Articles by Yasmine Shemesh

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  Arkells

  Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC, February 1

  PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2016

  Arkells may have opened their set at the Commodore Ballroom with "Cynical Bastards," but the Hamilton, Ontario natives were anything but wo...

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  Public Image Ltd.

  Vogue Theatre, Vancouver BC, November 22

  PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2015

  There is a thread of human compassion woven throughout the music of Public Image Ltd. Yes, it's bound up with a proper amount of anger and...

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  Wimps

  Suitcase

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2015

  There's always one thing you can count on from Seattle punks Wimps — they know how to make monotony sound good. Wry recounts of relat...

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  Year of Glad

  Old Growth

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2015

  On Old Growth, Montreal post-rockers Year of Glad take listeners on an emotional voyage to a place in the deep depths of the universe. The...

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  Dead Soft / Slow Learners / Pinner / Doppelganger

  The Astoria, Vancouver BC, November 7

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2015

  Vancouver rock band Dead Soft have spent the last two months tirelessly touring the U.S. in support of last year's self-titled debut, sprea...

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  VIDEO

  The Entertainers

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2015

  "There is no god that can save me / Because I was not created by one!" Daniel Fried yells on "New Immortals," one of the tracks from VIDEO'...

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  Cannon Bros.

  Dream City

  PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2015

  By being best friends, it's inevitable that Cole Woods and Alannah Walker would have chemistry as band mates, too. The pair behind Cannon B...

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  alt-J / San Fermin

  Deer Lake Park, Vancouver BC, September 12

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2015

  As they did in 2014, English rockers alt-J kicked off their extensive tour at Vancouver's Deer Lake Park —with a sprawling green lawn and l...