Music Review

Jay Reatard, Blood Visions

It’s been the victim of a smear campaign for a good seven or eight years. Blink 182, Good Charlotte and […]

Off With Their Heads, All Things

So, Off With Their Heads are this punk band from Minneapolis. My only recollection of that whole geographical area is […]

Orillia Opry, Lighthouse for Straggler’s Eyes

Holy shit, this is awesome. Not like going-outwith-all-your-friends-for-a-ripping-Fridaynight-followed-by-a-delicious-early-afternoon-breakfast-on-Saturday-then-recordshopping-type-awesome, but more like drivingout-to-your-friends’-winterized-cottage-aftermidnight-in-a-car-with-only-a-tape-deckand-his-uncle’s-old-copy-of-On-The-Beachtype-awesome, which is a very particular and hard-to-nail-down kind […]

Primes, Facades and Pink Forms

Vancouver’s Primes offer a unique brand of beeps and glitches drenched in industrial drum and bass technique and arpeggiated synths. […]

The Pope, Sports

As soon as I read that The Pope’s record label likened them to “a Honduran volcano spewing reptiles instead of […]

Sleepless Nights, Turn into Vapour

Sadly, living in Toronto tends to condition an almost unavoidable bias towards Toronto’s definitive role in the Canadian music scene. […]

Spy Machine 16, How Things Come Apart

The only thing better than a good power-pop record is a good power-pop record with substance, something these kids from […]