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D6 CALGARY HERALD Saturday. February 24, 2007 ENTERTAINMENT Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan Hard Rock Country This week National Last week Artist Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way Lucinda Williams West Carrie Underwood Some Hearts 5 Rascal Flatts Me My Gang 4 Keith Urban Love Pain A the Whole Crazy Thing 11 Keith Urban Be Here 7 Various Artists Best of Country Hits 2007 6 Johnny Cash Forever Johnny Cash 10 Taylor Swift Taylor Swift Various Artists Country Heat 2007 10 CONCERTS This week National Last week Artist Daughtry Daughtry Nickelback All the Right Reasons Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium Billy Talent Billy Talent II Rise Against Sufferer the Witness Three Days Grace One-X Evanescence Open Door Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists Buckcherry IS Queen Greatest Hits 10 19 10 -1 4 I Wolfmother howling over Grammy win This week National Last Artist Justin Timberiake FuturesexA-ovesounds Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae Akon Konvicted Christina Aguilera Sack to Basics Beyonce BDay Various Artists Eminem Presents: The RE-UP Gnaris Barkley St Elsewhere Fergie Dutchess Mary J. Bilge Reflections: A Retrospective John Legend Once Again 10 9 10 10 13 that other part kind of sounds like Pink Floyd and you've got that Sonic Youth thing there and they just keep rolling off all these bands," he says. "So, people aren't saying it sounds like any one band. Obviously, all the stuff we grew up listening to totally affects what we create.

All of those influences are what we are." Although the band's been pounding the pavement, touring their debut release for more than a year, Ross says they aren't planning to slow down any time soon. "The album has done so well at home (Australia) and it was out there five months before overseas. Now, everything seems to be following the same path overseas, so I think we're going to keep touring around for the next few months," he says. "We're doing a more comprehensive tour of Canada this time, which is excellent because we've always really enjoyed (coming here)." Ross estimates the band should wrap up their epic tour in July, at which point, he says they'll take a breather before hitting the studio. The group has a mixed bag of songs and rough ideas, but Ross says he can't narrow it down to any one direction the sophomore record will take.

"We have songs that take you in a different direction, that fill a need." Current This week National Last week Artist Norah Jones Not Too Late Fall Out Boy Infinity on High JannArden Uncover Me Grammy Nominees 2007 Grammy Nominees Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way Justin Timber lake FuturesexA-ovesounds Nelly Furtado Loose Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae Gwen Stefani Sweet Escape John Mayer Continuum 10 i -s 77 a of whom rave and others who dismiss band as Zeppelin reincarnate, there was another passing them off as a ripoff. Ross says he finds both points of view a little strange. "We aren't trying to emulate people at all. There are a lot of things that sound like us, but we didn't set out to sound like a '70s cover band," he explains. "Being part of the process and knowing how honesty and earnestly we just throw these things around, I know we didn't try to do anything it just came from the heart." But Ross admits he loves it when fans pick out the bevy of classic influences that are clearly woven into Alternative This week National 1 1 2 2 Last week 1 3 9 Artist Fall Out Boy Infinity on High Gwen Stefani Sweet Escape John Mayer Continuum James Blunt Back to Bedlam Daughtry Daughtry Nickelback All the Right Reasons Killers Sam's Town Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium Shins Wincing the Night A way Bloc Party Weekend in the City 5 7 13 10 10 10 7 Wolfmother has divided critics, some dragging yourself into sound-check and going through the motions, we were having good energy and feeling creative." When Wolfmother made its debut, the group stirred up radio waves with its over-the-top dramatics.

The girls and the boys who love them definitely took note: Ross says the band had fans routinely coming up to them and professing their love of, well, making love and making-out to Wolfmother's music. "When we first started, that was happening a lot!" he says, laughing. "It was really weird, but it was cool. It's a great vibe it's better than people listening to it and going out to fight." But the band's retro sound and its tendency to thrust its '70s influence in your face didn't go over well with everyone: for every person hailing the mmE tliijy MARTIN WILLIAM H. LnnoErjGE nncY Aussie rockers 'totally shocked' by quick success HEATHER ADLER CanWest News Service If there was a Grammy Award for best make-out-inducing performance, then grandiose Aussie trio Wolfmother would be a ringer, thanks to their Zeppelin-inspired retro melodies that unapologetically drip 1970s sex appeal, rock star guitar theatrics and funkified blues stylings.

The band's self-ti-PREVI EW ted 206 record Wolfmother bolted up the charts appears today with the raucous atMacEwanHall first single Woman, at the which summoned University of the sexually charged Calgary. Tickets psychedelia of the are sold out. grooviest of hippies (or hipsters). And now the track has charmed its way into Grammy's heart, earning the boys a nod for best hard rock performance. Bassist Chris Ross says the band was "totally shocked" to win a Grammy Award and quickly took the opportunity to celebrate Vegas-style.

But he remains tightlipped as to what exactly the festivities included, opting for the "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" ethos. "We had some fun," he says, laughing cryptically before drifting off into a jumble of "it was cool," "pretty far out" and "you know." The band kept the celebration going by commemorating the nomination and the newfound skip it put in their steps by writing a new song, Love Attacker. "It was pretty soon after (the nomination) that we wrote Love Attacker," Ross explains. "It was pretty exciting, so it gave us a new energy. Instead of WE mm TIM JOKN ALLEN mmum Courtesy, Universal the band as rehashers of '70s rock.

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