.: September 5, 2008 :.

Heavy Medals
The Weakerthans album Reunion Tour continues its nomination streak. The song Night Windows is nominated for SOCAN’s Echo Prize. The Echo prize is selected through online voting, and you can vote for your favorite of the 5 nominated songs at: www.echoprize.ca Edge 102 in Toronto has nominated the album Reunion Tour for the Edge’s Casby Awards. www.edge102.com To recap, here are the awards that Reunion Tour has been nominated for so far: Polaris Music Prize http://www.polarismusicprize.ca/ Verge XM Music Awards (Verge Album and Artist of The Year) http://www.thevergexm52.com/ Western Canadian Music Awards (In four categories) http://www.westerncanadianmusicawards.ca/ SOCAN Echo Songwriting Prize http://www.echoprize.ca Edge 102 Casby Award http://www.thevergexm52.com/

.: September 2, 2008 :.

Weakerthans Nominated for SOCAN Echo Prize
From the SOCAN web site: SOCAN has launched the third annual ECHO Songwriting Prize, designed to identify what's next and what's best in current Canadian independent music. This prize will honour some of the most innovative and artistic songs created in the past year by emerging songwriters in Canada. The writer(s) of the winning song will receive a $5,000 CDN cash prize. The five nominated Canadian songs, as selected through a rigorous process by an independent panel of ten music community tastemakers, are: “Luckylucky,” written by Veda Hille, performed by Veda Hille “Night Windows,” written by Stephen Carroll, John Samson, Greg Smith, and Jason Tait, performed by The Weakerthans “Weighty Ghost,” written by Loel Campbell, Tim D'eon, Paul Murphy, and Jud Haynes, performed by Wintersleep “Double Suicide,” written by Sandro Perri, performed by Sandro Perri “You are Never Alone,” written by Josh Dolgin, Doris Glaspie, Katie Moore, and Waleed Shabazz, Performed by Socalled SOCAN invites you to listen and vote for your favourite song, up until the deadline of Sept. 29. http://www.echoprize.ca/echoen/index.jsp The Prix de la chanson ÉCHO, celebrating the songwriting talents of some of the best independent, up-and-coming Francophone songwriters in Canada, is launching concurrently..

.: August 7, 2008 :.

Bus Breakdown
The Weakerthans tour bus broke down after our Cleveland show on August 2nd and left us stranded and unable to get to Chicago to perform as scheduled at Lollapalooza August 3rd. We are looking at booking a Chicago show for Early 2009.

WCMA Awards
More nominations for the Weakerthans album Reunion Tour. We have received four nominations for this years Western Canadian Music Awards. We have been honored with nominations in the categories of Outstanding Rock Album, Outstanding Independent Record, Songwriter of the Year, and Music Video of the year Categories. See.. http://www.westerncanadianmusicawards.ca/ for more information.

XM Prizes Vote for The Weakerthans for President
XM Verge Music Awards - vote for us! The Weakerthans are nominated for the 2008 XM Verge Music Prize in both the Artist of the Year and Album of the Year Categories. The prize is awarded by internet voting. Follow this link to vote for our album Reunion Tour and for us as Artist of the Year. http://www.thevergexm52.com/ (oh and if you can ask all your friends to do so as well)

.: July 6, 2008 :.

Short List
The Weakerthans have been short listed for the Polaris prize for their Album Reunion Tour. We thank the nominating committee and challenge our fellow nominees to a croquet tournament and an afternoon of G+Ts to decide the winner if this prestigious music prize (note: we would apply official rules, and not bbq play).

New Video
The Weakerthans video for their song Tournament of Hearts is now online in our Audio/Visual area. Shot in February at the Weakerthans local Fort Rouge Curling Club, the video uses lost footage of ancient peoples of Winnipeg curling and nursing their recent losses on the ice with stubby beers and squeeky popcorn.

.: June 7, 2008 :.

Change in German Concert Listings
The Weakerthans Hurricane Festival slot has been moved to Friday June 20th, Southside to Saturday June 21st and our Dresden show is now on Sunday June 22.

.: May 28, 2008 :.

The Weakerthans Announce More Summer Concert Dates
Calgary Folk Festival, Quebec City\'s Festival D’ete and a show in Cleveland see our concert listings for more info.

.: May 3, 2008 :.

The Weakerthans announce more summer dates, video, and single!
As previously reported, The Weakerthans head across the pond at the end of May. See the concerts page for dates in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Swizterland, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. On various dates they\'ll be joined by pals Dawn Landes, Christine Fellows, and Felix Gebhard (home of the lame). Then it\'s back to North America for a full slate of festivals all summer long. They\'ll hit the stages at the Ottawa Bluesfest, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Vancouver Island MusicFest, Lollapalooza, Osheaga Music and Arts Festival, Regina Folk Festival, and Toronto V Fest, with more festival appearances announced throughout the summer. Check the concerts section regularly to find out when they\'ll be hitting a stage near you. More festivals and concerts to be announced shortly In other news, we\'re getting excited for the June release of The Weakerthans\' Tournament of Hearts video and European digital single (including a live version of Relative Surplus Value).

.: April 9, 2008 :.

The Weakerthans Announce European Tour 2008
See the Weakerthans live across Europe this summer. Full details are on our concerts page.

.: February 19, 2008 :.

