Sled Island Music Festival

Sled Island 2009 Recap

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 May 26, 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 17, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 17, 2010 3:43 pm

Do you have a beef you'd like to air publicly? Can you not get through a single day without kvetching? Do you have a grudge against someone and you're tired of carrying it around? Good! Composer Bryce Kulak's World Stage 2010-2011 Complaints Choir is for you. It goes down at various locations from March 21 to 26, and if you're interested in...

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Fucked Up Curating Sled Island Stage

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

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

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

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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King Khan Curating Sled Island 2010

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 8, 2009 1:23 pm

King Khan and Quintron and Miss Pussycat will curate next year's Sled Island Music Festival. The fourth installment of the annual festival takes place in Calgary from June 30 to July 3 at venues throughout the city. The three musicians will play the festival and pick its lineup. More curators could be announced shortly. Previous curators have...

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Holy Fuck Scandalize Calgary

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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Sled Island Magic Tournament Is Go

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 9, 2009 11:50 am

If you're a Magic: The Gathering-playing music nerd, you could win a festival pass to the Sled Island Music Festival. Sled Island festival organizers are hosting a Magic: The Gathering tournament at Calgary's Broken City Social Club on Wednesday at 9 p.m. and three Sled Island passes will be up for grabs. Full details about the tournament haven'...

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More Sled Island Acts Announced

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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