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Hot Ticket: Cuff The Duke, The Clientele, Field Music, Huron, Air, & More
Live music picks for WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 through TUESDAY MARCH 23, 2010.WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 / SCOUT NIBLETT / HORSESHOE TAVERN / 368 QUEEN ST W / $11.50 / 19+
In January, British-born singer Scout Niblett announced that she will be recording the title track from her latest LP The Calcination of Scout Niblett a hundred different times. Each version will be sold only once so that the buyer owns the sole copy of the recording. Head to the Horseshoe tonight to ask her what version she's at, but make sure to get there early for opening sets from local acts First Rate People and Picastro.
THURSDAY MARCH 18 / A WILHELM SCREAM / THE MOD CLUB / 722 COLLEGE ST / $14.50 / ALL AGES
Punk rock takes over the Mod Club on Thursday evening when Windsor's Orphan Choir, Toronto's own Junior Battles and Maine's Outbreak open up for the always ferocious A Wilhelm Scream. AWS have been delivering their own brand of melodic hardcore to ravenous fans around the world for well over a decade, beefing up their sound and picking up a few more members throughout their journey. The quintet's latest release was a self-titled EP dropped in June of 2009 through Paper & Plastick Records.
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Toronto Music News: D-Sisive & Buck 65 team up for 100 Story Building, 2010 Indie Music Awards winners, Young Artists for Haiti
In this edition:- Holy Fuck to release Latin on May 11
- 2010 Indies handed out
- D-Sisive and Buck 65 team up for collaborative project
- Young Artists for Haiti re-imagine K'Naan track
- The Burning Hell embark on massive tour in support of new album
- Times Neue Roman sign to YYZ Records
- Elliott Brood, Forest City Lovers and DD/MM/YYYY prepare for SXSW 2010 in Austin, Texas.
Plus videos and/or downloads from Hooded Fang, Laura Barrett, Will Currie & the Country French, D-Sisive, Forest City Lovers, Times Neue Roman and Jason Collett with Bahamas and Zeus.
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Canadian Music Fest: The Indie Awards
At Canadian Music Fest's Indie Awards, Marianas Trench was among the big winners this year.Marianas Trench, whose singer Josh Ramsay is pictured below, picked up the award for Astral Media Radio Favourite Single and Favourite Video of the Year for Cross My Heart.
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Woods and Real Estate pack the Horseshoe for a sweet psychedelic CMF showcase
New York's Woods played at the Horseshoe last night as part of the Canadian Music Festival. I was highly anticipating this, seeing as I missed the last show Woods played here a few months back. To give you an idea of how I feel about this band, I compare their live show to what a guy walking for days in the desert must think of finding a bottle of water. This is pretty similar to how I felt when I first saw them one hot and hungover day in Texas last year. Woods was the one band I was really excited to see out of the CMF lineup, and for good reason.
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Canadian Music Fest in photos: The Wooden Sky, Moneen & Saint Alvia
The tenth annual Independent Music Awards (aka the Indies) were the main attraction for night four of Canadian Music Fest, and the list of winners includes the Constantines, Great Lake Swimmers, D-Sisive, Fucked Up and The Rural Alberta Advantage. Rather than taking in the awards show at the Royal York, I chose to venue hop on Saturday night, starting at the Horseshoe before heading to the Garrison and the Bovine for sets from The Wooden Sky, Moneen and Saint Alvia, respectively.
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Canadian Music Fest in photos: Winter Gloves, The Russian Futurists, Magneta Lane & Amos The Transparent
With Canadian Music Fest hitting the home stretch, here's a look at some performances from Thursday and Friday night. I headed to the Horseshoe Tavern on Thursday to check out Magneta Lane and Amos The Transparent, and made my way to Lee's Palace on Friday to see some early sets by Winter Gloves and The Russian Futurists.
