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No you can’t have more Wolf Parade, but you can have some Moonface
JagjaguwarYou’ll excuse the brevity of today’s post as I try to pretend I’m still on some kind of holiday schedule. Hope everyone in Canada had a lovely long weekend and everyone in America is still...
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Grimes’ Visions; let her show you them
Raphaël OulletWho would have thought that the title of Canada’s queen of electro-pop would be such a contested one? Just last year, Toronto’s Katie Stelmanis-fronted Austra seemed to have the title...
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July Talk, Chains Of Love, The Big Sleep and more at Canadian Musicfest
Frank YangDespite only seeing four bands, I like to think that I covered a fair bit of ground – stylistically, geographically, exploratorily (?), what have you – on the first night of Canadian...
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Review of Rose Cousins’ We Have Made A Spark
Shervin IainezRose Cousins is not a new artist. The Charlottetown by way of Halifax artist has been releasing music for the better part of a decade and I’ve technically heard her before as she’s...
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Yamantaka//Sonic Titan and 39 other artists are your 2012 Polaris Music Prize...
Derrick BelchamIt figures that the first year that I would have been able to actually attend the long-list unveiling for the Polaris Music Prize, they up and move it from its usual home atop the Drake...
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ALL CAPS! island fest lines up A Place To Bury Strangers and Yamantaka//Sonic...
Emily BergerWhile it’s true that Toronto’s days of having a BIG annual music festival out on the islands appear to be over – the locally-grown, Wavelength-affiliated ALL CAPS fest has been more then...
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Cuff The Duke, Jenn Grant, Wintersleep, and Elliott Brood embrace...
Zuzana HudackovaIt’s shaping up to be an Autumn of Can-rock double bills high on value. Folks thought that it was a pretty impressive pairing of talent when it was announced last month that Dan Mangan...
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You, too, can be a star. Or at least win Stars.
Norman WongOkay, since I am posting this from the north of Quebec – okay, not really that north, but considerably further north than Bloor St. in Rouyn-Noranda for this year’s Festival de musique...
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The Super Friendz and The Meligrove Band at Lee’s Palace in Toronto
Frank YangThat whole, “Halifax is the new Seattle” thing that went down in the early ’90s is better known these days for simply having happened than for much of the music that came out of it. Sloan...
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While I was out… featuring The Darcys and things of a Canadian nature
Zach SlootskyConsidering how much of the narrative around The Darcys’ first two records were focused squarely on the past – the band’s self-title inexorably tied to the band’s own turbulent history and...
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Lo, the Shad event horizon draws nigh
Justin BroadbentOkay, so maybe the build-up hasn’t been that long. The specifics of Shadrach Kobango’s – that’s Shad’s given name, if you didn’t know – new record Flying Colours were only made official...
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Review of Yamantaka//Sonic Titan’s Uzu
Derek BelchanIf you thought that unclassifiable Montreal-Toronto outfit Yamantaka//Sonic Titan would have difficulty following up their utterly 2011 debut YT//ST, that their blend of prog-rock,...
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The Belle Game and Bear Mountain at The Drake Underground in Toronto
Frank YangI’d mentioned back in April that Vancouver’s Belle Game – purveyors of soulful, atmospheric pop – had taken their own sweet time in releasing their debut album Ritual Tradition Habit, and...
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A CanCon post, since there’s absolutely nothing newsworthy happening in...
Ted BoisYup, quiet as hell up here. Though I heard from somewhere that people have been waiting for a video of some kind to surface…? Well here’s five new ones. Stereogum has premiered the new chicken...
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Yamantaka//Sonic Titan and Jef Barbara at The Garrison in Toronto
Frank YangEven though I was able to wax effusive about UZU, the second album from Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, a few weeks ago, the fact is that was only half the story. Because for Yamantaka, arguably more...
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Review of PUP’s PUP
Amanda FotesSo a few weekends ago, the good folks from NPR’s World Cafe programme were in town exploring Toronto for their Sense Of Place series, and one of their stops was my dining room. They had...
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You, Me, NPR, and everyone we know
Laura Lynn PetrickYou may recall last week that I mentioned that this week, an interview I gave NPR’s World Cafe as part of their “Sense Of Place” series on Toronto would be airing this week. And that...
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