Banned by SNL
Posted on Mar 10, 2010 | 3 views | 0 comments
What do Elvis Costello, Sinead O'Connor and Rage Against the Machine have in common? They've all given the producers of Saturday Night Live fits.
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CMW 2010 Hot Acts: The Beauties
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 3 views | 0 comments
Toronto's Beauties rarely venture outside the confines of their weekly haunt, The Dakota Tavern, but they've deemed a Canadian Music Week appearance worthy of a trip across town.
CHARTattack got together with guitarist Shawn Creamer to discuss peanut butter and his recently purchased bank machine.
Hometown:
Toronto, ON
Members:
Darin McConnell (guitar, vocals)
Shawn Creamer (guitar, vocals)
Jud Ruhl (guitar)
Paul Phisterer (bass)
Derek Downham (drums)
Official Website: www.myspace.com/thebeautieslive
So, you're about to play the big industry event that is Canadian Music Week. What's the most shameless thing you've ever done to promote...
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Barnburner Are Sabbath Fans... Like Every Other Metal Band
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 3 views | 0 comments
Montreal's Barnburner are among the latest additions to the Metal Blade roster. They re-released their album Bangers last month, digitally remastering it with some bonus tracks.
They'll be gigging around eastern Canada and some parts of the United States in support of it this month, and will also play a Canadian Music Week showcase in Toronto.
"It was monumental, really," guitarist/vocalist Kevin Keegan says of the Metal Blade signing. "It's one of those labels that's just so legendary. I've loved so many of the bands over the years. I never in my wildest dreams thought that Barnburner would be on this label because we have a...
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Neu! Catalog Collected in Vinyl Box Set
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 12 views | 0 comments
Photo by Anton Corbijn
Michael Rother and the late Klaus Dinger formed the Düsseldorf duo Neu! in 1971, after both musicians left Kraftwerk. Over the next few years, they perfected a minimal, hypnotic pulse-groove that went on to have a seismic effect on krautrock and all the stuff that would be influenced by krautrock-- which is to say, a lot of stuff. (Take a look at the tracklist for this tribute album, for example.)
On May 10, Gronland will release a limited edition Neu! vinyl box set, offering a retrospective of the band's influential catalogue. This would be a pretty awesome thing to have in your possession.
The box includes all...
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Weakerthans, Said The Whale, 54-40 Playing Free Paralympics Shows
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 5 views | 0 comments
You thought because the Olympics were over, so were the free concerts in the Vancouver area, right? Wrong.
The 2010 Winter Paralympics will be held in Vancouver from March 12 to 21 and the Cultural Olympiad continues through the games with free shows from Gomez, Luke Doucet, The Weakerthans, Kathleen Edwards, Hot Panda, Women, Rah Rah, The Sadies, The Waking Eyes, Said The Whale, 54-40, Hey Ocean! and more.
All the shows take place at Vancouver's LiveCity downtown venue and the medals plaza and village square in Whistler, B.C. This basically means you can hear John K. Samson sing about curling and perhaps watch other musicians sing about...
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New Heavy Metal Sub-Genre: GaGa Metal
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 3 views | 0 comments
There are countless metal sub-genres out there. Terms like “blackened folk metal” or “technical jazz-influenced death metal” get thrown around like crazy.
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CMW 2010 Hot Acts: Green Go
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 0 views | 0 comments
Stiff upper lip, down and out bands of Canada.
At the beginning of 2009, Guelph, Ont. dance-electro-rocking party impresarios Green Go had a finished album, but didn't have anywhere to release it.
Feeling that the end may have been nigh, they decided to release it themselves anyway, but not before attracting the attention of a label and voracious dance-rock music lovers nationwide.
Borders came out on Pheromone Records last April and since then the upstart quintet toured western Canada and released a remix record (with another on the way). This summer, they'll also record their follow-up, so let it be known going Green can have an...
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Echo Chamber: Pavement's Bob Nastanovich
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 4 views | 0 comments
Photo by Marcus Roth
"I don't think I'm capable of getting a girlfriend unless she's a Pavement fan."
-- Pavement percussionist Bob Nastanovich, who happens to be married (sorry, ladies). (via Pitchfork contributor Matthew Perpetua's Fluxtumblr, via Rolling Stone)
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Happy Mondays Drummer Prepares To Unveil His Hippy Mafia (With Added Oasis Rumour)
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 2 views | 0 comments
Manchester, England's Happy Mondays may still be together (but with a truncated line-up) but drummer Gary "Gaz" Whelan has his priorities elsewhere at the moment.
