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New Two Gallants Worth Multiple Spins

Back with a vengeance, Two Gallants‘ new album The Bloom and the Blight shows these two lads are far from past their prime with one
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The Tallest Man in Vancouver

Wikipedia has a list of the tallest men on the planet.  The Tallest Man on Earth (a.k.a. Kristian Matsson) is a Swedish-born singer/songwriter whose career
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New Forms Festival 2012

Anyone remotely interested in Vancouver’s arts and culture scene has noticed how jam-packed this September, what with dozens of exhibitions, festivals and several hundred concerts
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Seapony Floats In On a Pink Sugar Cloud

“Huh, these guys sound kind of like Beach House, only less self-indulgent and abusing less heroine.” That’s my first thought when I chuck on Seapony‘s
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Sometimes I Get a Good Feeling

“Even the bathroom smells like MDMA,” my friend overheard from a fellow attendee as we entered the Vogue Theatre lobby on Tuesday to see Pretty
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Girl Talk Walks the Party Walk

Haven’t heard of Girl Talk? I hadn’t either. A friend mentioned that she and her husband were going to be attending the event. Instantly, I
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Purity Ring Is the Future Now

There’s bass and then there’s bass. The vibrations being unleashed by Evian Christ who opened for Purity Ring last Friday at Venue must have been
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The Queen of Rock Cannot Be Stopped

There ain’t no crowd like a rockabilly crowd. Only rockabilly will bring together the punks and the cowpokes, the greasers and the yuppies for a
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Jason Lowe’s Gentle Sounds

I first met Jason Lowe when we played on CJSF together in August. With the way he talked about his music, you would think he
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We All Fall Down If We All Fear Love

Beyond drummer Adrian Erlandsson who joined in 2009, the other four members of England’s Paradise Lost have been playing together for nearly a quarter century.