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Stereolab — Chemical Chords

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) August 20, 2008 9:15 am
Nearly 20 years in and Stereolab, the eminent producers of heavily synthesized, keyboard-based, tepidly politicized pop music are still at it. A cruise through Chemical Chords has me questioning why. The band seem mired in stasis. The looped beats, meandering melodies and slightly off-kilter vocals that characterize all of their music are still...
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Stereolab Are Most Definitely Fab

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By Alison Lang (CHARTattack) March 15, 2006 5:00 pm
If you had wandered into the Phoenix Tuesday, you might have noticed a crowd that was a little different from the usual anonymous, dress-alike scenesters who seem to populate shows around these parts. There were older, nicely-dressed couples and tattooed punks sipping bottles of 50. A cluster of preppy guys with smart haircuts spilled beer on...
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Stereolab — Fab Four Suture

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By Matt Semansky (CHARTattack) March 7, 2006 12:57 pm
The latest release from arty indie rockers Stereolab is a collection of singles pushed together for fans' convenience until their next long-player, but the songs here feel as though they were meant to be together. Of course, Stereolab haven't changed a whole lot over the years so that shouldn't be too surprising. Fab Four Suture boasts all the...
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Monade — A Few Steps More

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By Brian Wong (CHARTattack) March 11, 2005 3:20 pm
There's one thing you can count on never changing and that's Laetitia Sadier's plaintive and detached sigh. But the Stereolab vocalist's ultra-cool fembot croon doesn't so much buoy the material on the sophomore disc of her Monade side project, which strays too far from Stereolab's lush, groove-driven French pop. There's the warm retro organs and...
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Song Of The Day: The Avalanches' "Since I Left You" (Stereolab Remix)

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 14, 2011 12:39 pm
Since I Left You, the one and only studio album from Australian turntablists and breakbeat artists The Avalanches, will be reissued this year to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The LP will come with brand new remixes from El Guincho, MF Doom, Black Dice and Stereolab, among others. You can hear Stereolab's reworking of the title track, which is...
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Stereolab At Phoenix Concert Theatre

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Phoenix Concert Theatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
March 14, 2006
Stereolab (Photo by Joe Fuda)

Stereolab At Phoenix Concert Theatre

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Phoenix Concert Theatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
March 14, 2006
Stereolab (Photo by Joe Fuda)

Stereolab At Phoenix Concert Theatre

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Phoenix Concert Theatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
March 14, 2006
Stereolab (Photo by Joe Fuda)

Stereolab At Phoenix Concert Theatre

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Phoenix Concert Theatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
March 14, 2006
Stereolab (Photo by Joe Fuda)

Stereolab At Phoenix Concert Theatre

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Phoenix Concert Theatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
March 14, 2006
Stereolab (Photo by Joe Fuda)

Stereolab At Phoenix Concert Theatre

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Photographer: 
Joe Fuda
Venue: 
Phoenix Concert Theatre
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
March 14, 2006
Stereolab (Photo by Joe Fuda)

The Chart Time Tunnel: Stereolab

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) October 23, 2009 11:42 am
As much as the phrase "campus chart veteran" is bandied about in my columns, there are two non-Canadian groups, Sonic Youth and Stereolab, who have consistently charted and usually topped the campus charts with a number of their releases since I started to compile these charts on a weekly basis in the spring of 1996. Ten years ago,...
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Stereolab Go On Hiatus

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By CHARTattack Staff April 3, 2009 11:27 am
Stereolab are done for a while — perhaps a long while, and maybe forever. The British group made the announcement in this message titled "Hiatus/Sabbatical/Pause/Intermission/Breather" that was posted on their website on Thursday: "As we recently made #51 with Emperor Tomato Ketchup in the Amazon 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums of...
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Stereolab Cut Chemical Chords

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By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) September 29, 2008 3:52 pm
Post-modern pop group Stereolab have returned with their ninth studio album, Chemical Chords. It opens with the sweepingly optimistic "Neon Beanbag," which vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Laetitia Sadier says explores the narratives of her dreams, all layered over loops of bopping rhythmic instrumentation. "Making this record was...
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Stereolab Play Chemical Chords

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 7, 2008 11:15 am
British post-rockers Stereolab will release their ninth studio album, Chemical Chords, on Aug. 19 through 4AD Records. The 14-track disc is the band's first full-length studio album since 2004's Margerine Eclipse. Since then, Laetitia Sadier (vocals, guitar, keyboards) has released two albums with Monade, while Tim Gane (guitar, keyboards)...
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For Stereolab, The Eyes Have It

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Joseph Fuda
Venue: 
Phoenix
City: 
Toronto
Date: 
March 20, 2006

Monade Make Cosmic Monster Of An Album

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By CHARTattack Staff January 17, 2008 6:30 pm
Monade began as a bedroom recording solo project for Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier earlier this decade, but it has evolved into a full-fledged band who will release Monstre Cosmic via Too Pure on Feb. 19. Singer/multi-instrumentalist Sadier is joined on the third Monade album by bassist/vocalist Marie Merlet, keyboardist Nicolas Etienne and...
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Stereolab Can't Kick The Compilation Habit

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) June 16, 2006 4:30 pm
After 10 studio albums, a slew of singles and seven compilations, British electro-popsters Stereolab are set to release yet another CD. Serene Velocity, a retrospective of the band's 10 years with Elektra Records, will be unleashed by Rhino on August 22. The new disc will include songs from 1994's Mars Audiac Quintet, 1996's Emperor Tomato...
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Stereolab Still Pushing Boundaries After 15 Years

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By Matt Semansky (CHARTattack) February 20, 2006 5:30 pm
It's a month before Stereolab's North American tour and the band haven't yet begun rehearsals, a fact that draws a nervous chuckle from co-founder Tim Gane. The guitarist already has enough performance anxiety without throwing concerns about lack of preparation into the mix. "I'm not the biggest fan of performing live," he admits,...
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Ten Reasons Why Mary Hansen Was Cool

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By Joanne Huffa (CHARTattack) December 11, 2002 4:00 pm
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Stereolab's Mary Hansen. Ms. Hansen, who joined the band as a singer in its early years and, along with Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, became a core member, was in a cycling accident on Monday, December 10. When I interviewed Hansen in 1996, during the tour for Emperor Tomato Ketchup, she was...
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