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NYC Popfest with Allo Darlin’, The Ladybug Transistor, The Wave Pictures, and...
Frank YangNYC Popfest is wonderful for many reasons, not least of which is a built-in excuse to jet off to New York for the May long weekend. I did so back in 2009 when The Radio Dept. as headliners...
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Saint Etienne covers The Beach Boys
Discogs.comWithout actually bothering to check if it’s true, I would submit that The Beach Boys’ 1966 classic Pet Sounds is the most-covered album – taken as a whole – of all time. Or at least of all...
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Saint Etienne to deliver Words & Music in person
Elaine ConstantineThe show was only announced last night, but I’m just going to go ahead and say that I don’t think people are nearly as excited about Saint Etienne’s first show back in Toronto in, if...
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Neil Halstead makes offhand Slowdive reunion comment, throws internet into a...
Andy WhiteOkay not the whole internet – Obama’s AMA probably did more to clog those tubes yesterday – but for a certain demographic, an interview Neil Halstead gave to MTV Hive certainly registered as...
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Richard Hawley gets view of Mercury from Sky’s Edge
FacebookThe twelve album shortlist for the 2012 Mercury Prize, awarded to the best – by whatever standard the judges choose to use – British or Irish album of the past twelve months was announced...
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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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Review of Jessie Ware’s Devotion
Kate MorossIn all honesty, I intended to write up Jessie Ware’s debut Devotion today whether or not it took the Mercury Prize last night or not – it went, as expected, to the heavily-favoured and...
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Win Joy Formidable tickets without having to change your cellphone provider...
James MinchinThe almost-last minute free show from Welsh so-much-power-trio The Joy Formidable show at The Mod Club next Monday night, November 26, announced earlier this week was unequivocally good...
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Ultraista, Atoms For Peace only making plans for Nigel (Godrich)
Temporary ResidenceNot many record producers manage to achieve the sort of household name status as the artists they work with, but Nigel Godrich has done as well as anyone in the recent memory. Partly...
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Chromewaves’ favourite albums of 2012
I’ve always said when compiling my year-end list that I don’t choose my favourite albums of the year so much as they declare themselves to me. If it requires too much thought, it’s probably more a...
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London Grammar and Jaymes Young at The Great Hall in Toronto
Frank YangAs noted in my review of their debut album If You Wait, London Grammar should be commended for countering any cynicism about their sound being a little too of-the-moment – add one part...
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Franz Ferdinand, Frankie Rose, and Casual Sex at The Kool Haus in Toronto
Frank YangIn a way, I feel sorry for Franz Ferdinand. Almost without fail, general reaction to every album they’ve released since their 2004 self-titled debut has been, “yeah it’s alright but it’s not...
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