Articles by Mike Sauve

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  Bob Dylan

  Another Self-Portrait

  PUBLISHED Aug 28, 2013

  Although it contained more than ten great songs, Self-Portrait was detested as a work of schmaltz — Dylan doing Perry Como. Therefore...

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  The New Mendicants

  The Dakota Tavern, Toronto ON, August 27

  PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2013

  A late-40ish crowd packed the Dakota Tavern to see an impromptu show that was hastily booked only a week earlier by the New Mendicants. Tha...

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  Jerry Leger and the Situation

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, August 14

  PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2013

  Critical darling Jerry Leger drew an impressive mid-week crowd to the Horsheshoe Tavern for the recording of a live album set to be release...

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  Bob Dylan / Wilco / My Morning Jacket

  Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto ON, July 15

  PUBLISHED Jul 16, 2013

  With the sun glaring down on them, My Morning Jacket played a relatively laidback set as fans settled in. Holding back so as not to upstage...

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  Whitehorse / Daniel Romano

  Massey Hall, Toronto, ON, March 2

  PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2013

  Daniel Romano took the stage wearing a suit almost twice as shimmery as his usual trillium-encrusted getup. The crowd skewed decidedly olde...

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  The End of Time

  Peter Mettler

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2012

  At the moment, Peter Mettler is Canada's finest cinematographer, and one of the best in the world. In a national film climate rotten with s...

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  Bob Dylan

  Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON, November 14

  PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2012

  The first song in a contemporary Dylan set is usually a vocal warm-up and often insubstantial. "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" proved no exceptio...

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  What Happened

  Richard Lerner

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2012

  Jack Kerouac, one of America's finest prose stylists, is too often dismissed as an author favoured exclusively by goopy young wanderlusters...