Title: Out Of The Pit
Artist: Kobra and the Lotus
Label: Sonic Unyon
Release Date: 9 March 2010
In One Word: Meh
Sometime last year a 4-track promo sampler from Calgary, AB’s Kobra and the Lotus landed in the Music Vice mailbox, and with the release this March of the band’s debut album Out Of The Pit, I’m a...
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Gig/Concert: Jamie Cullum
Venue: Massey Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date: 9 March 2010
Headliners: Jamie Cullum
In one word: Charming
Massey Hall is a venue with an illustrious music history having hosted many legendary performances, one of the most famous of all being the 1953 concert with jazz influentials Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and the rest of The Quintet....
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Yesterday, Tuesday, 9 March, I spoke with Irish alt rock band Sixteen Layers on the eve of Canadian Music Week 2010. I met up with these four lads from Dublin at Java House on Queen Street, Toronto to discuss their reasons for appearing at the festival and what they hoped to get out of...
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Title: Hands
Artist: Little Boots
Label: Warner
Release Date: 2 March 2010
In One Word: Contrived
By definition pop music is “commercial popular music, in particular accessible, tuneful music of a kind popular since the 1950s and sometimes contrasted with rock, soul, or other forms of popular music.” (Credit to the trusty dictionary on my MacBook.) For an actual...
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Gig/Concert: Tinariwen
Venue: Phoenix Concert Theatre, Sherbourne Street, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date: 4 March 2010
Headliners: Tinariwen
In one word: Radiant
Tonight in Toronto “one of the most superb bands” in world music performed to a packed-out Phoenix Concert Theatre. That’s a paraphrase of the introduction given by Small World Music’s Executive Director Alan Davis as Tinariwen took...
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Iron Maiden, The Final Frontier… sounds pretty epic, doesn’t it? But don’t worry about the name; Britain’s heavy metal superstars haven’t sold themselves out with some kind of lame Star Trek tie-in, but instead Eddie is just revealing some science fiction influences again as he leads Maiden on their latest North American assault in...
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Music Vice’s gig guide for March 2010 with concert listings with our pick of shows in Australia, Canada/USA and the UK. These are the concerts we think you should check out – some of which you might find us at too!
Australia
A lot of great bands on tour in Oz this March, here’s who...
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Gig/Concert: Fucked Up with Kurt Vile, The D’Urbervilles, GIVE
Venue: Opera House, Queen Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date: 26 February 2010
Headliners: Fucked Up
In one word: Vigourous
On a wintry Friday night at the Opera House in Toronto’s east end two of the area’s best local bands took to the stage. Established hardcore hero’s Fucked...
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Gig/Concert: Volcano Playground w/ Bitter City, Charge of the Light Brigade
Venue: Crown and Tiger, College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date: 25 February 2010
Headliners: Volcano Playground
In one word: Molten
There was a veritable snowpocalypse tonight in Toronto but that did not stop a crowd of gig goers from braving the elements to turn out at a dingy...
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The White Stripes documentary Under Great White Northern Lights is set to be screened tomorrow, Friday 26 February in Toronto at the Royal cinema in Little Italy.
The film was shot in 2007 during the White Stripes tour across Canada, a tour which saw Jack and Meg White turning up in a lot of destinations...
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