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  Shotgun Jimmie

  The Ship, St. John's NL, May 8

  PUBLISHED May 9, 2016

  Very few people get as excited about being in St. John's as Shotgun Jimmie. In town for days ahead of playing the final set of the sixth an...

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  Charlotte Day Wilson

  Quidi Vidi Brewery, St. John's NL, May 7

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2016

  A powerhouse vocalist, Wilson masked herself in waves of reverb and a mix of synthetic and familiar tones for her bleary-eyed, afternoon mu...

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  Julie Doiron

  Quidi Vidi Village Plantation, St. John's NL, May 7

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2016

  Julie Doiron is fucking hilarious. A record of her between-song spiels should come out someday because these stream-of-self-consciousness r...

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  Punch Table

  The Ship, St. John's NL, May 7

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2016

  After witnessing so much hometown virtuosity, it was actually refreshing to see a scrappy, fun local band at the Ship. Punch Table features...

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  Psychic Fair

  The Ship, St. John's NL, May 7

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2016

  By the end of Psychic Fair's set, vocalist Josh Salter and guitarist Charles Austin were trading solos by tossing the same Stratocaster thr...

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  Trailercamp

  The Rock House, St. John's NL, May 7

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2016

  There's a rich vein of punk and post-punk in St. John's and the band Trailercamp are integral to that legacy. Broken up since 2010, they re...

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  Dame Nature

  The Rock House, St. John's NL, May 6

  PUBLISHED May 7, 2016

  Lawnya Vawnya is notable for opening its programming up to many up-and-coming local acts and virtually all of them consist of some aces. Da...

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  Braids

  The Rock House, St. John's NL, May 6

  PUBLISHED May 7, 2016

  There never really was but now there's definitely no precedent to Braids' style. They play familiar instruments like guitars and drums, and...