The Gig: Ra Ra Riot secret show Where: The Mod Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada When: 30 August 2010 In One Word: Intimate This Monday, August 30th 2010, Syracuse band Ra Ra Riot were in Toronto to play a secret show at the Mod Club. No tickets were sold for the event, but access was...
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The Gig: The Maccabees and Holy Vessels Where: Concorde 2, Brighton, United Kingdom When: 26th August 2010 In One Word: Triumphant As far as festival warm-up gigs go there have been some pretty big bands playing in small places lately, notably Kasabian for V Festival at Brixton Academy (which I was privileged enough to...
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The Gig: Sex On Toast and Mamushka Where: The Empress Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia When: 25 August 2010 In One Word: Sensational First question: How many fucking bands is Melbourne’s Angus Leslie in? Second question: How the fuck does he always manage to get so many bloody people out to said bands’ shows on...
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The Gig: Abandon All Ships Where: The Opera House, Toronto, Ontario, Canada When: 25 August 2010 In One Word: Megawacko Although the Opera House hasn’t really been my thing in years, there was definitely a time when a good weekend to me would’ve been moshing out in this palace of hardcore delights. Welcome to...
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The Gig: Rockstar Uproar Festival Where: Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada When: 25 August 2010 In One Word: Family Forget The EX. If you were a parent wanting to plan a nice family evening out on a wet Wednesday night in Toronto, the real fun was happening on the other side of Lake...
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Music Vice favourites, those mad caddies Root!, play a show which is billed as their last ever… The Gig: Root! with The Rhetorics and The Loop Where: Yah Yah’s, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia When: 20 August 2010 In One Word: Terrific So here we are in the packed and already sweltering Yah Yah’s with The...
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This review is part of our series of reviews of the shortlisted 2010 Polaris Prize albums. The Polaris Prize is a Canadian music prize picked on a basis of artistic merit alone, and not commercial success. As a result, the long list tends to turn out some of the best music you may have...
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Title: O. Children Artist: O. Children Label: Deadly People Recordings Released: 12 July 2010 In one word: Gloomtastic A short while back I reviewed the recent William Control album, and concluded that while it showed some definite promise, it ultimately failed to live up to the sheer loftiness of many of its influences: Namely...
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This review is part of our series of reviews of the shortlisted 2010 Polaris Prize albums. The Polaris Prize is a Canadian music prize picked on a basis of artistic merit alone, and not commercial success. As a result, the long list tends to turn out some of the best music you may have...
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The Gig: Forest City Lovers w/ Gentleman Reg Where: Great Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada When: 12 August 2010 In One Word: Disappointing n.b. The following review has received a fair amount of blowback (via email, comments and even Twitter) in the past 24 hours from people who perceived my review to be “angry”, or...
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