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Jo Passed
The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 12
PUBLISHED May 13, 2018
Jo Passed sprang from the ashes of Sprïng, a weirdo Vancouver art band who never really found their stride. But in Jo Passed, singer-guitar...
Deliluh
Lower Bay Station, Toronto ON, May 11
PUBLISHED May 12, 2018
West-end Toronto stalwarts Deliluh have been making a bit of a stir in the city's underground for some time now, and an upcoming reissue of...
Fucked Up
Lower Bay Station, Toronto ON, May 11
PUBLISHED May 12, 2018
Fucked Up play so many gigs in weird spaces around the city, playing in an actual club might be the most the novel thing the Toronto punks...
Jaunt
The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 10
PUBLISHED May 11, 2018
Sometime in the last half-decade, Muzak became an acceptable musical influence. Its one-time function as background music has been jettison...
Mauno
The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 10
PUBLISHED May 11, 2018
Idiosyncratic is an appropriate, though somewhat unfair, way to describe Halifax's Mauno. Nominally indie rock, it's hard to say who the qu...
WHOOP-Szo
The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 10
PUBLISHED May 11, 2018
You don't know what you're going to get with WHOOP-Szo — one minute they're knocking out sludgy stoner rock riffs, the next it's psychedeli...
Loma / Jess Williamson / JoJo Worthington
Garrison, Toronto ON, May 9
PUBLISHED May 10, 2018
Loma's self-titled debut is the kind of wholly original work that already feels familiar. Between its lived-in ambient sounds and Shearwate...
The Dirty Nil
Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, May 8
PUBLISHED May 10, 2018
Shimmying on stage to the sweet pulse of Usher's "Yeah," the Dirty Nil wasted no time letting the crowd know the kind of set they were in f...