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Nick Cave covers Neil Young
amazon.comYesterday afternoon at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square, 1623 people gathered to try and break the Guinness World Record for largest guitar ensemble by playing Neil Young’s “Helpless”, en masse,...
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Nick Cave writes novel, talks about novel, reads from novel
Gavin EvansToday marks Nick Cave’s second foray into the world of fiction – at least in the printed form – with the release of The Death Of Bunny Munro, his follow-up novel to 1989′s And The Ass Saw...
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Little Boots and Yes Giantess at Wrongbar in Toronto
Frank YangIt could be inferred from last week’s review of Little Boots’ debut Hands that I felt that she’d failed to deliver on the immense expectations foisted on her at the start of the year, what...
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Joe Pernice and Kate Boothman at The Dakota Tavern in Toronto
Frank YangThe last time Joe Pernice took a Toronto stage, he promised that as a new resident of the city, he might find himself playing more gigs around town and that he’d see us soon. That was over...
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White Rabbits pull MySpace session out of their hats
Lucy HamblinRidiculous webhosting issues persist, so this one will be kept reasonably brief – who knows how long this window of opportunity of my site being up will remain. I’ve actually been told that...
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The Horrors and The Stepkids at Lee’s Palace in Toronto
Frank YangThe narrative around The Horrors’ second album Primary Colours was a simple one – the band who made Strange House, with the outlandish costumes and stage names, were no more and in their...
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Review of Frida Hyvönen’s The The Soul
KnotanArtists lose record deals; it happens all the time. But when it happens to an international artist and rather than find a new deal, they disappear off your radar entirely, well that’s just a...
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Feist, Louis-Jean Cormier, and more at Festival de musique émergente 2012
Frank YangSo yesterday I talked about where and what Rouyn-Noranda was; today I will do the same for FME. You don’t need to be bilingual to discern that “Festival de musique émergente” implies a...
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Alt-J and JBM at Wrongbar in Toronto
Frank YangCambridge, England quartet Alt-J couldn’t have known how prescient they were when they named their debut album An Awesome Wave, as that’s pretty much what they’ve been riding through 2012....
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Saint Etienne and Snowblink at The Opera House in Toronto
Frank YangSo after a five year layoff, following the almost-simultaneous implosion of all my bands, I’ve begun picking up the guitar again on a regular basis. Mostly just messing around, getting my...
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