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| | The Weakerthans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Weakerthans are a Canadian indie rock band, whose blend of punk-inflected folk rock with literate, witty, introspective lyrics have made them one of the most popular new bands on the Canadian music scene. | | | The band's debut album, Fallow, was released in 1998 on G7 Welcoming Committee Records, and garnered the band positive reviews from Canadian music critics. | | | Formed in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the band was started by John K. Samson after he left the popular punk band Propagandhi to write and start a publishing company. |
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| | Alternative Rock - Fallow - Weakerthans free mp3 full albums download |
| | They have taken the bass player from the punk band Propagandhi and putting him as lead singer of this band you would expect to hear some sort of punk when in reality it is a great mellow rock album. | | | The Weakerthans are made up of three young men in their early twenties They are an independent band who own and distribute their own label named The G7 Welcoming Committee. | | | It was recorded in Winnipeg, Canada and was released in 1997... |
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| | EvilSponge: Concert: THE WEAKERTHANS w/ Denali and Greg McPherson |
| | All of this is to say, listening to a Weakerthans live show is a lot like listening to a Weakerthans mix tape, only with the songs played a little faster, as live songs always tend to be, and with the tenable energy of a live performance graphed on top of things. | | | They play all of the songs that they should play, all of the songs that should be hits off of their first two albums, if the world were sane or fair or both. | | | Malimus review of The Weakerthans album Left and Leaving. |
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http://www.evilsponge.org/concert/Weakerthans__25Aug02.htm
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| | The Weakerthans - PopMatters Concert Review |
| | The Weakerthans are simply one of the best bands out there who are still beating the stuffing out of the old indie rock horse. | | | However, the new songs that the band played sounded like they would be right at home anywhere they chose to stick them on a record. | | | The Weakerthans channel this knowledge into every facet of their music. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/concerts/w/weakerthans-020504.shtml
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| | Weakerthans: Aversion.com Interview |
| | Throw in the fact that the band?s pop/folk sound is worlds away from the loud rock bands the Weakerthans usually share a bill with, and it?s almost inevitable there?s a few kids in every town who see the band in the same light as Rites of Spring. | | | Though the Weakerthans may have left the tightly wound rock of punk in the past, they haven?t abandoned many of its more idealistic tenets. | | | Such success, despite the band?s disregard for genre expectations, had to be vindicating, especially after it took flack from narrow-minded punks who would have preferred blazing guitars to mellow pop. |
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http://www.aversion.com/bands/interviews.cfm?f_id=97
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| | The Weakerthans Biography |
| | The Weakerthans appeal to a broad audience with musical influences including punk, folk, country, show-tunes, union hymns, rock, nursery school anthems, etc., and so on. | | | The Weakerthans write and perform songs with voices, guitars, and drums. | | | Their first full-length recording, Fallow, was named one of the ten best albums of 1998 by CBC National Radio, album of the year by Perimeter Magazine, and received positive reviews all over North America and Europe. |
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http://www.maplemusic.com/artists/wea/bio.asp
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| | john k samson |
| | A music video of the song Diagnosis from the album Fallow was launched in 1998 with the distinction that, unlike most music videos, the Diagnosis video only shows the members of the band for a few seconds at the very end of the video. | | | By 1997 John had written a number of songs and with John Sutton and Jason Tait recorded those songs as the Weakerthans in an album called Fallow released just at the end of 1997 by G-7 Welcoming Committee an independent record label. | | | An innovative and fast moving video of the song Watermark from Left and Leaving was released and later became part of an enhanced CD launched in 2001.For Left and Leaving the Weakerthans were nominated for a Juno Award for best alternative album. |
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http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/icelandic/IceCan/john_k_samson.htm
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| | The Weakerthans News |
