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Safe Amp Society
“We don’t know how to do things like taxes! But at the same time, we are kind of the target demographic.”
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Candela Farm
“I’ve got a trunk full of puzzles.” No, that’s not a freaky sex jam from East Van rockers Candela Farm’s new EP, DADF#AD. It’s just…
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Shout Back! Festival, Saturday recap, Pt 2
Arriving at Astorino’s shortly after the printed start time, I waited out back with some friends for the music to start and ate a free…
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Kiss Painting
Enter the basement laboratory that is Kiss Painting. It’s dingy and abrasive, made up of images, stories, moods. Everything is carefully placed, with dead noise…
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The Evaporators
There are plenty of analogs between Astorino’s and Vancouver’s own Nardwuar: both are crazy remnants of a time gone by, but wholly inclusive to new…
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Shout Back Fest 2013
Shout Back Festival, now in its second year, billed itself as an “all-ages anarcha-feminist, queer, anti-capitalist d.i.y. music festival for anyone who wants it or…