Cover Story
Toronto Electro Sensations Thunderheist Fight for Your Right to Party
PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2009
"I was super drunk in Norway. It was Norway right? With the blonde girl, the $20 table blonde girl? Remember the girl I left with that nigh...
Quebs Like Us
Montreal's Malajube Expand In Every Direction
PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2009
"It's not getting any easier," says Malajube's keyboardist, Thomas Augustin, about the band's four-way songwriting style. "We're more effic...
K'naan
The Beautiful Struggle
PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2009
You would be hard pressed to find a more apt descriptor for K'naan than his own name. K'naan means traveller and it could apply to any numb...
Sebastien Grainger Moves Mountains
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2008
On the phone from his Toronto neighbourhood, Sebastien Grainger is walking off a heavy dinner of jerk chicken and Irish moss. Early in our...
The Tensions of Fucked Up
PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2008
I am rubbing the glass-shard-filled head of a 300-pound guy named Pink Eyes. Damian Abraham, vocalist for the hipster-punk-baiting Fucked U...
Chad VanGaalen
Home Alone
PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2008
For Chad VanGaalen, a subconscious mind is a terrible thing to waste. He should know the Calgary songwriter has built an entire career ou...
Fuck the Facts
Capital Punishment
PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2008
Sometimes a career breakthrough turns into a career breakdown. After releasing their highest-profile album to date, their first on influent...
Elliott Brood
Building a History
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2008
On September 11, 1857, approximately 120 men, women, and children emigrating from Arkansas to California were slaughtered by an unlikely co...
