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Edgefest 2009 Is Muddy

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) June 22, 2009 3:58 pm
Festivals are great — an entire day of music, hanging out with like-minded people ("You like Metric? I love Metric!! Let's be besties!"), and enjoying the sunshine. Oh wait — scratch that. Sunshine wasn't part of the deal at Edgefest this year. The rain came down all day and transformed Downsview Park into one giant mud puddle. It made...
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K-OS Improves His Karma

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By Aisha Khan (CHARTattack) May 21, 2009 10:10 am
When K-OS announced his pay-what-you-can concerts in major Canadian cities, fans expected a massive clusterfuck of lineups and capacity violations. That didn't happen in the artist's hometown. The Toronto event benefited greatly from lousy weather, as most fans opted for their warm homes over queuing on windy Queen's Quay. The ground around...
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K-OS — Yes!

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By Sarah Kurchak (CHARTattack) April 20, 2009 3:49 pm
On opening track, "Zambony," K-OS declares "I am not indie rock, I am West Indie hip-hop with many styles." Even with the "many styles" caveat, it's an oddly limiting claim for the MC to make. Yes! definitely isn't an indie album, but it isn't exactly a hip-hop album, either. Nor is it a glossy pop record. There...
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Bedouin Soundclash And Friends Reclaim Music At MMVAs

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) June 16, 2008 1:30 pm
I'm not sure how many people actually saw it, but Bedouin Soundclash and their friends may have saved the MuchMusic Video Awards. Once the glitzy televised awards show ended last night, the Bedouin crew headed up a motley jam of cover songs under the banner the "MMVA 08 Aftermath" for a half-hour set that was streamed online at...
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K-OS Chaotic At Intimate Gig

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) October 31, 2006 4:00 pm
It's been a weird few weeks for K-OS and Toronto. After NOW Magazine published a slightly scathing review of his new record, Atlantis — Hymns For Disco, K-OS raised a national media storm by publicly denouncing the writer, Jason Richards. Richards had his own say a couple of weeks later (in the issue currently on stands), but none of this...
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K-OS — Atlantis — Hymns For Disco

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) October 10, 2006 12:25 pm
Hip-hop fans, rejoice. K-OS' third full-length is one for the ages, and I do mean all ages. "FlyPaper" is a far more tolerable version of the be-bop R&B style Andre 3000 wanted to so desperately emulate on the new Outkast record. "Equalizer" samples an Elvis guitar line and expertly balances K-OS' newer direction with his...
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K-OS — Joyful Rebellion

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By Jason Richards (CHARTattack) August 24, 2004 1:48 pm
It's official: Joyful Rebellion, the follow-up to K-OS' critically lauded debut Exit, is a winner. From the moment the string-assisted, soundboy-killin' "Emcee Murdah" sweeps its way in on track one, a tone has been set. K-OS’ reggae influence flows throughout the album, beginning on the hard-ass dub track "Crucial" and ending...
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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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Sloan 20th Anniversary Tribute Video #1 With BSS, Dears, DFA79, KITH, Billy Talent

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 9, 2011 2:07 pm
Man, it's gonna be Sloanamania all up in CHARTattack for the next little while to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary and new album The Double Cross.Positioning ourselves yet again as the enablers at least partially responsible for why Chris Murphy needs to vaseline the sides of his head in order to fit through doors, for the next 10 days we'll...
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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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CHARTtrack: K-OS And Sebastien Grainger's "BlackWater"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 30, 2010 3:14 pm
"BlackWater" will appear on K-OS' upcoming Anchorman Mixtape, which is out Friday. It was inspired by K-OS and Sebastien Grainger's trip to the U.S. Gulf coast, where they saw the damage caused by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill that occurred in the Gulf Of Mexico in April. "BlackWater" will be released as a single...
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New K-OS, Sebastien Grainger Song On CHARTattack

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By CHARTattack Staff July 30, 2010 1:58 pm
We bet you were sitting there at home on your computer (or at work — careful, make sure your boss isn't coming!) on this fine Friday afternoon, thinking about how the weekend is coming and, if you're Canadian, about how you'll have a three-day holiday come tomorrow because of some dude named John Graves Simcoe (he founded Toronto...
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I Read The News Today... For July 27, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 27, 2010 1:53 pm
How much Miles Davis do you need in your life? Apparently the folks at Sony Music have decided you need 43 discs worth of his music, since they're going to release a 43-disc (yes, 43 discs, for real) box set titled The Genius Of Miles Davis. (Ray Charles is yelling somewhere.) It collects all eight of Davis' box sets released from 1996 to...
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I Read The News Today... For July 20, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 20, 2010 2:57 pm
Ice-T was arrested for driving with a suspended license and not wearing a seatbelt this morning. He apparently had some interesting language for the cop who arrested him. Good thing he didn't tell whoever it was to "eat a hot bowl of dicks"? —TMZAn Andrew W.K. bobblehead doll? Why, yes! Complete with a bloody nose! —...
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Video Of The Day: K-OS' "Zambony" (featuring Hayden Christiansen)

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By CHARTattack Staff July 15, 2010 12:37 pm
K-OS' clip for "Zambony" is full of Canadiana, from actor Hayden Christiansen (Life As A House, Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith), model/actress/singer Tassja Kemp-Jackson, hockey, an arena and yes, even a zambony. "Zambony" appears on last year's Yes!.
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Nickelback Playing Olympics Closing Ceremonies?

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 26, 2010 3:52 pm
Canada may unleash their biggest rock act on Sunday (Feb. 28) night when Nickelback perform at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games closing ceremony. According to a tweet on Friday from CBC Radio One's Jian Ghomeshi, Nickelback, Eva Avila and K-OS will provide the musical entertainment at the ceremony, which takes place at B.C. Place beginning...
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K-OS: No More Albums

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 29, 2010 3:33 pm
K-OS has pulled a Billy Corgan: he says he is going to stop releasing albums. The rapper born Kevin Brereton told MuchMusic that after 10 years of spending time in the studio he wants to "stay immediate" instead. "I'm not going to make any more albums," he said on Thursday (Jan. 28), according to a press release. "I...
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K-OS To Tour U.S. With Drake

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 20, 2010 3:50 pm
Last week, K-OS started hyping an upcoming U.S. tour with an unnamed rapper on his Twitter. He invited his fans to try and guess who he was touring with, and names as disparate as Tegan And Sara and The Roots were thrown out. K-OS finally announced on Saturday (Jan. 16) that he would tour with Drake. "the answer is DRAKE," he tweeted...
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