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Rachel Sermanni

Cameron House, Toronto, ON, March 20

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013

Lou Grant may hate spunk, though one wonders how he feels about chutzpah. Scottish singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni semi-famously earned a...

Oh Susanna, Daniel Romano & Kayla Howran

Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, March 20

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013

Communism should seem oddly incongruent in a cowboy hat — albeit a figurative one — but the all-in approach worked well for Oh...

Leif Vollebekk

Rivoli, Toronto, ON, March 20

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013

Talking loudly during a relatively quiet show is a form of oppression that, eventually, demands revolution. Beginning solo, Montreal singer...

Erik Lind & the Orchard

Czehoski, Toronto, ON, March 20

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013

After just a few songs into the warm and bristling set by Montreal-based four-piece Erik Lind & the Orchard, it was easy to see why the tit...

Ginger & the Ghost

El Mocambo, Toronto, ON, March 20

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013

Stepping up onto the cluttered stage behind a wash of projected fireworks within the maddeningly hodge-podge environs of Toronto concert ha...

Brews Willis

Silver Dollar Room, Toronto, ON, March 19

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2013

Brews Willis hit the stage like a band with nothing to prove. This was, after all, their hometown and they'd just released a brand-spanking...

Parallels

Rivoli, Toronto, ON, March 19

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2013

Parallels debut, Visionaries, was a fantastic slab of propulsive synth-pop. But like even the most established artists in the mainstream ad...

Canadian Music Week Shines a Light on Levon Helm, Big Star, Bad Brains, Bill Callahan in 2013 Film Fest

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2013

While next month's Canadian Music Week  will have a number of notable acts gracing stages around Toronto, some a local movie house will als...