Back in January, our USA partner Caroline Distribution, and XLR8R magazine, teamed up to offer an exclusive Virtual Listening Station on xlr8r.com. When it launched, Run Chico Run’s Shashbo was one of the very first titles available. Awesome sticks.

It was such a hit and we got such great feedback from it that once Run Chico Run started working on their new album Slow Action, we knew we wanted to do it again.

Run Chico Run’s fifth album, Slow Action, was released on March 21…

Our USA partner, Caroline Distribution, and the twin towers of coolness, XLR8R and VICE magazine, have teamed up to offer an exclusive Virtual Listening Station on their websites - viceland.com and xlr8r.com, respectively. And we think that this is just so very very good that we wanted to tell you all about it.

Every month, Caroline will have 8 albums per month from their labels. These albums will be streamable (is that a word? No, probably not) on viceland.com from start to finish and…

In support of their album Shashbo, Victoria’s Run Chico Run are gearing up for their first Spring tour of 2005. The Chico’s will be hitting the high road with acousto-punk outfit The Doers for a massive nationwide tour. This coming Friday, they’ll be kicking it off in Vancouver and then Victoria before being east-bound, all the way to Quebec and back.

04-01 Vancouver, BC - Railway Club
04-02 Victoria, BC - Steamers
04-04 Prince George, BC - Fyre
04-05 Calgary, AB - Broken City
04-06 Edmonton, AB -…

On Saturday night at 10:00PM PST, tune into CBC Radio 3 for an exclusive performance by Run Chico Run.

The Chicos will be dishing up new live in-studio session recordings of “Jacques & Madeline”, “Lifestyles of the living Dead”, “Sportscar” and “Ass Ravaged Beats”

In between the art-pop tracks of Victoria’s own two-piece, the Chicos will wax poetic on beats, beets and the joy of keys and then hit the road for a month-long nationwide tour with Red Cat recording artist The Doers.

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The November !Earshot Chart Top 200 has begun and Boompa Records has broken through the Top 50!

#39: Boompa Volume 1
#76: Billy + The Lost Boys Breaking Down the Barriers…
#166: Run Chico Run Shashbo

!Earshot runs every month in Exclaim magazine or you can follow the charts on-line here.

!Earshot is published by the National Campus and Community Radio Association. All charts reflect actual airplay on Canadian campus/community radio stations during the previous month.

Run Chico Run will perform this Sunday, September 19th at Richard’s on Richards in Vancouver as the opening act for Hope of the States.

“With Hope of the States pegged as this year’s successor to Sigur Ros and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, North America will be hearing plenty about the band in the coming months. The hype has already reached feverlike heights overseas, with the Chichester, England, five-piece enjoying the kind of press that tends to pack venues on this side of the pond. The…

Run Chico Run may be one of Canada’s more elusive acts but they’re also one of its most adept. On Shashbo, their fourth full-length album and Boompa Records debut, Run Chico Run offer up deliriously vibrant instrumentation through saturated, noirish keyboards and melodic eccentricity.

Recorded at their home studio in Victoria, BC Shashbo is a swirling art-pop, space-rock spectacle with enough awkward punk style breaks in the beats and minor explosions to keep you on your toes. A sonic assault that the Chico’s - Matt…