Sled Island

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  Pissed Jeans

  Dickens Pub, Calgary AB, June 27

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2015

  There was no smoke machine onstage at Dickens Pub, but as the stage lights moved around, one could see a swarming mist of pungent, floating...

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  Sightlines

  The Palomino, Calgary AB, June 27

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2015

  Eric Axen writes perfect summer anthems. An obsession with Jawbreaker and Vancouver bands like Paper Lanterns inspired him to move on from...

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  Television

  Olympic Plaza, Calgary AB, June 27

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2015

  New York band Television helped usher in the punk era with the seminal album Marquee Moon, and most of the people watching their Sled Islan...

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  Body/Head

  The #1 Legion (Downstairs), Calgary AB, June 27

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2015

  People expecting anything closely resembling Sonic Youth were going to be disappointed with Body/Head's set. The duo of Bill Nace and Kim G...

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  Drive Like Jehu

  Olympic Plaza, Calgary AB, June 27

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2015

  When John Reis' band Rocket from the Crypt reunited to play shows including last year's Sled Island, hopes were high a reunion set from his...

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  The WPP

  The Palomino, Calgary AB, June 26

  PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2015

  There are nostalgia acts, and then there's the WPP. For many in western Canada, they were a pivotal band that felt like a best kept secret,...

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  The Chain

  The #1 Legion (Upstairs), Calgary AB, June 26

  PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2015

  There's a small circle of people booking shows, starting bands and releasing records in Calgary's tiny but passionate hardcore scene, and t...

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  Turnstile

  The #1 Legion (Upstairs), Calgary AB, June 26

  PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2015

  God bless hardcore kids: At once inclusive and alienating, open-minded and specific in their tastes, lovers of both tradition and whatever'...