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Artist: Chad VanGaalen Album: Soft Airplane File Under: Indie Rock Recommended if You Like: Neil Young, Beck Featured Track: Willow Tree I once heard Chad VanGaalen described as the schizophrenic son of Neil Young. And that completely made sense to me. The comparisons to Neil Young are obvious artistically and personally. Both are famously recluse and seem to favor the self-sufficiency of [...]
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Check out our cover story on Chad Vangaalen, Calgary's tallest and weirdest crooner, and his third release, Soft Airplane.
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Rise Against @ TT the Bears, FREE with wristband, Wristbands available @ 1pm USAISAMONSTER, Neptune, Big Digits, Zoig-Ma-Noig @ Great Scott Iain ToddRowe, Monolith, Disaster Fund @ O’Brien’s Joey Beats, Marybee, Chachi @ PA’s Lounge Liam Finn with The Veils @ Paradise A DARK IN THE LIGHT @ Harper’s Ferry Th’ Legendary Shack*Shakers, Pine Hill Haints plus Seven [...]
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I wonder what it is about Canadian artists that continue to exude massive appeal to my ears. Among my favorites of the past decade, I count names like Julie Doiron, Joel Plaskett, Leslie Feist, A-Trak, Chromeo, and too many more to name off the top of my head. In a group of names like [...]
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It's the albums that require multiple listens that usually yield the most reward. I'm on my tenth rotation of Chad VanGaalen's new album Soft Airplane and while I'd hesitate to say I've completely wrapped my head around the material, I'm going to give this review a (most likely insufficient) attempt. Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, VanGaalen is a freakishly talented person. In addition to his impressive work as a musician, he's also a highly regarded illustra... MORE
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A few weeks back, I posted a video of a young, glorious Chad VanGaalen doing a stupid human trick on Letterman, in which another dude crawled on him . Chad himself -- or an anonymous commenter who wrote, "It's Chad," which is good enough for me -- chimed in over the weekend and sorta explained how he ended up being a human totem pole.
"It was the night of the Grammys and Cher was the headliner on the show," he wrote, noting, "this goes way back, before Infiniheart . Bu... MORE
"It was the night of the Grammys and Cher was the headliner on the show," he wrote, noting, "this goes way back, before Infiniheart . Bu... MORE
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- "Chad VanGaalen is a Canadian musician from Calgary, Alberta who\xE2\x80\x99s been praised by critics for his two self-produced albums Infiniheart and Skelliconnection. I\xE2\x80\x99ve been sitting on a promotional copy of VanGaalen\xE2\x80\x99s for a weeks now and I just couldn\xE2\x80\x99t wait to review this album.\r\n\
This album took a little while for me to fully like. Soft [...]"
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Hey another week in the books. Here are all the posts and reviews from the last week: Jess reviewed American Dollar’s A Memory Stream for your weekly fix of post-rock. Chad VanGaalen’s album Soft Airplane is awesome. Tons of feedback disagreement for giving the album a 4.25 out of 5… Was I too harsh? Coko profiled Cori Green [...]
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While I was looking around Mog for the first time in a long time, I noticed all the year-end rankings, and couldn't resist making my own list. Thanks to the Smart Playlist feature (quite handy) I discovered the 2006 songs that I listened to the most this year. They are as follows: 1.) Chad VanGaalen-Red Hot Drops This isn't too surprising. I played the heck out of this song. There's something so sweet about it, and the rhythm is simple but catchy. It's soft and quiet and... MORE
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Now that The Klaxons have won the Nationwide Mercury Prize, we can all turn our attention to the 2007 Polaris Music Prize! "A $20,000 prize for a full-length Canadian album, judged solely on artistic merit, without regard to genre or record sales." You may remember that Final Fantasy (aka Owen Pallett) was the inaugural winner last year for his album "He Poos Clouds," which was recorded on a budget of $8000. He was up against higher profile acts like The New Pornog... MORE
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chad vangaalen is a cool cat. he’s like a young bob pollard. actually he’s really nothing like uncle bob except that they both have a penchant for recording on 4 tracks or other random analog equipment and crafting strangely hummable pop songs. case in point, chad’s new record, soft airplane, was recorded primarily on an [...]
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if you haven't heard of chad vangaalen, please check him out. i have been trying to upload a mp3 for the last hour but it won't fully load... if you are ever so lucky to see him live you will not be disappointed. he is beautiful and creative. intriguing and sensitive. handsome and clever. talented and honest. i met him at the varitey playhouse when he was touring with band of horses last september. he handed me a handful of pins that he himself designed. here is ... MORE
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whoops, that's supposed to be :: flower gardens :: not _dead flowers_
i really like this guy, he reminds me a bit of neil young
he is also an amazing and talented illustrator/animator
check out some of his videos here:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=vangaalen&search=Search
hope you enjoy
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chad's label chad's site tourmay 15, 2007 | victoria, royal theatre, with feistmay 16, 2007 | vancouver, orpheum theatre, with feistmay 18, 2007 | edmonton, ab, windspear theatre, with feistmay 19, 2007 | calgary, jubilee auditorium, with feistmay 22, 2007 | regina, sk, conexus arts centre, with feist may 23, 2007 | winnipeg, burton cummings theatre, with feistmay 29, 2007 | toronto, on, tranzac (292 brunswick avenue), with jade mcnelismay 31, 2007 | ottawa, bronson ce... MORE