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Warpaint – Undertow

Warpaint – Undertow

Warpaint weave intricate guitar lines, hypnotic vocals and driving post punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between psychedelia and intimacy. Both [...]

WARPAINT – The Fool
reviewed by Hanna Rose

WARPAINT – The Fool

If “glam hypnotic” is a legitimate genre to categorize albums into, I think Warpaint might be its poster child. Imagine, if you will, all the [...]

DYLAN LEBLANC – Pauper’s Field
reviewed by Ryan Moore

DYLAN LEBLANC – Pauper’s Field

It wasn’t too long ago that I was making the transformation from teenager to twenty-something, and, accordingly, I often turned to my acoustic guitar to [...]

BELLE & SEBASTIAN – Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
reviewed by Luke Winkie

BELLE & SEBASTIAN – Belle and Sebastian Write About Love

The indie slow-jam has been Belle & Sebastian territory for the last 15 years now. Stuart Murdoch and his legion of fidgety, cross-legged, English majoring [...]

MYSTERY JETS – Serotonin
reviewed by Ryan Moore

MYSTERY JETS – Serotonin

If your guilty pleasure involves dancing around your living room in a white blazer, light pink ascot, and boat shoes…you might as well be listening [...]

JOE WORRICKER – EP
reviewed by Hanna Rose

JOE WORRICKER – EP

Boyish and small, but packing a deep pool of R&B soul in his effervescing delivery, Joe Worricker is…well, he’s something else, that’s for sure. EP [...]

Mystery Jets – Flash A Hungry Smile

Mystery Jets – Flash A Hungry Smile

The Mystery Jets upcoming new album Serotonin was recorded by Chris Thomas, legendary producer of Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure, the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy In The [...]

Joe Worricker – Wrap Me Up (Pocketknife remix)

Joe Worricker – Wrap Me Up (Pocketknife remix)

Dubbed “Britain’s next great voice” by one leading music magazine, Essex born Joe Worricker is a truly unique talent. Recalling some of the 20th century’s most [...]

Show Review: Sasquatch! 2010
words and photos by Gary Lappier

Show Review: Sasquatch! 2010

The 2010 Sasquatch Music Festival is now in the bag, and now that the last notes of Ween’s epic closing set have floated back into the ether, I am here to fill you in. The weekend, which took place at The Gorge Ampitheatre in George, Washington, in was chock full of good, bad, and some truly ugly moments.

THE MORNING BENDERS – Big Echo
reviewed by Matt Edmund

THE MORNING BENDERS – Big Echo

In the span of only five years, The Morning Benders have had a total of eight releases.  Their newest effort, Big Echo, reveals a mix [...]

The Morning Benders – Promises

The Morning Benders – Promises

The Morning Benders are a four-piece who recently relocated from San Francisco to New York City. “Promises” appears on their highly anticipated new album, Big [...]

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 [...]

PANTHA DU PRINCE – Black Noise
reviewed by Matt Edmund

PANTHA DU PRINCE – Black Noise

It’s a never ending battle. The battle between nature and technology. The void between mechanical and manual…digital versus analog. In an attempt to try to [...]

ELIZABETH FRASER – Moses
reviewed by Hanna Rose

ELIZABETH FRASER – Moses

Elizabeth Fraser. The name alone conjures up flashbacks of the neon-spewing Eighties synth and New Wave. The Cocteau Twins breakup broke hearts in 1997, but [...]

BASIA BULAT – Heart of My Own
reviewed by Hanna Rose

BASIA BULAT – Heart of My Own

Basia Bulat’s Heart of My Own, “folk music from the hills,” is aptly titled as it is pure, untarnished, and from the heart. Bulat’s soulful ballads of heartache and heartbreak filtered through a wailing, strong, classic female voice (dare I compare her to Joni Mitchell?) make this album one for the charts.