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SXSW in Austin, Texas, is arguably the most important music festival in the world, annually bringing thousands of people into the so-called Live Music Capital of the World. This year, Hour's Dave Jaffer (pictured) is attending the festival, and keeping...
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Haligonian frequent flyers In-Flight Safety banked several thousand more air miles in just the last couple of weeks after bombing their way out to the Olympics in Vancouver for shows at the LiveCity downtown site as well as Atlantic Canada House on Granville...
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Hear ye, hear ye, Vancouver's Hot Hot Heat has signed with Los Angeles-based Dangerbird Records as well as Toronto-based Dine Alone Records . Ostensibly, both labels will release the band's forthcoming full-length release, Future Breeds . Said...
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It's pretty funny is that NXNE is going to have a presence at SXSW . It's not ha-ha funny. It's just funny. Why? We've been reading in several places that people unaware of NXNE and what it's about think that it's a big joke and...
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We normally get between 5 and 12 press releases delivered to us per day. On a heavy day this can push 20, 25. One a light day, 2 or 3. In March, when Canadian Music Week (and its festival, CMF) in Toronto and SXSW in Austin are more or less back to back...
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Camus meets the calamity of war in the Tableau d'Hôte Theatre's production A Line in the Sand is right. Director Mike Payette told me during an interview that the play, about the death of a Palestinian boy, had stirred controversy at the Segal...
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While Anglophone-oriented arts and culture is technically considered a minority in Quebec, it maintains a high profile in Montreal partly due to the community built around it. Since 1998, the Montreal English Critics Circle Awards (MECCA) – organized...
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Today Canadian Music Week (CMW), in combination with Galaxie (who run those digital music specialty channels for pay-TV subscribers that are quite handy when you're too lazy to get up and change the CD or plug in your iPod), announced the shortlist...
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Documentary filmmaker and producer Marcel Simard is no longer with us, and it's a very sad story. But Simard's suicide death has also given the doc filmmaking community reason to rage against the worsening conditions facing the sector. In an op...
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Singer/songwriter Chris Velan , a socially-concerned fellow, is gearing up for what might be his most important tour yet. As he is a partner, now, with 1% for the Planet , his cause, well, is earth. And since we all live on the earth, he's basically...
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If you've never been to Chester, NS, you're missing out. Some of the nicest people you'll ever meet and some of the nicest sunsets you'll ever see. Okay, that's probably true and all, but we're totally making it up. We've never...
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There's always been a place at the table for muscular, female-fronted rock; a respect for the girl who can run with the boys. And then some. From Blondie to Garbage to No Doubt to Canada's own Joydrop, there is a strong rock legacy in this regard...
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While 2010 is still a young year and there's no award for Album-of-the-Year-So-Far. That said, one of the hottest Canuck albums going these days, as we're entering the second quarter of 2010, is Yukon Blonde 's self-titled debut. Given a bunch...
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Ongoing force to be reckoned with Billy Talent got an unexpected boost to their already good fortunes today with the announcement that the Toronto four-piece is up for (one each!) four Juno Awards this year: Group of the Year, Album of the Year (for the...
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( By Hour writer Richard Burnett ) "You're sitting in my office!" OSM Maestro Kent Nagano told over 50 journalists and cameramen assembled on the stage at Place des Arts' Salle Wilfred Pelletier after he had conducted his orchestra through...
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