It's true. The Trews are coming

Who: The Trews

What: Canadian indie rock

Where: The Grand Theatre, 641 Queen Street East

When: Monday, November 16, 2009

For further show details and ticket information, please call Loplops Gallery-Lounge at (705) 945-0754 or visit www.loplops.com

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You can hear it in the first four bars of the album.

A meaty, beaty, big and bouncy drum fill, followed by a glistening guitar line that could have been ripped from an old Rockpile album, and a breathy Hammond B3 so beautifully captured that it seems to conjure the dimensions of the room it sits in.

It’s huge, but intimate.

Heavy, but airborne.

And the hook is strong enough that you could hang a whale from it.

The Trews’ reputation is built on buffed and visceral rock songs, but on No Time for Later they cohere like never before.

The structures are more compelling, the playing is more articulate, and the results more nourishing.

And the group’s musical breakthrough has certainly been noticed by others, including shock rock legend Alice Cooper, who christened The Trews “A great young band with a Zeppelin feel,” the Calgary Sun called the album “A regular masterpiece of rock n’ roll,” while Creative Loafing raved, “Exciting, brash crunch rockers who connect like prime Humble Pie.”

And in the great rock tradition of Van Halen, the Black Crowes, and AC/DC, the Trews include a brother tandem within their ranks – singer/guitarist Colin MacDonald and guitarist John Angus MacDonald.

Raised in a hippy household listening to a record collection that mostly consisted of late 60's and early 70's rock, their father - an aspiring musician himself - always had music playing and had a great influence on the musical inclination of his kids.

From an early age Colin and John were always encouraged to play music, and both picked up the guitar in their early teenage years.

Colin was always steered toward the art of singing while John Angus put most of his focus on mastering the guitar.

The MacDonald family moved around quite a bit so the boys spent some of their high school years living in the Caribbean.

It was while living in Barbados in 1995 when the two decided to form a rock and roll band.

Slowly but surely, the pieces began falling in place for the group that eventually became the Trews.

If it’s the shrewd marriage of different rock styles that accounts for the Trews’ remarkable multi-generational appeal, then No Time for Later finds the band expanding at all ends of the spectrum.

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