Point of View
New Tunes, Classic Problems
Both Sides of the Reissue Dilemma
PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2007
A reissue is a double-edged sword: old tracks or entire CDs are unearthed and given them new life by putting them in a contemporary context...
Reggaeton Exchange Program
Island Sounds Outfox Colonials
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
You could call it cultural opportunism or you could call it a cynical marketing manoeuvre and you'd be right on both counts but when th...
Sliding Down The Surface
Electro-clash: Your 15 Minutes Are Up
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Ed Upton is pissed off. You'd expect the producer, best known for his work as the electro-popping DMX Krew, to be delighted at this year's...
Smoking Out the Locals
Tobacco Funded Shows Outspend Home Grown Efforts
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Tobacco kills so say doctors, and so say a growing number of artists, concert promoters and club owners across Canada. What most concerns...
Into the Mystic
Avant-folk Shapes A New Future
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
When Harry Smith released his epochal Anthology Of American Folk Music in 1952, the box bore an engraving of a single-stringed instrument b...
The Search for Middleground
New Producers Heal the Backpack/Benz Divide
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
When he took office in 1997, British Prime Minister Tony Blair prophesised the dawn of "third way" politics, placing himself in the middle...
The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being Indie
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
It's all there in black and white. In early October, the American record industry reached a milestone: for the first time in its history, e...
Put Your Back In It
Brazil Brings the Baile Funk
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
After years spent sermonising about the ill effects of globalization, progressive media outlets must begin to unearth those stories that te...