| | Like Nickleback for Alberta or The Weakerthans for Manitoba, The New Pornographers are B.C.'s band. | | | The first song to leak from the last Weakerthans album, Reconstruction Site, was a stripped down version of the title track. | | | Send The Weakerthans to a friend The Weakerthans are a four-piece independent rock band founded in 1997, near the geographical centre of North America, in Winnipeg, Canada. |
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| | The Weakerthans: Reconstruction Site: Pitchfork Review |
| | Throughout it's fourteen tracks, there's no doubting The Weakerthans are smart guys who keep up with literature and politics, but over the course of an entire album the band's ambitious literary posturing drowns in the bland songwriting and lack of captivating hooks. | | | Unfortunately, The Weakerthans' by-the-books music isn't nearly as captivating. | | | It's also fun discovering well-wrought nuggets amid the dross: lines like "tune the FM in to static, and pretend that it's the sea"-- from the James-Agree referential "The Prescience of Dawn"-- are fine flourishes for aesthetes and pop romantics alike. |
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http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/w/weakerthans/reconstruction-site.shtml
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| | NOW : Music : Weakerthans wiped : Aug 2 - 8, 2001 |
| | Left And Leaving was the Weakerthans' second critically acclaimed album, a remarkable mix of raw energy and intelligent, almost poetic songwriting. | | | It's also been very successful, especially for an independently released record, and this is starting to do Samson's head in. | | | Right now I think everyone in the band needs that." |
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http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2001-08-02/music_feature5.html
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| | punkrockacademy.com - Interviews > The Weakerthans |
| | Red Fisher was the band that Jason and John were in prior to being in The Weakerthans and they played together for five or six years in that band. | | | It was kind of an epic Winnipeg punk rock band that toured a lot and didn't see the light of success very often outside the city. | | | I think The Weakerthans have this weird childhood history with music. |
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http://www.punkrockacademy.com/stm/int/weak.html
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: W: Weakerthans, The |
| | Weakerthans and Lowest of the Low - Concert photographs from New Music West 2001. | | | The Weakerthans - Fan site includes news, lyrics, and pictures. | | | ChartAttack: Weakerthans - European Vacation - Interview about the band's European tour. |
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| | The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site: Silent Uproar |
| | With three albums behind them now, and this one possibly being the most brilliant yet, the Weakerthans future in the indie music scene is as bright as imaginable. | | | Overall, the album shows the growth the Weakerthans have undergone since 2000's Left and Leaving. | | | Thankfully, the Weakerthans do not fall into that category, and I’m grateful for any tune that this band has ever laid their collective fingers on. |
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http://www.silentuproar.com/showreview.php?ID=510
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| | You Ain't No Picasso: The Weakerthans (incl. bootleg) |
| | The Weakerthans have been writing finely-crafted pop tunes for many moons. | | | If you like what you hear, their website has more album versions of a couple of the songs. | | | BTW, if you haven't heard them, you need ALL the Weakerthans albums "Fallow", "Reconstruction Site" and, one of the best albums I have ever heard, "Left and Leaving." |
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http://youaintnopicasso.blogspot.com/2005/06/weakerthans-incl-bootleg.html
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| | The Weakerthans |
| | Weakerthans: I really think that both "Fallow" and "Left and Leaving" are really beautiful records, but I wasn't really involved in the making of the first album. | | | Weakerthans: Well, it's the punk rock way, right? | | | We wanted someone who would give us solid shows, and a band that wouldn't want to beat the crap out of us. |
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http://www.lineandink.indiegroup.com/WTmain.html
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| | Shock Records - The WEAKERTHANS |
| | Although much has been made of their punk rock pedigree, The Weakerthans appeal to a much, much broader audience with musical influences | | | The Weakerthans have been called everything from "prairie soul" to "a collection of punk bandits." | | | Although these descriptions work for their stripped-down sound that lyrically runs fingers over the |
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http://www.shock.com.au/artists/bio.asp?artist_ID=56600
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| | MTV.com Weakerthans Biography |
| | Propagandhi had been known for powerful, speedy punk and overtly political lyrics, but the Weakerthans went down a more melodic and introspective path. | | | Formed after Propagandhi member John K. Samson got the itch to perform and record again after taking a sabbatical to write and start a publishing company, the Winnipeg-based Weakerthans took Samson's music in a completely different direction. |
