Stereolab News

Ten years this week a ' when some thought it may be the last Christmas we would have with computers and electricity a ' Danko Jones' My Love Is Bold was once again the most popular album on the campus charts.

Bradford Cox does a good job of keeping himself busy with musical endeavors, working between Deerhunter and his solo project, Atlas Sound.

Turning the last page on the year 2009, we here at CHARTattack are revving up for our retrospective of the year.

As mentioned last week on the The Chart Time Tunnel, Stereolab's Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night began its six week dominance of the campus chart during the fall of 1999.

Tonight the superb British duo Broadcast performs at the Bottom Lounge . When I wrote my recommendation for the show a while back, I hadn't yet gotten a copy of Logos , the terrific new album by headliner Atlas Sound, the solo project of Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox.

As much as the phrase "campus chart veteran" is bandied about in my columns, there are two non-Canadian groups, Sonic Youth and Stereolab, who have consistently charted and usually topped the campus charts with a number of their releases since I started to compile these charts on a weekly basis in the spring of 1996.

With so much of the world honouring the events of 20 years ago behind what was known at the time as The Iron Curtain, let's take a glimpse back at the campus charts from a decade ago, during a time when we weren't celebrating the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Bradford Cox to release 'Logos' next week Atlas Sound the side project of Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox , will be releasing a new album and bonus EP.

As mentioned in last week's Time Tunnel, Julie Doiron and The Wooden Stars ' collaboration began its four-week chart dominance, so this look back at the campus chart for Sept.

The period of eligibility for music for Juno Award nominations has always had a overlap of a couple of months.

At this point Bradford Cox releases so much free Atlas Sound material on his blog there has to be a good reason for piecing a bunch of new songs together and expecting you to pay for it.

The Year : 1996 The Album : Stereolab, Emperor Tomato Ketchup Who It Influenced : Broadcast, Electrelane, Lali Puna, Psapp, Au Revoir Simone, Atlas Sound There's a long-held caricature of Stereolab as some sort of indie-pop Ramones: an institution soldiering on, playing their cartoon music with a smile in the face of profound personal turmoil, ...

Atlas Sound @ Irving Plaza in October 2008 August 2 - Deerhunter, No Age & Dan Deacon @ Williamsburg Waterfront September 12 - Deerhunter & Atlas Sound @ ATP NY October 21 - Atlas Sound, Broadcast & The Selmanaires @ Music Hall of Williamsburg .

Capillary Action Jazzy, chaotic, tropical, all-acoustic avant-prog-pop quintet from Philly & NYC masterminded by local boy-done-good Jonathan Pfeffer.

When an early version of Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox's second album under the Atlas Sound moniker leaked to the internet last summer, the Atlanta native was peeved.

It feels a little premature for Sam Beam to be collecting his various odds and ends recordings with only three LPs to his name.