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Going Live

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Brand New and mewithoutYou’s Canadian tour run hit the Sound Academy with a thud as it tore through a bunch of new faves and old fixes.

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Florence Welch’s How Beautiful tour put a spell on Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre — digging into new cuts, ‘Lungs’, and ‘Ceremonials’.

Going Live

Bloc Party’s ‘Hymns’ tour hit Toronto earlier this week and spiraled into an ode to ‘Silent Alarm’, ‘Intimacy’, and ‘A Weekend In The City’.

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PUP’s hometown show was full of flailing limbs, sing-a-longs, choice S/T cuts, Weezer covers, and a dizzying slice of ‘The Dream Is Over’.

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Wolf Parade continued their residency with an explosive set that revived ‘Expo 86’, ‘At Mount Zoomer’, and ‘Apologies To The Queen Mary’.

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The 1975 and Wolf Alice rocked TD Echo Beach — offsetting the night’s ‘Pretty In Pink’ aesthetic with a pair of massive hit-friendly setlists.

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Anti-Flag and Black Lungs closed out their short Canadian tour run by turning The Velvet into a portrait of beautiful, punked-up chaos.

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Cage The Elephant and Portugal. The Man’s U.S. tour ventured up north and laid the smackdown on the venue formerly known as Arrow Hall.

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Jesse Hughes and the gang capped off Toronto’s CMW Fest with an explosive performance that was full of group solos and crowd pleasers.

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White Lung’s CMW set was all about ‘Paradise’ as the Van City outfit ripped through new songs and stirred up a bit of chaos with Dead Tired.