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http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/weakerthans/bio.jhtml
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| | Weakerthans: Fallow Aversion.com Review |
| | It?s not surprising pop pressed by G7, a leftist music collective, would toss the rules of pop songwriting into the dustbin, though it may come as a shock to hear just how tender and poetic the Weakerthans prove to be while twisting pop?s arm and giving it a king-size noogie to accommodate their unique sound. | | | With Samson?s lyrics certainly the crown jewel in the band?s shtick, the Weakerthans craft a style building on pop?s ear candy while avoiding the unremarkable aspects of its lyrical fare. | | | Pop is supposed to be nice and friendly, and most of all, mostly forgettable, with songs covering the basics of boy wants girl, boy loves girl or boy misses girl. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Reconstruction Site [Enhanced]: Music |
| | I have listened to this album, and I want to review it. | | | Sonically located in the finest tradition of Punk, The Weakerthans walk an archipelago of influences from rock to folk to alt-country and beyond, led by lyrics tutored in the best of contemporary literature and progressive politics. | | | John Sampson continues to sharpen the contrast between the noisy agitprop of his former band Propagandhi and the low-key melodicism of his current one on this, the Winnipeg-based Weakerthans third full album. |
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| | The Weakerthans: Reconstruction Site [2003] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review |
| | This won't mean much to 99.9% of the people reading this: The Weakerthans, like Samson's previous band, Propagandhi, aren't very well known, even among the indie-rock cognoscenti to whom their albums are best suited. | | | On Reconstruction Site, the third full-length album from Winnipeg's The Weakerthans, John K. Samson finally distills the different elements of his songwriting voice into a cohesive and compelling signature. | | | The Weakerthans: Reconstruction Site [2003] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review |
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http://www.shakingthrough.net/music/reviews/2003/weakerthans_reconstruction_site_2003.html
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| | Ink 19 :: The Weakerthans |
| | I suppose it's one of life's minor paradoxes that just when The Weakerthans signed to Epitaph (home to Bad Religion, Pennywise, NOFX), their music would undergo a process of refinement that would further distance them from their punk roots. | | | Reconstruction Site will help palliate The Weakerthans' existing fans' desire for a new album, and may even attract some new listeners in spite of itself. | | | If there was one band to deliberate long and hard about the pros and cons of producing a more accessible sound, it would be this one. |
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http://www.ink19.com/issues/november2003/musicReviews/musicW/weakerthans.html
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| | The Weakerthans: Reconstruction Site (2003): Reviews |
| | Throughout it's fourteen tracks, there's no doubting The Weakerthans are smart guys who keep up with literature and politics, but over the course of an entire album the band's ambitious literary posturing drowns in the bland songwriting and lack of captivating hooks. | | | Last night, I walked into a record store wth the new Clem Snide cd playing; for a moment, I thought it was an earlier, less charming cd by Weakerthans....I'm sure the Weakerthans will give us something stronger in 2005. | | | The average user rating for this album is 9.8 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes |
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http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/weakerthans/reconstructionsite
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| | Punknews.org Weakerthans, Spoon, Jimmy Eat World, Bloc Party, more on upcoming Wedding Crashers soundtrack |
| | The upcoming soundtrack album for The Wedding Crashers is expected to include new and previously released music from Weakerthans, Spoon, Jimmy Eat World, Flaming Lips and others. | | | The soundtrack will be released July 12th, three days prior to the opening of the film starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaugn. | | | Wow a soundtrack with some good songs on it, that's a bit of a rarity. |
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| | Hour.ca - Music - The Weakerthans |
| | The Weakerthans are a great band who hail from none other than Canada and they do only great things. | | | They're music is catchy and one of a kind and they truly know how to put a live show. | | | Both nights they put together great live shows playing their best songs. |
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| | cliptip: THE WEAKERTHANS: The Reasons |
