Concert Reviews

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  Peter Brötzmann, Heather Leigh and Keiji Haino

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 17

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2019

  The musical partnership between Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh is one of those anomalies akin to the internet memes of bonds between arm...

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  Bang on a Can All-Stars

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 16

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2019

  Bang on a Can, from NYC, have been around in some form or other for almost as long as the 35 years of the Festival International de Musique...

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  Peggy Lee

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 16

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2019

  FIMAV's 35th edition kicked off with a veteran of the festival. Vancouver's Peggy Lee first performed here in 1997, with her eight-month-ol...

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  Political Ritual

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 16

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2019

  Midnight shows at FIMAV are generally given over to the more fringe elements and emerging artists in the "musique actuelle" realm. Montreal...

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  Neil Young / Elvis Costello

  Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver BC, May 14

  PUBLISHED May 15, 2019

  Neil Young played his first solo Vancouver show at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in 1971. On Tuesday night, he returned by himself for the fi...

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  Knuckle Puck / Citizen / HUNNY / Oso Oso

  Opera House, Toronto ON, May 12

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2019

  Knuckle Puck have been a band for a decade and are one of the most talented bands to come out of the modern pop punk scene in a while. Thei...

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  Caroline Rose

  L'escogriffe, Montreal QC, May 5

  PUBLISHED May 6, 2019

  Not much can pull people inside when the evening air is still light as denim. But as Sunday's sun set, a second summer flared in the cataco...

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  TOBi

  Velvet Underground, Toronto ON, May 3

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2019

  In a sweaty, shoulder-to-shoulder, sold-out Velvet Underground on Friday night, a new era was being ushered in to Toronto's music community...