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	Sloan (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The band was formed in 1991 when Chris Murphy and Andrew Scott met at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax; Patrick Pentland and Jay Ferguson joined soon after.
		After being dropped from the Geffen roster, the band went on hiatus and were rumoured to have broken up, but in 1996 they released the widely praised One Chord to Another on their own Murderecords label.
		The agreement was they could name the band after his nickname as long as he was on the cover of their first album.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sloan_(band) (517 words)

	Sloan @ CanEHdian.com
		If quality, not popularity was the true measure of a band’s success, Halifax’s prodigal band Sloan would go down as one of the greatest Canadian bands of all times.
		Peppermint, which was released by the band’s own Murder Records label, put the spotlight on Sloan and led several larger labels to actively pursue the talented band.
		Instead, Sloan fought back the only it knew how: by dumping their uninterested label and making more music.
	www.canehdian.com /artistlinks/artists/sloan.html (426 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle > Entertainment > Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that Sloan’s band, named in memory of the singer’s inspiring relative, is the kind of band Sloan is sure her great-aunt would approve of.
		By the time she was 8, Sloan and her family were performing at bluegrass festivals and fiddle contests all over the state, along with a few not-so-glamorous gigs.
		Sloan said by keeping things traditional, she may have to struggle to get gigs or radio airplay, but it’s the only kind of music she would even consider playing.
	www.theeagle.com /spotlight/music/2003articles/120403sloan.htm (957 words)

	Splendid E-zine: Departments: Liveline: Sloan
		Sloan also took the stage with the crowd chanting their name, but that's where the similarities between the Flashing Lights and the night's headliners end.
		Sloan, a band who have been writing and touring together for the better part of the 90's, have slowly become one of Canada's most celebrated musical exports.
		Sloan know that they are "that good", so they don't feel the need to act like junior rock stars in order to win over the crowd.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/liveline/sloan111999.html (688 words)

	CD Baby: SLOAN WAINWRIGHT: Cool Morning - from jkloss
		Sloan is best known for her rich contralto voice, intensely personal lyrics and an innovative approach to song.
		Sloan is an artist whose passionate work and extraordinary life have fused to burn a new definition for women in music.
		Sloan is an independent artist making grown up girl music in the truest sense - a rare, one of a kind voice that speaks deeply to our humanity and leaves us forever changed.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/wainwright4/from/jkloss (884 words)

	The Campus Chronicle
		Sloan’s status as a group that should be huge (but isn’t) keeps customers coming back for more and hoping that the next release will be the one that reconnects the band with "Twice Removed." That’s not to say that post-"Removed" albums such as 1996’s "One Chord to Another" are without merit.
		Yet, Sloan has never been able to recapture the brilliance and cohesiveness of the record that, interestingly, turned the band members against their label and each other.
		Band member Patrick Pentland also claims the Flaming Lip’s excellent "The Soft Bulletin" LP was a major influence during the recording of "Pretty Together," although that record takes considerable stylistic cues from both Led Zeppelin and Yes, leaving Sloan pretty much in the same place after all.
	www.scad.edu /chronicle/archive/vol_2/11_16_23/inside_sound.html (470 words)

	Peppermint EP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peppermint EP was the first album released by Canadian rock band Sloan.
		The sound of the band at this point was often described as a mix between Sonic Youth and The Beatles.
		Three of the songs on the EP (Marcus Said, Underwhelmed, and Sugartune) were also included on the band's first full-length album, Smeared, although Underwhelmed appears here in a different version.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peppermint_EP (108 words)

	ArtsEditor: January 2002: Ironic Rockists
		The difference with Sloan is that, although they may tread where the Beatles and Stones have tread before, they seem truly, innocently, and unabashedly of another time and place that is out of joint with a world that should consider them rock heroes.
		When Sloan finished up their Fall 2001 North American tour with a stop at The Middle East Club in Cambridge in November, the band members pointed out that some of the audience members looked a little familiar—they had in fact seen them at the previous evening's show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City.
		The band has come a long way from the one-word song titles that were in vogue when they began writing and performing, and that is proven in songs whose titles may be more cumbersome, like "Never Seeing the Ground for the Sky," but are more cohesive in tone and color.
	www.artseditor.com /html/january02/jan02_sloan.shtml (1214 words)

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		SLOAN is a four person group consisting of Jay Ferguson (guitar), Chris Murphy (bass), Patrick Pentland (guitar), and Andrew Scott (drums) where all four carry vocal duties.
		SLOAN then shifted to a new song, "All By Myself," featuring Chris, Patrick and Jay all singing vocals of a great radio-type song which is of the make-you-so-happy-you-gotta-smile genre.
		SLOAN switched back to their original stance to play "Anyone Who's Anyone," giving the dancers in the crowd a jump start.
	www.members.tripod.com /sloanhut/inprint/rev-100997.html (572 words)

