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Gaslight Anthem
At the Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg Sept 6 2010.
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Concert review – We Are the City w/Said the Whale
At the Park Theatre, Winnipeg, July 31 2010
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Concert review – Ridley Bent and Chris Dunn
Ridley Bent has been called ‘the Quentin Tarantino of country music’…
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Concert review – Cellolitis/Nikolaus Herdieckerhoff
The cellist with the most buzz…
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Concert review – Forest City Lovers w/ Leif Vollebekk
At the Lo Pub, Winnipeg, July 20 – review + pics!
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Neema
‘… come see/why L Cohen/chose/to/produce/(in association with)/her new CD…’
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Great Lake Swimmers
at the West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, June 29 & 30, 2010. ‘… audiences/enthralled/simply by/The Voice/its delicious/texture…’
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Deerhoof at the Pyramid Cabaret, Winnipeg, June 28 2010
‘… fall to the stage/and worm…’
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Nightwood at the Lo Pub, Winnipeg, June 19 2010
‘I love it when the women rock harder than the men… Tom Petty, what happened to him?’
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Del Barber at the West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, June 18 2010
‘… so many of his songs are standards…’
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An Horse at the Park Theatre, Winnipeg, June 15
‘… there are songs/that lifted/above the goodand/into the beautiful,/like Camp Out,/Know This,/Horizons/Scared…’
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The New Pornographers at the Garrick Theatre, Winnipeg, June 10 2010
‘… a band so tight/stationary and yet/fully in flight…’
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Preview – Nightwood
Montreal torch-grunge trio plays Neptoon Records and Little Mountain Gallery in Vancouver today (Sunday June 13)…
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Review – Montreal band Braids in Winnipeg
Guttersnipe’s Eugene Osudar loves this Montreal trio, in Vancouver tonight…
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Buzzcocks at the Pyramid Cabaret, Winnipeg, May 26 2010
‘… there’s so much vinegar in the room…’
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Public Enemy at the Garrick Theatre, Winnipeg, May 21 2010
- photos by Ailsa Dyson
sometimes beautiful things
happen in the heat
on a long weekend
in My Winnipeg
sometimes
a seriously amazing
group
like,
Public Enemy
runs into Queen
Victoria’s [...]
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Fucked Up at the West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, May 17 2010
‘Fucked Up is The Heaviest Fiercest Nastiest band in Canada…’
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Concert Review – Nobunny at the Royal Albert, Winnipeg, May 12 2009
‘Nobunny is punk hopping insanity!’
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Olof Arnalds at the West End Cultural Centre, Nuna Festival, Winnipeg, May 7 2010
‘… break us into/exquisite pieces…’
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Baby Dee at the West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, April 20
Baby Dee plays Gallery Gachet in Vancouver April 27
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Antoine Gratton at Festival du voyageur, Winnipeg Feb 18 2010
It’s as if Elvis was reborn as a French dude…
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Tanya Tagaq w/ Eighth Blackbird at the Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, Feb 11 2010
Breathe deeply… inhale, exhale… now read…
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Review – Jenn Grant at the Park Theatre, Winnipeg, Feb 9 2010
Jenn Grant plays a $20 guitar, sends our reviewer into a swoon, and covers Laura Veirs’ ‘Don’t Lose Yourself’.
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Review – Monotonix at the Pyramid Cabaret, Winnipeg, Jan 19 2010
Eugene Osudar sings the praises (again) of the Tel Aviv band, with some fab Mike Latschislaw pics.
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Best Concert Photos of 2009 Pt I!!!
From thousands of photos in hundreds of galleries, we’ve picked some of our favourite shots from the last year, including pics of Bison, Kid Cudi, Saul Williams, Mickey Avalon and Eddie Vedder.
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The Year in Live Music
‘… my thing is full sets, feeling the ebb and ecstatic flow of beginnings, middles and ends and dancing and believing in musicians, in the arts. it’s being in the moment…’
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Concert Review – Hot Live Guys at the Royal Albert Arms, Winnipeg, Dec 23 2009
‘The hottest live band this city has ever seen…’
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Concert Review – Die Mannequin at the Park Theatre, Winnipeg, Nov 30 2009
‘… she’s giving them a lesson/in letting go/in being punk…’
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Concert Review – DJ Champion at the Pyramid Cabaret, Winnipeg, Nov 14 2009
‘… this was the best live show/i’ve seen since/Halloween night/No Means No…’
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Concert Review – Melissa McClelland at the West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Nov 10
‘… “don’t you ever fall in love/with a girl who works the clock/if you dare to carry on/she’ll leave you howling/in the light”…’
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Concert Review – Metric at the Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg Oct 28 2009
‘Clearly, she [Emily Haines] and her bandmates… were having fun, and loosening up their tightly controlled tunes enough to allow Haines to interject lines from Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” and the Beastie Boys’ “Fight For Your Right”…’
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Concert Review – Flogging Molly at the Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, Oct 24 2009
‘Bridget sees some characters in full super/hero costume ten, or twelve, rows away and whispers to her husband, singer Dave King and a song later he says, “Is that The Flash?” and yes, there’s The Flash and Superwoman too all there to dance, super heroes love an Irish
jig and reel…’
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Concert Review – The Most Serene Republic at the Pyramid, Winnipeg, Oct 3 2009
Despite having all their equipment stolen on the mean streets of Vancouver, the Most Serene Republic play it hard and fast, loud and true in Winnipeg a few days later.
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Concert Review – Gogol Bordello at the Burton Cummings Theatre, Oct 3 09
‘Ukrainians/know how to dance/and celebrate/like/no other people, we’re/The Dancers./The Celebrants…’
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Concert Review – KeysNKrates w/ Love & Electrik at the O.C., Oct 1 2009
‘… no matter what the mood of the room, they draw people onto the dancefloor as soon as they start playing. Their Jay-Z mashup “C.E.O.” started the set, and suddenly everyone was rocking…’
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Concert Review – Amelia Curran at Times Change(d), Winnipeg, Sept 27 2009
“hello it’s me/the mistress/is there anybody home/cuz the last place i should be/is sitting here alone/all i ask for forgiveness/if you’ve got some/give it here…”
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Concert Review – The Hold Steady at the West End Cultural Centre, Sept 24
’serious is fine carrying the world on your shoulders like Bono, but give me joy…’
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Interview – Monotonix’ Yonatan Gat
‘I haven’t played on a stage in years, but memories of being in bands that play on stage, it’s a stage, you’re elevated from the people, you’re detached from them…’
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Concert Review – Tragically Hip at Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg Sept 7 2009
i’ve never seen a performer sit on his mike stand as if it’s a lawnchair and take it round and round spinning man, now that’s free styling!’
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