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| | United Steel Workers of Montreal:The Band |
 | | Showing how raucous and affecting this blues-y, urban, alt-country band can be, the songs on Kerosene and Coal start from the grit of Montreal’s south-west neighbourhoods before tearing down truck routes to move past highway pit stops for gas-station melodramas and back-road drag races, with a bank robbery thrown in for good measure. |
 | | The band has been receiving critical acclaim, playing the CBC/Sirius showcase at NXNE, Pop Montreal Festival, The Festival Off de Québec, and were chosen as one of Toronto Star’s top six bands to see at CMW and Scene Magazines best live shows of 2006. |
 | | With a strong, enigmatic presence, he is the steel reinforcing the band’s structure. |
| www.uswm.ca /P/The_Band.htm (1235 words) |
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