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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.Music
The longest (and best) day you could imagine having at CMF
It was Friday around noon that I woke from a pleasant dream involving a live action game of Candyland. In the midst of the dream, I thought I was Queen Frostine. Anyways, my day was already off to a good start. I knew I wanted to keep the day rolling in exactly the same way. Well and good. It all started to come to come together when a little bird whispered something in my ear about a day show going on at John O'Regan (you do know Diamond Rings, don't you?) and local filmmaker / man about town Colin Medly's apartment. It was the perfect start to my day, I thought, and what else was I going to do at 1 p.m.? Watch Simpsons reruns online?
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Canadian Music Fest in photos (and videos): Postdata, Brian Borcherdt, Julie Fader & More...
For night three of Canadian Music Fest 2010 I headed to the Music Gallery to check out the Hand Drawn Dracula showcase. Julie Fader, Brian Borcherdt and Postdata took full advantage of the incredible acoustics of the venue and brought along a few special guests for the show including Randy Lee (formerly of the Bicycles), Graham Walsh (of Holy Fuck) and Tony Dekker (of Great Lake Swimmers).
With such a relaxed atmosphere the majority of the crowd remained seated throughout the night, giving the performers their undivided attention from start to finish. Check out some photos and videos from the incredibly intimate concert.
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Coalesce play first Toronto show in a decade
Last night at the Annex Wreckroom the mighty Coalesce, Harvey Milk, Atlas Sound and our own home grown wonder kids Burning Love put on a heck of a show.So I should start out honestly -- I'm not 100% behind CMW, or CMF, or whatever it's actually called. It's easy to criticize a Canadian-themed festival that consists largely of American bands, and features a headliner that is almost completely out of touch with current music (Our Lady Peace). But when it becomes hard to find nuggets of fun, it makes it somewhat more worthwhile, I think. This show at Annex Wreckroom was one such nugget.
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Canadian Music Fest in photos: RJD2, Cadence Weapon, Break Science & Happy Chichester
As you gear up for night three of Canadian Music Fest 2010, here's a glimpse of some of the action that went down on Thursday night. Despite feeling under the weather, I headed to the Mod Club to see Happy Chichester and Break Science open up for the legendary RJD2 before jumping over to the Garrison for Cadence Weapon's midnight set.Check out my photos from the shows:
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TTC Busker Profile: Kim Cole
If you've been following this TTC busker profile series for a while, you might have noticed that Toronto's world of subway musicians is very interconnected. Sure enough, guitarist and singer-songwriter Kim Cole is a good friend of Sue Peters of Sue and Dwight.Kim's bubbly disposition and instant likability are only matched by her beautiful voice, which filled the air and made heads turn at Runnymede station. I spent some time getting to know her and unearthed a personality as bright and welcoming as her smile.
