Jonathan Dekel
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Jonathan Dekel is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the Amsterdam-based Incendiary Magazine. Since returning to his hometown of Toronto he has waxed and waned poetic for several national and international media outlets while sharing several pints with people you know. He is currently a highly visible and mostly loathed member of the Toronto rock dive scene.
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Though their musical styles may differ, British indie-pop singer Ellie Goulding says she hopes critics have learned an important lesson from the untimely death of Amy Winehouse.
Best known internationally as the Royal Wedding singer, Goulding is poised to become the next British musical star ...
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In light of reports claiming the Kings of Leon are on the verge of break up due to lead singer Caleb Followill's drinking problems, British synth-rockers White Lies are claiming the whole issue is likely media speculation.
"We've always heard these stories about [the Kings of Leon] being intense guys but ...
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Moments before the last song, on the last day of Osheaga (July 31), Flaming Lips lead singer Wayne Coyne took several deep breaths and stopped the show. Having just finished a complete run through of their 1999 psychedelic comeback album, 'The Soft Bulletin,' possibly for "the last time ever," the shaggy Coyne -- ...
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Comparing the crowd between the first and second days of Osheaga proves a depressing study into the cultural currency of hip-hop versus rock. While Eminem brought a record-shattering 38,000 people to their knees with a swaggering performance on Friday night (July 30), Saturday headliner Elvis Costello and the ...
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Though the ticket read Osheaga, it could just as easily have been called the Eminem Show as a record 38,000 people packed Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau July 29 to watch Marshall Bruce Mathers III play only his third show of 2011, a 90-minute greatest hits set punctuated by a tribute to the late, great Nate Dogg.
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Tasha Komery, Calgary Folk Fest Flickr
This year, perhaps more than any other in its three decade history, the organizers of the Calgary Folk Festival were faced with a conundrum. As acts such as Mumford and Sons, Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver enjoy an unexpected rein at the top of the charts -- a clue that indie-folk's popular revival keeps ...
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Gary Wolstenholme, Redferns
As the subject of the documentary 'Anvil! The Story of Anvil!,' the members of Anvil were given a new lease on life nearly three decades after the Canadians first gained notoriety as influential, if under-appreciated, stars of the hair metal scene. Two years and countless accolades later, as guitarist and vocalist ...
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