Articles by Kendall Shields

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  400 Blows

  Angel's Trumpets and Devil's Trombones

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  Martially-attired Los Angeles post-hardcore three-piece 400 Blows are at least as punk as the 1959 François Truffaut "nouvelle vague” tale...

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  Opiate for the Masses

  The Spore

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  "Religious suffering,” Karl Marx wrote in an 1843 commentary, "is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest...

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  Motörhead / Corrosion of Conformity

  The Docks, Toronto ON - April 25, 2005

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

  "We are Motörhead," Lemmy Kilmister said through a puff of cigarette smoke as his band swaggered onto the Docks' stage to the chants and ch...

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  Danzig

  The Guvernment, Toronto ON - February 24, 2005

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

  Glenn Danzig, who turns 50 this year, hasn't lost a step, despite recent streaming-video evidence to the contrary. When Danzig came out on...