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  Doldrums

  Garrison, Toronto ON June 15

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2012

  Last year, when I saw Airick Woodhead as Doldrums, he played with "just a travelling suitcase full of gear and a number of pedals at his di...

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  Yamantaka//Sonic Titan

  Garrison, Toronto ON June 15

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2012

  Part of the fun of NXNE is seeing bands you know absolutely nothing about. So when a band called Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, who wear red, blac...

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  Bleached

  Silver Dollar Room, Toronto ON June 15

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2012

  On a tidal wave of four-chord guitars and sticky vocal melodies, Bleached dashed through their second of three nights at the Silver Dollar,...

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  2:54

  Lee's Palace, Toronto ON June 15

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2012

  In Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams's character renders a killer paint-by-numbers version of a Winslow Homer-style work, yet manages to ad...

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  DIIV

  Lee's Palace, Toronto ON June 15

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2012

  Like an order of McNuggets, Brooklyn's DIIV was better big (to hell with the six-pack). The Brooklyn foursome began as Zachary Cole Smith's...

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  Friends

  Lee's Palace, Toronto ON June 15

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2012

  Here's an incomplete list of 1980s female pop superstars: Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson and Belinda Carlisle. Throw in a da...

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  METZ

  Wrongbar, Toronto ON June 15

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2012

  Although not the evening's actual headliners, the announcement earlier in the day that the local noise rockers METZ had signed to Sub Pop g...

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  Eight and a Half

  Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto ON June 15

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2012

  Once a side-project for a trio of longtime musicians wanting to break out of their established stylistic musical comfort zones, Eight and a...