Tag Archives: live music

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Shout Out Out Out Out and Freedom Or Death at Starlight (October 26, 2011)

Back at the end of July I road tripped over to Montreal for the Osheaga music festival. Of the numerous awesome bands that littered the lineup one of my suprise finds was relatively new Toronto three-piece Freedom Or Death. They … Continue reading→

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Baby Eagle at the Princess Cafe (October 22, 2011)

What more could you ask for on an early saturday evening than some intimate indie-folk and just a little bit of old school rock and roll in a tiny cafe shared with about 15 other people? Perhaps a country-rock-opera about vigilante cowboys battling an evil corrupt government and it’s giant mechanical spiders in the post apocalyptic wasteland of future canada I hear you say? Continue reading→

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Rival Boys at Supermarket (October 5, 2011)

This post is a little late coming, but better late than never! Almost a month ago I had a great weekend of music in Toronto catching Yuck’s show at the Horseshoe on Sunday evening, and tUnE-yArDs the night after at Lee’s Palace. Continue reading→

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Kidstreet at Starlight (September 29, 2011)

Waterloo keyboard rockers Kidstreet have a new record out Fuh Yeah, and I was along to celebrate its release at their hometown album launch at Starlight. Openers Pick A Piper, of “the drummer from Caribou” fame, blasted the night off with … Continue reading→

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Sea To Sky at Maxwell’s Music House (September 21, 2011)

Last week I caught a friends band, Sea To Sky, play at local Waterloo music venue Maxwell’s Music House. They released their first EP Head earlier in the year which you can check out here, and apparently there is a second … Continue reading→

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Gifts From Enola at Underground Cinema (August 17, 2011)

A few years ago I started using Last.fm to discover new music. One of the many bands it suggested to me that I probably never would have heard of otherwise was Gifts From Enola, a 4-piece post-rock slash sort-of-screamo band … Continue reading→

Graveyard Train at the Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, Canada (July 25th, 2011). © 2011 . All rights reserved.

Graveyard Train at the Horseshoe Tavern (July 25, 2011)

This is a late post and times have been busy, but as Melbourne country-horror six piece Graveyard say soon all will be gone… But before we all die, as Graveyard Train so enthusiastically informed the crowd gathered at The Horseshoe … Continue reading→

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Paul Reginato at Maxwell’s Music House (July 10, 2011)

Every summer Maxwell’s Music House in Waterloo runs a singer/songwriter competition, and in the last heat a friend of mine, Paul Reginato, played. Paul is a young singer/pianist whose intricate songs and narrative lyrics gives me Sufjan Stevens vibes. Apparently I’m … Continue reading→

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The Antlers at The Mod Club (June 14, 2011)

I got into The Antlers unfashionable late. I didn’t check out Hospice until mid 2010 when Last.fm recommended them as similar to The National, a band who were rapidly become my new favourite at the time. To be honest I don’t think those two bands sound similar at all, the only commonalities I can find are that they both hail from Brooklyn and they are both incredible on record, and even better live. Continue reading→