Chad VanGaalen

Black Mold — Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz

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By Evan Dickson (CHARTattack) August 12, 2009 2:46 pm
Black Mold is Chad VanGaalen's "alter ego," according to the sticker on the CD wrapping. Was the marketing guy at Flemish Eye so worried about this instrumental, mostly electronic album sullying VanGaalen's brand that he had to pull a Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines fake out? Maybe the reclusive songwriter is trying to alienate his fans so...
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Chad VanGaalen @ CMW 2009

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) March 13, 2009 1:18 pm
Background/Composition: In a very short time, and with just three albums, Chad VanGaalen has become a veritable indie rock legend. His reputation as a songwriter is overshadowed only by stories of his propensity to hide out in his basement studio for months on end. Grade: 90 Comment: I once saw VanGaalen play as a one-man band, working drums, a...
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Chad VanGaalen — Soft Airplane

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 8, 2008 2:10 pm
Chad VanGaalen is a picky performer. He doesn't care much for his excellent Polaris-nominated sophomore effort, Skelliconnection, and the original upbeat version of Soft Airplane was scrapped in favour of this one. If VanGaalen's aim was to make a cohesive pop record, he's come pretty close to perfection. The first seven tracks are all outright...
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Chad VanGaalen to sell eight unreleased casettes on tour

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 24, 2011 11:57 am
Those of you who are planning to catch Chad VanGaalen on his current Canadian tour (dates below) should swing by the merch table to nab some exclusive releases from the notoriously reclusive artist. According to VanGaalen's label Flemish Eye, the limited run cassette-only series features songs collected from his vast archive of unreleased...
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Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island Makes It Six Weeks At #1 On Chart

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 19, 2011 1:31 pm
Chad VanGaalen is slowly entering the heights of chart royalty as Diaper Island, his latest album, continues to dominate the campus radio chart for the week of July 19, 2011. It holds the #1 position for a sixth straight week. But as amazing as this feat, it isn't even the longest-running VanGaalen album at #1. Three years ago, VanGaalen released...
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I Read The News Today... For July 14, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 14, 2011 3:29 pm
Martin Scorsese (The Departed, Taxi Driver) has directed a new documentary about George Harrison. Living In The Material World will be coming out on DVD on Oct. 10, and will premiere on HBO this fall. It's got interviews with Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr, director and former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam (...
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Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island Remains At #1 For Fifth Week

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 12, 2011 1:43 pm
Is there any album out there that will knock off our reigning chart champ? No album lasts forever at #1. There are two LPs that have remained at #1 for 10 weeks: Thrush Hermit's Clayton Park in 1999 and Stars' Set Yourself On Fire in 2004. So as of this week, Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island is half way to matching this longevity record, as it's sat...
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Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island #1 On Chart For Fourth Week

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 5, 2011 2:03 pm
With the opening lyrics to Stompin' Tom Connors' "Canada Day Up Canada Way" dancing through my head, and for the campus radio programmers with the July 1 long weekend on their minds, its most interesting that the total number of Canadian artists appearing on this chart didn't actually increase. Last week, there was a virtual split between Canadian...
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Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island Remains At #1 For A Third Week

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 28, 2011 1:32 pm
As anyone in Canada knows, we've been living through a work stoppage because the postal workers had been locked out until yesterday when the federal government voted them back to work. For those not affected by this lockout, there has been an impact on airplay at campus radio. For the past couple of weeks, stations haven't had many new albums to...
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Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island Holds At #1 On The Chart

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 21, 2011 1:42 pm
It's the longest day of 2011 in the northern hemisphere today, and it's amazing how the standard time zones across Canada first proposed by Sir Sanford Fleming (a Scottish-born Canadian engineer) have been mucked about by political interference. Here's an example.Did you know that the Eastern Time Zone stretches from Gaspe, Que. to Thunder Bay,...
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Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island Is The New Campus #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 14, 2011 1:22 pm
It has happened before and it'll probably happen again, but in the end it doesn't happen every week. The campus radio charts not only have yet another new #1 album, but there have now been six different chart-topping albums over the past six weeks. Back in late 2010, there was a five-week period with five distinct albums that occupied the #1 spot...
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I Read The News Today... For June 10, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 10, 2011 4:12 pm
The good folks behind The MuseBox have put together a North By Northeast mixtape featuring all their artists that are showcasing at the festival. You're welcome. Get the fuck away from Star Wars, Fred Durst. This is just wrong: If you need to hear some good ol' fashioned back porch exorcisin' tunes this summer, The Schomberg Fair may be...
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Song Of The Day: Chad VanGaalen's "Sara"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 1, 2011 3:09 pm
The long list for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize will be announced on June 16, and I think it's safe to say Chad VanGaalen's recently released Diaper Island will probably be on a fair number of people's ballots this year. If you haven't heard it yet, "Sara" is one of the quieter cuts from the record, which is the most straightforward rock album...
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I Read The News Today... For June 1, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 1, 2011 2:49 pm
The Dears' Natalia Yanchak has published a short story called Final Fridays, which you can read by checking out her blog. CHARTattack contributor Steve McLean gives you a Stanley Cup finals playoffs playlist consisting of hockey songs. Brian Wilson stopped by George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight to talk about his dad, who used to beat him as a child,...
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Video Of The Day: Chad VanGaalen's "Peace On The Rise"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 17, 2011 1:45 pm
What Chad VanGaalen video would be complete without his weird animations of mushrooms growing out of somebody's face, space travel, giant spiders, rock climbing and... people ironing each other? As bizarre as the clip for "Peace On The Rise" is, it's pretty damn obvious that it's a VanGaalen affair. Imagine watching this while being off your face...
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The Grist 13 And Shitty 7 — May 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 3, 2011 4:44 pm
The Grist 13 1. Tracy Morgan On Conan Who'd have thought that Tracy Jordan would be the normal one? 2. Immortal Jellyfish If only I can conquer this ability, then world will be mine. MINE! 3. Beastie Boys "Fight For Your Rights Revisited" Full-Length Video Pissing humour is fun. Seriously. 4. Netflix You say, "But I heard their...
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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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Chad VanGaalen, Feeder, More Chip In For Japan Relief

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 24, 2011 3:26 pm
It's been almost two weeks since Japan was rocked by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that's estimated to have killed at least 10,000 people. As has been widely reported, infrastructure was damaged in the areas near where the quake happened on the Pacific coast of Japan, leaving many with little access to food and water. Many...
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Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island Out In May

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 3, 2011 3:29 pm
When Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island inevitably shows up in tons of Polaris Music Prize discussions this year, part of the debate will probably be, "What a stupid title. It shouldn't win." But we should remind debaters that Owen Pallett won the inaugural Polaris Music Prize back in 2006 — when he was still going by Final Fantasy — for He Poos...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 23, 2011 5:27 pm
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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