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Frank Yang If you had told me that everyone piled into Lee’s Palace on Sunday night wasn’t, in fact, specifically a fan of The Big Pink but of British music from the ’90s in general, I’d have believed it. For much/most/all of the appeal of the London-based duo and ...
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Big Boi
Spiritualized
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Tortoise
The Choir
Cocteau Twins
MySpace What’s this, a review in almost-December of a record I’ve been talking about since March ? Yes folks, welcome to the year-end doldrums where laziness/burnout combines with slow music releases/news for a perfect storm of stagger-to-the-finish-line posts. Hey, at least ...
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Mew
The Raveonettes
La Roux
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Frank Yang This one has apparently been sitting
in my coffers since 2005, which means it dates...
back to well before the time that I had any tags on MP3s beyond, well, artist and title. But really, doesn’t the post title say it all? Assuming ...
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The Hidden Cameras cover Destiny’s Child
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Frank Yang Coming via The Guardian , here’s an unexpected collaboration to wind out the week – Paul Weller has completed work on a new album entitled Wake Up The Nation and while a release date is still forthcoming, the first single from has been released and it features the ...
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Paul Simon
Kevin Shields
Big Boi
Los Campesinos!
Nina Sky
Frightened Rabbit
Frank Yang Different bands have different attitudes towards the in-store set. Some treat them like opportunities to strip down and get intimate with their audience (okay, that sounded much dirtier than intended but you get the meaning), others don’t seem so comfortable with the setting ...
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Malajube
Spoon
Headlights
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Forest City Lovers Though the names sound like they’re drawn from some grand and ancient Greek tragedy, Phodilus and Tyto (as in Tytonidae) are actually the genus names of bay owls and barn owls, respectively, and are also the title and a-side of the new single from Forest City Lovers . ...
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eveninghymns.com They say you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep, and nowhere is this more true than in the case of Peterborough’s Jonas Bonnetta, aka Evening Hymns , who first earned notice in these parts back in June opening up for Ohbijou . The liner notes of his ...
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Nina Sky
Broken Social Scene
Sloan
MySpace I don’t remember if I read somewhere that Charlotte Hatherley has synesthesia (the condition wherein your visual cognition is tied to your aural and, amongst other symptoms, you see colours or shapes when you hear sounds – experienced by the likes of Lightspeed Champion ...
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Camera Obscura
Spiritualized
Massive Attack
Frightened Rabbit
Jarvis Cocker
Machine Head
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Frank Yang It was just 51 weeks ago
that The Rural Alberta Advantage first stepped onto the...
stage at Lee’s Palace, there as support for a co-headlining show featuring two of the most lauded indie acts in Canada – The Acorn and Ohbijou . ...
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The Rural Alberta Advantage, Bahamas and Fox Jaws at ...
Amazon At first glance, it seems a strange pairing – absurdist ’80s New Wave/art-rock pioneers Devo taking on nihilist ’90s industrial rock pioneers Nine Inch Nails , but no stranger than the project for which it was intended – the soundtrack to the 1996 US release of ...
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Nine Inch Nails
Frank Yang Things that you can take to the bank: one, that every couple years Scotland’s Camera Obscura will return with a new album of gorgeous, increasingly orchestral pop and two, that they’ll tour North America at least twice in support of said record, if not more.
To point ...
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Camera Obscura
Phoenix
Sebastian Mlynarski When I rounded up all the bits of information around Holly Miranda’s solo project back in January , I had no notion that interest in it would eclipse that given to her main band, The Jealous Girlfriends . But her more atmospheric approach is certainly more in line ...
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The Hold Steady
Interpol
Sonic Youth
The Decemberists
Sloan
Julian Casablancas
Frank Yang Q: Without a new record to promote – Mr. Love & Justice has been out for close to two years – what reason did Billy Bragg have for staging an ambitious cross-Canada tour ?
A: Who cares? Any time you get the opportunity to see Billy Bragg live, you take it, no ...
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Billy Bragg
Phoenix
The Clientele
Shearwater
Rogue Wave
Dan Deacon
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Norman Wong Even though he coined it himself,
I often wonder if Joel Gibb regrets encouraging the...
use of “gay church folk music” as a description for the music of The Hidden Cameras . Certainly they got a lot of mileage out of it in the ...
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Review of The Hidden Cameras’ Origin: Orphan and giveaway
Pavla Kopecna All throughout Theoretical Girl’s set at SxSW back in March , I was wracking my brain trying to figure out who Amy Turnnidge, she who is the central abstract idea of the band, reminded me of. This didn’t keep me from enjoying her set, but it was a relief and head ...
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Still Life
Camera Obscura
British Sea Power
Frightened Rabbit
Hot Chip
Machine Head
Frank Yang In leading up to Friday night’s show at Lee’s Palace, I’d wondered aloud as to why it had taken The Wooden Sky so long to play a proper hometown show, what with their latest record, the ex If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone having come ...
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Nina Sky
Phoenix
Laura Barrett
Alela Diane
Jim Guthrie
The Kills
Frank Yang
Who: Think About Life
What: Montreal outfit hasn’t quite managed to translate the insane energy of their live show into a recording – that’s near impossible and probably dangerous – but they do capture the anything-goes, good-times-till-you-drop spirit ...
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Luna
Phoenix
You Say Party! We Say Die!
sheandhimfan.com There’s many factors involved with crafting a distinctive cover version, but if you had to choose just one to work with, you can’t really go wrong with having a signature voice. Just ask Richard Hawley – the Sheffield singer-songwriter has a signature smoky ...
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Richard Ashcroft
Wikipedia Yes, they will be wearing the Energy Domes . And the jumpsuits. And yes, they’ll fill them out a little more snugly than they did when they last visited a quarter-century ago, but New Wave pioneers DEVO are coming back to Toronto. They’ve got two dates set for The ...
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Phoenix
Pat Graham Yeah, I know that I probably keep closer track of British bands than some (but certainly not as much as others), but I still get confused as to who’s who sometimes. Particularly when it comes to outfits comprised of skinny, shaggy-looking lads wielding guitars and perhaps ...
