Articles by Alex Molotkow

Kensington Market

Aardvark

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2008

While Avenue Road neatly summarised the musical trends of the late ’60s, Aardvark (released in 1969) anticipated the trends of the early ’7...

Kensington Market

Avenue Road

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2008

Don’t let the name fool you, Toronto, ON’s Kensington Market were born of ’60s-era Yorkville, back when the neighbourhood was the nation’s...

Katie Stelmanis

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2008

Toronto’s Katie Stelmanis turned away from a life-long regimen of classical training to try her own thing as a songwriter. A musical overac...

The Constantines Are Your Neighbours

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2008

What do the Constantines have in common with the Guess Who? The same custom-made Garnet amplifier — Randy Bachman’s Herzog, to be exact — t...

White Hinterland

Phylactery Factory

PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2008

Though I’ve tried to love it anew, Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele just doesn’t sound the way it did when I was 13. I think I’ve finally found a...

Lynn Blessing

Sunset Painter

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

There’s nothing offensive about Lynn Blessing’s Sunset Painter, a mellow collection of pop interpretations by way of the vibraphone. Blessi...

St Mikael

Mind of Fire

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

There is a question that every self-respecting psych fan must ask his or herself: do I believe these fucking guys? Is it worth indulging so...

No Kids

Come Into My House

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

No Kids’ debut is everything it claims to be: an elegant amalgam of disparate musical genres, diverse instrumentation and warm beats. A mel...