Cover Story
Jon-Rae and the River Smells Like Holy Spirit
Front
Beat Academy SCHOOL
Dubbing the World BLOG
Feeding Time COMIC
The Monthlies CALENDAR
Vice's Not Spots DVD
Points
The Indefinable Scissor Sisters
The Making of Lupe Fiasco
Translating Nina Nastasia
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Lets Go
Mastodon Want Long Term Love
Mouse on Mars Like to Flex
Sparklehorse Emerges Slowly
The Rapture's Happy Days
Under Byen Live It Out
Media
The Serial's the Prize Fall TV Season Tests Commitment Issues
Questionnaire
Emily Haines
Research
Kill the DJ Taking House Music Beyond the Clubs
Technology
In the Red Chinese Condenser Microphones Are the Revolution
Timeline
Sly & Robbie Rhythm Method
Aggressive Tendencies
Arctic Circle - Forcing the Astral
Behold…the Arctopus - Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning
Bible of the Devil - The Diabolic Procession
Cradle of Filth - Thornography
The Damascus Intervention - Carefully Built | Carelessly Destroyed
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
Destination: Oblivion - Larvae
Disappearer - Disappearer
Dragonforce - Valley of the Damned
Estradasphere - Palace of Mirrors
Fable - Get The “L” Outta Here!
Ghoulunatics - Cryogenie
Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
Gorod - Leading Vision
Heaven Shall Burn - Deaf to Our Prayers
Hellacaust - Inevitable Dementia
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
It Dies Today - Sirens
Jucifer - If Thine Enemy Hunger
Lacrimas Profundere - Filthy Notes for Frozen Hearts
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Light This City - Facing the Thousands
Misery Signals - Mirrors
Motörhead - Kiss of Death
Motörhead - Kiss of Death
Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
Norma Jean - Redeemer
Poostew / Japanische Kampfhörspiele - Heirat Aus Hass / Scheidung Aus Spass
SpiRitual - Pulse
Sulaco - Tearing through the Roots
Sulaco - Tearing through the Roots
Threat Signal - Under Reprisal
Unearth - III: In the Eyes of Fire
Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
Beats & Rhymes
Birdapres - Get It Done
Classified - Hitch Hikin' Music
DJ Krush - Stepping Stones: The Self-Remixed Best
JR Writer - History in the Making
Masta Killa - Made in Brooklyn
Mayday! - Mayday!
Method Man - 4:21… The Day After
Oh No - Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms
Panacea - Ink Is My Drink
Pastor Troy - By Choice Or By Force
Public Enemy - Bring That Beat Back
Ricca Razor Sharp - 12 Steps to a Deffer You
Rick Ross - Port of Miami
Sensational - Sensational meets Kouhei
Storm Davis - Kegstand Poetry for the Recovering Alcoholic
TomC3 - Project Polaroid
T-West - The Development Mixtape
Various Artists - 2Pac Tribute: Dare 2 Struggle
Various Artists - The Source Presents Fat Tape Vol. 1
Various Artists - Soldiers of Fortune
Young Dro - Best Thang Smokin’
Destination Out
Barnyard Drama - I’m a Navvy
Benoit Pioulard - Précis
Boots / C.C. / Snake & Remus - Box
Colleen et Les Boîtes à Musique - Colleen et Les Boîtes à Musique
Feuermusik - Goodbye Lucille
George Lewis - Sequel (for Lester Bowie)
Gerri Allen - Timeless Portraits and Dreams
Glen Halls - Progression Meditation
Inca Ore with Lemon Bear’s Orchestra - The Birds in the Bushes
Kaki King - ...Until We Felt Red
Ken Aldcroft’s Convergence Ensemble - The Great Divide
Knurl - Scyamine
Marcos Fernandes, Hans Fjellestad, Haco, Jakob Rii - Haco, Hans, Jakob, Marcos
Maxime De La Rouchefoucauld - Automates Ki: Orchestraki
Meissner / Slavin / Sachs - Into the Void
Mujician - There’s No Going Back Now
QuintetAvant - En Concert à la Salle des Fêtes
Ryan Teague - Coins & Crosses
Scotty Hard’s Radical Reconstructive Surgery Featu - Scotty Hard’s Radical Reconstructive Surgery Featuring Matthew Shipp and John Medeski
Tod Dockstader - Aerial #3
Frequencies
[T]ékël - [T]ékël
Anthony Rother - Super Space Model
Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio

Dani Siciliano - Slappers
Ensemble - Ensemble
F.S. Blumm - Summer Kling
Four Tet/Various - Remixes
Justice - Waters of Nazereth
Kangding Ray - Stabil
Kinky - Reina
Land Shark - Land Shark
Linus Loves - Stage Invader
Mocky - Navy Brown Blues
Remote - Too Low to Miss
Roger Sanchez - Come With Me
Steve Bug / Various - Bugnology 2
Trentemoller - The Last Resort
Various Artists - Discotheque Volume 1: The Haçienda
Vert - Some Beans & an Octopus
Wibutee - Sweet Mental
No Future
American Devices - American Devices
Cursive - Happy Hollow
Fifth Hour Hero - No Revenge… Just A Vicious Crush
Fucked Up - Hidden World
Fucked Up - Hidden World
Hot Snakes - Thunder Down Under
Mercy Killers / Enemy Rose - …And to Become One
