Articles by Scott Tavener

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  Japandroids

  Toronto ON, March 11 to 14

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2009

  Vancouver guitar/drum two-piece, Japandroids, exploded onto the Gladstone's stage with an anti-Thin Lizzy scorcher that, lyrically, had bo...

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  Hooded Fang

  Toronto ON, March 11 to 14

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2009

  Consortium pop crew, Hooded Fang, finally have a permanent drummer. The hiring let the band cut down on onstage mileage and shed the ever-...

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  Herman Dune

  Toronto ON, March 11 to 14

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2009

  Dressed like an ancient bluesman (tie, hat and big beard will do that), Herman Düne singer David-Ivar Herman Düne began by aping...

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  Give Us the Daggers

  Toronto ON, March 11 to 14

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2009

  Going on after 3:00 a.m. on the last night of CMW, embryonic four-piece Give Us the Daggers facilitated the most raucous Silver Dollar show...

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  The Disraelis

  Toronto ON, March 11 to 14

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2009

  When nu-gaze displaced post-punk revival as the faux-genre du jour (you didn't know?), someone thankfully forgot to tell the Disraelis. Ta...

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  Rock Plaza Central

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON March 21

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

  In 2006, Rock Plaza Central dropped a frequently fetishized, critically slobbered upon masterpiece, Are We Not Horses. In preparation for i...

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  Low Frequency in Stereo

  Futuro

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

  Name checking a '60s faux-futuristic pre-fab house, this LP's moniker slyly characterizes its sound. Despite what all the space references...

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  A.C. Newman

  Lee's Palace, Toronto ON March 11

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2009

  The danger of a supergroup day job is that all extracurricular endeavours are merely groups. Still, for his latest jaunt, New Pornographers...