CMW

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  The Indies Pt. 1 featuring Cold Specks, Candence Weapon, 360, the Wooden Sky

  Kool Haus, Toronto, ON, March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

  What an odd beast the Canadian Independent Music Awards (aka the Indies) is. Is it an awards show with a sprinkling of concerts? A concert...

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  The Indies Pt. 2 featuring Diamond Rings, Matt Mays, Metric

  Kool Haus, Toronto, ON, March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

  The Indies began with a pretty typical awards-show structure, albeit incongruently set in a big venue rather than a theatre. Initially, pac...

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  Akua

  Silver Dollar, Toronto, ON March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

  Slow simmering rhythms spread throughout a dimly lit room as sultry soulstress Akua lit off a smoldering set of late-night moods in front o...

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  Irreverend James and the Critical Mass Choir

  Czehoski, Toronto, ON, March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

  While surely most of us have been exposed — if not in person, in film, television or on record — to the exuberant expression th...

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  We Were Lovers

  Gladstone, Toronto, ON, March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

  While the down-home rock tunes running in between sets were a lot closer to what many still picture when we think of the prairie provinces...

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  Apparat Organ Quartet

  The Garrison, Toronto, ON, March 20

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2013

  With the amount of electronic gadgetry stacked across the cozy Garrison stage at set-time, it was hardly surprising that the four intriguin...

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  Mad Ones

  Great Hall, Toronto, ON, March 21

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2013

  Taking the stage to a woefully empty hall, Mad Ones played with undeterred determination, delivering a smattering of tracks from their debu...

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  PS I Love You

  Great Hall, Toronto, ON, March 21

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2013

  Paul Saulnier isn't one for chitchat; he tends to let his guitar do the talking. He spent most of PS I Love You's short set alternating bet...