Articles by Jibril Yassin

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  Colleen Green

  Broken City, Calgary AB, June 24

  PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2015

  Colleen Green plays catchy three-chord guitar pop, singing songs about vices, growing up, boys and millennial malaise backed by a drum mach...

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  Son Lux

  Central United Church, Calgary AB, June 24

  PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2015

  Son Lux had a lot going for them from the start at Sled Island; their recent album, Bones, had just come out and from the first note, they...

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  Hundred Waters

  Central United Church, Calgary AB, June 24

  PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2015

  Hundred Waters weren't a loud band by any means, but the Florida art-rock group's mix of moody and elegant made great use of volume. With t...

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  Death Grips

  Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC, June 20

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2015

  When the supposedly broken-up rap group Death Grips — the trio of Zach Hill, Andy Morin and Stefan "MC Ride" Burnett — stepped onto the sta...

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  Purity Ring / Braids / Born Gold

  Churchill Square, Edmonton AB, June 14

  PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2015

  For fans, Purity Ring's homecoming show, the largest they've played to date, was a dream lineup — and for the longest time, it looked...

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  Giorgio Moroder

  Déjà Vu

  PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2015

  Giorgio Moroder has had an amazing re-emergence. The man who helped establish disco music with some of the biggest hits of the late '70s an...

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  Roman à Clef

  Abandonware

  PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2015

  Roman à Clef is a band featuring both Ryan Newmyer and Jen Goma from A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Kurt Feldman, the frontman of Ice Choir, wh...

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  METZ

  II

  PUBLISHED May 6, 2015

  Hell hath no fury like the band named METZ. Over the course of their debut album, the Toronto noise punks unveiled the blueprint of their s...