Articles by Kevin Jones

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  Lianne La Havas / Jamie N Commons

  Opera House, Toronto ON, April 4

  PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2013

  Following the steady, methodical rise of London-based singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas from relative obscurity less than two years ago to...

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  Lil Wayne

  I Am Not A Human Being II

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2013

  Tha Carter III and the year Weezy was king are starting to feel like distant memories given the middling output the Young Money chief's bee...

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  Chloe Charles

  El Mocambo, Toronto, ON, March 23

  PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2013

  There was a palpable buzz in the air as singer-songwriter Chloe Charles and her band, among them a violinist and cellist, made the final ad...

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  Shout Out Out Out Out

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, March 23

  PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2013

  The two drum kits, two bass guitars and collection of eight synths strewn across the Horseshoes Tavern stage served as fair warning to the...

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  BadBadNotGood

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, March 23

  PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2013

  Despite a few years of collecting famous followers and co-conspirators like Frank Ocean, Tyler, the Creator, Pharoahe Monch, and Wu-Tang pr...

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  Akua

  Silver Dollar, Toronto, ON March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

  Slow simmering rhythms spread throughout a dimly lit room as sultry soulstress Akua lit off a smoldering set of late-night moods in front o...

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  Irreverend James and the Critical Mass Choir

  Czehoski, Toronto, ON, March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

  While surely most of us have been exposed — if not in person, in film, television or on record — to the exuberant expression th...

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  We Were Lovers

  Gladstone, Toronto, ON, March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2013

  While the down-home rock tunes running in between sets were a lot closer to what many still picture when we think of the prairie provinces...