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Video Of The Day: You Say Party's "Laura Palmer's Prom"

You Say Party revisit '80s TV series Twin Peaks — or the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me prequel, more like. In it, they imagine what Laura Palmer — the fictional character whose murder happened before the TV series — would have spent her prom doing. It involves a lot of crying. "Laura Palmer's Prom" appears on the Polaris Music Prize long...
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MuchMusic Video Awards 2011 Winners List

Yeah, considering they give half of them out during the red carpet pre-show, the actual awards at the MuchMusic Video Awards aren't all that important to the young superstars of today's broadcast, but here's your complete winners list anyway:UR FAVE VideoFefe Dobson — "Stuttering"  UR FAVE New ArtistJustin Bieber featuring...
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I Read The News Today... For April 15, 2011

The Beastie Boys' Fight For Your Right Revisited 30-minute film is screening at Toronto's Royal Cinema on Wednesday. (More Canadian screenings will be held soon.) Hopefully, you get a ticket, otherwise your "future you" is stupid. —MuchMusic Bruce Peninsula member Neil Haverty's cancer is in remission! So to celebrate, the band have started...
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You Say Party Announce Hiatus

It's been a tough year for Abbotsford, B.C. indie rockers You Say Party, who lost founding member and drummer Devon Clifford when he suffered a brain hemorrhage on stage around this time last year and passed away. There was question whether the band, who were formerly known as You Say Party! We Say Die! but renamed themselves following Clifford's...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 23, 2011

Gord Downie's playing some U.S. dates in support of last year's The Grand Bounce. He'll head south of the 49th parallel in April, will play a set at this year's Coachella and will also support City And Colour on a few U.S. dates in March. —gorddownie.com Braids have announced a few more North American dates that'll take place this spring,...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 26, 2011

A special fundraiser's being held for Bruce Peninsula's Neil Haverty, who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Toronto's Music Gallery will host the day-long event on Saturday, and funds raised will go to Haverty and his family to help him treat his illness and recover. —brucetrails.blogspot.com Here's something that's a bit weird, but not at the...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 22, 2010

Elbow have announced the date when you can expect to take a long, extended nap their new Build A Rocket Boys! album comes out: March 8. Get your jammies ready.  —NME Lauryn Hill's announced a North American tour that'll take place in January. It's like 1998 just slapped you right in the face! —Ticketmaster Chris Martin decided he'd rather eat...
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Video Of The Day: You Say Party's "Lonely's Lunch"

You Say Party's clip for XXXX's "Lonely's Lunch" is set in south Asia in what appears to be some kind of bizarre future where weird, beaked aliens rule humanity. They spend most of their time running after a woman with some kind of special tattoo who may be some kind of resistance fighter. It's kind of like what would happen if Slumdog Millionaire...
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20 Outlandish Rock Star Deaths

Deaths from overdosing are commonplace in the world of rock 'n' roll. But being hit in the head by a speedboat, choking on a ham sandwich or being shot to death on stage are far less commonplace. Former Electric Light Orchestra member Michael Edwards getting smushed last week was certainly a peculiar way to go out. So it got us thinking, "What...
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I Read The News Today... For July 29, 2010

Tegan And Sara are releasing their entire back catalogue in a vinyl box set. You can pre-order it now.Diamond Rings' Special Affections debut album is out Oct. 26 through Secret City. You Say Party have parted ways with drummer Bobby Siadat (who had just joined the band) and replaced him with Al Boyle. yousayparty.com "Bon Voyeurs,...
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I Read The News Today... For July 22, 2010

Daniel Lanois says he's recovered from the motorcycle crash he says nearly killed him in June. —The Canadian Press Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg and Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart have formed an indie superduo called Blue Water White Death. Their self-titled debut is out Oct. 12. Basically, expect shrieking falsetto and yelling over...
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You Say Party! We Say Die! Change Name, Lineup

You Say Party! We Say Die! hadn't revealed any of their future plans following the tragic passing of drummer Devon Clifford in Vancouver in mid-April. Until now. Many had questioned whether the band would continue following Clifford's death on stage from a brain hermorrhage. But they cleared things up in a post on their website this Monday (June...
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You Say Party circa 2009 (Photo by Todd Duym)
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