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Sloan at The Phoenix in Toronto
Frank YangIt’s probably a reach to think that Sloan had some sort of master plan for the past couple years that would pull their career from the respectable but not overly remarkable holding pattern...
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This is a bunch of stuff of a Canadian nature. And this is METZ.
Colin MedleyThis here is another of those posts that, were it a category on Jeopardy, would be called “Potpourri” on account of it being a whole lot of this and that with only the passports of the...
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Happy holidays from Yo La Tengo and also me but mostly Yo La Tengo
Carlie ArmstrongSo here’s one last housecleaning post before basically winding down for the holidays. Which isn’t to say I won’t pop back next week, but let’s not assume so. Happily, Yo La Tengo have...
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It’s a veritable Two Hours Traffic jam of concert announcements. Yeah, that...
David BastedoSo at this point I may as well just earmark Tuesday posts as concert announcement roundups, Mondays being the busiest day for tour-related press releases and also being the easiest to put...
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Phoenix rises with new festival and cross-border shopping opportunities
Arnaud PotierAs It’s been kind of funny to see the incredulity that has that has met the announcement of Phoenix as a top-billed act as the Summer’s festival lineups are rolled out in the US and...
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Review of Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters
last.fmIn some ways, being introduced to British Columbia-born/London-based Rachel Zeffira by way of Cat’s Eyes did less to prepare one for her solo debut The Deserters than coming to it completely...
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Savages, Limblifter, and more at Canadian Musicfest
Frank YangIf you’re ever debating what to do on a given evening of either Canadian Musicfest or NXNE, you can always do far worse than to simply post up at either The Horseshoe or Lee’s Palace for the...
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Review of Young Galaxy’s Ultramarine
Vanessa HeinsThey couldn’t have known it at the time, but when naming their 2011 album Shapeshifting, Montreal’s Young Galaxy were describing not only their sonic shift from well-worn dream-pop to...
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Hooded Fang well past teething stage with Gravez
Sara Amroussi-GilissenWhen Toronto’s Hooded Fang first surfaced in early 2009, despite being over a year away from releasing their debut full-length Album, they seemed inescapable on the club circuit –...
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She & Him, Camera Obscura, Joel Plaskett, and more at TURF 2013
Frank YangI don’t know if the troops who manned Fort York in the 18th and 19th centuries necessarily knew that they were potentially laying their lives on the line so that future generations could...
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