Double Dare Press
A literary ezine. Says so right there in the title bar. You know what that means. It means short stories […]
Reviews
Beyond the Pale
Beyond the Pale: The Zen of No Enlightenment. Apparently, this e-zine is a sort of nihilist poetry repository. It seems […]
Anxiety Culture
Anxiety Culture is a fantastic collection of tidbits, opinions, advice and commentary on our paranoid and overworked world. Using “uplifting […]
Various Artists, You and Yours
Sixteen tracks from one of my top three Guelph collectives. This is the rundown: Slow Hand Motem do loping lethargic […]
Sandro Perri, Tiny Mirrors
Most people wouldn’t want a song called “Double Suicide” to be the feel-good bossa nova hit of the summer, but […]
The Cuds, The Taste of Crow
If only your CD player speakers could just spit out an old, wooden place that sort of smells like smoke, […]
The Vulcan Dub Squad, The New Designers
This is not a concept album–this is a thematic album. (And, for the record, thematic albums are almost always better […]
BabyOil, The Invisible House
I have a special place in my heart for oddball bands that do not fit into any standard notions of […]
Percy Farm, The End’s in the Beginning
This is a cheerfully ramshackle album, tumbling down and picking itself up again with each new kick at the musical […]
Various Artists, The Acrustic Age, Volume 2
Apart from the Doers track, which is essential, what do you say about fast folk? Um, I like it better […]
Various Artists, TEA Volume 9
A grab bag of tunes from acts that record at the Toronto Experimental Artists studios or use their promotional and […]
Various Artists, Stomp Atlantica Compilation
There are 27 tracks on this compilation, but I ran outta steam at 23 (I’m not as young as I […]