Sarah Liss

University of Toronto : music notes

COVER : Eat, drink Rating: NNNNN When it comes to catching live music, the club-saturated quadrant bordered by Bloor, Spadina, College and Bathurst makes U of T party central. The

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Ryerson : music notes

COVER : Eat, drink Rating: NNNNN If you’re a J-school or RTA brat at Ryerson jonesing to feature the next Next Big Thing in your end-of-term project, you don’t have

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Humber : music notes

COVER : Eat, drink Rating: NNNNN Music fans at Humber should invest in a Metropass and head on over the Queen West. Mitzi’s Sister (1554 Queen West, 416-532-2570) is an

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York : music notes

COVER : Eat, drink Rating: NNNNN Sadly, those making the trek up to York U are kinda SOL if they’re hoping to catch killer live shows between or after classes.

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OCAD : music notes

COVER : Eat, drink Rating: NNNNN OCAD students are in the vanguard of the crossover between the indie art and music scenes in this city, so the Dundas and McCaul

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George Brown : music notes

COVER : Eat, drink Rating: NNNNN Surprisingly, George Brown folks into rocking out actually have some decent options. If guitar-toting balladeers are your thing, C’est What (67 Front East, 416-867-9499)

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Born again Virgin

Rating: NNNNN Amy Winehouse and Peter Bjorn and John may be no-shows, but there are still tons of great acts to catch at this weekend’s V Fest. We’ve flagged some

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OAKLEY HALL

Rating: NNNN Unlike, say, fellow New York-based purveyors of folkish music Akron/Family, Brooklynites Oakley Hall don’t get off on expanding the confines of traditional American music through wigged-out experimentation. But

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SHOUT OUT LOUDS

Rating: NNNN There’s a lot of A-Ha on the latest from Stockholm indie pop ensemble Shout Out Louds, and that’s not a bad thing. Though the individual songs are offset

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EMMA POLLOCK

Rating: NNN After the alt-country solo efforts of Stars’ Amy Millan and Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis, it’s a relief to discover Emma Pollock isn’t trying to reinvent herself as a

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HEY ROSETTA!

Rating: NN Acclaimed faves at home in Newfoundland and Labrador, East Coast sextet Hey Rosetta mean well. At heart, their songs are modest, unabashedly emotional pop, kinda like if Coldplay

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