	Cover: Sloan
		The band had just picked up the prize for Best Alternative Album for their sort-of comeback record, One Chord to Another, and were milling about the usual suspect crowd of industry flacks, TV hacks and caterers.
		So Sloan have stuck around, which is good news for the young girls who stalk them and the old rock critics who chalk them up as not only the best band in Canada but also the best-loved.
		Sloan is indeed a sum that's much greater than its four equal parts, but if I had to pick the most representative character I'd vote for Murphy--and not just because more of his songs make it onto Sloan albums than Pentland's or Ferguson's or drummer Andrew Scott's.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1998/062598/cover.html (1577 words)

	Sloan Wainwright Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sloan Wainwright "...is an extremely gifted lyricist...introspective but not self-absorbed, concerned with issues of childhood, love, growth and clarity.
		And with the addition of guitarist Stephen Murphy, the Sloan Wainwright Band was born.
		With the colorings of each musician's interpretations for Sloan's powerful voice, the body of songs have taken on a life of their own.
	www.artmakers.com /nighteagle/wainwright.html (445 words)

	Sloan: A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is where Sloan began to carve out their niche as a power-pop band, and also where their chances for American stardom were squandered amid Geffen's lack of marketing support.
		Sloan's crowning achievement remains 1996's gloriously catchy One Chord to Another, which fulfilled its predecessor's promise with punchy tunes indebted to Graham Nash-era Hollies and, of course, that Fabbest of Fours.
		Sloan are a better singles band than an albums band, so A Sides Win all but atones for their sometimes underwhelming (ha!) latter-day failings.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/s/sloan/a-sides-win.shtml (422 words)

	THE GRASS ROOTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sloan and Barri were contracted songwriters for Trousdale Music, the publishing arm of Dunhill Records, which wanted to cash in on the folk-rock boom of 1965.
		Sloan found a San Francisco group called the Bedouins that seemed promising on the basis of their lead singer, Bill Fulton.
		The Bedouins were, at first, content to put their future in the hands of Sloan and Barri as producers, despite the fact that the group was more blues-oriented than folk-rock.
	www.angelfire.com /co/helper/grassroots.html (1013 words)

	More Funner Than Total Oblivion
		One Chord is perhaps the ideal outing for the band that once threatened to ruin the "Huge in Canada, nobody in America" cliché, only to have its obituaries all but written on the eve of the disc's release.
		One Chord is a scrappy, character-addled mix of bittersweet, heart-on-the-sleeve pop ditties written by four rock-weary members of a band that originally decided to throw the record together as a posthumous document on the eve of their breakup.
		After their debut release for Geffen Records, Smeared, spawned the hit "Underwhelmed," Sloan was the cause and the catalyst that brought AandR reps raining down on the scenic seaside "Seattle of the East," as Halifax was dubbed by a frenzied music biz press.
	www.metrotimes.com /arts/stories/17/50/sloan.html (946 words)

	Suggested Reading Material
		Sloan broke open the local pop rock floodgates in 1992 when it signed on with Geffen Records, the label that fueled a renaissance of punk rock with Nirvana.
		The band's homegrown success triggered a surge of major label interest in Halifax, and a surge in the number of local bands hoping to be the next in line for a major label contract.
		Sloan's two full-length albums both sold moderately well, especially in Canada (the first album, Smeared went Canadian gold, selling more than 50 000 copies) but commercial success south of the border was elusive.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/ellington/586/ar3.htm (581 words)

	Sloan: Action Pact: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sloan have been conquering power pop for over a decade now with an incalculable and possibly illicit debt to every great glam, punk, and hard rock band of the 1970s.
		If one were grading the band's ability to sound like "7.0" rankings, they would receive a "10.0" with honors-- a quintessentially inessential band.
		There has been a proposition put forth for some years now that Sloan is gradually and achingly achieving some sort of mighty unity between their four members/songwriters, as if they were unwilling participants in some evil incantation.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/s/sloan/action-pact.shtml (540 words)

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		The band consists of the cream of big band musicians from the San Jose metropolitan area and is well known as "THE" premier swing band throughout the Bay Area.
		In 1993, a scant year after its San Jose debut, The Mike Sloan Big Band received its first commendation from the USO of Northern California for its contribution to the Hail and Farewell celebration for the U.S. Navy Moffett Field, and that was just the beginning.
		Mike's Big Band experience includes performances over the years with the bands of Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, the ghost orchestras of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey and, on both coasts, too many local big bands to mention.
	www.thesoundeffect.com /mikesloanbigband (436 words)

