Articles by Helen Spitzer

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  Final Fantasy

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2007

  Dancing nimbly along the tightrope from classical music to Mariah, the man of open heart and wallet followed Holy Fuck's furious encore wit...

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  Hootenanny Revue

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2007

  Carolyn Mark has found her calling and it just might be shepherding a busload of rootsy, rambunctious should be stars (Jenny Whiteley, Luth...

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  Hylozoists

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2007

  Wired from a near-death experience on the 401, the Hylos poured every ounce of intensity into their strangely relentless set. With the dual...

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  Republic of Safety

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2007

  Undeterred by the competing nation-building exercise of the Blow, the newfangled Republic ground their way gradually into the hearts and mi...

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  Spiral Beach

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2007

  Unceremoniously dumped in one of the festival’s shortest sets, Toronto’s most dependably fun band (and former Hillside dishwashers) shot ba...

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  Torngat / Final Fantasy / The Blow

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2007

  A dreamy afternoon workshop that began unassumingly with an instrumental "Better Than Worse” and a gorgeous Torngat track that begged for f...

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  Beans and Holy Fuck

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2007

  Beans has a large part to do with the continuing existence of Holy Fuck, having nabbed them early on to be his trial-by-fire backing band a...

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  Wooden Wand

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2007

  Purposefully out of step with the shiny circus that is CMJ, James Toth sat wearily before the microphone, declared the CD dead and said, "t...