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  • David Mancuso, R.I.P. (1944-2016)

    Underground dance music pioneer David Mancuso passed away Monday, November 14, at the age of 72. While he was never as famous as the many DJs...
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  • Councillors move to save music venues from the condo crush

    Toronto might finally be taking steps to address the shrinking number of music venues. City councillors Josh Colle and John Filion are bringing forward a...
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  • Is Igloofest coming to Toronto this winter?

    Montreal’s highly-rated Igloofest might be expanding to Toronto this winter. Buried in the Toronto and East York Community Council agenda was an October 25 staff...
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  • Toronto Experimental Music Wikipedia Jam

    This year’s edition of the 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival boasts an intriguing new component alongside the usual roster of experimental music performances. On Saturday...
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  • Sam Roberts Band get psychedelic on TerraForm

    The Sam Roberts Band have based their career on churning out back-to-basics pop/rock, although more recently they’ve also experimented with jazz and Afrobeat elements in...
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  • Dress up and dance your bloody face off, Toronto

    Blaq Hole  All-white costumes are encouraged for the Halloween edition of this black-light party. Expect lots of R&B, dancehall and beats, featuring Yes Yes Y’All’s...
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  • >>> Machinedrum trades in bleak for cheerful on Human Energy

    North Carolina-raised electronic producer Machinedrum, aka Travis Stewart, has had an eclectic career so far, but you wouldn’t describe much of his back catalogue as...
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  • Goat’s third album, Requiem, is the perfect soundtrack to pretending you’re in a cult

    Swedish psych rock collective Goat walk an extremely fine line between novelty act and serious music. Their blatantly preposterous backstory claiming they are members of...
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  • A day off with: Elliott Vincent Jones

    ELLIOTT VINCENT JONES with BERNARDINO FEMMINIELLI, CINDY LEE and JESSE FUTERMAN at the Baby G (1608 Dundas West), Saturday (October 8), 9:30 pm. $10 at...
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  • >>> A Tribe Called Red’s We Are The Halluci Nation sets powerful protest music to pounding beats

    The title of A Tribe Called Red’s third album, We Are The Halluci Nation, might suggest a different type of record than the one on...
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  • Derrick May is still one of techno’s most distinctive DJs

    DERRICK MAY with BASIC SOUL UNIT at 170 Spadina, Saturday, October 1. Rating: NNNN Techno wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the groundbreaking work of Detroit’s...
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  • De La Soul’s And The Anonymous Nobody… will satisfy long-time fans

    De La Soul's 1989 debut album, 3 Feet High And Rising, is inarguably one of the most influential albums in the history of hip-hop, but...
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  • >>> Album of the week: Mykki Blanco’s Mykki

    It's difficult to imagine that an artist like Mykki Blanco would have enjoyed so much buzz around her debut album even just a few years...
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  • A Tribe Called Red bring protest power to Manifesto’s Block Party

    A TRIBE CALLED RED at Yonge-Dundas Square, Sunday, ­September 18. Rating­: NNNN A Tribe Called Red pulled out all the stops for their headlining performance at...
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  • Can Viet Cong redeem themselves with their Preoccupations rebranding?

    As much as the band and its fans would likely prefer that we move on from the issue, it's pretty much impossible to write about...
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