Tag: electronic music
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The Feedback Society’s Canadian Music Festival Roundup!
With Saskatoon’s MoSoFest last weekend, and Calgary’s Sled Island this weekend, The Feedback Society’s Neusha Mofazzali looks at his favourite Canadian music festivals. HILLSIDE FESTIVAL (1) July 25th-27th. Location: Guelph, ON. Line Up Highlights: Hydra, Hey Rosetta, Royal Canoe, Tegan and Sara, Hollerado, PUP, Born Ruffians and Belle Game. With only a short country drive…
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Tobacco – Ultima II Massage
Tom Fec, a.k.a Tobacco, is back with his new record, ‘Ultima II Massage,’ continuing to spread his weird, wonderful gospel of stoneriffic electronic synth pop. The world of music needs weirdos. If it weren’t for the Screamin’ Jay Hawkinses, the Captain Beefhearts, and the Grace Joneses of our musical pasts, everything would move along so…
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St. Vincent – St. Vincent
The brilliant new St. Vincent album has been making tidal waves; it embodies the digital age while at the same time eschewing our digital lives. Back in the day, I took a Women and Gender Studies course that focused on women in music. One subject that repeatedly came up was how critics like to focus…
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Concert Review: Winnipeg – Venetian Snares
Just back from a quick jaunt to Winnipeg where Venetian Snares did a show for the Winnipeg Symphony’s Pop Nuit, and it now seems well worth the travel. Pop Nuit is a kind of avant-garde sideshow of musical performances slated to coincide with the symphony’s New Music Festival, so local breakcore genius Aaron Funk (a.k.a.…
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Darkside – Psychic
In the echo chamber of music criticism, any halfway decent act stands a chance of being described as “important,” whether or not they deserve the praise. This year, the critics have lined up behind Darkside.[1] Thank God, the hype is justified. Ten years from now, Darkside’s ‘Psychic’ will hold up as one of 2013’s most…