankies, folks. Tonight begins the sure-to-be tearful Don Kerr send-off shows. The Rheostatics' May 29 and 30 gigs at Toronto's Ted's Wrecking Yard will be Kerr's final shows as a band member. After six years, he's leaving the band to focus his energies on his Toronto Island Studio, the Gas Station. There's no word on a new...
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