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Final Flash, Think About Life Highlight Montreal's M On The Quays Festival

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) September 9, 2009 1:32 pm
On the Friday evening before M On The Quays — M For Montreal's latest excuse for trotting out the city's best and brightest young musical acts — this writer and a pair of sidekicks were consuming concealed beverages metres away from the already erected dual stages. Observing an impending rain cloud hanging perilously overhead, we were speaking...
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My Morning Jacket Keep Torontonians Out Late

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) June 17, 2008 3:00 pm
It might've been a Monday night, but fans showed up in droves for My Morning Jacket's Toronto stop. It was a strange mix of young and old, plain dudes and hipsters, which exhibits both the band's rock out appeal and their critical acclaim — all backed by one hell of a live show. Montreal sextet The Besnard Lakes were the perfect openers. Their...
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The Besnard Lakes @ CMW 2008

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) March 7, 2008 2:30 pm
BACKGROUND/COMPOSITION: The much-vaunted sextet treated a jam-packed El Mocambo to their infectious and swirling psychedelic rock. Grade: 87 Comment: Lead singer and guitarist Jace Lasek and Co. proved why they were nominated for the Polaris Prize with a performance that left every jaw in El Mocambo dragging...
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Montreal Jazz Fest Roundup: Sean Lennon, Besnard Lakes, Patrick Watson

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) July 12, 2007 3:30 pm
A festival built on second- and third-generation jazzmen paying respect to what's generally a musical genre living only in historical tribute wasn't the best venue for Sean Lennon to spread his wings and fly beyond the legacy left by everyone's favourite Liverpudlian musical hero. In the Montreal International Jazz Festival, where music fans...
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The Besnard Lakes — Are The Dark Horse

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) February 20, 2007 11:41 am
We were talking in the office recently about bands that sound good on CD that you would never want to see live. The Besnard Lakes are the definition of that sort of band. Shoegazers to the bone, the group's second disc is a sonic treat, but one that never really gets out of third gear. Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas expertly evoke the hazy sounds...
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I Read The News Today... For July 12, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 12, 2011 3:46 pm
Elbow are getting their own beer. It's an ale called Build A Rocket, Boys!, after their most recent album, and it might possibly be the most interesting thing they've ever done. Maybe the only interesting thing about them. Here's hoping Bud Light isn't more potent. English ale isn't known to be watery and wimpy as fuck. Jane's Addiction's long-...
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I Read The News Today... For June 28, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 28, 2011 2:53 pm
The Besnard Lakes will release a new EP dubbed You Lived In The City on Sept. 20, which features music they recorded for an interactive documentary earlier this year. They're also touring with Malajube this fall. Brother have been forced to change their name to Viva Brother. Viva non-stop band names. Wilco's new album is going to be called The...
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Godspeed, Arcade Fire, Silver Mt. Zion, Besnard Lakes, Luyas Members Performing Hitchcock Film Score

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 7, 2011 11:09 am
There's something simultaneously expansive and claustrophobic about Godspeed You! Black Emperor's music, much like many of the scores Bernard Herrmann composed for Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s and '60s.Those feelings can also be found in the sounds of Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre and The Besnard Lakes as well. So it's fitting members of...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 15, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 15, 2011 5:17 pm
A remix album of Daft Punk's score for TRON: Legacy will be released on April 5, the day the film is released to DVD and Blu-ray. It'll feature 14 re-workings of tunes Guy-Manuel De Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter composed for the movie, along with alternate takes. If you head to tronsoundtrack.com and pre-order the DVD, you'll get the remix...
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Besnard Lakes "Slaaaaaaaaaay!" In Toronto

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 31, 2011 4:47 pm
It was a fitting way for The Besnard Lakes to end their tour behind last year's Polaris Music Prize short listed The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night. A few songs into their set on Saturday night at Toronto's Lee's Palace, singer/guitarist/keyboardist Jace Lacek stopped to point out that the tour had begun almost a year ago at that exact...
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Awful Things People Said About 2010 Polaris Short Listed Records

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 21, 2010 3:18 pm
The 10 artists who appeared on this year's Polaris Music Prize short list have rightly been described as "critical darlings."Indeed, since the award is determined by about 200 Canadian music critics, bloggers and broadcasters, it's kind of hard to find a bad word written about the 10 discs. But just like every family has that one extremely...
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Polaris Short Listers Happier With Appreciation From Fans, Friends

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 21, 2010 3:11 pm
While the Polaris Music Prize might be an award determined by a panel of Canadian music journalists, bloggers and broadcasters, nearly every short-listed artist says the biggest compliments about their albums had come from their friends and fans. The Besnard Lakes' Olga Goreas and Richard White say they were happiest when someone told them they'd...
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Official CHARTattack 2010 Polaris Music Prize Betting Line

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) September 15, 2010 3:03 pm
The 2010 Polaris Music Prize will be awarded in Toronto on Monday, Sept. 20 when a bunch of this nation's music critics will get together papal conclave-style in an old Masonic temple to drink beer and decide what the best Canadian album of the year was.While last year's winner seemed relatively easy to predict — Fucked Up were the lone rawk act,...
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Polaris Battle: The Besnard Lakes Vs. Karkwa

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 13, 2010 11:00 pm
The 2010 Polaris Music Prize will be handed out on Monday. That, of course, means the next week is going to be filled with tons of speculation about who'll win this year, who actually deserves to win, who should have been short listed but wasn't and, afterwards, debate about whether the winning album truly merited the award. Over the next week,...
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Besnard Lakes Blow The Power At FME 2010

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 3, 2010 11:44 am
Rouyn-Noranda, Que., which hosts the annual Festival De Musique Émergente, is a small mining city with a population of about 40,000 people about an hour north of Montreal if you fly. This is as far north as I've been in Canada. The flight here was largely uneventful, save for a brief moment of panic at the airport in Montreal to get the...
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Daily Poll: Who Should Win The Polaris Music Prize?

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 19, 2010 4:21 pm
The Polaris Music Prize isn't a fan-voted award, and it's also not a popularity contest. It's what happens when about 200 jurors (or 11 in one room on one night, if you want to only count the gala) attempt to determine what's artistically the best Canadian album released during a particular year.People have strong opinions about...
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Polaris Music Prize Short List Announced

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 6, 2010 10:22 am
The Polaris long list of 40 titles has been cut by a quarter, reducing the list of hopefuls to a short list of 10. The short list was revealed Tuesday (July 6) afternoon at Toronto's Drake Hotel.  CBC Radio 3's Grant Lawrence and Fucked Up's Damian Abraham helped unveil the short list . The short list was chosen by a jury of nearly 200...
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The Besnard Lakes At Montreal Jazz Festival

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Photographer: 
Cindy Lopez
Venue: 
Metropolis
City: 
Montreal, QC
Date: 
June 25, 2010
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