The Weakerthans USA Open Roads Tour 2008
The Weakerthans are pleased to announce that AA Bondy will be joining them on their upcoming US tour. Please note: Liam Finn has had to cancel his appearances on the the tour. Check out AA Bondy's music at www.myspace.com/aabondy

.: January 30, 2008 :.

The Weakerthans take to the Open Roads spring 2008
The Weakerthans - along with their hometown buddy Christine Fellows as well as AA Bondy will be on tour through out the United States this coming spring.
The Weakerthans will be touring their most recent album Reunion Tour, while performing astonishing miracles and helpful cures right before your eyes. Tickets for these spectacles are on sale now. See our Concerts page for details and ticket links.

The Weakerthans shoot for the Button!
This past week the Weakerthans finished shooting a new music video for their song Tournament of Hearts. A tribute to the old fashioned spirit and salvation of the "game of inches" - curling. Look out for it drawing to a button near you.

The Weakerthans at SxSW 2008
The Weakerthans will performing at this years SXSW. See us, if you can, there on March 13th at the ANTI records showcase.

.: December 20, 2007 :.

The Weakerthans Mid Winter Shows
The Weakerthans will be playing Hillside Inside Festival, the Toronto Winter Cities Festival, and SXSW Festival 2008. We can get around, we got winter tires. Go to our concerts page for details.

The Weakerthans Merch
All our recent merchandise is available for purchase through our Cinderblock store. see w-mart link.

Facebook and Webisodes
The Weakerthans band page is up on facebook, see all our webisodes there or here on our site's random entries page.

.: December 1, 2007 :.

new Audio/Visual content
The Weakerthans Civil Twilight Video is now available to view in our Audio/Visual section.

.: November 28, 2007 :.

Weakerthans to Buy Tampa Bay Lightning:
In a "sure to hit the news wire" story, Winnipeg band The Weakerthans have begun preliminary discussions to purchase the Tampa Bay Lightning. Band spokesman Stephen Carroll has neither confirmed nor denied the story, leaked by baysports.com this morning. When pushed, Carroll would only say, "We cannot confirm, but I will say, if the band was to buy a hockey team, we would not be motivated by the desire to move them to Winnipeg. This is not a plot."

.: November 27, 2007 :.

The Weakerthans take the High Road to the USA
The Weakerthans are pleased to announce that our US Bookings are now handled by Frank Riley and Lisa O'Hara of High Road Touring. We are thrilled to be a part of their roster. See highroadtouring.com

.: November 5, 2007 :.

Left and Leaving and Fallow Re-released
On November 6th, The Weakerthans albums Left and Leaving and Fallow are being re-released in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe on Epitaph/Anti Records. These two records were on various labels throughout the world way back at the turn of the century and had fallen out of print in some countries. They live again, thanks to our fine friends at Epitaph and Anti records. We hope you may easily find them your local record store.

.: October 19, 2007 :.

The Weakerthans in print and in video format
Magnet magazine is profiling the Weakerthans in their latest issue. See it at yer news stand or magnetmagazine.com The Weakerthans New Video for their song Civil Twilight has it's international debut today on spinner.com - follow the link to watch it.

.: October 17, 2007 :.

Christine Fellows added to Ontario dates
Celebrating the release of her fantastic new record Nevertheless, Christine will be playing 1st for our Toronto and London, ON shows. See christinefellows.com for links to buy her album.

The Weakerthans Live on XM
Catch a performance we did on XM Canada here...

.: September 29, 2007 :.

The Weakerthans world tour has begun. The New Album: Reunion Tour is out now.

The Weakerthans Announce 2nd Toronto Show
We have added a second Toronto show at the Phoenix on November 7th. See the concerts page for details.

.: September 23, 2007 :.

The Weakerthans Announce Winnipeg Concert.
The Weakerthans will return home after their up coming world tour to play at Winnipeg's Burton Cummings Theater on December 22rd. Tickets go on sale Tuesday September 25th.

.: September 21, 2007 :.

Pre-order signed copy of Reunion Tour
Maple Music has 100 signed copies of Reunion Tour. To pre-order a CD please visit Maple Music by clicking here: MapleMusic.com.

.: September 14, 2007 :.

European Tour Dates.
The Weakerthans are pleased to announce the European leg of their 2007 World Tour
Opening for us across Europe will be Brooklyn New York's own House and Parish.
See our shows page for details for our complete fall tour schedule.

.: July 26, 2007 :.

More North American Tour Dates:
We will be continually adding more dates for our album release tour as they are confirmed.

Check the concerts page to see if we are coming to your town and pre-order your tickets.

Bands that you will love:
We are very pleased to announce that we have a bunch of great bands joining us on stage through out the fall tours.
You can see:
The Last Town Chorus on almost all of our North American dates.
Jeremy Fisher, for the Western USA.
Jenn Grant for our Quebec and Ontario dates.
Jim Bryson for NE United States.
More dates and great opening bands will be announced shortly.

.: June 16, 2007 :.

New Album Out This Fall.
The Weakerthans are pleased to announce the worldwide release of
our 4th album, Reunion Tour, on September 25th 2007 (September 24th for Europe).
Here is a link to the Epitaph/Anti page with the cover art and track listing: link!

Concerts across the planet Earth.
The Weakerthans, in support of their new album (Reunion Tour), will be playing
concerts across the planet Earth. Concert announcements have already begun.
See our concerts page for full details.
Note: Pre-release tickets are available to those on our email mailing list.
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Summer in the Fields
The Weakerthans will be playing at the Field Festival in Saskatchewan on August 18th

Full details on the concerts page