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Skelliconnection is a window into Chad VanGaalens weird and wonderful world of Viking rainbows, pterodactyls and headless corpses, a bit sk...
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FeaturesThe Dears - Gang of Losers Published Jul 23, 2007Luring the listener with a self-depreciating title has always been risky business, but, here, it was an important move. After the grand epic...
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FeaturesPolaris Published Jul 23, 2007Chosen by a pool of more than 170 Canadian music critics, radio hosts, bloggers and other participants, the Polaris Music Prize awards $20,0...
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FeaturesImporting Our Own The World Wants Canadian Music, But Is Our Industry Woefully Unprepared? Published Jun 20, 2007A balmy June day in Toronto, and a trip to local College Street CD retailer Soundscapes on "new release Tuesday is in order. Undoubtedly st...
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FeaturesA Canadian Punk Revival As Punk Turns 30, Canadian Pioneers Reunite Published May 29, 2007A bubbling crowd bounces at the front of the stage as the first raw, pop-addled lick chokes out across Torontos Horseshoe Tavern. Fists ris...
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FeaturesSwedens Hour International Success Helps Swedes Bring It All Back Home Published Mar 28, 2007On the last night of January this year, a funny thing happened in Stockholm. At the Grammis, the annual Swedish music industry awards ceremo...
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FeaturesLoaded Words How Hip-hop Has Embraced and Rejected the Firearm Published Feb 23, 2007Way back in 1982 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released "The Message, one of the very first commercially successful rap tracks, an...
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FeaturesThe Nor-Wave Sunny Days For Norways Indie Scene, Even In the Dead of Winter Published Feb 21, 2007Surrounded by the medieval ruins in Middelalderparken a historic park in Gamlebyen, the oldest section of Oslo electronic rockers 120 Da...
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FeaturesKill the DJ Taking House Music Beyond the Clubs Published Oct 01, 2006Last April, an article entitled "Dance Music Then and Now, from Tom Moulton to Unai ran in The New York Times. The pieces author, music cr...
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FeaturesThis is Torontopia Published Sep 01, 2006Its 2.30 on a humid Friday morning, Trinity Bellwoods Park in the heart of Toronto. Seventy people gather around a shadow show, listening t...
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FeaturesThe Roots Back to The Roots Published Sep 01, 2006Ahmir "?uestlove Thompson of the Roots doesnt mince words about his friend Jay-Z, the former crack dealer turned rapper turned CEO of Def...
