CMW – Vivian Girls
Toronto, March 10

By Keith Carman

All-female indie popsters Vivian Girls make no bones about what they do: low-fidelity garage rock steeped in amateurish pop. Key word? Amateurish. If these band members had penises, people would say they suck. However, they're empowered femmes who hold their instruments in that painfully awkward way only novices can, and are adored for it kind of like when the Donnas were first starting out, without the cool tunes, mind you. Their simplistic songs relayed in a pseudo-enthusiastic, trashy, loose way were amusing even if they lacked any true substance, but who needs something as unnecessary as meaning when you're that cute, right? Naturally, the crowd was raving even though this trio were clearly the least talented act on the evening's bill.
CMW – Molested Youth
CMW – Male Bonding
CMW – Jason Collett
CMW – Bahamas
CMW – Zeus
CMW – Hippymafia
CMW – Spirits
Burzum - Belus
The Appleseed Cast
A Sunny Day in Glasgow / Solars
Ludacris - Battle of the Sexes
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Miles Kurosky - The Desert of Shallow Effects
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
JJ - no 3
Liars - Sisterworld
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the Devil’s Tattoo
Aloha - Home Acres
Finntroll - Nifelvind
Dark Tranquillity - We Are the Void
Abscess - Dawn of Inhumanity
Sectioned - Purulent Reality
Via Audio - Animalore
Ghostkeeper - Ghostkeeper
Immolation - Majesty and Decay
Surfer Blood / Turbo Fruits
Chain and the Gang / The Strange Boys
Aldaaron - Nous Reviendrons Immortels
Van Canto - Tribe of Force
Mortemia - Misere Mortem
Ortolan - Time on a String
Miles Kurosky - The Desert of Shallow Effects
Daughters - Daughters
The Generals - Stand Up Straight
Shadows Fall / Bison B.C.
Kittie / God Forbid
Against Me! / Cancer Bats
Wilco / Bahamas
Roxanne Potvin / Caracol
Avsky - Scorn
Blood Cult - We Are the Cult of the Plains
Blues Skies Turn Black 10-Year Anniversary featuring North of America, Rockets Red Glare, the Besnard Lakes
Clogs - The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton
The Holmes Brothers - Feed My Soul
Borknagar - Universal
Rogue Wave - Permalight
Ruby Suns - Fight Softly
These New Puritans - Hidden
Kinnie Starr - A Different Day
John Hiatt - The Open Road
Loscil - Endless Falls
Josiah Wolf - Jet Lag
Disfigured Dead - Visions of Death
Fucked Up
Bestial Mockery - Christcrushing Hammerchainsaw
Perversor - Demon Metal
Igneous Human - Pyroclastic Storms
DOOM / D-Sisive
Leatherface / Yesterday’s Ring / Sinkin’ Ships / Summer of 92
Do Make Say Think / Vidulgi Ooyoo / On Sparrow Hills
Wild Beasts
El Perro Del Mar
Xasthur - 2005 Demo
Create Avoid - Heart Remains
Holly Miranda - The Magician’s Private Library
Album Leaf - A Chorus of Storytellers
Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself
Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain’t No Grave
Fuck the Facts - Unnamed EP
Stars / Hey Rosetta!
Hal Willner’s Neil Young Project featuring Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Broken Social Scene
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
Shout Out Louds - Work
YACHT / Bobby Birdman / Fine Fist
Hayaino Daisuki - The Invisible Gate Mind Of The Infernal Fire Hell, Or Did You Mean Hawaii Daisuki?
DJ Babu - The Beat Tape Vol. 2
Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself
Eluvium - Similes
Pianos Become The Teeth - Old Pride
Past Lives - Tapestry of Webs
Red Blue Green - Transparent Thesis
Razia - Zebu Nation
Suffokate - No Mercy, No Forgiveness
Slacker - Start A New Life
Martyn / Various - Fabric 50
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