Samiam - Whatever’s Got You Down
Springloaded - Nothing To Lose, Nothing To Gain
Strike Anywhere - Dead FM
These Arms Are Snakes - Easier
Various Artists - Everybody Loves ANTiSEEN
Pop Rocks
¡Forward Russia! - Give Me a Wall
Andrew Tweedy - Glass Fingers
The Awkward Stage - Heaven is for Easy Girls
Beach House - Beach House
Bedroom Walls - All Good Dreamers Pass This Way
Benni Hemm Hemm - Benni Hemm Hemm
Britt Black - Blackout
Califone - Roots & Crowns
Califone - Roots & Crowns
Corrina Repp - The Absent and the Distant
Crack ov Dawn - White Line
De Rosa - Mend
Delgados - The Complete BBC Peel Sessions
Droom - The Voice of Ghosts
Drugstore Cowboys - Chapter 3006
Early Day Miners - Offshore
Ed Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie
Electrelane - Singles, B-Sides & Live
Electric Six - Switzerland
Giddy Motors - Do Easy
Gitogito Hustler - Love & Roll
Great Aunt Ida - “How They Fly”
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Hope Of The States - Left
Hot Kid - Got it to Give
I’m From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
Jeannie Ortega - No Place like Brooklyn
John Doe - For the Best of Us
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSound
Kasabian - Empire
Kris Gruen - Lullaby School
Kubb - Mother
The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed
Memphis - A Little Place in the Wilderness
Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit
Mono & World’s End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain
Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
Mountaineer - When the Air is Bright They Shine
Ohbijou - Swift Feet for Troubling Times
OOIOO - Taiga
Ostinato - Chasing the Form
Oxford Collapse - Remember the Night Parties
Rat Wakes Red - Horizon Drops
Redstart - So Far From Over
Robert Pollard - Normal Happiness
Slow Hand Motëm - Brosis
Snowglobe - Oxytocin
So Many Dynamos - Flashlights
Spencer Dickinson - The Man Who Lives For Love
Sybarite - Cut Out Shape
Trentalange - Photo Album of Complex Relationships
Two Ton Boa - Parasiticide
USA is a Monster - Sunset at the End of the Industrial Age
Uzeda - Stella
Warpig - Warpig
Windom Earle - Goldwave
Winter Flowers - Winter Flowers
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Wood, Wires & Whiskey
Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love
Chris Thile - How to Grow a Woman from the Ground
Dan Walsh - Diesel & Smokes
Duhks - Migrations
Jenny Whiteley - Dear
Jim Cuddy - The Light That Guides You Home
Justin Rutledge - The Devil On A Bench In Stanley Park
Paul Burch - East to West
Richard Laviolette - A Little Less Like a Rock, A Little More Like Home
Rob Lamothe - Long Lazy Curver
Roger Dean Young and the Tin Cup - Casa
TK Webb - Phantom Parade
Various Artists - My Old Man: A Tribute to Steve Goodman
Various Artists - Fuzzy-Felt Folk
Concert Reviews
A Tribe Called Quest / Rhymefest / Consequence / The Procussions Kool Haus, Toronto ON - September 17, 2006
Edan / Inside-A-Mind The Horseshoe, Toronto ON - August 27, 2006
Ellen Allien & Apparat / The Ed Bangers Crew / Chromeo / Feadz & Uffie / Motomark Metropolis and SAT, Montreal QC - September 2, 2006
Guelph Jazz Festival Guelph ON - September 6 to 10, 2006
Ice Cube Kool Haus, Toronto ON - August 19, 2006
John Prine Massey Hall, Toronto ON - September 16, 2006
Mates Of State / Starlight Mints Lee’s Palace, Toronto ON - September 16, 2006
Osheaga Music Festival Parc Jean Drapeau, Montreal, QC - September 2 to 3, 2006
Touch and Go 25th Anniversary Block Party The Hideout, Chicago IL - September 8 to 10, 2006
Underoath / Moneen / Silverstein / He is Legend Croatian Cultural Centre, Vancouver BC - September 14, 2006
Virgin Festival Toronto Island Park, Toronto, ON - September 9 to 10, 2006
World Party Opera House, Toronto ON - September 3, 2006
DVD Reviews

Lost Season 2: The Extended Experience
One Tree Hill: The Complete Third Season
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Fifth Season
Grey’s Anatomy: The Complete Second Season Uncut
The Wire Season 3
My Name Is Earl: Season One
The Tick vs. Season One
Russell Peters: Outsourced
Battlestar Galactica Season 2.5
The Brak Show Volume 2
Rome: The Complete First Season
Art School Confidential - Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Black Of Gold - Directed by Nick and Marc Francis
Bombay Calling - Directed by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal
Bring It On: All Or Nothing - Directed by Steve Rash
Click - Directed by Frank Coraci
Grease: Rockin’ Rydell Edition - Directed by Randal Kleiser
Hard Candy - Directed by David Slade
I For India - Directed by Sandhya Suri
