Articles by Chuck Molgat

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  VaGiants

  Short And Hard

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

  Boasting perhaps the most clever genital-themed band name since Toronto's Boygina, Winnipeg's VaGiants describe themselves in their bio as...

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  X

  At Home With You

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

  No, not that X (the one from Los Angeles featuring John Doe and Exene Cervenka), rather this is a reissue of a gritty 1985 underground rock...

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  Thousand Dollar Playboys

  Stay!

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Having already taken control of the international reins of political punk-dom, Sweden's musical invasion next sets its rangefinders on the...

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  Elvis Costello

  When I Was Cruel

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  After several years spent alternating between creative exile and run of the mill duet action, Elvis Costello has decided to stop making mus...

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  Hot Hot Heat

  Knock Knock Knock

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  If Cure front-man Robert Smith had teamed up with XTC in 1978, the results might have sounded something like Victoria quartet Hot Hot Heat....

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  Primrods

  Shit Side Story

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Even on their studio outtakes and early cassette demos, dearly departed Calgary punks the Primrods sound like they knew exactly what they w...

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  Creeping Nobodies

  I-X-U

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  The five members of Toronto’s Creeping Nobodies came together just over a year ago for the sake of a one-off tribute gig honouring the Fall...

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  Mysterio

  Agent000

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  If Bond’s double-zero designation represents a license to kill, Mysterio’s triple digits must afford the band a right to create catchy, dyn...