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    Formerly NOW’s music editor, Carla continues to write for the music section about the health of Toronto and Canada’s music scenes, DIY communities and issues related to race and gender.

  • Comet Control on Ontario’s best psychedelic albums

    COMET CONTROL at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Thursday (September 29), doors 8:30 pm. $10. ticketfly.com.  The members of Comet Control have been at the forefront of Toronto’s heavy...
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  • >>> Snowblink’s Returning Current avoids all the breakup album cliches

    Snowblink's first album after the demise of co-leaders Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman's marriage could've been a total downer, yet it manages to keep the...
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  • Fall Music Preview 2016: this fall’s must-see shows

    BLOOD ORANGE Danforth Music Hall, September 21 Count yourself lucky if you managed to nab a ticket to this show. Dev Hynes's acclaimed, impressionistic and pop-funky Freetown...
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  • Fall Music Preview 2016: 10 albums we’re most pumped for this fall

    A TRIBE CALLED RED  We Are The Halluci Nation (Pirates Blend), September 16 Tanya Tagaq and Shad appear on the electronic pow wow DJ trio's new 15-track record,...
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  • >>> The Luyas return after four years with just five songs

    The Luyas have been lying low since finishing the touring cycle for 2012's acclaimed Animator album. Though they've returned with just five songs, Says You...
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  • The Hideout to close at the end of October

    Queen West live music venue The Hideout at 484 Queen West is closing – at least for the time being. The owners of decade-old club...
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  • Local Heroes: thank you, Che Kothari and Ryan Paterson, for Manifesto

    MNFSTO10 with ANDERSON .PAAK, KAYTRANADA, ADRIA KAIN, BIG LEAN, A TRIBE CALLED RED, DANIEL CAESAR and many others at various venues from Friday (September 9)...
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  • Blood Ceremony’s witching hour at Lee’s Palace

    BLOOD CEREMONY at Lee's Palace, Friday, September 2. Rating: NNNN Followers of the occult know that the witching hour is when ghosts and witches and the...
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  • On the set of Weaves’ new music video

    WEAVES with SHE-DEVILS and POSTER BOY at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (August 27), 8:30 pm. $10-$12. ticketfly.com. See listing. The day is hot,...
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  • TUNS’ debut delivers on its east-coast indie rock pedigree

    Followers of East Coast indie rock have been anticipating this debut self-titled album since last October, when the group made up of Chris Murphy (Sloan)...
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  • Local Hero: Jonny Dovercourt’s 16-year career of championing Toronto indie acts

    CAMP WAVELENGTH with CLOUD NOTHINGS, OPERATORS, YOUNG GALAXY, ODONIS ODONIS, LAL, FOR ESMÉ, BART and others, at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island), Friday to Sunday...
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  • >>> Album of the week: Ezra Furman’s Big Fugitive Life

    Rock 'n' roll is at Ezra Furman's core, but the Chicago musician has an uncanny way of expanding the genre in every direction imaginable, making...
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  • Why I want to be k.d. lang when I grow up

    case/lang/veirs at the Danforth Music Hall, Tuesday, August 16. Rating: NNNNN There’s something wonderfully casual about the case/lang/veirs collaboration starring k.d. lang, Neko Case and Laura Veirs,...
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  • Regent Park’s new open mic series, Hummingbird, focuses on youth

    HUMMINGBIRD OPEN MIC with UNBUTTONED at Daniels Spectrum (585 Dundas East), Tuesday (August 16), 6 pm, all ages (and every third Tuesday of the month)....
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  • The Pack A.D.’s Positive Thinking reminds us that we’re deep into the Canadian alt rock part of the 90s revival

    With Limblifter, Rusty and Third Eye Blind reformations all on the go, it's clear that we're deep into the Canadian alt-rock part of the 90s...
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