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Duchess Says Montreal, QC October 2 By Jessica Carroll Montreal’s no-wave, Moog-rock four-piece Duchess Says are brilliant at working with language. That is so to say, they are francophone, and yet front-woman AC sings more in rhythmic sounds than in anything linguistically discernible. Her male band-mates keep their distance, because her trance-like thrashing and unconscious hand motions sometimes get out of hand. Duchess Says almost make you want to dance, but they straddle that line between asymmetric and symmetrical musical composition. Still, it’s possible to move with them, especially when AC decides to jump into the crowd and move with you, all the while singing wildly.

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks When late ’70s seminal no-wave “anti” rock act Teenage Jesus and the Jerks hit the stage for their Pop stop, the audience was understandably stoked. After all, the New Yorkers’ only two full-length records were released over just over two decades ago, and still their music has had an enormous impact ...Read More

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Grizzly Bear - Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, BC October 14 Before the release of 2009's Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear stood at a career watershed of sorts. Critical darlings without much mainstream success, they could very well have continued in the direction set with 2007's Friend EP and become perennial indie overachievers, in the vein of the Li... Full Review


Hostage Life - Centre Of The Universe It's unfortunate the words "maturity" and "growth" are stigmas in the world of punk rock. They would be the perfect descriptors for Toronto, ON-based Hostage Life's tertiary release. Maintaining the adage that a band never realize their true potential until their third album, the quintet prove thems... Full Review


Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant Dir. by Paul Weitz In an interesting twist of Hollywood fate, Chris and Paul Weitz have entered the final stretch of 2009 each in control of a major vampire franchise built from the pages of popular young adult fiction. From one half of the brotherly team who brought us American Pie and About ... Full Review





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