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Danko Jones 'Too Much Trouble' Book Excerpt: Fucked Up, Broken Social Scene, Nashville Pussy, Sloan, More

ECW Press Canada's underground indie heroes of the past decade -- Arcade Fire, Feist, Broken Social Scene, etc -- have all gone both international and mainstream in recent years. Hard-rocker Danko Jones' career path has hovered in and around those people (he was even BSSer Brendan Canning's roommate at one point), but ultimately he's ...

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Feist Goes Off the Road But Not the Radar: 'I Don't Feel the Need to Disappear Again'

Frank Yang, Chromewaves Leslie Feist is eating a bean salad. That may not seem like especially earth-shattering news but, just 48 hours prior, the thought of consuming solid edibles would've made her retch. Literally: A tour stop in Istanbul last week left her with an unwanted souvenir -- food poisoning. "I passed out in the Munich ...

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FME 2012: Feist, Godspeed You Black Emperor Anchor Quirky Northern Quebec Fest

Frank Yang, Chromewaves ROUYN-NORANDA, QUEBEC - From California's Coachella to Chicago's Lollapalooza to Montreal's Osheaga, there's a certain formula for a successful North American summer music festival: lure every available A-list artist to a popular travel destination, pack the schedule with round-the-clock performances across multiple ...

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The Two Koreas: What Happens When a Band of Music Critics Play NXNE

Chromewaves Stuart Berman is the singer of Toronto post-punk garage-rock band the Two Koreas, who performed twice at this year's NXNE festival. He's also the online editor of Toronto city magazine The Grid, overseeing and contributing to their daily NXNE coverage. Spinner asked him to write about what it's like to experience NXNE from both ...

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SXSW: The Canadians Who Took Over Texas

Once upon a time, the term "Canadian music" was, for many Americans, a joke, delivered by Celine Dion, punchlined by Bryan Adams, and wrapped in a Loverboy headband. But like our socialized healthcare system, legal gay marriages, generous artist grants and 6-per-cent-alcohol beer, Canada's musical output has become a coveted commodity over the past ...

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Serena-Maneesh Says No Rock for Oil

When Spinner catches up with Emil Nikolaisen at an Oslo bar on the closing night of the by:Larm festival, the Serena-Maneesh frontman immediately apologizes for being a little tense and agitated. He's just arrived from a nearby awards ceremony where his noise-pop outfit was one of 10 Norwegian acts in the running for a substantial 800,000 kroner ...

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Best of by:Larm Fest's Rest: Five Scandinavian Acts You Need to Hear Now

While some may question the logic of hosting a multi-venue, club-crawl music festival in the middle of a Norwegian deep freeze, the organizers behind Oslo's by:Larm festival -- which wrapped up three days of boozin' and schmoozin' on Saturday night -- understand there's no better way to beat the mid-February chill than to cram into intimate venues ...

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