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Pulp, Wild Beasts, Frightened Rabbit, and more clear the closets for Boxing Week
PulpHope everyone had a nice holiday. Just popping my head up to clear the decks before taking seasonal cover once again. Because despite very little technically happening over the last few days, a few...
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Wavelength to shake you out of your Winter doldrums with, well, Doldrums and...
Ali BiddellIt hadn’t occurred to me until just now, but there’s a bit of a parallel between this site, right here, and Wavelength. They got a couple years’ head start on me, but both of us spent a...
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Prism Prize refracts spotlight on Canadian videos
Claire BoucherWhereas the Polaris Music Prize already has a seven year track record of honouring the top Canadian album, the Prism Prize is new on the scene – unaffiliated but sharing a similar...
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Rachel Zeffira at The Drake Underground in Toronto
Frank YangThough inconvenient and unfortunate in real terms, there was something appropriate about the fact that half of Rachel Zeffira’s first North American tour was canceled on account of visa...
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Jim Guthrie Takes his Time making it onto the 2013 Polaris Prize long list
Colin MedleyThe 2013 Polaris Prize long list was announced yesterday, and unlike past years where there were a number of obvious frontrunners for inclusion, whether because they were by the biggest...
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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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Fresh Snow and Mimico at The Boat in Toronto
Frank YangI don’t spend nearly as much time in the clubs scouting out new local acts as I used to – and relative to some who do this, I never spent that much time on that beat anyways – but last...
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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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A whole bunch of concert announcements, featuring Glasser
Jonathan TurnerLots of concert announcements over the last few days, but nothing that demands to take the lead spot, so I shall go with news of Glasser – aka electronic-pop artist Cameron Mesirow –...
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Review of Kashka’s Bound and giveaway
Jason GordonFans disappointed by the disbanding of Toronto folk-pop stalwarts Forest City Lovers last Spring didn’t have long to mourn; frontwoman Kat Burns stepped out of one project and straight into...
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