CMW

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  Chloe Charles

  El Mocambo, Toronto, ON, March 23

  PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2013

  There was a palpable buzz in the air as singer-songwriter Chloe Charles and her band, among them a violinist and cellist, made the final ad...

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  Shout Out Out Out Out

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, March 23

  PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2013

  The two drum kits, two bass guitars and collection of eight synths strewn across the Horseshoes Tavern stage served as fair warning to the...

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  BadBadNotGood

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, March 23

  PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2013

  Despite a few years of collecting famous followers and co-conspirators like Frank Ocean, Tyler, the Creator, Pharoahe Monch, and Wu-Tang pr...

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  Savages

  Lee's Palace, Toronto, ON, March 23

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2013

  Savages lose a mark for slightly mushy sound on the denser cuts, but as half-hour, pre-debut sets go, the UK post-punks' second Toronto sho...

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  Donovan Woods

  Central, Toronto, ON, March 23

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2013

  It doesn't take a feng shui expert, an engineer, or even much of a pragmatist to point out that tables at the rear of a small music venue w...

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  Light Asylum

  Wrongbar, Toronto, ON, March 23

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2013

  In music festivals, as in ketchup, patience is a virtue. Playing the midnight slot of CMW's penultimate night, Brooklyn duo Light Asylum dr...

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  Persian Rugs

  Rancho Relaxo, Toronto, ON, March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

  The draw for a lot of bands at Canadian Music Week is the promise of industry bigwigs catching your set and launching you to superstardom....

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  Rococode

  Velvet Underground, Toronto, ON, March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

  Vancouver's Rococode had the unfortunate challenge of winning over a crowd of 20 people on a Friday night and, unfortunately, the quartet j...