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Can you believe this year’s line-up? From rock legends The Smashing Pumpkins making their much anticipated return to Montreal after a 7 year hiatus, to hometown favourites Patrick Watson, the Sam Roberts Band and Miracle Fortress showcasing the best Montreal’s vibrant music scene has to offer, Osheaga will show the world that this town knows how to rock – indie style!
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Formed in early 2001, Toronto’s Fucked Up is a five-piece that has managed confrontation without cheap gimmicks or novelty, creativity without pointless noodling and intensity without predictable arrangements. Seamlessly plowing through punk's varied past, a Fucked Up song can invoke the melodic anthems of British Oi, the brawny directness of early ’80s American hardcore and the artistic autonomy of a band that doesn't care what its forebears have done before. Fucked Up manipulates everything from its lyrics and artwork to song length and writing to make a distinct, singularly unique point. Threading the best elements of Killed By Death obscurities through the Undertones' melody, Black Flag's aggression and Minor Threat's Marshall-driven guitars, Fucked Up rarely makes for direct comparisons, arriving instead at something wholly intense and new ... and isn't that the point?
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