| | you forgot to say that the singer from the Weakerthans is the old singer from Propaghandi. | | | I have always been impressed with Mr Page's double and triple entendre's, so I figured the Weakerthans might be interesting to listen to. | | | My favorite Weakerthans lyric is from "Left & Leaving": "The sidewalks are watching me think about you, all sparkled with broken glass." It's nice to see a fellow fan! |
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| | OnMilwaukee.com Music: The Weakerthans prepare to land on Mad Planet |
| | Not really sure who is stronger, melodically-speaking, these days than Canada's The Weakerthans, whose third full-length disc, "Reconstruction Site," was recently released by Epitaph Records. | | | The Winnipeg quartet mixes emo, country, power pop and rock into a blend that sounds remarkably like Troubled Hubble, the Illinois group whose disc, "Penturbia," was released on Milwaukee's His Latest Flame. | | | OnMilwaukee.com Music: The Weakerthans prepare to land on Mad Planet |
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| | The Weakerthans Lyrics |
| | All The Weakerthans lyrics,artist name, images are copyrighted to their respectful owners, all The Weakerthans song lyrics is restricted for educational and personal use only. | | | The Weakerthans Illustrated Bible Stories for Children lyrics | | | The Weakerthans This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open lyrics |
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| | Left & Leaving by Weakerthans CD |
| | The Weakerthans: John K. Samson (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, 12-string guitar, Wurlitzer piano); Stephen Carroll (vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano); John P. Sutton (vocals, piano, bass, synthesizer); Jason Tait (Fender Rhodes piano, glockenspeil, drums, percussion, saw). |
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http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1276349/a/Left+&+Leaving.htm
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| | Punknews.org Weakerthans sign to Epitaph! |
| | There are thousands of bands in the world that will carry where Weakerthans left off, before signing to Epitaph, and be sure that the Weakerthans themselves will provide us with great music, despite the fact that they are on Epitaph now, it's not the end of the world!. | | | But hey, maybe epitaph is on the way up, the weakerthans will take turns laughing at the distillers and transplant record. | | | The Winnipeg Sun says "the band has been recording in Toronto, and are hoping for a summer release for their forthcoming disc." When we get more news, we'll pass it onto you. |
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| | WDR Rockpalast - Chat mit THE WEAKERTHANS - Rock am Ring 2004 |
| | Getting back to the Utilities question: There are a couple of John K solo songs that would perfectly fit into the weakerthans context... | | | weakerthans music is 1.wonderful 2.quiet 3.rocking :) | | | Saw you on friday and monday last week and it was one of the best concerts I ever saw!!! |
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http://www.rockpalast.de/konzerte/2004/rock_am_ring/chat/the_weakerthans.phtml
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| | Punknews.org Constantines, Weakerthans nominated for Juno awards |
| | The Constantines were previously nominated for their self titled album in 2002. | | | Of interest is the Alternative Album Of The Year category, in which The Constantines' Shine A Light [review] and The Weakerthans' Reconstruction Site [review] are both nominated. | | | The Weakerthans are one of the most prolific |
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| | The Weakerthans Interviewed |
| | But what matters most, beyond the easy-stick labels, is that those people, the people who listen to the songs written by the musicians collectively calling themselves a band, are in some small and unimaginable way changed by the music. | | | They’re too narrow for a band like the Weakerthans. | | | They believe in it, they do it their own way, and the work hard as hell to bring it to you. |
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| | Bars & Guitars: The Weakerthans... |
| | Recently Ian Mathers wrote this very good piece for Stylus about the Weakerthans song "Aside". | | | If you find music here that is yours and you don't want it up, email me and it will be removed immediately. | | | The Weakerthans rock in a semi-emo, semi-political always melodic way. |
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| | SOUNDTHESIRENS.COM - Review :: The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site |
| | Their collective sound tends to range between alternative-country-pop and prairie rock, never being too challenging but grasping at our most organic of inclinations. | | | Copyright © 2001 - 2005 Sound the Sirens Magazine. | | | And for those seeking a companion for their favorite “road” book, the music of The Weakerthans is that cross-country trip you yearn to take over and over again - a bona fide sound for that timeless vision. |
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http://www.soundthesirens.com/reviews/theweakerthans-reconstructionsite.php
