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CALGARY HERALD Thursday, July 5, 2007 D5 Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan ENTERTAINMENT Country Alternative Current Hard Rock This Last This Last s. Last This Last This Last week National Artist week week National Artist week week Na(lonal Artist weel week National Artist week week National Artist week 1 1 Brad Paisley 1 1 1 White Stripes 1 1 2 Kelly Clarkson 1 1 LinkinPark 1 1 1 Rihanna 1 5th Gear kky Thump MyDecember Minutes To Midnight Good Girl Gone Bad 2 2 Carrie Underwood 2 2 3 LinkinPark 4 2 1 1 2 2 Ozzy Osbourne 2 2 3 Timbaland 2 Some Hearts Minutes To Midnight Lost Highway Black Rain Timbaland Presents Shock Value 3 3 Various Artists 3 2 AvrllLavigne 2 3 3 White Stripes 2 3 3 Oaughtry 5 3 2 Amy Winehouse 3 Country Hits 2007 Best Damn Thing Icky Thump Daughtry Back To Black 4 4 TobyKelth 3 4 5 Maroon5 345 Rihanna 4 4 5 Marilyn Manson 3 4 4 Justin Timberlake 4 Big Dog Daddy It Wont Be Soon Before Long Good Girl Gone Bad Eat Me Drink Me FuturesexAove Sounds 5 7 Dixie Chicks 9 5 6 BeastieBoys 5 11 Brad Paisley 3 5 4 Finger Eleven 4 5 5 Akon 5 Taking The Long Way Mix-Up 5th Gear Them Vs. You Vs. Me Konvicted 6 5 TimMcGraw 4 6 4 Amy Winehouse 6 6 12 Timbaland 10 6 11 3 Inches Of Blood 6 10 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 6 Let It Go Back To Black Timbaland Presents Shock Value Fire Up The Blades Strength Loyalty 7 8 Big Rich 5 7 11 Queens Of The Stone Age 5 7 6 Michael Buble 8 7 7 Nickelback 9 7 7 Fabolous 10 Between Raising Hell A Amazing Era Vulgaris Call Me Irresponsible All The Right Reasons From Nothin' To Somethin' 8 6 Taylor Swift 7 8 7 Daughtry 8 8 LinkinPark 9 8 '6 Rush 10 8 8 DJKhaled 7 Taylor Swift Daughtry Minutes To Midnight Snakes Arrows We The Best 9 9 Rascal Ratts 6 9 12 Metric 9 7 AvrllLavigne 5 9 10 Three Days Grace 8 9 12 DMX 9 Grow Up Blow Away BestDamnThing One-X Definition Of Pick Of The Litter 10 10 Keith Urban 8 10 13 Lifehouse 7 10 13 Carrie Underwood 14 10 16 Buckcherry 10 11 Corinne Bailey Rae Love Pain The Whole Crazy Thing WhoWeAre SomeHearts 25 Corinne Bailey Rae PERFORMANCE Jumpsuit gets Warped "We wanted it to be punk rock and we wanted it to be just exactly like what we really were, which is a band that's able to play anything from punk rock to power pop to screamo to post-hardcore seven-and-a-half-minute epic craziness to piano ballads," Winter said, describing the band's goals for Don't You Fake It "We wanted to bring all of that to the table, throw it all on one CD and say this is what we've got" The band, obviously, will feature songs from Don't You Fake It, on the Warped tour this summer. Calgary fans have already showed their devotion to the act On this year's tour, the Vans Warped website has allowed fans in each city to vote for their favourite band, with the winner playing 10 extra minutes.

In Calgary, fans voted Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. But fans can expect the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus to bring a dimension to its live show that may not completely translate on album, Winter said. "I think that we bring a certain honest element live, which would be something that is not so easily explainable, but very easy to understand if you see one of our shows," he said. "Basically we just come out there and we're just real with people and we play a real rock show, and I think it's been a long time since anybody's done that." UMIPiE Getty Images Red Jumpsuit Apparatus vocalist Ronnie Winter in action. mm i A 11 1 ii ii "vJkv.

