Articles by Michael Barclay

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  Alex Soria Memorial Concert

  Main Hall, Montreal QC — March 11, 2005

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

  When Alex Soria of the Nils threw himself in front of a train last December, it was a tragic end to a tragic story full of false starts and...

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  Bettie Serveert

  Main Hall, Montreal QC - February 9

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  It was this Amsterdam band's first time on Canadian soil in seven years and their first time in Montreal in a decade. What better time to o...

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  Shake Hands With The Devil

  Peter Raymont

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  If you saw the hour-long edit that aired on the CBC back in January, you haven't seen this film at all. This is more than a history of the...

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  Los Lobos

  Live at the Fillmore

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  There are many remarkable things about the 30-year career of Los Lobos, but high on the list is the fact that they've never managed to put...

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  Marianne Faithfull

  Before the Poison

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  This sounds a lot better on paper than it does on CD. Sure, why wouldn’t PJ Harvey and Nick Cave — the high priest and priestess of gloomy...

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  Hawksley Workman

  Live in Lille

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  This two-hour performance confirms how Hawksley Workman devolved from being a unique and fascinating new artist into a generic modern rocke...

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  The Take

  Avi Lewis

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  After years of dodging tear gas and documenting the descent of capitalism into feudalism, Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis sought out a story that...

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  Lou Barlow

  EMOH

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  It used to be that Lou Barlow only put his own name on leftover material that he couldn’t bother to find a pseudonym for. Just ask any fan...