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Alex Hudson

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  Review – Atlas Sound at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, Oct 30 2009

  Everyone loves a trainwreck, except maybe the audience subjected to it. Alex Hudson bears witness to Bradford Cox vs. the Biltmore last night. Jon Healy photos.

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  Review – The Dodos at the Biltmore, Oct 26 2009

  Though Time to Die is pegged as their ‘mature’ album, San Francisco trio the Dodos prove they can rock as hard as ever. And New Zealand opener the Ruby Suns is a trio to watch.

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  Review – Two Hours Traffic and Spiral Beach at the Biltmore, Oct 1 09

  The Charlottetown power-poppers bring the sunshine to a rainy city. Spiral Beach factors in the weird quotient.

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  Review – Pink Mountaintops at the Rickshaw Theatre Sept 27 09

  Murky sound threatens to derail the Vancouver band’s hometown show, writes Alex Hudson. Jessica Bardosh photos.

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  Review – The Dead Weather at the Commodore Ballroom, August. 21

  In the Dead Weather, Jack White cedes the spotlight to the Kills’ Alison Mosshart.

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  Review – The Japandroids at the Rickshaw Theatre, Aug. 7

  Bigger than Zeus, Japandroids play a triumphant hometown show before leaving on a massive world tour. No longer just another noisy rock band, writes Alex Hudson.

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  Review – The Decemberists at the Vogue Theatre, July 22

  Guest vocalists Shara Worden and Becky Stark do battle in the Portland band’s epic fantasia The Hazards of Love. And it’s a rock concert, too.

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  Review – Animal Collective at the Commodore, Vancouver May 24 09

  While hundreds if not dozens of Vancouverites flocked south to the Sasquatch music festival, city shut-ins at least got to experience Animal Collective.

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  List – The 10 Best F-Bombs in Music

  F-bomb Hall of Fame: Top drops of the f-word in pop, from the Clovers to Joe Strummer, and the Offspring to Britney Spears. Alex Hudson reports.