Articles by Chris Bilton

Waingro

Waingro

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2014

Michael Mann's 1995 crime-drama masterpiece Heat is a movie jam-packed with anti-heroes, one of whom even gets to beat up Henry Rollins. Bu...

Soundgarden

Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path

PUBLISHED Nov 25, 2014

It was only a matter of time before Soundgarden started cashing in on grunge nostalgia, which is totally reasonable considering their class...

Meligrove Band on 'Bones of Things' and the Weirdness of Being Documentary Subjects

PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2014

Lately, it seems that to be somebody, someone should make a documentary about your band. Sure, there's inherent enlightenment to be found i...

Antemasque / Le Butcherettes

Virgin Mobile Mod Club, Toronto ON, November 14

PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2014

Clutching the microphone cable as he flailed the mic around in front of a packed Mod Club crowd, Antemasque frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala l...

SQÜRL

EP #3

PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2014

For every dozen or so questionable musical side projects by Hollywood stars — Jared Leto's Five Seconds to Mars, Billy Bob Thornton's...

Meligrove Band

Bones of Things

PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2014

Toronto's Meligrove Band have always thrived on sounding slightly out of place. Their first few albums of psychedelic power-pop made for an...

Mamiffer

Statu Nascendi

PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2014

Forget those Rockabye Baby! albums with lullaby versions of Slayer and Sabbath; metal fans searching for soothing sounds that still have st...

Olde

I

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2014

There's no riff too big for the dudes of Olde. On the Toronto doom-metal band's debut album, I, the five members approach their sound as if...