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Nate and Jackson: Quick Question :-)
by Nate Pollard and Jackson Ellis

Nate and Jackson: Quick Question :-)

Making a magazine is fucking hard work. But, in this installment of Nate and Jackson, Nate and Jackson demonstrate that they are hard workers who use reasonable discourse to enact creative problem solving.

THE BCASA – Fuck It Up Hard
reviewed by Chris Aitkens

THE BCASA – Fuck It Up Hard

The BCASA represent a big part of the Montreal punk scene, but to every other city, they’re just another band with an unusual long name: The B*ll C*sby Anarchist Society of America (censored after receiving a cease and desist order from Bill Cosby’s lawyers). Well, that’s soon to change…

Screaming Females – I Do

Screaming Females – I Do

From their first TV appearances (dancing with puppets on Chicago’s cult public access TV show, “Chic-a-Go-Go”, then making their national TV debut as a musical [...]

The Twilight
words by Rachel Carter | artwork by Jakes

The Twilight

Lately my friends and I have been making up fake words. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I used the word “fauxpen” around [...]

The Depressed Man
words by Cameron Pierce | photo by Conna Lee

The Depressed Man

A man walks into a grocery store. He forgot his shopping list at home. He picks up a green basket and walks into the produce [...]

Finn Riggins – Wake

Finn Riggins – Wake

It’s rare for a band to tour for 245 days in the span of a year. It’s even less common for said band to a) [...]

HOLLY MIRANDA – The Magician’s Private Library
reviewed by Hanna Rose

HOLLY MIRANDA – The Magician’s Private Library

Why do we frequent coffee shops? Of course for the reward of a hot, frothy, morning treat after forking over a hefty ransom of cash. But other than that, we continue to visit our favorite java haunts to experience its traditional ambience; the dim, cool, lighting…

ALKALINE TRIO – This Addiction
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

ALKALINE TRIO – This Addiction

Okay…point blank: I have never listened to Alkaline Trio. For serious. Never. They’re just one of them bands that I’ve heard of for a while [...]

Growing – Hormone

Growing – Hormone

Growing started work on their newest full-length titled Pumps in March 2009 at Brooklyn’s Ocropolis with engineer Barry London. Ocropolis is a great big pile [...]

Patrick Bower and the World Without Magic – The Dark Lord (of Love)

Patrick Bower and the World Without Magic – The Dark Lord (of Love)

Sonically, Patrick Bower and the World Without Magic summons the dark mood of Scott Walker, structurally stems from the ornate pop of Harry Nilsson and [...]

Interview: Basia Bulat
words by Matthew Wright| photo by Jenna Marie Wakani

Interview: Basia Bulat

There are plenty of reasons other than the Winter Olympics to set your sights on the second-largest country in the world right now. Canadian contributions [...]

MAN/MIRACLE – The Shape of Things
reviewed by Luke Winkie

MAN/MIRACLE – The Shape of Things

Man/Miracle is a rock band, an unapologetic, beer-swilling, hot-blooded, blues n’ druids rock band. They write songs about pain, misery, and no-good women, and their debut album The Shape of Things is frontloaded with record-collector classics like Mott the Hoople, Love, and Os Mutantes.

Too Deep: In the Beginning, It Is Always Dark
by Nate Pollard

Too Deep: In the Beginning, It Is Always Dark

In this, the second to last comic, we dissect the comic strip form, rending joke from picture to devour the sweet meta-nectar that lies beneath the meaning.

KAREN PAGE – S/T
reviewed by Matt Edmund

KAREN PAGE – S/T

Karen Page’s music hits you like a schizophrenic grandparent: one second they are pinching your cheek and telling you how proud they are of you, [...]

PJ BOND – You Didn’t Know I Was Alphabetical
reviewed by Garrett Lyons

PJ BOND – You Didn’t Know I Was Alphabetical

You Didn’t Know I Was Alphabetical is a brilliant collection of songs ranging from Matt Pond PA to early Wilco folk-rockers. The whole album ebbs [...]