Research

Here's Where The Strings Come In

Soft Pop and the New Melodic Explorers

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"White-bread, saccharine, fake flower-power schmaltz... conveying the daffy zing of toothpaste ads."So reads The Rolling Stone Album Guide'...

Roxy Music

Pop Art For Your Pleasure

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In the dubious jargon of radio programming, if it's from the 70s, it's classic rock, and if it's from the '80s, it's retro rock, which may...

Mike Patton's Progress

From Faith No More to Fantômas

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"I think it goes in a lot of different directions and it's not really easy to sum up in any little nutshell; I wouldn't try to anyway. I wo...

Breaking Bread with Peanuts & Corn

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"Peanuts & Corn Records is the tangible piece of a movement that I couldn't begin to summarise," says John Smith of the independent, Vancou...

Broken Beats of the Underground

Days of Future Past

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

What's old is new again. It's a phrase often used to reference emerging music, but rarely does it imply more than a marketing-friendly revi...

Big In Japan

Debunking the International Myth

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Big in Japan. It's the rock'n'roll myth that countless legends are made of. It's the fantasy of many young band basement dwelling North Ame...

Cowboy Junkies Interview with Michael Timmins

Og Records

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

What was the zeitgeist like when you started playing in 1985?There were a lot of bands who had been playing around a lot, either under the...

Gas Station

One Last Stop

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

At the beginning of April, when word first spread that Toronto recording studio the Gas Station was given 30 days to vacate its space – a v...