Rheostatics News

 
Op Ed: 'Bad jobs' teach great lessons
Edmonton Journal
When the Rheostatics released their song Bad Time To Be Poor in 1996, I adopted it as my private anthem. I was young and I was poor, and the song's indictment of life in Ontario under Mike Harris's Tory government spoke to my combined sense of ...

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Open File (blog)
The week in music: Xpress folds, Capital Hoedown ponies up, Hilotrons frontman ...
Open File (blog)
Ottawa Magazine's Fateema Sayani chatted with former Rheostatics frontman Dave Bidini, whose new group, Bidiniband, plays Irene's Pub on Sunday. Included in that interview: Sayani's pretty awesome attempt at coming up with a Bidini lyrics generator.


 
Band lives up to hype
Edmonton Sun
Few comparisons fit, but the Arcade Fire meets the Rheostatics, if that means anything. There were few solos in the traditional sense, certainly no standard guitar wankery and God forbid a drum solo - each musician instead deploying all effort to the ...

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Feist Re-releases First Album 'Monarch: Lay Your Jewelled Head Down' on Vinyl
Spinner
Feist used a number of music friend connections in making the album, including future BSSer Brendan Canning, Jason Beck (who'd later become Gonzales) and Rheostatics member Martin Tielli, amongst others. Regardless, that's all moot now because it ...

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Woodshed at Moonshine
InsideHalton.com
Legendary Toronto drummer, Dave Clark (Rheostatics, Gord Downie, Charles Spearin...) pilots the band through numerous classic dance music styles including New Orleans jazz and funk, R&B, rock, country, Tex-Mex, and Calypso, in an extraordinary ...


 
NXNE PresentsPROTEST THE HERO and PORTUGAL This Summer
Broadway World
Barclay will explore Finkelstein's storied career: how he oversaw the growth of True North Records, worked with a who's who of rock and pop music - Bruce Cockburn, The Rheostatics, Murray McLauchlan, Rough Trade and others - and led industry ...

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ARTS IN BRIEF
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Besides writing 10 critically acclaimed books about music and sports, Bidini is also a busy touring musician with his group Bidiniband and a founding member of the pioneering Canadian independent band Rheostatics. The weekly New Music Fridays showcase ...