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Royal City — Royal City

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 30, 2009 12:56 pm
Royal City's new compilation of alternate versions and unreleased songs begins with a track called "Here Comes Success," which is probably the best way Aaron Riches and company could have begun the disc. The band eventually became not only well-known throughout the Guelph, Ont. Music scene, but throughout Canada as well. Royal City,...
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Royal City — Little Heart’s Ease

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By Shannon Whibbs (CHARTattack) June 8, 2004 12:28 pm
Each new Royal City effort sets another piece of the alt.country group’s puzzle in place, with past albums serving as the groundwork for the next to come. If Alone At The Microphone filled in the excess empty space from At Rush Hour The Cars, then Little Heart’s Ease continues this trajectory — it’s the warmest sounding Royal City album to date....
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The Longest Running Albums On The Campus Radio Chart

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 27, 2011 12:24 pm
Here is the complete list of every album that has been on the Campus Radio Chart for 20 or more weeks since September 1995. The albums are listed in chronological order with each week total.The dates in the brackets indicate the week the record initially entered the chart, followed by the last week of continuous presence before exiting the chart....
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Arcade Fire Salute Montreal, Bands At Juno Awards

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 29, 2011 10:48 am
Arcade Fire seemed in fine spirits at the 2011 Juno Awards held at Toronto's Air Canada Centre on Sunday night.It probably had something to do with the band winning four awards over the weekend, including the Album Of The Year award for The Suburbs. During the awards broadcast the band had nothing but love for their home city of Montreal.After the...
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Sunset Rubdown Slays All To Reach #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 7, 2009 1:38 pm
With a new month, there's a new #1 album on the chart. After several weeks of predictions that a certain "Kool Thing" quartet would take over top spot on the top 50 chart, it's a west coast supergroup of sorts that grabs the top honours for the week. Sunset Rubdown's Dragonslayer jumps up four spots to land at #1 in its third week on...
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Pumping: Royal City - Royal City

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) June 12, 2009 10:58 am
We've been reading and hearing a lot of eulogies for Royal City lately, and yeah, they were a good band, but nobody seems to want to man-up and actually say why this band broke up. Well, here it is... JESUS. Jesus destroyed Royal City. And it was Jesus who turned Aaron Riches into our Lauryn Hill. There. Now deal. 
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Royal City Tribute Shows Planned

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 5, 2009 2:53 pm
Two separate Royal City tribute shows will be held in Guelph, Ont. and Toronto in connection with the release of the upcoming Royal City B-sides and rarities compilation that's due out June 23 through Outside Music. The first show will take place at Guelph's E-Bar on June 24. Tickets are $10 and proceeds to go Out On The Shelf, Guelph's queer...
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Royal City Rarities Coming

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 31, 2009 10:19 am
A compilation of Guelph, Ont. band Royal City's B-sides and rarities will be released through Outside Music in Canada and Asthmatic Kitty in the U.S. on June 23. The 12-track self-titled disc features unreleased material, including a cover of The Strokes' "Is This It?" with a guest spot from former Orange Juice singer Edwyn Collins....
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Royal City Wear Their Hearts On Their Sleeves

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By CHARTattack Staff April 19, 2004 3:00 pm
While some speculated that Aaron Riches' migration to the United States would spell the end of Royal City, we're happy to report that the Three Gut Records mainstay are alive and well and preparing a new album. Three Gut will release RC's third album, Little Heart's Ease on June 8. The album will come out in the U.K. and the U.S. through the...
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Royal City: Rough Trade, Vinyl and The Resurrection

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By Shannon Whibbs (CHARTattack) May 7, 2003 2:00 pm
Royal City lead singer Aaron Riches is a man on the move. The Guelph native has done time in Toronto, Montreal and is now living in Brooklyn, New York. But not for long — in the fall he's moving to Charlottesville, Virginia to pursue his Ph.D. in religious studies. In the midst of all this transition, Royal City became the second Canadian...
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Royal City, The Constantines Sign International Deals

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By CHARTattack Staff January 16, 2003 5:00 pm
Today Toronto's Three Gut Records confirmed that two of their flagship bands have signed deals with record labels outside of Canada. The Constantines will be working with Sub Pop in the U.S. and Royal City have developed a formal relationship with England's Rough Trade. Both bands will continue to be represented by Three Gut in Canada. The...
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Royal City: Champion Of The Charts

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By Neil Haverty (CHARTattack) May 23, 2002 4:30 pm
In this corner, weighing in five members strong (and Neko likely drunk), give a round of applause to Canadian powerhouse The New Pornographers! In the other corner, Guelph's former crown jewel, Royal City! It's time for the campus radio chart showdown! If only indie-rock was that competitive. Imagine Jim Guthrie socking one to Neko Case or Aaron...
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An Alternate Soundtrack To The Prom

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) May 22, 2002 4:30 pm
For any teen, the high school prom is a time of celebration and a time of fear. Not only is there the internal struggle around who to ask as a date, what to wear or what type of corsage to buy, there's all those questions regarding the music that will be played. Sure, there's all the latest hip songs to dance to and some classic songs from the...
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Royal City's Alone At The Microphone Goes to #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) February 20, 2002 10:00 pm
Back in the mid-'80s, the former singer of Wall Of Voodoo (remember that great novelty tune "Mexican Radio"?), Stan Ridgway released a solo record called The Big Heat. The album was filled with sordid tales of good and evil and a sense of the moral ambiguity that has been associated with the '40s film genre defined as by French cultural critics as...
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Royal City Don't Wax Poetic

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) January 4, 2002 6:30 pm
Aaron Riches and his co-horts in the Toronto-based Royal City must be on Cloud Nine. For the past month (which included the slack Christmas period) their second and latest album, Alone At The Microphone, has received high praise as has the band's stellar live shows. Both the album and the band have appeared on many critics' favourites from 2001 —...
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Royal City Together At The Microphone

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By ChartAttack.com Staff (CHARTattack) November 22, 2001 11:30 am
Let the critical praise begin to flow — Guelph-born, Toronto-based Royal City have released a new album. The quartet headed by the all-around brilliant songwriter Aaron Riches unleashed Alone At The Microphone on Tuesday (November 20) via the increasingly popular Three Gut record label. Alone At The Microphone comes hot on the heels of Royal City'...
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