Articles by Thierry Côté

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  Loose Pistons

  Silver Dollar Room, Toronto ON, June 22

  PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2014

  Montréal garage-rockers Loose Pistons certainly have excellent record collections (echoes of the Stones, Groovies and Box Tops as well as P...

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  Courtney Barnett

  Silver Dollar Room, Toronto ON, June 22

  PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2014

  By the time Courtney Barnett took the stage on Sunday night to end her three-night NXNE residency at the Silver Dollar Room, the buzz surro...

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  Tess Parks

  The Silver Dollar Room, Toronto ON, June 22

  PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2014

  Toronto native Tess Parks has been accruing a lot of good reviews since the late-2013 release of her debut LP, the bewitching, Alan McGee-a...

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  Alvvays

  Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto ON, June 21

  PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2014

  While a sizeable share of the crowd at Yonge-Dundas Square may have been unfamiliar with East Coast transplants Alvvays (their self-titled...

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  Mac DeMarco

  Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto ON, June 21

  PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2014

  Maybe we were all very wrong about Lena Dunham or Lorde, and a flat-brimmed-hat-wearing singer with a $30 guitar will turn out to be the ac...

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  Spoon

  Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto ON, June 21

  PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2014

  After a surprise early-morning set at the Horseshoe Tavern the previous night, Spoon were back at it again less than 24 hours later for a s...

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  Eagulls

  Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto ON, June 20

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2014

  The task of kicking off NXNE's Friday night of music at Yonge-Dundas Square can be a thankless one on the best of days, with artists often...

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  Omar Souleyman

  Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto ON, June 20

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2014

  The growing international acclaim for a middle-aged Syrian singer 20 years into his recording career and whose popularity at home rests on...