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Sebastian Buzzalino

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Music Made for Memorable Nights

Los Manlicious (Universal Records Canada) HAWKSLEY WORKMAN

by Sebastian Buzzalino
07.01.2009

EVEN AFTER ELEVEN ALBUMS, including two this year, Hawskley Workman remains one of Canada’s most underrated musicians. As anyone who has seen him live can attest, he’s a thoroughly original performer, each touring show featuring new stage antics and fresh banter. Establishing, regardless of the venue, a comfortable rapport with his audience, Workman suggests being [...]

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Five Guys Serious About Play

SWEET MOTHER LOGIC ROVER LAUNCH Nov. 27

by Sebastian Buzzalino
25.11.2008

TWO CELLOS ARE RUN THROUGH a gamut of pedals, playing alongside a rhythmic guitar. In the corner, a host of keyboards are layered upon each other. The drummer keeps up with a syncopated beat, changing time signatures often, with a fluid ease, during a single song. And in the center of it all, absence: Sweet [...]

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Love and Sam at the End of the World

SAM ROBERTS At Le National November 20-21-22

by Sebastian Buzzalino
18.11.2008

IT WOULD BE EASY to discard the Sam Roberts Band as just another to be lost in a neo-hippy movement that is too young to remember the harsh undertones of the Summer of Love and too ironic to be relevant past the Summer of Terror. But the Montreal darlings manage to evoke the very freeing [...]

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A Troubled Man for Troubled Times

ALICE COOPER

by Sebastian Buzzalino
17.10.2008

GROTESQUE EVENTS TRANSPIRED on the humble stage of Théâtre St. Denis Wednesday night, when the mischievous master of the macabre led a packed venue into the deepest, darkest recesses of his subconscious. Four decades after he began shocking audiences, Alice Cooper proved that, at the ripe age of 60, he’s still as twisted, as demented, [...]

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Stephen Harper’s Other Nightmare

FUCKED UP (the band)

by Sebastian Buzzalino
14.10.2008

SINGLED OUT by Stephen Harper as justification for slashing arts funding, the Toronto punk band Fucked Up has taken the absurdly negative press coming from official government channels and deployed it to their favour. Their show last Saturday at Sala Rossa was a wildly exuberant affair. The divide between the stage and crowd was effectively [...]

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