Light It Up
I’m Leaving You For Solitude
Never Follow Suit

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Steve GullickThough English – they hail from Brighton, England – most reference points for the duo of Laura-May Carter and Steven Ansell, aka Blood Red Shoes, hail from this side of the Atlantic. With she on guitar and he on drums, they’re a touch too polished to really call punk but are much indebted to the grunge movement of the ’90s and all that followed and some of what…

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Paper Planes

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AV ClubThe Onion-powered A/V Club is wonderful for countless reasons, but of late one of the best is their Undercover series, which kicked off back in the Spring and has been rolling out a new episode every week. Its premise is having 25 pre-selected classic(ish) songs of the indie rock variety and as bands come through their studios, they choose one form the list to cover. While a few of the results have been poorly conceived or executed,…

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Promises
Doubt

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WarpaintI usually try not to post on the same act multiple times in such a short period of time, but all I’ve got right now is a bunch of bits and bobs and honestly, I just want to get through to the weekend. So here; a second Warpaint-led post in the span of a week. Deal with it.

But this one sort of ties into last week’s review of their show at Wrongbar, in that I’d originally mentioned that…

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Swift Coin
Road Regrets
Robots
Chit Chat

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Saddle CreekWhen their debut mini-album Applause Cheer Boo Hiss arrived in 2006, Land Of Talk appeared as though Canada had a new hard rock heroine in Liz Powell, her white-hot guitar work matched only by her distinctive vocals, equal parts angst and yearning. It wasn’t a title – or pigeonhole – that Powell seemed interested in, however, and their 2008 proper debut album Some Are Lakes surprised not only by dialing down the white-knuckle rock in favour…

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Invincible Hero
Deseret
Hot Cakes
Extracirricular
First Date
For Ash
Remember Last Time
What’s In It for?

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Frank YangI don’t really maintain any sort of live music “bucket list” – I find the very notion a bit creepy – but there are bands whom I’ve long wanted to see but never gotten the opportunity for whatever reason. Near the top of the list are New York’s Versus, whom I discovered just after they finished promoting their last record Hurrah, back in 2000. Of course, at…

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Light You Up
If I Were A Tree
We’re In A Thunderstorm
Come Away With Me
Good Evening

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Frank YangThough I’d seen Forest City Lovers a few times in the past year while their new record Carriage was being written, I can’t say as though I remember (m)any of the new songs being aired out live before being committed to tape; perhaps all the more reason that I was bowled over by just how good the new album is when I finally got to hear the finished product…

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You Got Lucky

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Liam MaloneyI live in a world where I believe everyone loves Tom Petty. And why wouldn’t everyone? The man’s got one of the best catalogs of rock songs of the past 30 years, puts on a great live show and was the best thing in The Postman, though that may be more of a commentary on The Postman than Petty.

Handsome Furs love them some Tom Petty too, as evidenced by this cover they pulled out at a…

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Horchata

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Frank YangWho: Vampire Weekend
What: Jangly, chart-topping indie-poppers who tend to drive people crazy in both the good sense and bad sense
Why: Having sold out the Sound Academy lickety-split before Contra was released and topped the charts, they’re returning to play their biggest room yet
When: Tuesday, September 7
Where: The Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Who else: Even if you don’t feel the Vampire Weekend, the presence of Beach House and Dum Dum Girls
How: Tickets for the show range from $30.75 to $55.75 plus fees but courtesy of LiveNation, I’ve got…

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Call Me

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Frank YangWho: Gramercy Riffs
What: Newfoundland five-piece who released their debut album It’s Heartbreak earlier this year and were one of the best new finds at this year’s NXNE.
Why: Headlining a showcase of rock from The Rock in an event they’re calling The Bonavista Social Club
When: Friday, August 27, 2010
Where: The El Mocambo
Who else: Newfoundlanders past, present and future Jetset Motel and All Day Driver support
How: Tickets are $7 in advance but I’ve got two prize packs consisting of a pair of passes to the show and…

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Elephants
Billie Holiday
Oh! Centra
World MIDI Classics, Vol. 2
Whirring

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Frank YangWith all sympathy to Brooklyn’s Beach Fossils, who thanks to some lost passports were unable to get across the border, and to the fans who had been waiting to see them, I can’t say I was too disappointed that they had to cancel the engagement at Wrongbar on Wednesday night because it meant that my night out would be that much shorter and that I would get to see Warpaint that…

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Lights
Love Is All I Am
Hard As Nails
Strictly Rule
Albatross

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Frank YangEvery relationship waxes and wanes over time, and mine with Interpol is no different. Like many/most, I fell for the blend of post-punk and atmospheric rock on their debut Turn On The Bright Lights, an infatuation cemented by a stellar show at the Horseshoe way back in September 2002. The bloom started coming off the rose not long after, though, with a lacklustre show at the Kool Haus a year…

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The Henney Buggy Band
The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
Casimir Pulaski Day
You Can Dance

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Denny RenshawWhen Sufjan Stevens came out of nowhere last August to announce a show that October at Lee’s Palace, people – particularly those not among the 500 who got tickets – were wondering why he’d choose to play his first show here in four years in such a small room. Surely he was big enough to play a room on the size and stature of, oh,…

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Solid Ground
Go Outside
Most Wanted
Holy Ghost

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Frank YangHeading into Saturday night, I had a managed to go a full six weeks without hitting a club show – only partly by design – and feeling on the cusp of official “shut-in” status and a full week of activities coming up, I figured that it was a good time to start getting back into game shape with a trio of bands with whom I was only passingly familiar – enough so…

