Concert Reviews

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  Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters

  CityFolk Festival, Ottawa ON, September 15

  PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2019

  Before Robert Plant took the stage to close off Ottawa's four-day CityFolk Festival, the former Led Zeppelin frontman asked security to mak...

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  Black Mountain / Majeure

  Distrikt Nightclub, Victoria BC, September 15

  PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2019

  Black Mountain went through the ringer in order to deliver their fifth album, Destroyer. Drummer Joshua Wells and singer Amber Webber, toge...

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  Fontaines D.C.

  Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, September 13

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2019

  Grian Chatten is a nervous watch. The disheveled but dogged frontman of Fontaines D.C. stalked onto the stage at the Phoenix Concert Theatr...

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  Mary J. Blige and Nas

  Budweiser Stage, Toronto ON, September 10

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2019

  At this stage, they could hit cruise control and still win the night.   The reputations and catalogues of Nasir Jones and Mary Jane Blige a...

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  Megan Nash

  Mae Wilson Theatre, Moose Jaw SK, September 7

  PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2019

  With its high ceilings, brass railings and cream walls, on which complex golden patterns lay, and in which over a century of history lives,...

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  KEN Mode

  Grand Gerrard Theatre, Toronto ON, September 9

  PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2019

  For an underground metal band, two decades together is a long time to stick around, but Winnipeg noisemakers KEN Mode have done so with gra...

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  Slowthai

  Fortune Sound Club, Vancouver BC, September 7

  PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2019

  Last May, British rapper Tyron Frampton, aka Slowthai, released his debut album, Nothing Great About Britain. It was a Molotov cocktail hur...

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  MattyFest: Wu-Tang Clan / Descendents / Jennifer Castle / METZ

  Echo Beach, Toronto ON, September 7

  PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2019

  "This festival's brought to you by the nothingness inside of you."   One hand on a mic and the other resting on his stomach, Matty Matheson...