It's been a year since Chad Vangaalen released his third full-length album, Soft Airplane. Since then, Vangaalen has been touring worldwide, has had critical success, and was even shortlisted for the Polaris Music Award.As you might expect from a cross-genre musical goldmine like VanGaalen, many tracks were tossed aside after a couple takes, never to be heard from again... until now!!Nine
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Chad VanGaalen is like a younger, Canadian version of Robert Pollard. Behind a relentless work ethic, all the guy needs is some shitty recording equipment to pump out his falsetto-laced brand of folk-pop. When I spoke to Chad back in March, he said that he didn't start actively listening to music until his late high school days, and that his time was wrapped up in drawing and animation. Then, o...
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MP3: "Tetra Pack Heads" -http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13093-tetra-pack-heads/STREAM: "Metal Spider Webs" - http://stereogum.com/the-gum-drop/song.php?tid=77932A warped and mutated blend of the futuristic and the organic, Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz is the debut album from Black Mold - the electronic alter-ego of songwriter and 2009 Polaris Finalist Chad VanGaalen. With Black Mold, VanGaalen is
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Calgarian musician, Chad VanGaalen, along with Flemish Eye announce the August 11th release of "Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz"
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Photo by David GreenwaldPerhaps no single musician in indie rock has emerged as intriguingly over the past few years as Chad VanGaalen. While many a band would be happy to fill their press release with his backstory’s highlights — building his own instruments, quietly amassing hundreds of recordings, doing for Asimov and Dick what Led [...]
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B-sides are supposed to be throw-away tracks, the rejects that didn’t make the cut. But the majority of the tracks Chad VanGaalen classifies as such are worth much more than that nerdy kid picked last in 4th grade gym class. “Stuffed Animal” may begin with a strange and awkward beginning, but as it progresses, [...]
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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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--- - "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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Just when you think you have college all figured out it knocks you on your ass again. No worries though, scheduling conflicts fixed and senioritis staved off with LSAT books it's back to the grind. Those daily grinds aren't any fun, Brett Favre hated it so much that he retired but he's as indecisive as my mate Dave . If there is one thing I do have figured out it's Chad VanGaalen - this C...
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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 younghe is also an amazing and talented illustrator/animatorcheck out some of his videos here:http://youtube.com/results?search_query=vangaalen&search=Searchhope you enjoy
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Fast-forward to 2:34. I don't know when this video's from, but my God, it's Chad! And a dude is crawling on him!~~
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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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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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The album's out now (and comes highly recommended from me, like all things Chad), but if you need some more convincing, you can jam Soft Airplane right here .
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While it wouldn't have been my pick for a second single from Chad VanGaalen 's upcoming, glorious Soft Airplane -- I hereby nominate "TMNT Mask" for jam of the millennium -- "Molten Light" is one of the most blood-soaked, vengeful tracks VanGaalen's ever released, a perfect exemplar of his twisted take on vintage murder ballads. The video, animated by Chad himself, gets even weirder, an R. C...
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