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Diana
Mod Club, Toronto, ON, March 20
PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013
Despite featuring a who's who of Toronto's young indie scene, Diana have been slowly bubbling under the radar for a while now. But a string...
Rachel Sermanni
Cameron House, Toronto, ON, March 20
PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013
Lou Grant may hate spunk, though one wonders how he feels about chutzpah. Scottish singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni semi-famously earned a...
Oh Susanna, Daniel Romano & Kayla Howran
Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, March 20
PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013
Communism should seem oddly incongruent in a cowboy hat — albeit a figurative one — but the all-in approach worked well for Oh...
Leif Vollebekk
Rivoli, Toronto, ON, March 20
PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013
Talking loudly during a relatively quiet show is a form of oppression that, eventually, demands revolution. Beginning solo, Montreal singer...
Erik Lind & the Orchard
Czehoski, Toronto, ON, March 20
PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013
After just a few songs into the warm and bristling set by Montreal-based four-piece Erik Lind & the Orchard, it was easy to see why the tit...
Ginger & the Ghost
El Mocambo, Toronto, ON, March 20
PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2013
Stepping up onto the cluttered stage behind a wash of projected fireworks within the maddeningly hodge-podge environs of Toronto concert ha...
Brews Willis
Silver Dollar Room, Toronto, ON, March 19
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2013
Brews Willis hit the stage like a band with nothing to prove. This was, after all, their hometown and they'd just released a brand-spanking...
Parallels
Rivoli, Toronto, ON, March 19
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2013
Parallels debut, Visionaries, was a fantastic slab of propulsive synth-pop. But like even the most established artists in the mainstream ad...