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Lollapalooza 2009 Was For The Kids

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By Mike McCann (CHARTattack) August 14, 2009 3:54 pm
Festivals like last weekend's Lollapalooza are supposed to be irresistible to music fiends. You know, like Yogi Bear can't say no to a picnic basket. I attended the first seven Lollas back when it was a) a traveling carnival and b) more culturally relevant, so I've struggled the last few years between wanting to go to the new "destination...
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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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Sam Roberts Band — Love At The End Of The World

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) May 20, 2008 11:25 am
Sam Roberts was hailed as the next logical Can-rock beer-hoisting king after his first album, We Were Born In A Flame came out. His second release, Chemical City, presented a particular dichotomy. He grew a bushy beard and created a record full of uncompromising, fuzzed-out space rock. It should have earned him cred points with the snooty indie...
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Sam Roberts Band Teach Panic At The Disco A Life Lesson

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) May 16, 2008 10:00 am
There were outwardly two major purposes for the Sam Roberts Band's performance at MTV Canada's Masonic Temple concert hall on Thursday night. The first, and official reason, was to tape the performance for future playback on the television network, and the second, to field test songs from the band's new album Love At The End Of The World on a...
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Sam Roberts Band Do Jekyll And Hyde Act

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) April 28, 2006 3:00 pm
The two faces of Sam Roberts aren't his totally cute clean-shaven phase and his bearded, smoldering eyes period as so many of the wide-eyed ladies at the Phoenix Thursday night would have liked to believe. No, the true polarity during his Toronto return was the subtle yet clear separation between Sam Roberts, creator of We Were Born In A Flame...
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Sam Roberts — Chemical City

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By Lorraine Carpenter (CHARTattack) April 11, 2006 10:20 am
Bookended by stellar tracks "The Gate," a chugging psychedelic rocker, and "A Stone Would Cry Out," a bleak piano ballad, Sam Roberts' sophomore album covers a lot of ground. Perhaps not as much as Roberts and co. did to make it (Australia to Montreal), but the grandeur of vast distances and wide-open landscapes resonates, particularly on the epic...
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Sam Roberts — We Were Born In A Flame

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By Joanne Huffa (CHARTattack) June 3, 2003 12:11 pm
There's something about We Were Born In A Flame that makes me want to buy a case of beer and hang out on a porch, inviting people to join me in getting wasted and enjoying the world. Maybe it's the hippie philosophy of songs like first single "Where Have All The Good People Gone," or maybe it's the laid-back versions of songs that rock in the...
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Rejected Names For The Upcoming Sam Roberts/Zeus Tour

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 23, 2011 2:56 pm
What do you get when you take one bunch of bearded hippies and put them on tour with another bunch of bearded hippies? No, not an explosion of fringe-covered jean jackets and bellbottoms (because that's obviously The Sheepdogs): you get the Sam Roberts Band and Zeus tour that's happening in October. It's a short jaunt, and the bands will hook up...
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I Read The News Today... For June 7, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 7, 2011 4:24 pm
The Jimmy Swift Band have broken up. But don't cry! Vocalist Craig Mercer and keyboardist Aaron Collier are still making music as Scientists Of Sound and are touring in support of their new Wealth & Hellness album. M83's next album is going to be a double LP. It's going to be about dreams. Makes sense, since I fall asleep while listening to...
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Sam Roberts Band — Collider

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) May 25, 2011 4:35 pm
Advance word on Sam Roberts' fourth proper album Collider hinted he was going in a different direction. Words like "horn section" and "Afrobeat" were bandied about and a nearly-too-long three-year absence since last LP Love At The End Of The World didn't hurt in stoking the imagination either. With little to prove at this point and safely...
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Song Of The Day: Sam Roberts Band's "Longitude" (Featuring Land Of Talk's Liz Powell)

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 4, 2011 12:43 pm
Here's another tune that will appear on the Sam Roberts Band's new Collider album, which comes out Tuesday. Unlike "The Last Crusade," which sounds like a hybrid of rock 'n' roll, Afrobeat and jazz, "Longitude" is much more straightforward. It does, however, abandon Roberts' traditional folk rock in favour of a more Broken Social Scene-esque indie...
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I Read The News Today... For April 27, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 27, 2011 2:29 pm
Seth from Dengue Fever explains what a Mastadong is. And no, it's not as dirty as it sounds (it actually isn't dirty at all): Tokyo Police Club keyboardist and funnyman Graham Wright will release his Shirts Vs. Skins debut solo album on June 28. Chilly Gonzales is going to release what he's calling the world's "first-ever all-orchestral...
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Song Of The Day: Sam Roberts Band's "The Last Crusade"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 26, 2011 12:25 pm
Sam Roberts and company return with Collider, the Montreal singer/songwriter's fourth album, out May 10. "The Last Crusade" sounds like your typical Roberts tune at first. It starts with a jammy bassline and some '70s riffs before a cowbell makes an inauspicious entrance.But by the end of the song, horns and saxophones gallore have invaded,...
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Sam Roberts Announces North American Shows

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 21, 2011 2:41 pm
Sam Roberts has announced his first few dates in support of Collider, his fourth studio album. The LP hits stores May 10, and Roberts and his band will hit the road in early April to promote it. They've only announced a handful of dates so far, but are set to play gigs in New Brunswick, Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and the U.S. Tickets to...
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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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Sam Roberts Album Out In May

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 15, 2011 2:56 pm
It's been three years since Sam Roberts released an album, so it's only appropriate that he's just announced a new LP will be coming out in May. Collider, Roberts' fourth full-length studio disc, will be released May 10. Its first single, "I Feel You," will be getting extensive play at radio stations very shortly, so keep your ears peeled for it....
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Song Of The Day: Anthony D'Amato's "One Good Time" (Featuring Sam Roberts) (CHARTattack Premiere)

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By CHARTattack Staff October 5, 2010 9:36 am
When New York singer/songwriter Anthony D'Amato was working on his new album, Down Wires, he felt "One Good Time" was missing something. He'd been working on it with Natalie Merchant guitarist Gabriel Gordon, pianist Quentin Fielding and Ben Kweller drummer Mark Stepro, but the track didn't quite seem finished.So he sent the song to Sam Roberts,...
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The Decade's Best: 2003 - Part Three

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) January 4, 2010 3:41 pm
In the last of a three part special, we look back at the best year during the last decade. The Scene Not Heard has already discussed the brilliance of Josh Rouse, The Decemberists, Isolation Years, The Long Winters and The Notwist. Now let's the top it off with some more. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow I was introduced to this album in 2004...
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