Articles by Shain Shapiro

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  Ride Theory

  In This City

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  Hamilton, ON’s the Ride Theory have an impressive collage of retro rock on their hands with In This City, effectively accentuated with enou...

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  Elliott Brood

  Ambassador

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  There is a unique mysteriousness surrounding murder ballads that no other style can lay claim to. Listening to murder ballads is like waiti...

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  Grand Theft Bus / Elliott Brood

  The Casbah, Hamilton ON - October 7, 2005

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

  It was the night of stylistic convergence as Elliott Brood, the alt-country meets indie band for jam fans, and Grand Theft Bus, the jam ban...

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  KTU

  8 Armed Monkey

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

  This is one aptly titled, multifaceted output from Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto of King Crimson and Finnish heavyweights Samuli Kosminen an...

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  Slow Nerve Action

  Lovenasium

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

  Do you remember that raunchy and hilariously awful ’70s porn that somehow found its way from under your parents’ bed and into the VCR? Well...

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  Damage

  Velocity

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

  Unfortunately, Damage are 20 to 30 years too late. They are succinct, boisterous and know how to write a decent enough alternative rock tun...

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  The Novaks

  The Novaks

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

  When I was visiting the Calgary Stampede a few weeks back I found myself in a Beer Garden, listening to a cover band whose only care was to...

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  Shooglenifty

  Radical Mestizo

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

  Traditionalists often argue that altering time-honoured music is an insult to the genre itself, because of the timeless quality of well-est...