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Venews

Though it’s been a year in the making, the new venue in the old A&B Sound location on Seymour (a.k.a. the new Richard’s) is shaping…

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Best of the Decade: 10-1

10. Red Light Sting They were only a band for about five years and they haven’t been a band for more than five, but I…

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Film Stripped

The fest runs from Oct. 1 to Oct. 16 and according to VIFF’s website it’s “cosmopolitan, innovative, friendly, culturally complex and very accessible.” We thought…

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Unfamiliar Records

For an independent label that is basically a two-man show, Unfamiliar Records has been soaking up a lot of attention lately. With Pitchfork’s recent “Best…

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Under Review

50 Foot Wave Golden Ocean (Throwing Music/4AD) So whose voice is that anyway? Growly, powerful, explosive, mined from the quarry and cannon-balled through a wall…

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Dialect Urban Forum

As in most musical genres, the independent missionaries of hip hop remain on a different wavelength than the corporate rap music heard on pop radio….