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John K. Samson is the lead singer and songwriter for acclaimed Winnipeg rockers The Weakerthans .

Artist: Consumer Goods Look out, Propagandhi. Watch your backs, Weakerthans. There's a new batch of politically minded indie-rockers on the local scene.

LIVE: Stars Make Summersonic In Halifax Tuesday July 22, 2008 @ 03:30 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff This year's version of Tokyo's annual Summersonic boasted such acts as The Sex Pistols, Vampire Weekend, Alicia ...

How many bands from Winnipeg can you name? If you said Propagandhi and The Weakerthans, you should think back a bit further to the city's most popular group of the early '90s. That would be the Crash Test ...

John K. Samson is the lead singer and songwriter for acclaimed Winnipeg rockers The Weakerthans .

Officials for the 2008 Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival have completed the festival's lineup, adding Death Cab For Cutie, Tapes - n Tapes, Superchunk, Two Gallants, and the Weakerthans, among others, to a ...

Bumbershoot Bursting At The Seams Tuesday, Jul 15, 2008 1:01PM Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival is stuffed to the gills this year, with a full lineup for the Labor Day weekend event just announced that includes ...

Things got really cooking - as in fry-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk cooking - during day two of the Vancouver Island Music Festival.

The full lineup for Bumbershoot was announced around 3 a.m. via e-mail this morning.

The Island's premier roots and world music festival is here after plenty of planning by organizer Doug Cox.

Indie rock from both emerging and established bands dominates the short list for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize, which organizers unveiled Monday morning in Toronto.

D1 The first annual Summersonic outdoor music festival will feature critically acclaimed regional, national and international acts at the Garrison Grounds on Citadel Hill in Halifax, N.S. on Saturday, July 19 ...

If you want to take a band break at Toronto's Virgin Festival, you'll have lots of DJs to choose from on the Bacardi B-Live stage on Sept.

A song is like a good donnybrook for Toronto's Drunkula . "Like a good fist fight, we prefer to have things wrapped up in under three minutes," jokes singer Andrew Todd about All New Moves, the band's ...

LOOKING OUTSIDE his regular repertoire the Barenaked Ladies' Steven Page is getting the opportunity to sing new arrangements of the songs of artists who inspire him.

What do you do after you've made a million dollars, toured extensively playing to sellout crowds in large venues? If you're Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies , you perform about a dozen songs of your favourite ...

City And Colour, Weakerthans And Stars To Play Halifax Festival Thursday June 12, 2008 @ 04:00 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Weakerthans Summersonic, the first installment of what's hoped to become an annual ...

The lineup for Toronto's Virgin Festival in September just got bigger. Among the newly announced performers are local band Danko Jones, American rockers Against Me!, Shudder To Think, Silversun Pickups and The ...

The Kooks, The Fratellis And Against Me! Among Those Added To Toronto Virgin Festival Monday May 26, 2008 @ 06:00 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff The Kooks You can no longer call the Toronto edition of the Virgin ...

The Emancipation of Dissonance playlist for 05/19/2008 Artist Title Album Label Scarlett Johansson Anywhere I Lay My Head 2008-New The New Amsterdams Spoils of the Spoiled Worse For The Wear 2003 The ...