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Electric Youth
A whole new breed of sound is generated on Innerworld, the debut album from Toronto band Electric Youth. An album synthesized unlike any other, Innerworld is caught in liminality between the present...
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Skinny Kids
There is much to like about Skinny Kids’ new EP, Strangers. From its nostalgic hat tip to ‘60s psychedelia to the Marc Bolan-esque drawl of lead singer, Trevor Gray, the EP echoes an age of...
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Ryan Hemsworth
No stranger to Canada’s electronic music scene, Ryan Hemsworth combines a variety of different sampling techniques and melodies on his new album, Alone For The First Time. As suggested by its title,...
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Kim Gray
Trevor Kim Gray, the lead singer/guitarist of Vancouver trio Skinny Kids, has gone solo with his debut EP, Backseat Bingo. Backseat Bingo mellows out his band’s surf-rock stomping, but keeps the...
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Alvvays
Alvvways || photo by Anita Binder It’s a novelty to walk into a bar and be greeted by a mounted deer head — but novelty and kitsch are something of a decorative theme at the Biltmore, where the walls...
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Deafheaven
Before the dregs had settled, the fog had faded, and the last of the footsteps had clicked quietly out through the double doors and into the rain, the Rickshaw Theatre and all those who had attended...
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White Lung
The day has come. Yes, rue on you, White Lung, and all Vancouver buzz-bands, for returning to The City of No Fun. Prepare for your utmost devastation at the hands of a college radio magazine. If the...
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1080p Christmas party
The Courtneys || Photo by Shane Burzynski Going by the billing for December 12′s Gal Gracen/Watermelon/Courtneys Christmas-themed triple feature at the ANZA Club on certain event listings, one might be...
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Shindig #9
As an avid enthusiast of Club 23 West, the Hindenburg’s predecessor, I was keen to see what a change in ownership and a revamped stage could do for crowd morale at a place where guests were already...
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Catlow
Two cats walk into a bar. One burly and bearded, the other, pretty and blonde. They sit together, pawing at bottles of beer and surveying the land before them. The felines are The Lion, folk musician...
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