Craig Kief Spring is only barely here – the past few days' weather notwithstanding – but the concert announcement machine is already making eyes at Autumn with the unveiling of a couple of pretty high profile tours coming through town when the leaves start to change and the days get shorter.
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As we previously reported , Canadian indie label Arts & Crafts turn 10 years old this year and are celebrating it with a series of anniversary-marking events and releases.
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Dan Mangan is a great Canadian songwriter with a huge singing voice and a complex musical language that goes beyond the usual singer songwriter style.
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Following the release of his widely applauded beautiful album 'Oh Fortune' last December, gruff-voiced Canadian Dan Mangan has announced the release of a 7' single, to be made available digitally this coming Monday October 29th and also on limited edition 7' vinyl during his forthcoming European tour.
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You know you're in for a treat when an artist can handle a track by one of the few legendary rock bands out there and make it memorable in their own way.
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It's the middle of September and we've yet to put up a post featuring all the acts from the 20th edition of the Halifax Pop Explosion in huge-chunk-of words format?
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Vancouver's Dan Mangan is the current reigning Juno Awards Best New Artist of the Year winner, which is weird for two reasons.
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Last weekend was the 2012 Calgary Folk Music Fest and yours truly was front and center (well sometimes more off to the left or right) and below is a short run down of who I saw and some commentary.
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I am looking to see 3 artists (at least) today at the Calgary Folk Fest. The festival was once again nice enough to outfit yours truly with a media pass, so I will be taking photos, listening to great music and overall just being folky.
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Yesterday, atop the roof of the Drake Hotel amidst record-breaking heat, the short 2012 Polaris Music Prize short list was announced, dashing the hopes of thirty artists and allowing ten others to begin imagining just what they might do with the $30,000 prize that awaits one of them (the correct answer being: gold plate all of the things).
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Big ups to bumpershine favorites Dan Mangan, Rich Aucoin , and Great Lake Swimmers who are just a few of the fine artists on the 2012 Polaris Music Prize long list.
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The fight to determine the best Canadian album of 2012 based on artistic merit has officially begun.
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I know next to nothing about Dan Mangan except he's from Vancouver, which I'm told is a great place to live, and his 2011 album 'Oh Fortune' is amazingly well put together.
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Trying to determine "the best" album of the year is always going to be an exercise in subjectivity, and well it should be.
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Feist has finally relented to reissue her long-out of print debut album Monarch – but only on vinyl.
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Despite winning the 2011 Juno Award (Canada's version of the Choice Music Prize) for his 3rd LP 'Oh Fortune' word of Dan Mangan's near infinite talent hasn't spread as far and widely as expected on this side of the Atlantic.
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Dan Mangan has released the stunning video for track 'About As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All'.
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As Dan Mangan settles back into life on the road around Europe, he's unveiled this beautifully shot mini-documentary which shows him driving through the picturesque British Columbian landscape discussing his music.
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Frank Yang Friday nights usually find Torontonians spoilt for entertainment options and tonight will be no exception, but if you're at all unsure of what to do with your evening then consider heading down to Lee's Palace.
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When I last posted about Dan Mangan , he didn't have an NYC date listed on his calendar, but I knew that being the road warrior that he is, he wouldn't be able to stay away for very long.
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Among the other big winners on the night were Feist, Michael Buble, Justin Bieber, Dallas Green and of course, The Sheepdogs.
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With Broken Social Scene on "indefinite hiatus," there's a hole in the middle of the Arts & Crafts records roster.
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We caught up with Dan Mangan to talk about the evolution of his band, the latest record ( Oh Fortune ) and his passion towards its creation, the joys of travelling the world, seizing opportunities, his writing style. being on the road and meeting new people.
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We're super excited at Winnie headquarters to announce Winniecooper.net & BeatRoute Magazine's official SXSW showcase B.C. Buds. We're bringing the diversity of the Canadian west coast's music scene to Austin y'all.
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Dan Mangan has unveiled a striking, moving clip to accompany his track 'Rows Of Houses'.
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After rounding off 2011 with a stellar performance at End of the Road's Christmas Shindig at Cargo in London, Dan Mangan will be returning to the UK in April for an 8-date tour, kicking off in Brighton on April 27th.
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As 2011 quietly and quickly comes to a close it is a good time to reflect on the year just past.
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Eoin O'Ruainigh's Oh Ruin kicks off festivities, adorned in a tinsel scarf and peddling some maudlin electro-acoustic balladry accompanied by Jeff Buckley-esque soaring vocals with a gruff, unpolished finish.
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A playlist of ten carefully selected tracks, hand-picked from the week of whatever has gone up on the website.
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If there's one thing that the 2011 Bucky Awards taught us it's that Canadian indie music fans heart Dan Mangan.
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There's a Christmas market that sets up shop here in Birmingham every winter.
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This is the third album by acclaimed Canadian songwriter Dan Mangan , and the follow-up to his Polaris prize nominated Nice, Nice, Very Nice.
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It makes perfect sense that the concerts that I have cherished the most are the ones that left me with very distinct memories.
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Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Mangan has an impressive CV – he's toured with the likes of The Decemberists and Okkervil River ; his second album, Nice, Nice, Very Nice, was nominated for the Polaris Prize; and he's graced festival stages as prestigious as those found at Glastonbury and, stateside, Sasquatch.
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In the year or so since the Constantines announced their hiatus, their former lead singer has moved towns, changed jobs, had a son, toured with Dan Mangan and Feist, and oh yeah — recorded and released his debut solo album, Provider.
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"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
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Currently in love with the latest album from Canadian singer Dan Mangan.
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I picked up Dan Mangans', now almost immortalized album, Nice Nice Very Nice (2008) at Backstreet Records in Fredericton.
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Revered in his homeland, Vancouver based songwriter Dan Mangan has struggled to build a following outside of Canada.
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