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Osheaga 2009 Showcases La Roux, New Wavers

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) August 4, 2009 2:32 pm
It's a combination of the long lineups, the omnipresent enclosures, rigid schedules and overpriced wares, but nothing awakens my animalistic tendencies quite  like Osheaga, Montreal's massive weekend musical bash. It's not really a "music and arts festival" because a festival would imply there's some sort of cultural celebration...
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Winter Gloves — About A Girl

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) September 12, 2008 11:33 am
Winter Gloves are a difficult band to pigeonhole. If there's one comparison that fits About A Girl on the whole, you could say that it's close to The Electric Soft Parade's Holes In The Wall. The Montreal-based trio combine dance and pop-punk with unabashedly falsetto emo vocals, and it results in something immediately enjoyable. About...
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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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Winter Gloves @ CMW 2008

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 8, 2008 2:00 pm
BACKGROUND/COMPOSITION: A four-piece electronic rock band from Montreal who sound like Remy Shand fronting Metric — if Shand wasn't a particularly great singer. Grade: 75 Comment: These guys were so tight that their music got the room moving, which compensated somewhat for how boring the frontman's over-the-top...
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Winter Gloves @ CMW 2011

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 13, 2011 8:30 pm
Background/Composition: Montreal's Winter Gloves are a synth-y dance rock four-piece who operate at just under the level of the more-cowbell party executed by the likes of The Rapture.Grade: 75

Comment: Winter Gloves have captured Canadian campus radio hearts with last year's All Red album, and also captured a whole seapod of girls dancing...
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Zeus, Cuff The Duke, Die Mannequin Headlining CHARTattack CMW Showcases

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 21, 2011 4:48 pm
March is still more than a month off, but it's about time we let you know who's playing the annual CHARTattack/Shoe Canadian Music Week showcases at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern this year. Cuff The Duke, Zeus and Die Mannequin are our marquee acts this time around, and each band will headline a night at the 'Shoe. Still Life Still, Winter Gloves,...
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Arcade Fire's Suburbs Almost Breaks Records With Rise To #1 On Campus Chart

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) August 25, 2010 1:07 pm
The inevitable has happened... Like snow falling in winter or receiving a smaller refund at tax time because you didn't actually qualify for the exemption, or dropping your toast butter side down, Arcade Fire's The Suburbs has grabbed the #1 spot on the campus chart for the week of August 15 to 21, 2010. The Suburbs switches places with...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 6, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 6, 2010 12:42 pm
The Black Angels are giving away a free MP3 of "Telephone Blues," from their upcoming new super-awesome-fantastic-amazing-great album Phosphene Dream. Get it here.Everything must look super awesome, taste super awesome and BE super awesome to the members of Fear Factory today. Why? Their tour bus caught fire and reportedly "burned...
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I Read The News Today... For June 30, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff June 30, 2010 12:45 pm
Hot Hot Heat have announced a summer and fall North American trek. That means there's plenty of opportunities to get bandages on your arms and legs while seeing them. —The Music Slut Looks like the powers that be have decided to give us more Third Eye Blind material. Wasn't one gigantic oil spill enough? —Alternative Press...
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Winter Gloves @ CMW 2010

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) March 15, 2010 11:24 am
Background/Composition: This Montreal-based band have one full-length under their belts and like to refer to their music as "glock rock." Their brand of synth-heavy pop has won a number of "best new artist" accolades over the last two years. They've also garnered significant attention for covering LCD Soundsystem's "...
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Amy Millan, Simple Plan's Sebastien Lefebvre, Winter Gloves Busking For Change In Montreal

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 1, 2010 3:17 pm
Stars singer Amy Millan, Simple Plan guitarist Sebastien Lefebvre, Jason Bajada and Jeremy Fisher are among the artists who will play at Montreal's Eaton Centre and two of the city's Metro stations as part of War Child Canada's Busking For Change on Tuesday (March 2). More than 20 artists will raise money for War Child at Berri-Uquam and Place...
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Winter Gloves Have A Way To Celebrate

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 25, 2009 11:47 am
Winter Gloves will release A Way To Celebrate, a "reworking" of their About A Girl debut album, on Oct. 6 on iTunes. The digital-only release features remixes, live tracks, different arrangements of About A Girl's songs and tunes recorded in a train station in Montreal. You can see the band's video for "Party People" in our...
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Winter Gloves — "Party People"

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By CHARTattack Staff September 25, 2009 11:41 am
The video for Winter Gloves' "Party People" is a collection of vintage '60s commercials from San Francisco's Prelinger Library. The clip was directed by Marie-Eve Lapointe, who was assisted by Vincent Chalifour. It's appropriately full of lots of dancing ladies sporting beehives. Winter Gloves will release A Way To Celebrate, a "...
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M For Montreal: Friday

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) November 24, 2008 5:10 pm
MONTREAL — Another day, another set of young, eager bands coming down the conveyor belt. The second night of M For Montreal followed an identical format to day one: a group of American, British and European tastemakers scuttled back and forth between two stages in the same venue, eventually catching six bands play for 30 minutes apiece. Oh,...
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VanGaalen's Soft Airplane Remains #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) September 23, 2008 2:53 pm
Last week, it was noted that Chad VanGaalen's Skelliconnection topped the top 50 chart for one week in September 2006. His Soft Airplane follow-up has now bested that achievement by remaining at #1 for a second week. Brendan Canning's Something For All Of Us... returns to #2, a position it held for three weeks in late August and early...
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Winter Gloves' Seduction Plans

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By Brian Pascual (CHARTattack) September 16, 2008 3:21 pm
Montreal's Winter Gloves want to get to know you better — so much so that they're trying to play smaller, non-conventional venues that will enable them to be closer to their fans. "We wanted to do something a bit different," says Charles F, the band's lead singer and main songwriter. "We didn't want to go across Canada just playing...
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Winter Gloves Warm Up For Tour

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By Ciara McCann (CHARTattack) August 13, 2008 3:27 pm
Montreal's Winter Gloves will launch their Canadian tour on Sept. 7 at Toronto's Virgin Festival. Winter Gloves self-released their Let Me Drive EP and Paper Bag Records will issue the trio's About A Girl full-length debut on Sept. 9. Slip into Winter Gloves at these shows: Aug. 19 Montreal, QC @ L'Escogriffe Sept. 7 Toronto, ON @ Toronto...
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Pumping: Winter Gloves - About A Girl

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) August 11, 2008 2:57 pm
From the office: "It hasn't really made an impact on me." That's actually a higher-on-the-curve response compared to what we say about everything.
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Winter Gloves With Paper Bag

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By CHARTattack Staff July 29, 2008 1:08 pm
It's the wrong time of year to think about preventing your hands from being frostbitten, but Paper Bag Records obviously doesn't care. The Toronto label has signed Montreal's Winter Gloves and will release their About A Girl full-length debut on Sept. 9. Winter Gloves are songwriter, lead singer and organist Charles F, drummer Pat Sayers and...
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