Point of View

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...

Building A Mystery

The Folk Noir of Daniel Lanois

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

I'm parked in my parents' driveway, the windows rolled down, listening. It's almost 11 o'clock on a Saturday night, and I'd rather not go i...

Point of View: Drum & Bass About Face

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

Remember drum & bass? Unless you're a hardcore junglist, that genre probably hasn't crossed your mind since you traded in your copy of Repr...