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SLED ISLAND 2013: OFF!
PRODUCTS OF THE ENDLESS HARDCORE HOUSE PARTY Gathered up from the deep roots of Los Angeles’ hardcore movement circa early ’80s, OFF! fuses together members from epic staples like The Circle Jerks and...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: THE LAD MAGS
DIVE BAR MOTOWN MELODIES From the depths of the Whyte Ave scene, Edmonton loans us a quartet of sassy punk lasses and a garbage man who are making the elite pause and take notice. Combining one part...
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AUDACITY: MAN… OR ASTRO-MAN?
BILTMORE CABARET – MAY 13, 2013 In 1993, four alien visitors with an insatiable hunger for the music of the Ventures, shockingly bad sci-fi flicks and Spam touched down in Auburn, Alabama to begin...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: MANCUB
FIRST-TIME TOURING MACHINES Sitting down with two of the four members of up-and-coming Calgary rock quartet, MANcub, it’s evident how excited they are about their upcoming tour that will take them from...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: JULY TALK
THE SHOW MUST ALWAYS GO ON “It was kinda just like blind faith,” explains Leah Fay on July Talk’s conception. “I didn’t really see how it was going to work,” she admits. So the story goes, a half-drunk...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: THE BEETS
THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE LOOP Way down in heart of Queens, NY hails a musical outfit hell bent on ridding the world of both hippies and hipsters. The Beets spit in the face of people who don’t want to...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: JOHNNY DE COURCY & THE DEATH RANGERS
A NEW KIND OF GUITAR WIZARDRY IN TOWN No matter if you’re familiar with his work in the arena of metal music when he was with Black Wizard, his solo work, or from him tramping all over Canada with the...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: THE THERMALS
TEN YEARS AND NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN A lot can happen in 10 years. For power pop punk stalwarts the Thermals, it’s their entire span of existence, in a sense. Recently celebrating the 10-year...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: TAIWAN
IMAGINING ALTERNATE REALITIES Meet TAIWAN. TAIWAN is not someone yelling the name of a nation via text, but a musical project born of Phillip Dickau’s musical compositions on a Casio keyboard with...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: OLD MAN MARKLEY
NEW-GRASS FIRES UP A HELL OF A PARTY Don’t miss out on Billboard Bluegrass chart-toppers Old Man Markley at this year’s Sled Island! Together since 2007 and breaking out of L.A. scene in 2010, Old Man...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: THE HIGHEST ORDER
REAL CHEMISTRY Simone TB answers the phone late in the afternoon, after a rehearsal and official meeting with her bandmates in The Highest Order. While late afternoon meetings generally leave those in...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: THE SEAHAGS
TABLE DIVES AND FREE HAM Hardened by late nights of good, soulful boot stompin’, whisky drinkin’ and prairie livin’, the Seahags are bound to anchor you in for a wailer of a good time. “We’re totally...
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CALGARY METALFEST
Skeletonwitch DICKENS PUB, BROKEN CITY Editors Note: 81 bands, nine shows, a drunken pit occupied by organizer Nathan Renaud and his ever lowering pants, and at least 1,000 beers later, the second...
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TARIQ
MULTI-TALENTED BRASSTRONAUT MEMBER GOES MOONWALKING BeatRoute meets Tariq Hussain at a coffee shop to talk about his new EP, Moonwalker, which came out this April and follows four full-length solo...
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VANCOUVER JAZZ FESTIVAL
Five Alarm Funk STATE-OF-THE-ART CELEBRATION OF MUSIC BOASTS THE BEST If you ever get a chance to talk with John Orysik, the co-founder of the Vancouver Jazz Festival, you will get a boost of...
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NORTHCOTE
RUNNING FOR THE MIDNIGHT HOUR Northcote (a.k.a. Matt Goud), who hails from Saskatchewan, is about embark on a cross-Canada tour that will hit Vancouver’s Biltmore Cabaret on June 22. BeatRoute had the...
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YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN
PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE Ruby Kato Attwood is all too familiar with the power of performance as vocalist and co-founder of Montreal-based experimental rock act Yamantaka//Sonic Titan. Started by Ruby...
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PUGS AND CROWS
JAZZY LOCALS LAND A JUNO On April 21, Pugs and Crows landed the Juno for best Instrumental Album of the Year. Pushing the boundaries between folk rock, classical, and instrumental jazz, this award was...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: KEN MODE
FULLY ARMED AND OPERATIONAL Sled Island will get a new boost of erratic chaos when Winnipeg natives KEN mode roll through town yet again. The unrelenting and erratic noise-rock trio recently released...
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SLED ISLAND 2013: EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
LIKELY TO EVOKE AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE WHILE YOU EAT DINNER Cognitive recall is a deeply individualistic phenomenon. Personally, Explosions in the Sky elicits multiple memories: a warm Catalonian night...
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