Cancer Bats have performed at the Download Festival in 2007, Groezrock 2007 and at both Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2007 and 2008. In the summer of 2008, the band did an extensive summer and autumn tour with Bullet for My Valentine , Black Tide and Bleeding Through , as…
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Their fifth full-length album, Muertos Vivos , was released on Cobraside November 27, 2007, in the U.S. and was released in Canada on Aquarius Records October 23. They recruited Tyson Maiko as their bassist. The album is Gob’s heaviest and most serious album to date.
Epitaph also re-released the Weakerthans’ first two albums, Fallow and Left and Leaving , in Canada on November 6, 2007.
The first track officially released from Neon Bible was ” Intervention ” in December 2006 on iTunes .
In the summer of 2004, the band released the Generation 7-inch and 12-inch EPs. After touring for most of 2005 the band took on David Eliade as a quasi-full-time manager/promoter. In early 2006 Eliade began shopping demos of songs from the planned Hidden World album to labels, ending with the…
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In October 2006, the song “Heavy Metal Love” was to be featured on the soundtrack for the Trailer Park Boys movie The Big Dirty , however, at the last minute, the track was pulled by Dean Cameron, president of EMI Canada, as distribution of the soundtrack was being handled by…
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Treble Charger was one of the inaugural inductees into the Sault Ste. Marie Walk of Fame on September 30, 2006, during the grand opening weekend of the Steelback Centre , the city’s new sports and entertainment arena.
The band also toured on the 2006 Vans Warped Tour , debuting on the main stage in support of Discovering the Waterfront and a compilation album, 18 Candles: The Early Years . The Early Years compiles the band’s first two self-financed EPs along with various alternate versions of songs from…
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Loverboy celebrated 25 years together in 2005 and began to perform in selected cities to commemorate this milestone. That tour continued with live concerts scheduled well into August 2006. Also in 2005, Loverboy was one of the featured bands on the American version of Hit Me, Baby, One More Time…
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With roots in punk rock, the band drew inspiration from other genres which included rock and roll, blues, soul, dancehall reggae, country, new wave, and hip hop. After recording and releasing demo tracks via MySpace in 2006, the band was signed to Montreal’s Stomp Records and released their self-titled debut…
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