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| | TWAS 455: Weakerthans |
| | I've got time to change my mind, still, but as of now, the Weakerthans' Reconstruction Site is my favorite music of 2003, and more inspiring than the best movie I've seen, or the two books I've read that have 2003 copyright dates. | | | So I sat in my office, Tuesday and Wednesday, watching the stock tickers and wondering what I could do with my life instead, and listening to the best art I know of that people have made this year. | | | As my job gets swallowed into anonymized corporate oblivion, this is a small, stubborn noise. |
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http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=twas&id=twas0455&terms=a
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| | Lazyeye Review: The Weakerthans -- Left and Leaving |
| | I call it endearing and hopeful and just plain inspiring in an era when bands either can't seem to make a literate statement or would rather bombard you with hate-filled misogynistic dribble. | | | The Weakerthans are a sentimental coup in a war of sonic attrition, and I wouldn't want it any other way. | | | Lazyeye Review: The Weakerthans -- Left and Leaving |
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| | Weakerthans Will Take A Juno Over A Grammy |
| | With the Junos only weeks away, The Weakerthans are wondering if 2004 is the year that they'll take home a little metal statue-man of their own what with their third full-lengther, Reconstruction Site, earning the band a Juno nom in the category of Best Alternative Album. | | | But Weakerthans fans, fear not: the guys will be back in action soon enough and have tentative plans to hit the road again in May. | | | Having just wrapped up a European tour over the Christmas season, The Weakerthans are currently in the process of getting "reacquainted" with their domestic lives. |
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http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2004/03/0108.cfm
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| | Amazon.com: Watermark: Music: The Weakerthans |
| | Buy this album with Reconstruction Site ~ Weakerthans today! | | | Instead of canned music, the Weakerthans give us poetry, February 23, 2002 | | | Weakerthans live is something to be seen; and if you can't see them, then at least you can hear them here. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000058DY9?v=glance
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| | Splendid: Features: The Weakerthans |
| | I know you've said you guys were tentatively thinking about making a new record. | | | Under the circumstances, the last week of November was a great week for me, as I had the opportunity to talk with The Weakerthans' John K. Samson for half an hour prior to their show at Ottawa’s Babylon nightclub. | | | Splendid: Where do you see The Weakerthans going from here? |
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Weakerthans |
| | According to various sources, bassist John Sutton has quit the Winnipeg-based band fronted by singer-songwriter John K. Samson. | | | Such a person is one John K. Samson, frontman for the Weakerthans. | | | Everyone seems to know at least one person who never gets angry. |
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| | SPACE CITY ROCK: The Weakerthans -- Who's Afraid of Americans? |
| | What's you guys' ultimate goal for the band? | | | And then we can have creative control over what we do, and write the songs we want, and make a living at it, without sacrificing mental health, or jeopardizing our physical well-being, or causing undue suffering to others on the planet. | | | Well...the ultimate goal is to become a sustainable, mobile, utopian workplace for the members of The Weakerthans and those who work for us and with us. |
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| | Black Board - missed weakerthans |
| | Alkaline Trio (Acoustic at Atomic Records-Christmas 2001 I think) | | | Weakerthans (played last week at a head shop by my brothers' houses) |
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http://www.blackballrecords.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=1&topic=454
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| | New Music Canada Artist: THE WEAKERTHANS |
| | Labels like Punk or Alternative or Rock may seem appropriate, but they would hope Honest would do. | | | Critically hailed and impossible to categorize, the Weakerthans have developed a dedicated following that crosses the boundaries of genre. | | | This is a fire door never leave open |
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| | Gimme Noise Internet Radio |
| | Weakerthans, The - Illustrated Bible Stories for Children |
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| | Allie's Weakerthans' fans |
| | Feel free to come on in and take a look around. | | | Here you are at (as far as I know) the only MSN group dedicated to The Weakerthans! |
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| | The Weakerthans |
| | Your search for the weakerthans returned 5 results. | | | Prices may differ from those in our stores |
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