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  Rube & Rake

  The Ship, St. John's NL, April 25

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2014

  Watching young people making old-timey/timeless folk music can be a delicate proposition. Their reverence for tradition might be contrived...

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  Nick Ferrio & His Feelings

  The Ship, St. John's NL, April 25

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2014

  Backed by a pick-up band and hawking his own brand of beard oil, Nick Ferrio played a relatively low-key acoustic set. Weather wreaked havo...

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  The Soupcans

  Distortion, St. John's NL, April 25

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2014

  An amp blew up. The Soupcans' set began with burning in the air before the thing got repaired and then the band destroyed other things like...

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  Peter Lannon

  The Rocket Room, St. John's NL, April 24

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2014

  After a nerve-ridden, sombre folk song that found Peter Lannon laughing off some bum chords, he and his four-piece band kicked into a pop-r...

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  Jon Hynes

  The Rocket Room, St. John's NL, April 24

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2014

  Multi-instrumentalist Jon Hynes has paid dues playing drums with the Hidden Cameras and Gentleman Reg, but he clearly has a deep well of hi...

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  Snowblink

  The Rocket Room, St. John's NL, April 24

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2014

  "Looking at the hills, I can't believe there's winter here," Daniela Gesundheit told the crowd in St. John's. "It seems dangerous." Since b...

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  Matthew J Thomson

  The Ship, St. John's NL, April 24

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2014

  Thomson cut a shy figure at the Ship, surrounded by five other players who gave his indie folk a foundation. It's unusual for a live band t...

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  Monomyth

  The Ship, St. John's NL, April 24

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2014

  Well, god damn. Halifax four-piece Monomyth played a kick-ass set replete with their shoegaze-y Beach Boys vocal harmonies and rubbery guit...