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  • Tresor: True Stories Available in September

    Berlin nightclub and record label Tresor is publishing an archive book featuring more than 400 photos and 40 stories, “some of which have never been told before” according to a press release. The book will be available Sept. 9. “The protagonists featured in the book initiated or witnessed the context and consequences of the ‘big…

  • The Music Gallery Announces X Avant XVII

    The Music Gallery in Toronto has announced plans for the 17th edition of its X Avant Festival. The event runs Oct. 12-16. “X Avant XVII: LifeWorld dives deep into various global and local cultures and encourages collaboration,” according to a press release. “It is intergenerational. It is traditional. It is experimental. It dreams of a…

  • Dave Bookman Memorial Unveiled in Toronto

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    Toronto music journalist and radio host Dave Bookman is being remembered with a Heritage Toronto plaque outside the city’s famed Horseshoe Tavern. He passed in 2019. Dave was a tireless and enthusiastic promoter of independent music inside and outside Canada. In addition to his popular radio show, he hosted a long-running series of Tuesday night…

  • Djivan Gasparyan Bust Unveiled

    One year after we lost the great Armenian duduk player Djivan Gasparyan, a bust has been installed in his honour at Komitas Pantheon in Yerevan. Gasparyan was an absolute master of his instrument. His 1983 solo debut I Will Not Be Sad In This World left music fans around the world breathless. Brian Eno called…

  • New Kliffs Single to Benefit Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention

    The Canadian duo Kliffs will donate all proceeds from the sale of their new single “Undertow” to the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention. Currently based in Berlin, Mark Bérubé and Kristina Koropecki say the new track “deals with the aftermath of a loved one’s suicide.” Kliffs is touring western Canada this month: July 15 –…

  • Joy Guidry Wins 2021 Berlin Prize for New Artists

    Bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry has won the 2021 Berlin Prize for New Artists. Their latest is Radical Acceptance, released this past February by Whited Sepulchre Records. “One of the reasons that we created the Berlin Prize for Young Artists was to award musicians with singular voice and vision,” writes the jury. “[Guidry] redefined the…