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Sled Island 2009 Recap

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By Trevor Morelli (CHARTattack) July 2, 2009 1:39 pm
CHARTattack's Trevor Morelli checked out Calgary's Sled Island Music Festival from June 24-28. Here's his report: Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett may be a man of few words, but it was the fans at Calgary's third annual Sled Island Music Festival that were left speechless after his show. With handmade "Sold Out" signs plastered all over...
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I Read The News Today... For June 14, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff June 14, 2011 3:48 pm
Tom Hanks' production company is going to make a movie out of Green Day's American Idiot musical, which basically ensures it's going to be the least punk rock thing ever, even with Billie Joe Armstrong starring in it. Thurston Moore is going to be teaching writing classes at the Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics, which is not a fake place...
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I Read The News Today... For June 10, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 10, 2011 4:12 pm
The good folks behind The MuseBox have put together a North By Northeast mixtape featuring all their artists that are showcasing at the festival. You're welcome. Get the fuck away from Star Wars, Fred Durst. This is just wrong: If you need to hear some good ol' fashioned back porch exorcisin' tunes this summer, The Schomberg Fair may be...
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I Read The News Today... For May 26, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 26, 2011 3:58 pm
Dropkick Murphys! Surfing! Hollerado! Boarding! KO! Surfing! Drugs! Hopefully no rain! Wakestock has been announced! Speaking of the Dropkick Murphys, they're launching a massive North American tour this summer, which means you have no reason not to pretend you're Irish. Calgary singer/songwriter Michael Bernard Fitzgerald will play a live,...
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I Read The News Today... For May 4, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 4, 2011 3:28 pm
The full lineup for this year's Sled Island Music Festival has been revealed, along with the main stage's schedule. Calgarians, freak out. Read it and weep, rest of Canada. The Sheepdogs, who are in the final round of Rolling Stone's choose the cover contest, have recorded a new tune with Fountains Of Wayne frontman Adam Schlesinger. You can hear...
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Of Montreal are playing this year's Sled Island Music Festival

I Read The News Today... For April 18, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 18, 2011 4:26 pm
The Trews, David Myles, Rose Cousins and Chris Colepaugh & The Crew were among the artists who won multiple East Coast Music Awards this weekend in Charlottetown. —ecma.ca Hey Rosetta!, In-Flight Safety and Glory Glory have been added to the lineup for this year's M Fest, which will take place at Halifax's Alderney Landing on Aug. 7. Broken...
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I Read The News Today... For March 21, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 21, 2011 4:03 pm
Tool Lite A Perfect Circle are coming to a North American city near you. It's just like 2002 all over again! Yeah!!! —Spin A man's ear is being used to blow up balloons in this Cars video, there's some sort of marble rolling around, an evil scientist and... I don't... ... ... goddamnit, just watch it: Did you miss that Yuck show in...
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CBC Radio 3's Grant Lawrence Among Those Curating Sled Island 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 11, 2011 3:58 pm
The Sled Island Music Festival will return to venues throughout Calgary this year, taking place June 22 to 25. CBC Radio 3's Grant Lawrence is among the guest curators this year, which also include Ian Svenonious of Chain And The Gang, Nation Of Ulysses and The Make-Up and Vancouver's heavy rockers Bogus Tokus. Of course, they'll all have a big...
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Sled Island 2011 Is Go

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 18, 2011 1:14 pm
There was some question as to whether Sled Island Music & Arts Festival would be held this year after it was revealed they were in dire need of some funding. But Calgarians and those in western Canada can put their fears about summer potentially sucking a whole lot because the festival's organizers announced yesterday that Sled Island 2011...
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Fucked Up Curating Sled Island Stage

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 20, 2010 10:34 am
Fucked Up will headline their own stage at this year's Sled Island Music Festival, and they've helped pick the acts that will play it as well. They'll play at The Legion on July 3, and will have GZA, No Age and White Lung with them. Sled Island founder Zak Pashak (who is running for Calgary's municipal government in one of the city's wards) asked...
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Built To Spill, Les Savy Fav, Hot Water Music Join Sled Island Lineup

