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Cryptopsy
by Sean Palmerston

One of the most consistent, respected Canadian death metal
bands over the past fifteen years is Montreal’s Cryptopsy. Since
the early 90s, the quintet has remained one of the most popular
extreme acts this country has ever produced.
Cornerstone to the group’s success has been their drive to
always move forward in their genre. Not happy to sit on the
laurels of past achievements, the Cryptopsy sound is one that has
been ever evolving and never more so that in the present here–
and–now. [ more ]

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Festival Survival Guide
by Tamara Holmes

When youth is on your side, summer isn’t fair unless there’s a loud, dusty, sold-out summer festival or four. You know, the kind where you can join Facebook groups about it months in advance, meet all your resulting new mates at the third pole from the left through coordinated webs of text messages and stand in line-ups till your next birthday for everything from entrance, exit, porto-pots and food.
Crowds. Weather. Dirt. Loud. Grimy. Perfect. [ more ]

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Spins
by Bill Adams

Tom Fun Orchestra
You Will Land With A Thud
(Company House)

Especially in the last decade and a half, musicians on the East
coast of Canada have been trying to shake the image that the rest
of the world seems to have of them. Not that it isn’t cultivated, if
you believe the lyric sheets of the top or longest standing
maritime bands, the band members perpetually do their lovers
wrong or are wronged regularly by them, they’re usually sauced
out of their minds or are gearing up for another epic bar mission
(just ask Great Big Sea or Ashley MacIsaac) and the only available
influence upon which to base their music is that created by the
folk community on the British Isles. [ more ]

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