Dave Jaffer
Contributor
Dave has served as a music journalist and critic for Hour Magazine, the Ottawa XPress, BangBang, FFWD, Spinner, Noisecreep, and Citeeze Montreal. He is a Prism Prize jury member, a Polaris Music Prize jury member (since 2007), and during his extensive sojourn in Montreal, sat on juries for the GAMIQ, the MIMI, and the St-Ambroise Music Prize.
Dave lives and works in Toronto, ON.
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One of the more interesting features of Montreal's Osheaga Festival is its Green Stage which, befitting its name, was built to be eco-friendly and is wind- and solar-powered. While it's a forward-thinking idea, many festivalgoers couldn't help but wonder if issues with that stage were the reason Beach House's set, which ...
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There's no right way to deal with technical issues that delay the beginning of a set, but Jamie Lidell's band did a pretty good job yesterday at Montreal's Osheaga Festival. Before Lidell was to make his grand entrance -- and it seemed that he was indeed waiting in the wings the entire time -- the band members were all onstage ...
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When you're as unlucky as Regina, Saskatchewan's Library Voices have been, the tendency is probably to be angry and bitter. So the fact that the eight-piece pop collective wore smiles that would put beauty queens to shame, and exuded enough warmth to heat a single family dwelling when they opened up the CBC Radio 3 / Sirius NXNE showcase at ...
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Vancouver's Hannah Georgas knew that she was long listed for the 2010 Polaris Prize, but thankfully, still played like she's got something to prove.
At last night's CBC Radio 3 / Sirius showcase, Georgas, introduced by Radio 3 personality Grant Lawrence as "Gorgeous Hannah Georgas," played material from her nominated record 'This Is Good,' a ...
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At every sprawling festival like NXNE, you stumble upon that one band. You know the one. The one you'd never heard of before, who you see almost by accident and then rave about endlessly to your friends like you discovered fire. For a lot of people at NXNE, that band is Gramercy Riffs.
Any band that derives its name from cult 1979 film 'The ...
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If bands were judged on their versatility alone, Nive Nielsen backers the Deer Children would be welterweight champions of the world. Not to take anything away from Greenlandic singer/songwriter Nielsen, a pleasant good-spirited sort with peculiar and undeniable talents, but last night at the Silver Dollar it was pretty hard to miss the trees for ...
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Who knew broccoli florets would go surprisingly well on top of cheesy nachos? The culinary wizards in Hollerado, that's who.
The discovery was made yesterday afternoon at Hollerado's NXNE Nacho Party at rooftop A.B., which, when it isn't serving as an impromptu concert venue and nacho-making operation, doubles as Audio Blood head honcho Sari ...
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