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Cadence Weapon – Hope In Dirt City

Cadence Weapon - Hope In Dirt City

Album Review of ‘Hope In Dirt City’ by Cadence Weapon, a 2012 Polaris Prize long list nominee. Cadence Weapon is a rapper from Edmonton Alberta. Edmonton is north of Vancouver and borders a place Canadians call ‘The Great White North’. I have never been there but I hear that Edmonton has long and cold winters [...]

Grimes – Visions

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We didn’t get to see a lot of her during London Calling, not because of her hoodie but because of the hype. Vancouver’s Clair Boucher aka Grimes was easily the hottest fairy frolicking in the forest during the spring edition of the festival with the increasingly unfitting name. Paradiso’s upstairs hall was packed with curious [...]

Breton’s credible audio attack

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Album and concertreview Breton at Paradiso, April 19th 2012 -  Breton are four cutting-edge sound (and video) designers with a Britpop attitude that could easily have made them into an insufferable symbiosis of Blur and James Blake. Fortunately, Breton do not utilize their Cockney wit by prancing about like a bunch of smart alecs, trying to [...]

Evi Vine – …and so the morning comes

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“…and so the morning comes” … and most likely it is a very early Sunday morning with the mellow folky vocals of Evi Vine coming out of your speakers. Reading your weekend paper, or staring at the ceiling with a cup of coffee in your hand thinking of …something. I can hear similarities in Evi [...]