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By Trevor Morelli (CHARTattack) April 1, 2010 1:55 pm
Calgary's summer just got a lot hotter. The first wave of acts for the 2010 Sled Island Music Festival was announced earlier today. Built To Spill, Les Savy Fav, Fucked Up, !!!, Hot Water Music, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, Deerhoof, The Bronx, The Pack A.D., Hollerado, Woodhands, Champion And His G-Strings and You Say Party! We Say Die! are...
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The Offspring, Matthew Good Headline Edmonton's Boonstock, Melvins Playing Sled Island

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By Trevor Morelli (CHARTattack) March 2, 2010 3:50 pm
If watching Alanis Morissette perform at the closing ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics didn't take you back to 1997, then the lineup for this year's Boonstock certainly will. The Offspring and Matthew Good are among the '90s-era acts confirmed to play the three-day festival, which runs June 24 to 26. Take that, Edgefest. Now...
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Matthew Good (Photo by Jason McLoughlin)

Black Lips To Play Sled Island 2010

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By Trevor Morelli (CHARTattack) January 29, 2010 12:36 pm
CALGARY – Sled Island 2010 is returning to Calgary this summer, and the first two bands playing the festival have been leaked. Festival organizers are methodically leaking bands through the festival's somewhat up-to-date website. Chain And The Gang will hit the stage, presumably performing songs off their upcoming Down with Liberty… Up with...
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Holy Fuck Scandalize Calgary

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 18, 2009 10:13 am
The organizers of the Sled Island Music Festival have had to reprint posters they've been putting up to advertise the festival in Calgary because Holy Fuck's name made it onto them uncensored. Apparently a city that has bull testicle fry-ups, the Calgary "Stoo-pede" fight 'n' drinkathon and the loogan-tacular "Red Mile" can'...
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More Sled Island Acts Announced

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By Trevor Morelli (CHARTattack) June 2, 2009 1:26 pm
CALGARY — Someone call the frat boys. Biz Markie will be in Calgary to party during the third annual Sled Island Music Festival from June 24 to 27. The "Just A Friend" rapper has just been announced to share headlining duties with previously announced acts Malajube, Holy Fuck, Liars, M5, Anvil and The Breeders on the Olympic Plaza...
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Sled Island Music Festival Lineup Revealed

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By Trevor Morelli (CHARTattack) May 1, 2009 4:52 pm
CALGARY — The Breeders, Holy Fuck and Final Fantasy are among the acts coming to Calgary for the third annual Sled Island Music Festival. The initial lineup was announced at a press conference earlier this afternoon and also includes: Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, Andrew W.K., Anvil, Battle Snakes, The Bronx, The Coathangers, The Cripple Creek...
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Sled Island: Day Two

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By Trevor Morelli (CHARTattack) June 27, 2008 4:30 pm
CALGARY — I headed downtown to the Central United Church for the second night in a row, this time to check out Okkervil River. Groups of hipsters were gathered outside the venue, a sure sign that this show would sell out. I got inside in time to catch Vancouver's Mother Mother rock out with their last few songs. The Last Gang Records artists...
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Final Sled Island Festival Lineup Announced

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 29, 2008 4:00 pm
The full lineup for Calgary's second annual Sled Island Festival has been announced. Apostle Of Hustle, The Coast, Aaron Booth, Chad VanGaalen, DD/MM/YYYY, Ghost Bees, Jane Vain And The Dark Matter, Wax Mannequin and others have been added to what was already an impressive lineup that included acts like Jose Gonzalez and Broken Social Scene. The...
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Broken Social Scene And Tegan And Sara Join Sled Island Lineup

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By Keith Powell (CHARTattack) May 1, 2008 4:30 pm
The Sled Island Festival organizers have added some impressive new artists to the lineup for the June 25 to 28 event in Calgary. Broken Social Scene, Tegan And Sara and Fucked Up are among those who'll join the previously confirmed artists, including Wire, Of Montreal and Mogwai. Broken Social Scene and Tegan And Sara will also perform at the...
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Jose Gonzalez, Of Montreal And Mogwai To Play Sled Island Festival

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 26, 2008 2:00 pm
The first block of artists named to play Calgary's second annual Sled Island Festival has been announced. The event, which will run from June 25 to 28 throughout Calgary, will feature Wire, Of Montreal, Jonathan Richman, The Gutter Twins, Jose Gonzalez, RZA, Mogwai, No Age, Deerhunter and many others. A schedule hasn't yet been finalized and...
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