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Rock Plaza Central Get Fishy At Over The Top Fest

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) May 2, 2008 9:00 am
Flamenco guitarist Peter Walker was the night's starter and he quickly proved that there are still some musicians deserving of the label "virtuoso." In the hands of a few rare people, guitars can do some spectacular things. Rock Plaza Central have been riding on the coattails of their Are We Not Horses? release for two years, and who...
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Rock Plaza Central — The World Was Hell To Us

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By Matt Reeder (CHARTattack) June 26, 2007 2:05 pm
It's not surprising that Rock Plaza Central frontman Chris Eaton also writes novels. Like the band's recently released Are We Not Horses? concept record, RPC's 2003 outing showcases the singer's penchant for spinning a good yarn. And while there's not as grand a concept at work here, Eaton's fourth album — and first with a permanent band in tow —...
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Rock Plaza Central — Are We Not Horses

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By Shannon Whibbs (CHARTattack) November 21, 2006 11:11 am
"Be joyful, my children, be joyful!" Rock Plaza Central lead singer Chris Eaton crows on the third track of Are We Not Horses. It's impossible not to oblige him. The songs on his band's debut are filled with a reckless joy and a sense of epic, anthemic grandeur that co-exist with a spare, hollow sense of desolation and sadness. It's like Jon-Rae...
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Rock Plaza Central — "(Don't You Believe The Words Of) Handsome Men"

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By CHARTattack Staff January 27, 2010 5:55 pm
Rock Plaza Central's video for "(Don't You Believe The Words Of) Handsome Men" mocks politicians like Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, U.S. president Barack Obama, former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and George Clinton and other figures like Bill Gates, CBC News' Peter Mansbridge and Donald Trump. A pair of lips are superimposed...
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Rock Plaza Central's Chris Eaton Working On New Book... About Chris Eatons

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By Mark Teo (CHARTattack) December 1, 2009 3:27 pm
The Weakerthans, The National and The Decemberists might constitute rock 'n' roll's literati — perhaps rightfully so. But while the Weakerthans frontman John K. Sampson has been a panelist on CBC's Canada Reads, he's got nothing on the literary career of his recent tourmate Chris Eaton, a member of Rock Plaza Central. Not to slight Samson,...
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SappyFest 2009 — Saturday

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Aviva Cohen
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Mainstage Tent
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Sackville, NB
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August 1, 2009
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Rock Plaza Central Cover Van Halen

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 16, 2009 1:46 pm
Rock Plaza Central have covered Van Halen's "Panama." The Toronto folk rock band recorded the track partly because frontman Chris Eaton knew someone who spent time in Panama and partly because of a covers night. "I had an idea to host a night about four years ago where I'd book bands and give them a list of songs they'd have to...
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Rock Plaza Central Talk Fish, Faulkner

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) May 21, 2009 1:14 pm
Three years on, Chris Eaton is still unable to figure out exactly how it happened. His makeshift band, Rock Plaza Central, self-released a 2006 album about confused, mechanical horses, and somehow people around the world got their hands on it and started reporting that it changed their lives. "We met so many wonderful people who said that...
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Rock Plaza Central Tour Starts Soon

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By Craig Clark (CHARTattack) May 8, 2009 12:09 pm
Toronto's Rock Plaza Central will hit the road in Canada and the U.S. throughout the spring and summer in support of the May 26 Paper Bag Records release of ...At The Moment Of Our Most Needing, Or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know They Weren't Alone. The quartet’s 13-track follow-up to 2006's critically acclaimed Are We Not Horses...
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Rock Plaza Central Finish New Album

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By CHARTattack Staff February 19, 2009 11:54 am
Toronto's Rock Plaza Central have recorded their new album and will release it themselves on May 12. The 13-song, 42-and-a-half-minute record tentatively has the lengthy title of ...At The Moment Of Our Most Needing Or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know They Weren't Alone. It's tiring just to type that. Rock Plaza Central self-...
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Old Releases: Some Titles You May Have Missed

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By CHARTattack Staff December 11, 2006 2:30 pm
Newly released this week is Rex Goudie's Look Closer. But this week we're looking at some titles that you should seek out this Christmas for the indie rock lover in your house. Topping the list is Rock Plaza Central's Are We Not Horses, which just got itself a fancy label in Outside Music. The concept record about a pack of robotic horses is...
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Loose Ends: Snoop Dogg Arraignment, Ted Leo's LP And Rock Plaza Central's Label

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By CHARTattack Staff December 7, 2006 3:30 pm
According to an Associated Press report, Snoop Dogg's arraignment on a felony weapons charge has been delayed until January. Snoop (real name Cordozar Calvin Broadus) was in court on Monday, where his lawyer asked for a delay so he could review all the evidence. Snoop signed a waiver that allows him to skip future "non-substantive"...
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