Jackass the Movie: Unrated - Directed by Jeff Tremaine
Lucky Number Slevin - Directed by Paul McGuigan
Pretty in Pink: Everything’s Duckie Edition / Some Kind of Wonderful: Special Collector’s Edition - Directed by Howard Deutch
Pretty Poison - Directed by Noel Black
Safe Men - Directed by John Hamburg
Scary Movie 4 - Directed by David Zucker
Sketches of Frank Gehry - Directed by Sydney Pollack
T*A*P*S - Directed by Harold Becker
Take the Lead - Directed by Liz Friedlander
Thank You For Smoking - Directed by Jason Reitman
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - Directed by Justin Lin
The Proposition - Directed by John Hillcoat
The War Tapes - Directed by Deborah Scranton
The Wicker Man - Directed by Robin Hardy
United 93 - Directed by Paul Greengrass
Film Reviews
Manufactured Landscapes - Directed by Jennifer Baichwal
The Guardian - Directed by Andrew Davis
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen - Directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn
Music DVD Reviews
Killwhitneydead - Scene of the Crime
Rory Gallagher - Live At Montreux: The Definitive Montreux Collection

TIFF Reviews
2:37 - Directed by Murali K. Thalluri
A Good Year - Directed by Ridley Scott
A Stone’s Throw - Directed by Camelia Frieberg
A Sunday in Kigali - Directed by Robert Favreau
All The King’s Men - Directed by Steven Zaillian
American Hardcore - Directed by Paul Rachman
Antonia - Directed by Tata Amaral
Babel - Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
Bamako - Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan - Directed by Larry Charles
Bunny Chow - Directed by John Barker
Citizen Duane - Directed by Michael Mabbott
Colossal Youth - Directed by Pedro Costa
Congorama - Directed by Philippe Falardeau
Dans les villes - Directed by Catherine Martin
EMPz 4 Life - Directed by Allan King
Exiled - Directed by Johnnie To
Fido - Directed by Andrew Currie
For Your Consideration - Directed by Christopher Guest
Hana - Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone - Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang
Invisible Waves - Directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
Kabul Express - Directed by Kabir Khan
Kurt Cobain: About A Son - Directed by AJ Schnack
L’Homme de Sa Vie - Directed by Zabou Breitman
Lake Of Fire - Directed by Tony Kaye
Manufactured Landscapes - Directed by Jennifer Baichwal
Manufactured Landscapes - Directed by Jennifer Baichwal
Office Tigers - Directed by Liz Mermin
Offside - Directed by Jafar Panahi
Paperback Hero - Directed by Peter Pearson
Paris, Je T’aime - Directed by Bruno Podalydès, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen, Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, Christopher Doyle, Isabel Coixet, Nobuhiro Suwa, Sylvain Chomet, Alfonso Cuarón, Olivier Assayas, Oliver Schmitz, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali,
Radiant City - Directed by Gary Burns and Jim Brown
Reg Harkema - Monkey Warfare
Remembering Arthur - Directed by Martin Lavut
Requiem - Directed by Hans-Christian Schmidt
Severance - Directed by Christopher Smith
Sharkwater - Directed by Rob Stewart
Shortbus - Directed by John Cameron Mitchell
Summer Palace - Directed by Lou Ye
Summercamp! - Directed by Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price
Syndromes and a Century - Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Banquet - Directed by Feng Xiaogang
The Fall - Directed by Tarsem Singh
The Host - Directed by Bong Joon-ho
The Italian - Directed by Andrei Kravchuk
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen - Directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn
The Killer Within - Directed by Macky Alston
The Lives of Others - Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Namesake - Directed by Mira Nair
The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema - Directed by Sophie Fiennes
The Prisoner, or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair - Directed by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker
The Spirit of Places - Directed by Catherine Martin
The U.S. vs. John Lennon - Directed by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld
The White Planet - Directed by Jean Lemire, Thierry Piantanida and Thierry Ragobert
Trapped Ashes - Directed by Sean Cunningham, Joe Dante, John Gaeta, Monte Hellman, Ken Russell
Volver - Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Label Life
Sudden Death
Meet & Greet
Jannie McInnes Executive Producer, Revolver Films
Need to Know
How to Make a No Budget Video Make Me a Star!
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