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  • A ticket bot speaks

    If you’ve gone online to buy tickets for a big concert lately, the odds are good that you’ve encountered a “sold out” notification mere minutes...
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  • >>> Bring your worst, world. We got a new Tribe Called Quest album so we’re good

    The Friday after Donald Trump became the U.S. president-elect, we learned that 82-year-old Leonard Cohen had died and A Tribe Called Quest had released their...
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  • Leonard Cohen dead at 82

    Leonard Cohen is gone. The world learned that he died of unknown causes on November 7, 2016. He was 82 years old and last month...
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  • Who’s better U2 or R.E.M.? Canadian supergroup TUNS has opinions

    TUNS with YOUNG RIVAL at Lee's Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday (November 4), 8 pm. $15. ticketfly.com. See listings.Somewhere on Chris Murphy's phone there's a...
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  • Gord Downie’s Secret Path at Roy Thomson Hall was, well, perfect

    GORD DOWNIE'S SECRET PATH at Roy Thomson Hall, Friday, October 21. Rating: NNNNN By the end of the Secret Path concert, when the Wenjack family were given a...
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  • The best music for all ages

    THE WIGGLES at Ricoh Coliseum (100 Princes’), Saturday (October 8), 11 am, 2:30 and 6 pm. $19-$65. ticketmaster.com and RAFFI with Ken Whiteley at Roy Thomson Hall (60 Simcoe), November 13, 1 and 4:30 pm. $37.50-$65....
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  • A juror’s take on the Polaris Music Prize and Kaytranada’s big win

    In the weeks leading up to the Polaris Music Prize gala crowning the “best” Canadian album of 2016, I’d decided I was rooting for U.S. Girls...
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  • >>> Despite the amusing title, Wilco’s Schmilco is stern and introspective

    There's a point on Schmilco when singer, songwriter and guitarist Jeff Tweedy says, "So sad that happiness depends on who you blame." The song, Happiness,...
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  • Toronto musicians combine passions for music and video games

    NXNE GAME LAND with concerts by Fast Romantics, Jane’s Party, Zeus and others at Yonge-Dundas Square (1 Dundas East), Thursday to Saturday (June 16-18). Free....
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  • Daniel Romano: bet you didn’t know these things about the Welland singer/songwriter

    Over the past five years or so, Daniel Romano has been following his artistic impulses, shifting around guitar-and-voice-based idioms for some fruitful and impressive records....
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  • Jazz.FM fetes Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys

    PET SOUNDS: BRIAN WILSON AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM with JEFF LEVENSON at Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles West), Thursday (May 19), 7:30 pm. $25. jazz.fm....
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  • >>> Bob Dylan

    At 75, Bob Dylan is turning black-and-white. The mysterious nature of his latest albums, their stark artwork and the lighting and composition of his most...
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  • Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet get the box set treatment

    Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet and The Sadies at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday and Saturday (April 15 and 16), 8:30 pm. $20. ticketfly.com. Out...
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  • Junior Boys on the hunger, exhaustion and misogyny of looking for love

    JUNIOR BOYS with Jessy Lanza at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (April 9), 8 pm. $18. See listing. ticketfly.com. When Jeremy Greenspan sat back to process...
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  • The Juno Awards 2016: largely irrelevant, but mercifully brief

    The televised Juno Awards were mercifully short and did not speak to the interests of people between the ages of, say, 25 and 55. Otherwise,...
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