Timeline

Skinny Puppy

Every Dog Has Its Day

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

For nearly 15 years, Vancouver's Skinny Puppy have been finding and playing with sound, deconstructing and reconstructing it. Although they...

Wu-Tang Clan

Days of the Wu

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

The influence of the Wu-Tang Clan on hip-hop cannot be dismissed lightly. The group revolutionised the sound and business of hip-hop in the...

Being Björk

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Björk once sang, "I'm going to prove the impossible really exists," and for the last 25 years she's celebrated the contradictions that crea...

Steve Earle

A Man Done Gone Makes It Back

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"Um, Steve would probably prefer not to talk about the drug stuff. He's done so many other things since then." As a pre-interview publicist...

Rheostatics

Blame Canada

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Commenting on the Rheostatics' 21st year altering the course of Canadian rock'n'roll, rhythm guitarist Dave Bidini muses, "I wish we could...

Meat Puppets

Desert Desperados

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

For the better part of two decades, Texas-born brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood and drummer Derrick Bostrom have been the Meat Puppets. If t...

Tool

Stepping Out From the Shadows

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

To achieve a state of autonomy within a megalopolis such as Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the planet, is practically impossible...

Nick Cave

Reaps What He Sows

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

From his early days with Melbourne, Australia's post-punk rockers the Birthday Party, through the last two decades spent playing with the B...