	Giving to Clemson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sloan says that those friendships have grown into lifelong relationships among the families of former band members and his own.
		Sloan was a founding leader of Clemson University Tiger Band Association (CUTBA), an organization to promote and enhance music at Clemson and in particular Tiger Band.
		Sloan, the owner and president of Electrical Power Products Inc. with offices in the Carolinas and Tennessee, attributes much of his success to his time with Tiger Band.
	www.clemson.edu /giving/donors/sloan.htm (505 words)

	Being There (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sloan are the pop stars for the masses that the government uses to control the young people.
		Sloan walk down corridors to an instrumental track based on their song “Sinking Ships.” In the arena we see a marching army carrying the flag of Nova Scotia, surrounded by fans and police everywhere.
		Sloan hit the door to the arena when the cough that opens Navy Blues launches into “She Says What She Means.” The pounding guitar plays as Sloan fight their way through the crowd to get to the stage.
	www.beingtheremag.com /content/0411/watching.html (706 words)

	The Sloan FAQ
		Bands that have had material released on murderecords include: Cardinal, Richard Davies, Eric's Trip, Hardship Post, Hip Club Groove, The Inbreds, Jale, Local Rabbits, The Moles, The Super Friendz, Thrush Hermit, Al Tuck and No Action, and the Vees.
		Sloan and murderecords have formed a partnership with Universal Music Canada to distribute Sloan recordings across Canada (if anyone has any information on how Sloan records are distributed throughout the rest of the world please e-mail me).
		Sloan's Navy Blues had been released a few months before, and more and more people were visiting the Message Board located at the Official Sloan Site (the blue and yellow one).
	jove.prohosting.com /~500up/faq/faq.cgi?what=view§ion=band (1458 words)

	A Fruitful Conformity: A Website Dedicated To Sloan And Their Fans
		The guys christen it "Sloan" after a mutual friend's nickname and play their debut show in April at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
		Geffen Records signs Sloan after its Music West showcase gigs; the label releases Smeared, which comes from the same sessions as Peppermint and is remixed in L.A. by Dave Ogilvie.
		Sloan continue to rock the masses with a massive cross Canada tour.
	thunder.prohosting.com /~sloan/history.htm (746 words)

	Sloan - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Sloan is one of the most successful Canadian bands of the past decade, which serves as both a blessing and a curse.
		Sloan's debut album, Smeared, a record where Sonic Youth met Beatlesque pop, appeared in October in Canada and in January, 1993, in America, and it was greeted with positive reviews.
		Sloan had always written contemplative songs, but on Pretty Together they took a turn for the decidely more serious with songs that were more mature than ever before.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,494228,00.html (1226 words)

	Eye - Bridges over troubled water - 03.02.00
		With few exceptions, Sloan are playing smaller venues on their current national tour, and at 20,000 copies sold in Canada, Between the Bridges has thus far tallied but a third of the sales of 1998's Navy Blues and just a quarter of those of their top seller, 1996's One Chord to Another.
		Our band is a mutual fund, not a stock, and maybe not as exciting to have, but in the long term it turns out better.
		I made Sloan a tradable, public company, but when my stock is down, as it is arguably on this album, you've still invested in Andrew and Jay, who fucking pulled up their shirts, and Patrick, who's been keeping us afloat for the past few years.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.02.00/music/sloan.html (668 words)

	CTV.ca - Sloan comfortable with role in Cdn. soundscape- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		The song, from the band's latest disc Action Pact, fittingly describes where the Halifax-born, Toronto-based quartet are at in their career.
		Never really reaching a career peak or crash, the band has managed to maintain a solid fan base over the past 12 years, appealing to critics and the rock hipster crowd while simultaneously reaching out to a reasonably mainstream audience.
		Years ago, Sloan was involved in an ill-fitting relationship with punk-rock label DGC, which was never able to properly market the band's playful, melodic sounds to the American market.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20030812/sloan_canada030812/20030812?hub=Entertainment&subhub=PrintStory (735 words)

	Sloan Wainwright and Stephen Murphy on Folk Plus at WJFF
		Sloan: And my name is spelt S L A O N W A I N W R I G H T No e on Sloan and two W's in Wainwright and you can also get it at cdbaby.com
		Sloan: I just want to thank you angie and WJFF for supporting acoustic music and electric music and folk music and the extended envelope and thank you also for promoting our show new week at Harmonie Hall.
		Sloan: So in the spirit of WIntersongs and songs in general we are going to something else brand new...even though we do have a brand new record and we should be promoting it...
	www.wjffradio.org /FolkPlus/interviews/Sloan02.html (1986 words)

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