TURF

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  Day Two: Violent Femmes, Drive-By Truckers, Shovels & Rope, New Country Rehab

  Fort York, Toronto ON, July 5

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2018

  We arrived a bit late to catch Caitlin Rose, despite heavy rushing and some light tugging on my five-year-old's arm. But we got there in ti...

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  Wild Child

  Fort York, Toronto ON, September 18

  PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2016

  One of the most celebrated acts working in Austin, Texas — a town rich in celebrated acts — Wild Child arrived at TURF to fairly outsized e...

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  The Hold Steady

  Fort York, Toronto ON, September 18

  PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2016

  Fully ten years after their breakthrough LP Boys and Girls in America, Brooklyn's the Hold Steady have taken to the road to remind people j...

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  The New Pornographers

  Fort York, Toronto ON, September 18

  PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2016

  Carl Newman and company emerged into the blistering afternoon sunshine and proceeded to deliver a steady, if perfunctory, set. Make no mist...

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  Ween

  Fort York, Toronto ON, September 17

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2016

  "We have a big brown set for ya," announced Dean Ween, perhaps rock music's most unlikely guitar hero. "Big and brown."   What the hell is...

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  The Felice Brothers

  Fort York, Toronto ON, September 17

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2016

  Although their first couple of songs were marred by oppressively poor sound — all highs and lows, no warmth, a wall of undifferentiated ins...

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  The Sheepdogs

  Fort York, Toronto ON, September 17

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2016

  I don't much like the Doobie Brothers. And my problem with the Sheepdogs is that they really, really like the Doobie Brothers — to the poin...

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  Margo Price

  Fort York, Toronto ON, September 16

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2016

  One of the buzziest artists on the Americana scene, Margo Price debuted last year with her excellent Midwest Farmer's Daughter to great acc...