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A Real Live Wire

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) October 8, 2008 4:04 pm
Toronto's The Two Koreas have drawn a lot of comparisons to The Fall, so it was personally fortuitous that they were chosen to open for British veterans Wire at Lee's. I've only seen The Fall once — on the same bill as Wire as part of a festival staged for 10,000 people at London, England's Finsbury Park in 1987 — so I thought it was appropriate...
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The Two Koreas @ NXNE 2008

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By Cameron Gordon (CHARTattack) June 16, 2008 9:00 am
BACKGROUND/COMPOSITION: The Two Koreas are like the cool kid in school that nobody dares to speak out against, lest it come back to nip them in the bud. Featuring a seasonal assortment of Toronto’s top music critics and other assorted journalists, The Two Koreas sound exactly how you would expect a band full of music geeks to sound...
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TV On The Radio Topline Busy Weekend

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 5, 2007 4:00 pm
There were two sold-out shows worth talking about this weekend, so here you get two reviews for the price of one. The first was at Lee's Palace on Saturday, where Shout Out Out Out Out played their second consecutive Toronto sell out, bringing along Toronto's Two Koreas and Norway's 120 Days for the ride. The Koreas battled sound problems for...
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The Two Koreas — Altruists

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By Kevin Ritchie (CHARTattack) December 12, 2006 9:19 am
Lately, post-punk's sardonic sneer has been co-opted by either boring Joy Division fetishism or non-threatening bassline bands like Franz Ferdinand and The Futureheads. Toronto's The Two Koreas' sound and aesthetic harks back to the perky and playfully political post-punk music from late '70s and early '80s, namely acts like The Prefects, Swell...
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The Two Koreas @ NXNE 2006

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By Amanda Factor (CHARTattack) June 9, 2006 10:30 am
Hometown: Toronto, ON Background/Composition: Composed almost entirely of Toronto-based music writers, this act shatter the common theory that those that can't play music write music reviews. Grade: 90 Comment:Lots of steady gigging has helped the Koreas move past their "Fall cover band" tag. They've...
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Song Of The Day: The Two Koreas' "Midnight Brown"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 31, 2011 2:55 pm
Get ready to have the chorus of this new Two Koreas song stuck in your head — specifically the "ohhhh iiiii ohhhh iiiiii ohhhh iiiii ohhhhh" part. It's kind of infectious, and the raw, ferocious Brian Jonestown Massacre-esque guitar backing it just makes it even more sonically delicious, like a crunchy apple in the middle of a spicy curry. "...
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Two Koreas Release Radio Sessions

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 28, 2008 4:30 pm
Toronto rockers The Two Koreas will make some radio recordings available in a more permanent manner when their Sessions EP hits stores through Unfamiliar Records on June 12. Singer Stuart Berman, guitarist Kieran Grant, organist Jason Anderson, drummer David Gee and bassist Ian Worang recorded two sessions at XM Satellite Radio's The Verge in...
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The Two Koreas Have Been Approved

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By Nicole Kai (CHARTattack) July 20, 2007 10:00 am
They started out as a tongue-in-cheek social experiment and developed into serious Toronto mainstays, eschewing van tours for frequent high-octane gigs at the Silver Dollar. Two records and quite a few unbiased accolades later, The Two Koreas — featuring well-known music experts Stuart Berman (vocals), Kieran Grant (guitar), Jason Anderson (...
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The Two Koreas Aren't Going Anywhere

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By Nicole Kai (CHARTattack) June 6, 2007 5:00 pm
Known since their inception in 2003 as "the critics' band," The Two Koreas have survived the labels and judgments to become jangly post-punk mainstays on the Toronto indie scene. Eye Weekly senior editor Stuart Berman (vocals), film editor Kieran Grant (guitar) and music/film writer Jason Anderson (keyboards) intend to keep it that way...
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