--'i 11 I 1 1 KM V1 I nji Stage West cause we had the power of the people behind us essentially," he said. "We knew from the sheer numbers we were drawing the people believed in our music. So we knew we were going to make it regardless." With the new lineup in place, though, Winter's confidence was soon rewarded when Virgin Records emerged with an offer to sign the band. The record labels that passed on signing the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are probably regretting their decisions now. The band's debut CD, Don't You Fake It, has gone gold with sales of more than 500,000 copies, and the band's momentum appears to be growing.

The lead single from the CD, Face Down, reached number three on the Calgary fans give rockers a nod of approval ALAN SCULLEY For the Calgary Herald When Ronnie Winter and Duke Kitchens formed the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, they spent 18 months writing and jamming. Only after suggestions from friends did they take the band out in public and begin gigging. But don't take that sequence of events as a PREVIEW sign they lacked con-Red Jumpsuit fidence or ambition. Apparatus plays The band simply today at The had humble begin-Vans Warped nings and had to take Tour at the Race on a life of its own City Speedway, before Winter and Kitchens began to harbour any serious ambitions for the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. "All of my friends were musicians, for starters," says Winter, who will join his bandmates at the Warped Tour on Thursday.

"We were all in our respective bands. They all happened to come and hang out at my house because I was living on my own. There was no one to tell me what to do and we could do whatever we wanted at my house because it was my house. "At the beginning, we just hung out," he said. "We didn't always jam.

It wasn't necessarily something we had planned out." As time went on, though, an original lineup of the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus came together and songs started getting writtea By early 2004, it became clear it was time for the music to be heard outside of Winter's honse. "A lot of random people would come over and be there when we jammed," Winter said. "When we had a couple of our most musically critical friends tell us that we were very good and they would probably listen to us, like people whose opinion we really respected, then at that point we were like OK, they're comparing us to bands they listen to nowadays. That's pretty good for them to say that We're like well everybody's so passionate about it, let's give it a try." It didn't take long for Winter and Kitchens to see that their friends weren't blowing smoke about the band. The group, in fact, sold out its third show ever, at the Art Bar in the band's home base of Jacksonville, Fla.

Before long, the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus had recorded an EP, started building what would become a large presence on internet sites like MySpace.com and watched its live following continue growing as the band began venturing beyond its Florida home base for shows. Several record labels noticed what was happening as well, and soon the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus was playing a string of showcase gigs. It was only then that the group faced its first setback, as none of the labels elected to sign the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. These disappointments preceded a period of change for the band in which the three members who now complete the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus lineup came aboard guitarist Elias Reidy, bassist Joey Westwood and drummer Jon Wilkes to replace earlier band members. Winter said even before the change in the band lineup, he was still confident that the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus had a big future, despite the rejections from the record labels.

"I was always very confident be- 1 ilSALbiKi'ntKAcD mi i 11 11 11! If il ft 1 (f Now Showing at I It ff AHS enter PERIS JWULY 5 A Closer Walk With MT QME Billboard magazine Hot Modern Rock singles chart and remains at number 18 after 49 weeks on that chart A second single, False Pretense, is waiting in the wings. The appeal of the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is easy to understand in listening to Don't You Fake It. The band's guitar-driven sound fits comfortably alongside such popular modern rock groups as Fall Out Boy and Hawthorne Heights. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, though, offers a bit of a different stylistic mix than many of its peers, infusing catchy rockers from Don't You Fake It, like Misery Loves Its Company, False Pretense and Face Down, with touches of screamo, metal, punk and classic pop. Li wmm ri a tanc tuet THEATRE RESTAURANTS FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN, mail or drop off your entries marked: A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CUNE, co Calgary Herald 215-16 Street S.E., Box 1515, Stn.

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