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1) Basia Bulat at Soundscapes: Acoustic and magic. Bulat managed without any bells and whistles (just some foot stomping) to do the most compelling and powerful set of the year.
2) Arcade Fire at the Toronto Island: The biggest band of the year playing at their strongest less then a week after playing Madison Square Garden in a pleasant Toronto outdoor venue on a summer night.
3) Stars at The Mod Club: Despite the show starting an hour late in an unconditioned club, once the lights went down and Amy Millan and Torqil Campbell started singing Dead Hearts I knew it was more then worth the wait.
4) Broken Social Scene at Sound Academy and Soundscapes: Yeah, this is a bit of a cheat but both times I saw Broken Social Scene were good. They played acoustic at Soundscapes and, well, loud at Sound Academy. They are a band that can be thoroughly different in sound live from album and, even, as in this case, concert to concert. The highlight of both shows was 7/4 (Shoreline) with Feist and Amy Millan at the Sound Academy. I still haven't seen them do Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl yet (had to leave early at the sound academy). I guess I'll have to see them again yet.
5) Metric at Union Station: The most crowded concert I've been to this year (it was free, sponsored by a cell phone company), Metric played a short set of their hits at full tilt.
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