Articles by Andrew Steenberg
Candidates
Canadian Music Week 2004 March 3 to 6, Toronto ON
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2007
The Candidates dodged CMWs milieu of cologne and cowboy-hat sportin Albertans. Pity, since both parties generally like their music loud a...
Death From Above
Canadian Music Week 2004 March 3 to 6, Toronto ON
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2007
Toronto hellions Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger are loud, hirsute and startlingly fun for a band that writes songs about "cum shelv...
Wolfmother
Wolfmother
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006
Wolfmother face three formidable hindrances to becoming the "sprawling beast that they purport to be. The first is their name. We dont ne...
Grandaddy
Just Like the Fambly Cat
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006
"Yet there are some of us who grieve/To go behind;/Staunch strenuous souls who scarce believe/Their fires declined. This was Thomas Hardy...
Ambulance Ltd
New English EP
PUBLISHED May 1, 2006
Biz Markie once wrote a song about taking a shit. Ambulance Ltd., I sense, have similar musical powers not lyrically, but tunefully, thei...
Souls She Said
As Templar Nites
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006
Turn all amplifiers and mics up; add a drum fill as often as possible; noise upon noise, and then more noise, and then more. Souls She Said...
Editors
The Back Room
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006
Like several bands of the past 26 years, Editors cull the vernal, yet dyspeptic, pastures of Joy Division, but have a more eager willingnes...
Concretes
In Colour
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006
Good music has never been a particularly blithe affair. There always seems to be more Cures and Elliott Smiths than, say, Broken Social Sce...
