Articles by Chuck Molgat
Waking Eyes
Combing the Clouds
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002
Two years ago, unknown Steinbach melodic-pop commodity the Pets emerged from rural Manitoba with Love & War - a debut CD of surprising qual...
Bakunin's Bum
Fight To Win - A Benefit For OCAP
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2001
Grooves and beats on a G7 release? Don't worry, it's still radical. Fight To Win is the debut CD from Montreal's Bakunin's Bum, a studio du...
Sloan
Pretty Together
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2001
Sloan's sixth full-length studio album, Pretty Together, kicks off in big, familiar fashion before taking an abrupt turn for the easy-liste...
20 Minute Loop
Decline of Day
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2001
The songs are nowhere near 20 minutes in length, there aren't any discernible loops in the production and the disc's title has nothing to d...
Jack & the Beanstalk
Cowboys in Sweden
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001
Sweden Don't be misled by the disc's cover art parody of Pet Sounds - this Australian quartet shares little in the way of musical common gr...
Guess Who
This Time Long Ago
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001
This Time Long Ago is a two-CD package boasting 28 vintage, and from-the-vaults, Guess Who tracks spanning a period from 1966 to '68. Relea...
Two-Minute Miracles
Volume II
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001
This second full-length studio effort from London, ON's Two-Minute Miracles is an oddball-ish, twilight-dark, melodic gem, the likes of lan...
Young Canadians
Joyride on the Western Front
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001
Even 20 years after the fact, the biting, acerbic wit and angular melodic intensity of this seminal Vancouver punk trio comes off with fres...