Jesse Polowin
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
Chicago three-piece Russian Circles return with their unique brand of intense instrumental music, one that runs the gamut of borderline-black metal to shoegaze-y ambiance, incorporating grumbling bass, walls of heavily-distorted electric guitar and pounding drums that would be an apt soundtrack for one’s descent to the underworld.
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Fringe ArtsMontreal’s Other Jazz Festival
With a host of local and imported talent, the OFF Jazz festival will be returning to Montreal this fall for its 12th annual edition.
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Fringe ArtsJam at the End of Days
It was well past six o’clock on Judgment day, and the groove was just getting started at Wakefield’s Black Sheep Inn. Nothing provided a better soundtrack to the end of days than the Toronto-based modern jazz quartet Trace Element.
