Big Pants/jugglin
I stumbled on Big Pants by an extremely funny juggling game that had me smile away an entire afternoon. Mr […]
Issue 34
Monster Brains: Links to Monsters and the Fantastic
Visual arts like painting have always seemed to me so much better suited to the horror genre than more narrative […]
Queneau
In 1961, the great French literary trickster Raymond Queneau published Cent mille milliards de poèmes (which the math-ignorant anglo in […]
Commodore
This site, dedicated to all things having to do with that ur-console, the Commodore, is insane. Or at least it […]
Various Artists, Alberta: Wild Roses, Northern Lights
If this CD is to be believed, the music of Alberta is as flat and monotonous as driving through the […]
Roger Dean Young & the tin cup
It often seems Canada has a higher than average proportion of road-hardened musical veterans plying their trade. Think Ian Tyson. […]
Vangel, Music Postmodern Eros
Everyone has one. That strange uncle who reached his forties without ever getting married. Let’s call him Wayne. He certainly […]
Subhumans, Canada
Are G7 Welcoming Committee, or the Subhumans for that matter, aware that it is easier to download Subhumans UK material […]
Rae Spoon & Rodney DeCroo, Trucker’s Memorial
In their one-sheet, it says, “Ignoramuses rarely appreciate and never make good roots music.” Well, me am smash mandolin! Me […]
Kelly Rose, The Purgatory Demos
My wife’s name is Kelly and my daughter’s middle name is Rose, so I figured I should go the extra […]
Rock Plaza Central, Are We Not Horses?
A loosely-conceived concept album about horses doesn’t really seem an obvious choice for hit status but if this doesn’t manage […]
Pan Out, Now
I imagine this band looking at their band name on a piece of paper, thinking, “Good band name.” Unfortunate, I […]