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Tokyo Police Club Bring The Elephant To Life

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) May 5, 2008 2:30 pm
Critical mass, it would appear, has decided that Tokyo Police Club aren't Canada's next Arcade Fire (yet, anyway). One gets the feeling that hardly bothers them, though. If anything, TPC were just happy to finish their full-length debut, Elephant Shell, amidst the massive expectations placed upon it. At a basic level, Elephant Shell is a pretty...
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Tokyo Police Club — Elephant Shell

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) April 22, 2008 2:59 pm
You can all exhale; it's finally here. Tokyo Police Club have always sort of worked within a framework that leaves their legions of fans wanting more. That's not likely to change with Elephant Shell. Following the almost hilariously short A Lesson In Crime EP, the 11-track debut full-length clocks in at — wait for it — 28 minutes. That said, not a...
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Tokyo Police Club — Smith EP

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) October 30, 2007 7:57 pm
Wait! Holy crap, is it? It is! It's Tokyo Police Club! What? Still no full-length? Well, it may only be seven or so minutes long, but the Newmarket, Ont. quartet have offered up another brilliant sample-sized offering of their frenzied post punk indie rock. Smith is comprised of tracks previously only available as bonus material on domestic and...
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Tokyo Police Club Set Short But Very Sweet

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) April 5, 2007 3:00 pm
It may have been testicle-retracting cold outside, but inside the sold-out Mod Club Wednesday night, a sold out crowd of indie kids, parents, hipsters, wannabes, industry folk and jocks with popped collars and Hollister tees collectively embraced in loving, open arms Toronto's latest batch of homegrown heroes, Tokyo Police Club. Even a lack of...
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Tokyo Police Club — A Lesson In Crime

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) April 18, 2006 1:55 pm
Tokyo Police Club sound like a bunch of bands that I'm not going to name because it's not really fair to how good they are. What makes me kind of sick is that they're also really young and I'm sort of jealous. But that's not going to stop me from proclaiming the band one of the breakout stars of 2006. Couple these seven awesome tracks —...
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Tokyo Police Club @ CMW 2006

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) March 4, 2006 2:00 pm
Hometown: Toronto, ON Background/Composition: Post-punk art rock for indie kids and adults alike. Grade: 92 Comment: These nerdy Toronto art kids blast out short, loud, jerky dance rock songs and are the kind of band whose merch table is completely raided once their show is over. You can't help but develop a small crush on the...
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Five Questions with Graham Wright

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By Kate Killet (CHARTattack) December 21, 2011 3:27 pm
For this week’s Q & A, we talked to Graham Wright, who's a busy guy to say the least. He is the keyboardist of Newmarket indie rockers Tokyo Police Club (the energetic band that covered 10 songs from 10 different years in 10 days) and host of his own CBC Radio 3 program called Radiograham. On top of that, earlier this year he released his...
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I Read The News Today... For June 30, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 30, 2011 2:49 pm
Domestic violence awareness groups are planning to protest Odd Future's set at the Pitchfork Music Festival next month. Tyler, The Creator obviously thinks this is "awesome." Tokyo Police Club keyboardist Graham Wright is touring Canada this summer to support his just-released Shirts Vs. Skins debut solo album. He'll be out with Library Voices,...
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Tokyo Police Club Starting To Work On New Album Soon

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 20, 2011 12:27 pm
Tokyo Police Club have spent most of the past year touring in support of last year's Champ, and now they've started to think about its follow-up, which they're hoping to start recording very soon."We're going to start working on it literally the day after Canada Day," drummer Greg Alsop told CHARTattack on the MuchMusic Video Awards red carpet...
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Song Of The Day: Graham Wright's "Soviet Race"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 14, 2011 3:20 pm
Graham Wright's better known as the keyboardist for Tokyo Police Club, and he's also a comedian.He's releasing his Shirts Vs. Skins debut solo album on June 28, and "Soviet Race" is on it. Wright manages to mix lines about the Cold War arms race and being shitfaced together, which is something you'd never expect most people to do, but seeing as he...
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I Read The News Today... For April 27, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 27, 2011 2:29 pm
Seth from Dengue Fever explains what a Mastadong is. And no, it's not as dirty as it sounds (it actually isn't dirty at all): Tokyo Police Club keyboardist and funnyman Graham Wright will release his Shirts Vs. Skins debut solo album on June 28. Chilly Gonzales is going to release what he's calling the world's "first-ever all-orchestral...
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The Longest Running Albums On The Campus Radio Chart

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 27, 2011 12:24 pm
Here is the complete list of every album that has been on the Campus Radio Chart for 20 or more weeks since September 1995. The albums are listed in chronological order with each week total.The dates in the brackets indicate the week the record initially entered the chart, followed by the last week of continuous presence before exiting the chart....
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I Read The News Today... For April 19, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 19, 2011 3:29 pm
Holy crappers! Radiohead have released "Supercollider" and "The Butcher," the two tunes they released on limited-edition vinyl on Saturday for Record Store Day, to fans for free download. There's no catch, and they're apparently giving them away as a "thank you." —NME If you're a grunge obsessive whose VHS copy of 1991: The Year Punk Broke, a...
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I Read The News Today... For March 30, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 30, 2011 2:26 pm
Will Currie & The Country French have been working on their Awake, You Sleepers! LP for a while now, but it should finally be out in October, fingers crossed. In the meantime, get a free download of new song "Tommy Douglas" over at their website. Toronto alt.country singer/songwriter Lindi Ortega is releasing her Little Red Boots debut album...
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Official 2011 Juno Awards Drinking Game

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 25, 2011 10:31 am
Finally. After years of complaining that it's too expensive to fly all their artists out to places like St. John's or Saskatoon, or that there aren't enough limousines to rent in these towns, or that the available bars are too small to host proper after-parties, the Canadian music industry has finally gotten its wish and the 40th anniversary...
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I Read The News Today... For March 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 23, 2011 3:22 pm
Tokyo Police Club are the final addition to the list of acts who will perform at this year's Juno Awards on Sunday. OOOOOOH! OOOOOH! Does that mean they're winning something? Guess we'll have to watch to see. City And Colour's March 18 set at Austin, Texas' St. David's Episcopal Church as part of South By Southwest is already available as a live...
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Tokyo Police Club Performing At NHL Heritage Classic

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 18, 2011 12:45 pm
There are two things we love here in the office: Great music and hockey. So it's only appropriate that the two will come together for the Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic this Sunday in Calgary.Tokyo Police Club will perform during the first intermission of the game, which will be held outdoors at McMahon Stadium between the Calgary Flames and...
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Tokyo Police Club Playing Cross-Canada Tour

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 2, 2011 2:56 pm
Tokyo Police Club got a Juno nomination yesterday, so today's announcement that they'll be touring across Canada in March and April is very good timing on their part. The band are competing against Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett, Broken Social Scene and Polaris Music Prize winners Karkwa for this year's alternative album of the year Juno. They'll find...
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