Articles by Scott Tavener

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  Badly Drawn Boy

  The Great Hall, Toronto ON December 8

  PUBLISHED Dec 10, 2010

  Over the past 121 years, the Great Hall has housed a YMCA, a Polish newspaper, and an art school, amongst other things. Throughout wars, re...

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  Brandon Flowers

  Sound Academy, Toronto ON December 4

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2010

  Las Vegas chart toppers the Killers rose to arena status thanks to their talent for mimicry. Their debut mined new wave, post-punk and othe...

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  Burlesque

  Steve Antin

  PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2010

  In the last decade, burlesque enjoyed a mainstream resurgence — thank Dita Von Teese — making a cinematic interpretation pretty...

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  Mumford & Sons

  Sound Academy, Toronto ON November 13

  PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2010

  Emerging from a UK scene that spawned fellow Americana devotees, Noah and the Whale, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn and others, Mumford & Sons...

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  Blood Red Shoes

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON October 27

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2010

  Blood Red Shoes remember the 1990s clearly. Playing fast and loud, the Brighton, UK-bred duo mined an all-star list of bygone influences &#...

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  Sufjan Stevens

  Massey Hall, Toronto ON October 13

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2010

  Aside from three Illinois-era songs at its denouement, Sufjan Stevens's Massey Hall show stuck entirely to the singer-songwriter's latest e...

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  The Thermals

  Lee's Palace, Toronto ON October 9

  PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2010

  What Thermals frontman Hutch Harris lacks in vocal range, he makes up for in earnestness. Charging through a brisk Lee's set, he and his po...

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  Klaxons

  The Mod Club, Toronto ON September 27

  PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2010

  Remember 2007? Way back then, London-based trio Klaxons unleashed a Mercury Prize-winning debut record that ushered in a new quasi-genre (y...