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Three Cheers for Duality: A Playlist

Life is never really just black and white, but sometimes your day-to-day feels like it’s spent being buffeted between extremes. Case in point, SXSW this week—an exercise in maximum exhilaration tempered by maximum stress. Which is why the following playlist, in honor of polar opposites, has made for pretty great walking-around-Austin music....  read more

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Malajube Eyes Polaris Prize, Short U.S. Tour

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Malajube is quickly assuming the throne of Montréalian band of note. (Sorry, Arcade Fire, that's what you get for disappearing for two and a half years.) Their stellar third album Labyrinthes has just earned the band their second nomination for the Polaris Music Prize (the only french-language album on the shortlist, to boot), and is being prepped for worldwide release on July 21 via Dare to Care Records....  read more

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Short List of Canada's Polaris Music Prize Nominees Revealed

Not too long ago, we revealed to you the prestigious Long List of nominees for this year's Polaris Music Prize, Canada's top nod to indie musicians. And Tuesday, the even-more-prestigious, whittled-down Short List was revealed.  ...  read more

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Malajube: Labyrinthes

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Not too long ago, Quebeçois cred was a reliable guarantee for...  read more

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Malajube unveils "Porté Disparu" video for Labyrinthes

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There used to be a time when having a band from Montreal was an instant guarantee for at least three months of positive blog press (that honor now belongs to Baltimore, with the stipulation that they have at least one toy keyboard in their repertoire.) Fortunately for the Francophile contingent, nothing will stop Malajube from delivering Quebec's finest progressive-indie-emo-jams (their words.) The band is preparing for the release of Labyrinthes, the follow-up to its breakout 2006 album Trompe L'Oeil....  read more

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