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Karaoke night still going strong

On Thursday nights at Felicita’s, you can either find your own voice or enjoy a dose of schadenfreude when karaoke takes over the UVSS pub after 9 p.m. While enjoying…

An order of soul with funk on the side: Garden City Grooves: a review

Last weekend marked the second annual Garden City Grooves music festival, celebrating three nights of soul, funk, and groove music. The two masterminds behind the festival are Nathan Ambrose and…

A band like no other

alt-J has always been discordant. Their 2012 debut, An Awesome Wave, epitomized modern music in its diverse and eclectic landscape, drawing on a number of different sources and ideas. Their…

Bend Sinister goes all-out

  Bend Sinister is crazy. Crazy skilled, crazy ambitious. The Vancouver-based group has created a rock opera at a time when nobody does that anymore. Their latest effort, Animals, is…

Beach House entrances Sugar nightclub

  Beach House was probably my first taste of “indie” music back in the mid-00’s. I can remember stealing their self-titled debut off of my sister’s CD shelf and being…

This Montreal band is one to watch: Review: Motel Raphaël – Cable TV

From the moment I was halfway through the first track on Motel Raphaël’s debut album Cable TV, I knew that this was going to be one of my newest musical…

Rifflandia: a hip-hop wrap-up

The first two nights of Rifflandia delivered a full slate of top-shelf hip hop.

Waiting game now over for Banks’ debut album

Buzz, a strong fan base, and an incredible voice hve left many anticipating Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Jillian Banks’s debut album Goddess, released in Canada on Sept. 9.

Hilltop Hoods won’t let you down

Sometimes at a music festival, you find yourself at a show so on point and fulfilling that it makes you question why people have jobs and do anything in life…

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