Cover Story

Hungry Like the Wolf Parade

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

Two and a half years ago, Wolf Parade played their first gig on borrowed gear. They were recording an EP with a whopping budget of $20. The...

Corb Lund

Sweetheart of the Rodeo

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

Without flinching, Corb Lund grabs the remains of a gopher — more of a candy wrapper, really — and holds it up to the baby ravens in the ra...

Cuff the Duke

Suburban Cowboys

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

Having a beer with the members of Cuff the Duke on a scorching afternoon in Guelph, Ontario, it's hard to imagine four more diverse persona...

Boys Night Out

Madness to Their Method

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

At four in the afternoon on a postcard-perfect summer day, about 50 young extras have gathered on a lawn. A few look like outcasts from a m...

Sleater-Kinney

The Great Destroyers

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

I've just told one of my rock'n'roll heroes that I hated her new record… at first, anyway. "Really? Well, that's good!" laughs Carrie Brown...

Caribou

Math, Psychedelia and an Ass Named Handsome Dick

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

No matter how kind or honest a musician may be, there are always going to be people trying their best to hold them back, knock them down or...

Roots Manuva

Reluctant Hero

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

"I can't bloody think straight in here. Everybody's talking shit!" Rodney Hylton Smith, aka Roots Manuva, sounds like he's about to lose it...

Choke

In Sickness and In Health

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

You've heard it before. Hell, you've probably even read it in this very magazine: being in a band is akin to a marriage — albeit of the pol...