Although only April(btw, Happy Easter everyone), here's some early news on some upcoming festivals as well as some other concert announcements:Eric Warner brings his annual Over The Top indie festival back this year to take place at various venues in Toronto from May 21-24. What started out as a music festival will this year at least include some films and plays. The music lineup's as follows(t...
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concert review: Glasvegas, Von Iva @ The Mod Club (Toronto, Ontario) - April 3, 2009Over the last few month's Glasgow, Scotland's Glasvegas have been working the promo route, having gone to SXSW, played Letterman and Craig Ferguson, and touring intensively. They finally made it to Toronto for a show at The Mod Club last Friday night. When tickets went onsale, they sold out almost immediately, a...
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Leonard Cohen: photo by Tom SheehanAs part of his first tour in 15 years, Canadian music legend Leonard Cohen played London's 02 Arena in July of 2008, recording it for posterity. That performance will be released as a two-CD set on March 31 simply entitled "Live In London" and NPR is featuring it as an exclusive first listen:Stream: Leonard Cohen - "Live In London"Mr. Cohen plays Copps Coli...
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A few concert announcement/music news morsels: UK's White Lies whose UK number 1 debut album "To Lose A Life" was released domestically last week and whose show with Friendly Fires and The Soft Pack at Lee's Palace on March 31 is sold out, will also be playing MTV Live on March 31 prior to their proper show that night. To request free tickets, call 1-888-491-6888 or e-mail liveaudience@mtv.ca.B...
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concert review: Canadian Musicfest (part of Canadian Music Week) in Toronto - March 13, 2009Black Hat Brigade @ Rancho Relaxo: photo by Michael LigonFriday the 13th turned out to be the final night of my CMF unfortunately - for reasons I can't get into, I wasn't able to make it out to my planned Saturday CMF schedule. An unplanned conclusion to my CMF as it turned out to be, in terms of new mus...
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concert review: Tindersticks, Elfin Saddle @ The Opera House (Toronto, Ontario) - March 10, 2009 Tindersticks' Stuart Staples: photo by Michael LigonIt was probably for the best that if I were to be attending any shows just prior to the three days of Canadian Musicfest shows I plan to attend that it would be the Tindersticks and Elfin Saddle at The Opera House this past Tuesday night. Succintl...
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With his new album "Get Guilty" under the guise of A.C. Newman, Carl Newman takes a break from his main gig with The New Pornographers. Although it's easy to make a statement like none of the songs on the album would sound out of place on a New Pornographers album, but that actually wouldn't be true. Perhaps that last statement is more true with A.C. Newman's debut album "The Slow Wonder", a p...
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Still plugging last year's "Narrow Stairs", Death Cab For Cutie will return for a show at Sound Academy on April 5. Openers are Cold War Kids and Ra Ra Riot. Tickets onsale tomorrow, for $40.50 a pop.Willie Nelson is at Massey Hall on April 8 & 9. Full dates here. UK soul-pop songstress Adele is at Massey Hall on April 29.Locals Spiral Beach and Vancouver's Hey Ocean are at the Horseshoe Tavern...
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Calgary's Azeda Booth bring their ambient pop to Rancho Relaxo for a show on April 10. More dates over at their MySpace. Their album "In Flesh Tones" is out now through Absolutely Kosher.The Mavericks' Raul Maulo will be at Lee's Palace for a show on April 14, tickets $20 onsale Feb 26.Maria Taylor is at the El Mocambo on April 17, tickets $10 onsale Feb 26.Vancouver's Ladyhawk return for a sho...
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concert review: Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Depreciation Guild @ Lee's Palace (Toronto, Ontario) - February 12, 2009As a fan of shoegaze and indiepop in particular back in the 90's, I regret not having seen some of the best shoegaze acts that came to town, and indiepop was such an underground movement that I don't even recall some of the best acts(mostly American and British) ever coming ...
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concert review : Pains Of Being Pure At Heart , The Depreciation Guild @ Lee's Palace (Toronto, Ontario) - February 12, 2009 As a fan of shoegaze and indiepop in particular back in the 90's, I regret not having seen some of the best shoegaze acts that came to town, and indiepop was such an underground movement that I don't even recall some of the best acts(mostly American and British) ever co...
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Scottish quartet Glasvegas just released their debut self-titled full-length this past week domestically but I've been listening to a promo for the last month now. Even before I'd read things like Creation Records / PopTones head Alan McGee, heralding them "The most exciting thing I've heard since Jesus and Mary Chain " or the BBC saying that the band "...draw on rockabilly and pop from the 19...
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Perusing Pitchfork's guide to upcoming music releases during the winter of 2009, I realize that there's a precious few I'm actually eagerly waiting for and majority of artists I've either only heard in passing, read about or not read/heard of entirely at all. So far I'm mostly eagerly waiting for March 3 when Neko Case's newest full-length, the recorded-in-a-barn "Middle Cyclone" is released. [...
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Here are my favourite of shows of the year in sequential order. For ease sake, I've chose to quote portions of my original reviews for each show. There were a few shows I hadn't originally wrote up reviews for (not at all an indication of the worthiness of the show but rather just a matter of writer' block/laziness), so I've provided some commentary for those shows. It seems my concert-going ha...
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Here are my favourite of shows of the year in sequential order. For ease sake, I've chose to quote portions of my original reviews for each show. There were a few shows I hadn't originally wrote up reviews for (not at all an indication of the worthiness of the show but rather just a matter of writer' block/laziness), so I've provided some commentary for those shows. It seems my concert-going ha...
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I didn't actually purchase nor listen to many albums released in 2008 so making a 'best-of' list seemed a little silly. However, everyone's done it so I thought I'd throw my fave albums of the year list out there for everybody to gawk at. It seems that I was listening to more older music than current this year - I can't count the number of times that I'd listened(on my iPod or Zune ) to Love Is...
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I didn't actually purchase nor listen to many albums released in 2008 so making a 'best-of' list seemed a little silly. However, everyone's done it so I thought I'd throw my fave albums of the year list out there for everybody to gawk at. It seems that I was listening to more older music than current this year - I can't count the number of times that I'd listened(on my iPod or Zune) to Love Is ...
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With Christmas shopping, snow-mageddon and other various things on my mind, I totally missed the news that the long-running television program The NewMusic got cancelled recently. An article in the recent issue of Eye Weekly discusses the evolution of our "Nation's Music Station" Muchmusic , whose direction seems to be a shift from actual music to pop cultural programming, and in it's wake it ...
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concert review : Love Is All , Crystal Stilts , Tropics @ Horseshoe Tavern (Toronto, Ontario) - December 11, 2008 Josephine Olausson of Love Is All @ Horseshoe Tavern: photo by Michael Ligon One of the better indie bills this year took over the Horseshoe Tavern last Thursday night, and while it was chillly outside, by the time Swedish headliners Love Is All hit the stage, the nearly pa...
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Crystal Stilts (photo credit: Lauren Bilanko ) It's obviously Sweden's Love Is All 's night at the Horseshoe Tavern tonight but I do strongly encourage attendees to get there for Brooklyn's Crystal Stilts' set. With the release of their debut full-length "Alight of Night" freshly released through Slumberland Records (though some of the songs have been kicking around for a bit, having been r...
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