Articles by Ashley Hampson

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  Girl Talk

  Main Stage, Royal Athletic Park, Victoria BC, September 14

  PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2014

  Girl Talk closed the four-day Rifflandia festival in style by shooting reams of toilet paper over the dense crowd at the start of his set....

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  Death Cab for Cutie

  Main Stage, Royal Athletic Park, Victoria BC, September 13

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2014

  Nostalgia prevailed during Death Cab For Cutie's closing act Saturday night at Royal Athletic Park. The crowd proved disappointing in their...

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  Poirier

  Market Square, Royal Athletic Park, Victoria BC, September 13

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2014

  A seamless transition from DJ Applecat to Poirier kicked the Montreal native's set off at Market Square. While a staple in the Canadian ele...

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  Rusko

  Rifftop Tent, Royal Athletic Park, Victoria BC, September 13

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2014

  For the last performance of the night in the Rifftop Tent, Rusko brought the house — or the tent — crashing down. The Leeds-bor...

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  EMPlicit

  Wolf/Sheep Arthouse, Victoria BC, September 12

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2014

  On Friday evening, tucked off the main stretch of Government Street at the start of Trounce Alley, arthouse Wolf/Sheep showcased resident D...

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  Sabota

  Market Square, Royal Athletic Park, Victoria BC, September 12

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2014

  A sparse crowd greeted Sabota at Market Square, but the energy from both band and audience was palpable — perhaps it was the burst of...

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  Photay

  Photay

  PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2014

  If there's one word to describe the debut full-length from Photay, "intricate" sums it up quite nicely. Hailing from New York state, the 21...

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  FaltyDL

  In the Wild

  PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2014

  For his fourth release, New York-based producer FaltyDL returns with In the Wild, a broad, patchy, semi-traversable landscape of lithe melo...