Various Artists, Out-014 Music in a Box/Crate Compilation
I know I’ve asked it before, but I’ll ask it again, “What are they putting in the water up there?” […]
Reviews
Chris Yang, May All Yr Children Be Dragons
Let’s face it: Chris could write song after song and they’ll all be perfect, but he’s never going to get […]
Wakefield Brewster, da lyrical pitbull
In the introduction to Wakefield Brewster’s new CD, he tells the story of his first poetry reading: he showed up […]
Wait Think Fast
I wasn’t planning on reviewing this because I usually skip over non-Canadian recordings to focus exclusively on domestic music, of […]
The United Steel Workers of Montreal, Kerosene & Coal
My childhood, quite literally, stunk. The town dump was located approximately two miles from my home and they burned garbage […]
Silver Speakers
I loved this based on the envelope it came in: artfully decorated with dribbles of black ink. And then the […]
Signe Miranda
At once sweetly compelling and creepily obsessive, the smartly-observed love songs on Signe Miranda’s solo debut rip apart the contradictory […]
Sally Shapiro, Disco Romance
It is Valentine’s Dance Night. He comes through the crowd in a checkered blazer. The Linn drum kicks in on […]
The Russian Futurists, Me, Myself and Rye
I’ve been writing a lot lately about how I just want to listen to music that gives me pleasure and […]
The Pointed Sticks, My Japanese Fan
If only this were an original Pointed Sticks single, then I could sell it on eBay to an actual Japanese […]
A Northern Chorus, Chained to the Truth
Two cover songs (one by Low, the other by Mojave 3) that make me want to hear the originals by […]
Mr. Plow, Chairman Plow’s Little Red Book
Short, crass, acoustic punk songs that take on the annoying little details of everyday life. The music partakes of the […]