Articles by Ralph Elawani

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  Ultrathin

  Brasserie Beaubien, Montreal, QC September 22

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2012

  Gimme flanger little stranger. Gimme an angry-looking Shaun Anderson in a red "J'aime les Québécoises" T-shirt breaking guitar strings dur...

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  Andre Williams & The Sadies

  Cabaret du Mile End, Montreal, QC, September 22

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2012

  It is definitely going to take more than death itself to kill Andre Williams. Everyone knew that the 75-year-old hard-boiled R&B singer was...

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  Bertrand Burgalat

  Cabaret du Mile End, Montreal, QC, September 21

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2012

  The rock press tends to describe Bertrand Burgalat as a mouthpiece for bohemian bourgeois zeitgeist — think William Klein's The Model...

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  Jef Barbara

  Cabaret du Mile End, Montreal, QC, September 21

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2012

  Why in the unholy name of Behemoth was the sound system spitting out Everclear and the Offspring as androgynous child prodigy Jef Barbara a...

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  TOPS

  Cabaret du Mile End, Montreal, QC, September 21

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2012

  Just like most Quebecers don't know that the widely used expression ''câline de bine'' comes from a distortion of English-speaking co...

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  Dirty Three

  Ukrainian Federation, Montreal, QC, September 20

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2012

  Just who is Warren Ellis? Poet, fool or bum? "Make me sound like Jim Morrison,'' said the bard before taking questions and introducing the...

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  AroarA

  Ukrainian Federation, Montreal, QC, September 20

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2012

  AroarA were beautiful in 2011 when they opened for Syria's most celebrated cultural icon this side of the Atlantic, Omar Souleyman, at Sala...

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  Hot Snakes

  Mission Santa Cruz, Montreal, QC, September 20

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2012

  In a face-meltingly hot room plastered wall to wall with slogans designed to sell you sneakers, it was delightful to hear Hot Snakes open w...