Articles by Scott Tavener

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  Dum Dum Girls

  El Mocambo, Toronto ON February 26

  PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2011

  Take away the seams and Victor Frankenstein's monster becomes exponentially more attractive. But when it comes to pastiche, the ill-fated s...

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  Akron/Family

  The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON February 20

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2011

  On Gravediggaz' classic 1994 cut, "Diary of a Madman," an imprisoned and starved RZA raves, "About to die from thirst that's when a ministe...

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  St. Jerome's Laneway Festival ft. Yeasayer, Deerhunter, Beach House, Foals

  Aotea Square, Auckland NZ January 31

  PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2011

  Urban -- as in landscape, not genre -- music festivals pose an array of problems, from Draconian liquor laws and debilitating noise regulat...

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  Tennis

  Cape Dory

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2011

  About as cutesy as non-twee pop tandems get, Denver, CO duo Tennis feature husband and wife Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore spinning yarns a...

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  The Dilemma

  Ron Howard

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2011

  Ron Howard can make a comedy. Remember Night Shift? It had its moments. When the director decided to follow his Da Vinci Code/Frost/Nixon s...

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  Rural Alberta Advantage

  Lee's Palace, Toronto ON December 16

  PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2010

  Ghosts haunt any trip home. The Rural Alberta Advantage hadn't played their adopted hometown in over a year, so their Lee's Palace show had...

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  The Tempest

  Julie Taymor

  PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2010

  Julie Taymor is the cinematic equivalent of ex-Toronto Raptor Vince Carter: a prodigious talent who had a blistering start, struggled to ha...

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  Tricky

  The Mod Club, Toronto ON December 12

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2010

  While the early 1990s downtempo phenomenon known as trip-hop went into hibernation about a decade ago, Massive Attack's recent spat of tour...