Articles by Jazz Monroe

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  Iceage

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, June 15

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2013

  Messing about is not a top priority for Danish punks Iceage. During soundcheck, singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt forewarned photographers to...

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  Fucked Up

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, June 15

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2013

  If it seems natural to the rest of us, Fucked Up's status as the Horseshoe's Saturday night draw is at least significant for Pink Eyes, aka...

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  Buke & Gase

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, June 14

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2013

  With the patronage of such indie institutions as the National and Lou Reed, it's baffling that Buke & Gase remain one of our era's more und...

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  Why?

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, June 14

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2013

  Headlining a full-capacity Horseshoe Tavern, Yoni Wolf and Why? proved as intriguing and frustrating live as on record. Possessed of a vast...

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  Moon King

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, June 13

  PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2013

  The most compelling rock music generally concerns the loud'n'fast pursuit of some childhood notion of perfection. It's something Moon King...

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  Braids

  Comfort Zone, Toronto ON, June 13

  PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2013

  Shorn of keyboardist Katie Lee, Braids 2.0 are at first indistinguishable from singer Raph Standell-Preston's esteemed Blue Hawaii project....

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  Sean Nicholas Savage

  Comfort Zone, Toronto ON, June 13

  PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2013

  Montreal's most mysterious and cultish singer-songwriter, Sean Nicholas Savage trades in mortal angst. Nothing if not emotionally naked, he...

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  Blue Hawaii

  Comfort Zone, Toronto ON, June 13

  PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2013

  Raph Standell-Preston began her second set of the night (check our Braids review here) by requesting that the audience don their dancing sh...