Toronto

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  Mary Timony Plays Helium

  The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, June 12

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2017

  Over the last ten years, Mary Timony has reinvented herself as one of indie music's preeminent rockers. Between her likely one-off supergro...

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  Shabaka and the Ancestors

  Concert Hall, Toronto ON, June 28

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2017

  Shabaka and the Ancestors aimed for transcendent — and briefly got there last night (June 28) at their first Canadian appearance at the Tor...

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  Mavis Staples

  Koerner Hall, Toronto ON, June 27

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2017

  The warm, positive energy generated and diffused by Mavis Staples last night (June 27) caused perma-grins on many a face in the crowd.   Ca...

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  Joss Stone

  Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, June 26

  PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2017

  This year's edition of the Toronto Jazz Festival eagerly billed Joss Stone thusly: "Before Adele, before Jessie J, before Amy, before Flore...

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  ​Thursday / Fucked Up / mewithoutYou

  Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, June 24

  PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2017

  It's very rare to see three of the biggest bands in any given musical movement playing the same show outside of a festival setting, but tha...

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  U2

  Rogers Centre, Toronto ON, June 23

  PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2017

  When U2's masterpiece The Joshua Tree was released, the world was a very different place. They were the biggest and most important band in...

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  Ian Karmel

  Comedy Bar, Toronto ON, June 23

  PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2017

  Ian Karmel is big in every sense of the word; he's physically large and tall and he's one of the founding main writers of the hugely succes...

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  Hall & Oates / Tears for Fears

  Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON, June 19

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2017

  Two pairs of '80s pop titans from the annals of the FM dial — blue-eyed soul songwriters Daryl Hall and John Oates (pictured above), alongs...