April 15, 2005 A sides -- The Sloan Action Pact site is now in ARCHIVE mode, it is no longer being updated. The new site is for the new A sides win CD, check it out! April 13, 2004 Okay, we're giving you plenty of notice, so you can make your travel plans now... . The big summer concert on Olympic Island (Toronto Islands) August 7th 2004 is... SLOAN! SAM ROBERTS! THE STILLS! THE CONSTANTINES! Plus Buck 65, Death From Above, Arcade Fire and more!! For more details, visit the Olympic Island site (though it's kind of lame right now) or just go to Ticketmaster and get some tickets right away. See you there!! Sloan's also doing a couple of dates in Ontario at the end of this month, and then heading south of the border for May - get the deets on the tour page. US fans - finally you can get your hands on ACTION PACT. The album will be available in the United States through Koch Distribution on May 11, 2004, so you should be able to find it in all the major retailers. Also... get your hands on 3 Sloan CD singles, a Sloan vinyl single and a pile of other cool rock swag in the big click2music.ca "From Our Pad to Yours" contest! Click here to enter. February 18, 2004 Congratulations to Sloan for their "Best Video of the Year" ("Rest of My Life") win at the East Coast Music Awards! Also... wouldn't you like Sloan to be Fan's Choice Winner at this year's Juno Awards? Visit the Fan's Choice page, and then check out the drop-down list to the right - make your voice heard! February 11, 2004 Tune in to CBC this Sunday night, February 15th, at 8 pm ET... It's the East Coast Music Awards, and Sloan is up for five of them! For more details about the show, visit CBC-TV. January 6, 2004 Happy Sloany New Year you guys! Stay tuned to Sloan's Vik site for updates and news in 2004! Get ready for the East Coast Music Awards!! Sloan's up for five of 'em - Group of the Year, Album of the Year (ACTION PACT), Single of the Year, Video of the Year, and Songwriters of the Year ("The Rest Of My Life"). The show is Sunday February 15th in St Johns NF -- no word yet on whether they'll be broadcast. For the full scoop, visit the ECMA site. Go Slooooooannnnn!!!!! November 25, 2003 Sloan needs your help... Matthew Good is topping the chart, and we gotta change that, right?? Click the Chart Year End Poll link to persuade Chart to award the Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album) to our boys for ACTION PACT!! Vote Now!! November 11, 2003 Don't forget... CASBY AWARDS are on Wednesday November 26th at Kool Haus in Toronto. Although the guys won't be there, it would be nice if some Sloan fans got out there and made some noise if they win an award or two (they're up for Favourite New Single and Favourite New Album)... Iggy Pop will be performing, along with Sum 41, Pilate, Gob, Fefe Dobson, Kazzer, The Salads, The Dears and a special reunion of The Pursuit of Happiness, who will be receiving The 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award. For all the deets, visit the edge.ca CASBY info page. October 20, 2003 ** CONTEST NOW OVER **Here's your chance to see Sloan LIVE in Toronto. Enter our new contest to win transportation, accomodation, and tickets!! Hurry - contest ends October 30th... October 9, 2003 ** VOTING NOW CLOSED ** Hey, Sloan is up for two CASBY AWARDS and you can vote!! Tell the people at edge.ca that you want Sloan to win Favourite New Single for "The Rest of My Life", and Favourite New Album for ACTION PACT... Anyone can vote - you just have to register on the site first. Go Sloan! Go Sloan! September 23, 2003 Canoe.ca has got a groovy Sloan prize pack up for grabs, including a work shirt or baby tee, clothing patch, trucker hat, stickers, and a CD copy of their new album, "Action Pact."Get the details on the canoe.ca site. September 16, 2003 Check out a MuchMoreMusic Profile on the band today at 8 pm ET - it also repeats a couple of times, so check your local listings. We just added a little behind-the-scenes look at the "Rest of My Life" video shoot to the multimedia page - go check it out! September 4, 2003 We just found out that Patrick & Jay are dropping by Edge 102 today at 5:30 pm!! Also... watch Chris on MuchOnDemand next Tuesday, September 9th around 5 or 5:30 pm - watch MuchMusic for details! September 3, 2003 A couple of interviews to check out online... On Sympatico, Patrick & Jay talk about all the songs on ACTION PACT... and there's a 2-part interview on UmbrellaTV. August 18, 2003 JUST ONE MORE DAY LEFT!! Tomorrow's the day...tomorrow ACTION PACT is in stores!! We have a groovy ecard to send you (it was supposed to come to all you faithful Sloan newsletter subscribers, but the Big Blackout shut us down)... we'll try to get it out today or tomorrow. Other stuff to tell you... - The first 200 people to buy their ACTION PACT CD from maplemusic.com could win an exclusive collectors' 7" vinyl, including 2 songs unavailable on ACTION PACT!! Click here for the order page! - Sloan's RELEASE PARTY is tomorrow night (of course!) at Club 279 in Toronto - and it's being broadcast live as a one-hour ALL ACCESS RADIO SPECIAL on Corus radio stations across Canada LIVE. Also - if you have a question for Sloan, ask it now at sloan@liveonair.com - and maybe it will get answered in their interview. Here's a list of all the stations and times: CJZN-FM Victoria TUE AUG 19 7:00 PM live http://www.thezone.fm/ CFOX-FM Vancouver TUE AUG 19 7:00 PM live http://www.cfox.com/ CKLZ-FM Kelowna TUE AUG 19 7:00 PM live http://www.power104.fm/ CKYX-FM Fort McMurray TUE AUG 19 8:00 PM live http://www.mymcmurray.com/kyx98/ CKLM-FM Lloydminster SAT AUG 23 6:00 PM tape http://www.borderrock.com/ CJRX-FM Lethbridge TUE AUG 19 8:00 PM live http://www.rock106.ca/ CIZL-FM Regina TUE AUG 19 8:00 PM tba http://www.z99.com/ CJKR-FM Winnipeg TUE AUG 19 8:00 PM live http://www.power97.com/ CHKS-FM Sarnia TUE AUG 19 10:00 PM live http://www.radiosarnialambton.com/ CFPL-FM London TUE AUG 19 10:00 PM live http://www.fm96.com/ CJXY-FM Hamilton TUE AUG 19 10:00 PM live http://www.y108.ca/ CFNY-FM Toronto TBA - SEP TBA tape http://www.edge102.com/ CIOX-FM Ottawa TUE AUG 19 10:00 PM live http://www.101xfm.ca/ CFRQ-FM Halifax TUE AUG 19 11:00 PM live http://www.q104.ca/ CFXY-FM Fredericton TUE AUG 19 11:00 PM live n/a Okay, see you in store tomorrow!! July 23, 2003 Welcome to the refreshed new ViK. Recordings online home for Sloan! The new site is dedicated to Sloan’s brand new album ACTION PACT, which hits the stores on Tuesday August 19th. There’s a bunch of stuff to do, and more coming… for right now, you can sample some tracks from the album, check some new photos, or download some new SLOAN wallpaper for your desktop! Keep coming back because every Friday until the album release date we'll put up 3 more track samples on the site!