Review: Do Japandroids dream of electric sheep?
The big show of the weekend was obviously Japandroids, put on and well-promoted by Split Works. HIMDONG opened the show. It’s been a few months since I’ve seen him play, and he’s [...]
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Guard Your Loins – Japandroids coming to town
I’m psyched about this weekend’s Japandroids show at Yuyingtang. I spent, like, an hour (or a good five minutes) trying to think up clever android-esque puns for the title of this [...]
Review: Post-rock is better than Jesus, at least when it comes to Godspeed
Though really, that’s kind of ambiguous. I guess my opinion of post-rock really depends on your opinion of Jesus. A couple of weeks back, Godspeed You! Black Emperor made its way through [...]
Review: Grimes, fairly decent
The musician Grimes played Mao on Wednesday night. It was absolutely packed as she was the big booking of this year’s JUE Festival. Grimes is the stage name of Claire Boucher, a young [...]
Review: The Airplane Boys, Kikuyu
Figured Lune would be a good place last night, because I kinda wanted to see the Airplane Boys from Toronto. Because when I think hip hop, I think Toronto. Ah, that’s kind of mean to Canada. [...]
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