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Run To You

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This is a track that I forgot I had in my archives and which elicited a double-take when I was cruising for something to post. I didn’t believe it was tagged correctly or was some sort of hoax, but no – that thick Scottish brogue does indeed belong to former Arab Strap-per Malcolm Middleton, he is indeed trading verses with Craig Finn whilst the rest of The Hold Steady back him up and yes, that is…

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Light You Up
If I Were A TRee

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Frank YangWho: Forest City Lovers
What: Toronto folk-pop outfit who’ve just released their third and far and away best album in Carriage.
Why: The band are capping a cross-Canada tour in support of the new record with a hometown record release show.
When: Thursday, August 12, 2010
Where: The Great Hall
Who else: Support comes from Gentleman Reg and Carmen Elle
How: Tickets for the show are $12 in advance but courtesy of Out Of This Spark, I have one prize pack to give away consisting…

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Elephants

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Frank YangWho: Warpaint
What: Los Angeles four-piece whose debut EP Exquisite Corpse tantalized with its blend of art-rock and dreampop textures, setting expectations for their debut album this October.
Why: A highlight of NXNE in June, they’re back playing some headlining dates around their Lollapalooza appearance before signing up as support for The xx’s Fall theatre tour.
When: Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Where: Wrongbar
Who else: Support comes from Javelin and Beach Fossils
How: Tickets for the show are $12.50 in advance but courtesy of Embrace, I’ve got two pairs of passes to give…

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Revival
Thank You For Your Love
Ghost Pressure
What Did My Lover Say?
Becoming A Jackal

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Barry KlippBradford Cox’s Deerhunter first began marketing their forthcoming album Halcyon Digest earlier this Summer via unconventional means, initiating a campaign wherein fans would download and print off old-school, xerox-styled flyers promoting the record and submit pictures of them posted up in and around their neighbourhoods in exchange for MP3 goodies, both from the new record and the Deerhunter archives. I can’t say as that I’ve seen any around…

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Promises

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Frank YangIt could have been an interesting study in contrasts if I’d bothered to go to both free shows happening in Toronto yesterday evening. Down at Union Station, you had local aspirant arena rockers Metric drawing throngs while shutting down a key chunk of downtown at rush hour as part of a cell phone launch for a major international corporation. And up in Little Italy, there was Christopher Chu – one quarter of California’s pop merchants The Morning…

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S.T.E.A.K.
Rocket Gold Star
Champion
Panda Punk
Of Foam And Wave
Odessa
Foxglove
TRaipsing Through The Aisles
Learning
Gold Rush
Hair Song
Telephone Blues
No Satisfaction
Cool Jumper

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Miyuki SamataA whole pile of concert announcements big and small came down the wire yesterday, but none more exciting – personally, at least – than this one. Self-proclaimed Japanese action comic punk band Peelander-Z – hands down highlights of our Hot Freaks! showcases at SxSW in 2008 and in 2009 – are finally bringing their absurd (and entertaining) beyond words show to Canada… well, southern Ontario…

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All The King’s Men
Down By The Water

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Tom BeardMy first listen to Wild Beasts’ 2009 release Two Dancers didn’t go so well. The English quartet’s most distinctive feature – Hayden Thorpe’s otherworldly falsetto – comes on so strong that for the unprepared, such as myself, it can be disorienting to experience and my first instinct was to simply back away. It was like stepping into a dense jungle, in this case the dark and shimmering aural backdrop of Wild Beasts’…

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Summer in 3/4 Time

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Julien BourgeoisThe inimitable Jens Lekman has been a bit quiet since wrapping up support for 2007′s Night Falls On Kortedala but a the last couple weeks have seen not quite a flurry of activity from the Swedish singer-songwriter, but definite signs that he’s not been idle while away.

First came what he called “A Summer In 3/4 Time”, a downloadable mix/mash-up that started as a remix he did for Au Revoir Simone and turned into an extended aural…

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Twenty Four Hours

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WikidepiaA Means To An End, the 1995 tribute album to Joy Division, is a curious entity. Though their status as legends had been cemented for many years, it was still largely an underground and music geek thing – I’m pretty sure you couldn’t get Closer t-shirts in child sizes as you can now (it’s true, I’ve seen them). And I remember a not inconsiderable marketing push behind A Means To An End when it came out –…

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Solid Ground

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Frank YangWho: Maps & Atlases
What: Chicago quartet build mathy, proggy structures from country-inflected, psych-rock implements
Why: Following a series of EP releases, their full-length debut Perch Patchwork came out at the end of June
When: Saturday, August 7, 2010
Where: The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto
Who else: Support comes from Cults and Laura Stevenson & The Cans
How: Tickets are $11.50 in advance but courtesy of Collective Concerts, I have two pairs of passes to give away for the show. To enter, email me at contests AT chromewaves.net with “I…

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Dragon’s Song
Heaven & Earth

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Todd RoethWho: Blitzen Trapper
What: Just your usual willfully eclectic country-folk-rock-psych-jam band goodness from the Pacific northwest
Why: Touring the continent in support of their new record Destroyer Of The Void because, well, those voids aren’t going to destroy themselves.
When: Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Where: The Opera House in Toronto
Who else: Youthful Californian indie-poppers Avi Buffalo support
How: Tickets are $15.50 in advance but courtesy of Collective Concerts, I have two pairs of passes to give away for the show. To enter, email me at contests AT…

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