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  Deliluh

  Lower Bay Station, Toronto ON, May 11

  PUBLISHED May 12, 2018

  West-end Toronto stalwarts Deliluh have been making a bit of a stir in the city's underground for some time now, and an upcoming reissue of...

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  Fucked Up

  Lower Bay Station, Toronto ON, May 11

  PUBLISHED May 12, 2018

  Fucked Up play so many gigs in weird spaces around the city, playing in an actual club might be the most the novel thing the Toronto punks...

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  Jaunt

  The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 10

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2018

  Sometime in the last half-decade, Muzak became an acceptable musical influence. Its one-time function as background music has been jettison...

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  Mauno

  The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 10

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2018

  Idiosyncratic is an appropriate, though somewhat unfair, way to describe Halifax's Mauno. Nominally indie rock, it's hard to say who the qu...

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  WHOOP-Szo

  The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 10

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2018

  You don't know what you're going to get with WHOOP-Szo — one minute they're knocking out sludgy stoner rock riffs, the next it's psychedeli...

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  Loma / Jess Williamson / JoJo Worthington

  Garrison, Toronto ON, May 9

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2018

  Loma's self-titled debut is the kind of wholly original work that already feels familiar. Between its lived-in ambient sounds and Shearwate...

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  The Dirty Nil

  Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, May 8

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2018

  Shimmying on stage to the sweet pulse of Usher's "Yeah," the Dirty Nil wasted no time letting the crowd know the kind of set they were in f...

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  Slow

  Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, May 8

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2018

  Slow are a band more tied to myth than music. Their meagre output — just eight songs, all out of print for decades — has been eclipsed by t...