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LIVE REVIEW: Mac DeMarco @ The Piece Hall, Halifax

A sun-drenched Thursday afternoon at Halifax’s Piece Hall brought the ever-needed, laid-back yet endlessly entertaining blessing of Mac DeMarco.

PREVIEW: Mac DeMarco @ Halifax, The Piece Hall

Mac DeMarco plays one of the biggest gigs of his career at Halifax’s Piece Hall on June 27th, with support from Yellow Days, Amyl & The Sniffers and Working Men’s Club.

REVIEW: Mac DeMarco – ‘Here Comes The Cowboy’ (Mac’s Record Label)

Lacking the effortless charm of previous albums, Mac DeMarco’s latest LP ‘Here Comes The Cowboy’ sounds disappointingly sterile despite some wonderful moments.

REVIEW: Mac DeMarco – ‘This Old Dog’ (Captured Tracks)

Mac DeMarco is one of the greatest crafters of the love song working today, as exemplified on his mellow third album ‘This Old Dog’.

REVIEW: Mac DeMarco – ‘Another One’ (Captured Tracks)

by Ed Biggs Canadian-born indie troubadour Mac DeMarco became the toast of the indie underground in 2014 with Salad Days, a breezy album of bedroom song sketches that benefitted from sounding spontaneous and demo-like. He’s following it up with a brace of mini-albums in the form of Some Other Ones (consisting entirely of instrumentals) and Another One. It’s not explicitly personal in the same way as Salad Days – by all

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