November Issue 2015
Duchess Says
Special Blend
PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2016
Duchess Says are at the beginning of a world tour in support of their new record, Sciences Nouvelles, when singer Annie-Claude Deschênes dr...
Beat Happening
Music For Everyone
PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2015
Hearing Beat Happening for the first time — Heather Lewis's primitive drumming, Calvin Johnson's idiosyncratic, sometimes off-key bar...
Grimes
Free to Fly
PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2015
For the last three years, a new album by Vancouver born-and-bred producer/artist Grimes (aka Claire Boucher) has been included in every "mo...
Rival Consoles
Simple Life
PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2015
"My process is pretty simple really," explains Ryan Lee West, the man behind Rival Consoles. "It's nothing really technical that a wizard h...
Steam Whistle Unsigned
Fall Concert Update
PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2015
Steam Whistle Unsigned — the ongoing nationwide concert series that promotes the best up-and-coming indie acts from across our countr...
Cult Leader
Breaking Through
PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2015
Cult Leader vocalist Anthony Lucero is pretty up-front with how he's been feeling these days on his band's brutal new album, Lightless Walk...
Dilly Dally
Hometown Pride
PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2015
If Katie Monks has her way, Dilly Dally's debut album Sore won't just catapult the quartet into rock's big leagues — it will bring al...
What I Play
Emilie & Ogden
PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2015
Emilie Kahn was trapped inside Studio B-12 during a snowstorm in February. The Montreal musician, who goes by Emilie & Ogden — the la...