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CMW Preview: Dentata’s got bite
3 a.m. is no time to begin writing. But Canadian Music Week has had me up all night, bouncing from one sweaty, gross venue to the next. I guess many of us will have to do the same thing today. It’ll be a tough slog. Toronto’s Dentata are much tougher than that. In fact,... »
CMW preview: Absolutely Free shed DD/MM/YYYY past, talk upcoming album
DD/MM/YYYY were one of the first bands we covered on Resonancity, so when we heard four-fifths of the band were regrouping to form the new group, Absolutely Free, inviting them to play our CMW showcase was a total no-brainer. But since they don’t have any music online beyond a few live videos, and since... »
CMW preview: Cynical Detroit duo Bad Party makes Toronto debut
Detroit industrial punk duo Bad Party – who make their Toronto debut at our CMW showcase this Saturday – mix pounding drum machinery and ripping guitar that makes you want to both dance around and rough someone up at the same time. But while frontman Nate Savino has a reputation for bad-assery, I found... »
Resonancity, Buzz Records and Dan Burke present CMW with smoke and grime at the Comfort Zone
Saturday, March 24 will be a landmark day for Resonancity. That’s the day we extend our reach from the comfortable confines of the internet to the sinister, oft-raided, and, if we’re being totally honest, kind of creepy (but awesome) Comfort Zone. The infamous den of iniquity will be the setting of our very first... »
The best (and worst) of CMW 2011
We’ve pounded the pavement and blown out our eardrums over the last five days, and now it’s time to reveal our best and worst of Canadian Music Week. Avoiding some horrible headlining acts and Canadian music industry delusions, we look back on it as amusement tinged with dismal Vancouverian weather. »
Magic Afterparty
Let’s face it – Canadian Music Week kind of sucks. Okay, we’ll qualify that. There’s a lot of great music and it’s fantastic to be able to jump from venue to venue, but there’s as much American music as Canadian, “The Indies” are little more than an industry schmooze, the venues are forced to serve... »
Canadian Music Woes
“We had high expectations for ourselves,” said a disappointed Gabriel Morency after his band Homicide’s gig Thursday night at the Comfort Zone. The ’90s thrash band – led by Morency, a former shock jock host on The Score – reunited for Canadian Music Week but was clearly bummed at the turnout. Though they had... »
Actions speak louder than words: Action Makes at CMW
If you noticed the Toronto segment of our Canadian Music Week Dark Horses feature seemed a bit scanter than its Honorary Torontonians component, that’s because we were originally going to include Action Makes, an excellent local garage rock band and the newest signing to Toronto’s Optical Sounds Records. Bass player Andrew Stoeten was nice... »
Canadian Music Week Dark Horses: Honorary Torontonians
Don’t let the name fool you – Canadian Music Week isn’t a whole week, nor is it exclusively Canadian music. Yesterday we focused on Toronto-area acts, highlighting a few under-the-radar bands operating in our very own front yards. Obviously we will have more chances to see them throughout the year, so today we look... »
Canadian Music Week Dark Horses: Toronto
Today we kick off our coverage of Canadian Music Week, the so-called more industry-oriented of Toronto’s two mega music festivals. Fear not – there are better things to see than middle-aged, washed-up Can-con and Live Nation-sponsored R’n'B stars. Tomorrow we’ll bring you our favourite bands trekking in from out of town, but today is dedicated to Toronto-area bands... »
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