Articles by Scott Tavener

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  Spoon / Deerhunter / The Strange Boys

  Sound Academy, Toronto ON March 29

  PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2010

  While neither particularly strange nor boyish, the Strange Boys are tighter than a drum. The Austin, TX-based quartet kicked off a stacked...

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  Citay

  Dream Get Together

  PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2010

  Citay's third full-length record melds shades of Yo La Tengo, the Polyphonic Spree and the Beach Boys, gathering ostensibly disparate sound...

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  Slow Club

  Yeah So

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2010

  Nearly a year after its UK release, Brit duo Slow Club's (Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson) assured debut finally arrives in North America...

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  The Whigs

  In the Dark

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2010

  A garage rock taster plate, the third studio record from Athens' the Whigs toes the company line, faithfully checking off genre requirement...

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  Wild Beasts

  The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON February 22

  PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2010

  Despite their vague eccentricity, Wild Beasts thrive on familiarity. The hugely hyped four-piece is a study in disparate touchstones, creat...

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  El Perro Del Mar

  Mod Club, Toronto, ON February 21

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2010

  Sweden's El Perro Del Mar (aka Sarah Assbring) has lately ditched her 1960s Parisian café ambitions in favour of a markedly more diverse ap...

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  The Bicycles

  Toronto, ON February 12

  PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2010

  Toronto joy pop outfit, the Bicycles brought their bubblegum-indebted shtick out of retirement for Wavelength 500, overseeing the most spir...

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  Young Mother

  Toronto, ON February 12

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2010

  Babies having babies evidently beget clean-cut experimental bands with affinities for saxophones. Young Mother may look like Vampire Weeken...