The Constantines – Tournament of Hearts
For male vocalists, there is a limited range of places to take their voice if they can’t take it to […]
Issue 30
Chixdiggit! – Pink Razors
Seeing the Ramones for the first time (on television in Rock and Roll High School) changed my life forever. But, […]
Beats for Beginners – Don’t Fly into the Sun
One man, one bedroom, one imaginative musical universe. If only he was more upset about something, Mike TV’s semi-solo project […]
The Banditas
It’s difficult to describe the out of body experience that sometimes occurs at a really great show. Likely, you’ve consumed […]
Aidan Baker – Songs of Flowers and Skin
Looks like: Homemade Man Ray Sounds like: Imagine a Galaxie 500 cassette playing on a boombox set on fire. Passage […]
Ass Machine – We Are Changing Our Name
There is a magical quality to music as it weaves itself into our lives. It becomes part of our skin […]
Mary Ancheta – Live Life
Remember that scene in Pump Up the Volume when Christian Slater and the cool chick who is fascinated by his […]
Air Traffic Control
Air Traffic Control has a fairly commercial pop-rock sound tailored to fit the formats of most “alternative” radio stations and […]
AA Soundsystem – Lily Plain…You’re Hardly Poor
The cover art says indie-electro and the band’s name suggests the same, but the sounds are as rootsy as the […]
Complete Control Anthology
Greg Wells’s self-published collection of anarchist zines from 1997-2005 is an inspiring read for its superlative personal, political and band-related […]
The City Man
Written in hard-boiled prose reminiscent of the direct and austere voice of early Michael Ondaatje, Akler’s novel is an adventure […]
Pilot Pocket Book Number One
Pilot’s successful “bring your own writing” nights in Toronto have spun off into a pocket-sized biannual journal of Canadian literature […]