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Hardcore Women Crash the Boys Club

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

This just in: women can play guitars. And we're not talking about those folksy acoustic guitars either. Women are tearing up fret boards wi...

Two Timing

Traditional Release Strategies Clash With Global Buzz

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

When New York's newest post-punks We Are Scientists rolled into Toronto earlier this year they had only just released their debut album, ye...

Label Funding Debate Continues

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Prompted in part by an article in last month's Exclaim! ("Arts Funding For Whom?" by Neil Haverty), government representatives met with a r...

Schaffel Beat Resuscitates Techno

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Whatever happened to paradise? For a brief time in the mid-‘90s, it seemed as if rave culture had usurped the music industry's top-down bus...

No Escape

Exploring Noise's Negative Lands

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

An ominous underworld quietly, furiously exists. Something like faint panting sounds, perhaps the effort of some dilapidated creature, as a...

Radio R/evolution

Podcasting and Satellite Offer Opposite Innovations

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

The only radio that plays the kind of music we like around here has gotten pretty trite, it's pretty boring," says Krash Coarse, who co-hos...

The Other Quebec

Innovative Metal Scene Flies Under the Radar

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

The Montreal music scene has been receiving more international attention than ever before, highlighting bands like the Arcade Fire, Godspee...

Rhythms West

Coastal Producers Harness Tech Among the Trees

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

I don't know what the secret ingredient is, but there is something special happening here," says Evan Bluetech, who discovered supernatural...