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Peaches

Bombastic Beat Babe

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

She did the folk thing with Mermaid Café. She achieved her goal of being a "crazy singer" with Fancypants Hoodlum, an avant-jazz-rock band....

The New Deal

Human Behaviour

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"It was such a beautiful accident."Dan Kurtz, bassist for the New Deal, is reliving his band's birth. It was a legendary conception, a rock...

The Gruesomes

Back from the Grave

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

The Gruesomes were watching Jeopardy when I called. It struck me as ridiculously commonplace - what else would they be doing? After all, si...

Sigur Rós

20,000 Icelanders Can't Be Wrong

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

For months now, fans with an ear to the ground have been buzzing about a band they're not even sure how to pronounce. They've been wanderin...

The Edgy Grace of Neko Case

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Anyone who's followed her career will know that Neko Case isn't your average country singer, even though her sound is deeply rooted in the...

Grade

Back to Basics

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In late July, Grade were the grand prize in a MuchMusic contest. The nation's music station brought the band to a viewer's house where they...

Duotang

Two Piece Suites

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

It may sound like a cliché from some desperate tourism brochure, but Winnipeg's Exchange District is where the heart of this prairie capita...

​Tanya Tagaq

She the North

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2016

On stage, Tanya Tagaq screams, pants, grunts and growls mostly wordless exhortations of intense emotion; her vocalizations balance melody a...