Albums Of The Week: Heatmiser | The Music of Heatmiser
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Legendary ’90s indie-rock group Heatmiser — Elliott Smith, Neil Gust, Tony Lash and Brandt Peterson — have released The Music of Heatmiser, a 29-song compilation...
Albums Of The Week: Timber Timbre | Lovage
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “After six years, Taylor Kirk, the Toronto musician behind Timber Timbre, finally returns with a new full-length entitled Lovage — his most accomplished and engrossing...
Albums Of The Week: A. Savage | Several Songs About Fire
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “I imagine myself playing these songs in a small club that is slowly burning,” says A. Savage of his second solo record, Several Songs about...
Albums Of The Week: La Chinga | Primal Forces
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “La Chinga are a hard rock power trio with psychedelic powers sitting on the world's edge in Vancouver. Drawing from Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The...
Albums Of The Week: The Rural Alberta Advantage | The Rise & The Fall
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Rise & The Fall is the fifth studio album from charged folk-rock trio The Rural Alberta Advantage. It is the first album featuring the...
Albums Of The Week: Clockwise On Fire | Take Me With You
THE EDITED PRESS RELEAESE: “Clockwise On Fire mold a living and breathing hybrid of psychedelic rock, progressive, funk, and alternative, shapeshifting with each key change. The musical union of...
Albums Of The Week: Sufjan Stevens | Javelin
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Over the course of his career, Sufjan Stevens has blurred distinctions between the major and the minor, between the details that color our existence and...
Albums Of The Week: Lowest Of The Low | Welcome To The Plunderdome
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ Lowest Of The Low’s sixth studio album Welcome To The Plunderdome features 12 self-produced tracks from the legendary Canadian Indie Rock Hall of Famers...
Albums Of The Week: Ida Mae | Thunder Above You
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Let Ida Mae take you on a joyride across the vast American expanse. Be introduced to all manner of eccentric characters along the way —...
Albums Of The Week: Roger Waters | The Dark Side of the Moon Redux
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “To celebrate the 50th anniversary year of The Dark Side Of The Moon, Roger Waters announces the release of his homage to the original: The...
Albums Of The Week: Johnny Dowd | Is Heaven Real? How Would I Know?
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “I never wanted to be a songwriter,” recalls singer-guitarist Johnny Dowd. It's a strange confession from one of America's most evocative wordsmiths. But when it...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | My Complicated Relationship With Bongo Fury
It was such an unusual thing to see in a junk shop — an amateur painting of the cover of Bongo Fury.
My partner and I go to lots of...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Excuse Me While I Bootleg This Guy
I love feeding-frenzy records. These are the ones which come out after someone has become a star — usually involving their early studio works or unofficial material — and...
Classic Album Review: The Parkas | Now This is Fighting
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
No more entries, please,...
Classic Album Review: Obie Trice | Cheers
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Sure, tough guys are...
