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Vans Warped Tour Still Rocks

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) July 13, 2009 2:39 pm
The Vans Warped Tour has a certain ethos no other festival has been able to reproduce. The music is only one part of the appeal of this traveling circus — the rest, as longtime attendees can attest, is a combination of nostalgia, anticipation and perspiration. Warped has become legendary for its history of breaking countless new bands and for...
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VFest Toronto Day Two

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) September 9, 2008 1:58 pm
Day two of the Virgin Festival started out a little shaky as a light but annoying rain threatened to keep up all day. I got to the island rather painlessly this time, and reached the Virgin Mobile Stage just as Spiral Beach began. They played a pretty solid power-pop set for a bunch of teenagers on a pylon-littered stage, but their age shone...
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Shad @ CMW 2006

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By Matt Semansky (CHARTattack) March 6, 2006 11:00 am
Hometown: London, ON Background/Composition: London battle-rapper mixes live instrumentation with razor-sharp rhyme skills. Grade: 96 Comment: Shad scored top marks in virtually every hip-hop skill set, proving he could think on his feet with deadly freestyles, rock with a live band or backed solely by a DJ. He drew huge ovations...
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I Read The News Today... For July 27, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 27, 2011 3:01 pm
Stereogum's released a compilation of artists doing songs from The Strokes' Is This It album to celebrate the LP's 10th anniversary. And you know what? It's a thousand times better than Spin's Nirvana Nevermind covers disc. Montreal's The New Cities are set to release a new album dubbed Kill The Lights on Sept. 13. Some of its songs were co-...
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Shad Spending The Summer Writing New Material

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 20, 2011 12:59 pm
Summer's best spent kicking back and relaxing, and that's exactly what Shad plans to do this summer. Oh, that and writing some tunes for the follow-up to last year's Polaris Music Prize short listed TSOL. "I'm playing a bit this summer, but it's festivals on weekends, so it won't be too busy, which is nice," he said, after commenting that he'd...
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I Read The News Today... For June 2, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 2, 2011 3:48 pm
It's not every day you pick up Bono hitchhiking, like Edmonton Oiler right winger Gilbert Brule did. Kittie are touring the U.S. this summer. Appropriately, their website still looks like it's from 2001. Edmonton singer/songwriter Eamon McGrath is taking his tunes on the road this summer. If the upcoming Holy Ship! cruise isn't your thing, maybe...
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I Read The News Today... For April 25, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 25, 2011 4:21 pm
Who's on The Lonely Island's new album? Why, only Akon, Beck, Snoop Dogg, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Nicki Minaj, John Waters, Santigold and... Michael frickin' Bolton. —Los Angeles Times Our Lady Peace are working on their next album and have been uploading short studio videos to YouTube. Like this one: Former Guns N' Roses member Duff...
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K-OS Records Weezer Cover With Billy Talent Frontman

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 31, 2011 3:33 pm
Genre-bending rapper K-OS' next album will likely feature a duet between himself and Billy Talent lead vocalist Ben Kowalewicz covering Weezer's 1995 alternative nation hit, "Say It Ain't So."The pair covered the song during a mostly-hits K-OS performance at Toronto's Masonic Temple that was being recorded for a live album and (presumably)...
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I Read The News Today... For March 29, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 29, 2011 4:25 pm
This year's Juno Awards set a viewership record! About 2.4 million people watched the broadcast on Sunday. Guess what? It also set an unofficial record for being the least hated Junos in recent memory. —Juno AwardsGlasgow's Sons And Daughters will return with a new album called Mirror Mirror on June 14. You can grab a free download of "Silver Bell...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 28, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 28, 2011 5:10 pm
Montreal's Little Scream, who's better known as Laurel Sprengelmeyer, will release her The Golden Record debut album on April 12. It's on Secretly Canadian in the States and Outside in Canada. It features guests like Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry and Sarah Neufeld, Snailhouse, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra's Becky Foon and Stars' Pat...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 22, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 22, 2011 3:45 pm
Halifax indie rockers Dog Day will release a new seven-inch mini-album, The Scratches EP, on March 22. They're heading south of the border to promote it in March. —dogdaymusic.com Man, does Sam Roberts' new record ever sound like it's gonna be hippie. Well, I mean, everything he's done so far is pretty hippie, but this one mixes his classic rock-...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 9, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 9, 2011 3:25 pm
Kill Rock Stars is reissuing the self-titled compilation they originally released in 1991 just after founder Slim Moon formed the label. It features tunes by Nirvana, Melvins, Bikini Kill and others, and it'll be out on April 16 for Record Store Day. —killrockstars.com Toronto singer/songwriter Katie Stelmanis is in a new trio called Austra that...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 5, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 5, 2011 2:44 pm
City And Colour's Dallas Green and Shad will release a collaborative EP, Two Songs, on Jan. 11. It features, yes, two songs: a new track and a remix. You can preorder it here and here. All the proceeds will be donated to Skate4Cancer. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead will hit the road with Surfer Blood this spring. Trail Of Dead will...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 30, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 30, 2010 2:23 pm
Slipknot are working on a new album, despite being unsure of their future earlier this year following the death of bassist Paul Gray. BillboardAlexisonfire will end their tour in support of Old Crows/Young Cardinals by playing a show in their hometown of St. Catharines, Ont. on Dec. 19. They'll perform at CAW Hall. Tickets go on sale through their...
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Shad Named Canada's Top Rapper

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 21, 2010 1:54 pm
Both of Shad's two most recent albums were short listed for the Polaris Music Prize in 2008 and 2010, and it's very difficult to find any negative reviews of his music. Given how much he's lauded in the press, it's not surprising the National Post has declared him Canada's best rapper. "He had us convinced with his first Polaris-nominated record,...
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Song Of The Day: Shad's "Rose Garden" (Remix)

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 28, 2010 1:29 pm
If you're bummed that Shad's TSOL didn't win the Polaris Music Prize last Monday, let this remix make you feel a bit better. It's pretty true to the original version, but there's an additional verse of rhymes thrown in courtesy Donwill and Von Pea from Cincinnati/Brooklyn, N.Y. hip-hop trio Tanya Morgan. Lisa Lobsinger's back-up vocals also seem...
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Video Of The Day: Shad's "We, Myself & I"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 20, 2010 12:50 pm
Shad's TSOL is up for the Polaris Music Prize tonight, and "We, Myself & I" is from that record. Its Christopher Mills-directed (Sam Roberts, Modest Mouse) video finds the London, Ont. rapper in a recording studio that keeps changing shape - as does the rapper himself.Check out these other Shad videos on CHARTattack:"Rose Garden" "Yaa I Get It...
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