As he told us last summer, Whelan, who's now a resident of Burlington, Ont., has formed a new group with some of his Mancunian friends, and they're going by the name Hippy Mafia.
The band will make their live debut in Toronto during Canadian Music Week when they play with Hamilton, Ont.'s Spirits at Bread & Circus on Wednesday.
CHARTattack caught up with Whelan to talk about the new band and life as in southern Ontario.??
CHARTattack: Hippy Mafia are playing...
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Serj Tankian and a Full Orchestral Performance
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 3 views | 0 comments
Grammy award winning maestro of rock Serj Tankian is releasing his first live album that features a full orchestral performance of his critically-acclaimed debut solo rock album Elect The Dead.
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Ted Leo, "Lazy Sunday" Hit "Fallon"
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 2 views | 0 comments
Say what you want about Jimmy Fallon's sometimes cringe-inducing and sycophantic interviewing style, but the dude's music booker has got the internet (or, at least, this particular web space) going nuts lately. Hot Chip, Beach House, Yeasayer, Neon Indian, Erykah Badu, and Joanna Newsom are some of the names to grace the "Light Night" stage recently. Now we can add Ted Leo and the Pharmacists to that list. Leo played "The Mighty Sparrow" from his great (and just-released) new LP, The Brutalist Bricks, last night, and you can watch it below.
Monday night's show also featured the first ever live version of Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell's...
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Australian AC/DC Fans In More Trouble
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 2 views | 0 comments
Australian AC/DC fans are crazy.
Just over a week after a quadriplegic man lost his sight when his wheelchair flew into the mosh pit and he impaled his eye on part of his chair at an AC/DC show in Brisbane, Australia, two more AC/DC shows in the country have seen violence and... drugs. Surprise!
Let's start with the blood. A 39-year-old man was reportedly in the hospital for surgery after being cut in the neck with glass from what police think was a broken beer bottle during a fight outside AC/DC's show in Perth, Australia on Monday (March 8) night.
The man and his friends couldn't afford tickets to the show, so they parked their van,...
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Sub Pop Record Store Day Releases Include Anniversary Fest Comp
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 2 views | 0 comments
Record Store Day, your opportunity to cop tons of exclusive music from your local independent retailer, will arrive on April 17 this year. Sub Pop has announced a whole mess of RSD releases. We've already reported that about Beach House's Zebra EP, but that's just the beginning of what the label will offer.
Perhaps the most intriguing of Sub Pop's RSD releases is the live compilation Casual Nostalgia Fest. In 2008, the label celebrated its 20th anniversary with SP20, a festival in Seattle featuring performances from Sub Pop bands past and present. Casual Nostalgia Fest collects 19 songs taped live at the festival, including joints from Iron...
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Blondie Converse Shoes Available For Teenage Girls Who Have No Idea Who Blondie Are
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 1 views | 0 comments
Blondie singer Deborah Harry is a pretty fashionable lady, so it makes sense that Blondie now have their own line of Converse shoes, which Harry's helped design.
Three different versions and styles of the Blondie Converse shoes are available. They come as black Chuck Taylor high-tops with pink laces, Harry's image on the side and "BLONDIE" written in pink. They're also available as low-tops with leopard print patterns and pink, red and green "Blondie" lettering on the side.
The shoes are going for between $55 to $85 U.S., and are part of Converse's new "punk" collection that, yes, also includes those new Clash...
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Video: Broken Bells: "The High Road"
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 1 views | 0 comments
Here we have a simple, live-in-the-studio video from Danger Mouse and the Shins' James Mercer, aka Broken Bells. (A high-budget clip for "The High Road" already exists.) The duo's self-titled debut album is out today, March 9, via Columbia. Watch the Matt Amato-directed clip below or at Pitchfork.tv:
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Dan Deacon to Release Remix EP
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 | 1 views | 0 comments
Last year, Dan Deacon released the heady album Bromst, a departure from the day-glo raveups he'd made in the past. And next month, a new EP will include remixes of a few tracks from Bromst.
On April 19, the British label Amazing Sounds will release the extremely limited Woof Woof EP-- just 500 vinyl copies are being pressed up worldwide. Hudson Mohawke's squiggly remix of the title track is available above.
The EP will also include remixes from Allez-Allez and Luke Abbot. That's the cover art up there, and you can see the tracklist below.
Woof Woof:
01 Woof Woof (Original Mix) 02 Woof Woof (Hudson Mohawke Remix) 03...
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