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  • Sigur Ros made us forget we were in Toronto on a Monday night

    SIGUR RÓS at Massey Hall, Monday, October 3. Rating: NNNN It’s been three full years since Sigur Rós have done any serious touring, and during...
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  • Survive’s RR7349 is more complex but less immersive than their Stranger Things’ soundtrack

    One way to think of S U R V I V E's third album is as a synth museum come to life, dozens of machines burbling...
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  • >>> Album of the week: Angel Olsen

    Angel Olsen's new record comes two and a half years after the breakthrough of Burn Your Fire For No Witness, which ended up on many...
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  • Cass McCombs’ Mangy Love deftly avoids songwriterly traps

    “No more cliché songs,” Cass McCombs sings on Cry, one of Mangy Love’s many standout tracks. “Nothing less than every ounce of your heart.” It’s...
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  • Of Montreal jump the shark on Innocence Reaches

    It's already a foregone conclusion that 2016 will be looked upon as a complete disaster, with or without a shark-jumping Of Montreal album. Still, it...
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  • Shopping played a flawless set at the Silver Dollar

    SHOPPING, GAUCHE, LITTLE JUNIOR and NEW ENCHANTERS at the Silver Dollar, Saturday, August 6. Rating: NNNNN For the past couple of years we have tugged at loose...
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  • Dinosaur Jr.

    Even if you've only heard one J. Mascis guitar solo, you've heard all J. Mascis's guitar solos. For fans of his playing, this is what...
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  • Floating Points

    One of the things that made Sam Shepherd's (aka Floating Points) 2015 LP, Elaenia, so striking was how it took EDM sensibilities and mapped them...
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  • Nap Eyes’s Double Double Land show had a victory-lap aura

    NAP EYES and CALVIN LOVE at Double Double Land, Wednesday, July 13. Rating: NNNN On the hottest day of the hottest-hell-summer the city has known,...
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  • >>> Deerhoof

    How many bands can you name - from any era - that have had a run of albums as strong as Deerhoof's during the aughts?...
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  • Chris Cohen ruled at the Silver Dollar…

    CHRIS COHEN with SUNSHINE AND THE BLUE MOON and THE SEAMS at the Silver Dollar, Sunday, June 5. Rating: NNN The Silver Dollar puts together concert bills that aim to...
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  • Miles Davis and Robert Glasper

    The first sound on Everything's Beautiful is Miles Davis's unmistakable rasp, from a session where the tape kept rolling between takes. He's growling out orders...
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  • Radiohead clear out the attic on A Moon Shaped Pool

    RADIOHEAD A Moon Shaped Pool (XL/Beggars) Rating NNN Radiohead rolled out their ninth full-length in a way that felt reliably contrarian. At a time when high-profile...
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  • Music is maybe probably definitely good for your health

    FOUR TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO ALREADY KNEW WHAT U OF T RESEARCHERS ARE JUST DISCOVERING “When you walk through the halls of this university, you...
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  • Nerding out with Ice Cream

    ICE CREAM with SCOTT HARDWARE and MAN MADE HILL at Smiling Buddha, Saturday (April 23), 9 pm. $8-$12. See listing.  The songs on Ice Cream's...
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