Articles by Daniel Sylvester

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  Misc Pull Montreal Jazz into the Future on 'Partager l'ambulance'

  PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2021

  From Maynard Ferguson through Oscar Peterson and Oliver Jones, Quebecois jazz has forever paraded a distinct and splendid sound: jaunty, bu...

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  Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders' 'Promises' Is More Mind Meld Than Collaboration

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2021

  As a backing musician during John Coltrane's cosmic phase, throughout sessions with Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and spanning his 57 years as...

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  Arab Strap Keep Listeners Guessing on Comeback Album 'As Days Get Dark'

  PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2021

  "I don't give a fuck about the past, the glory days gone by." When it comes to Arab Strap, it seems like there's no other reasonable way to...

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  Stereolab Unearth Long-Lost Classics on 'Electrically Possessed [Switched On Volume 4]'

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2021

  Just months after the release of their 1992 debut full-length, Peng!, Stereolab were already collecting odds and ends, collecting early 7-i...

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  Smashing Pumpkins' Double Album 'Cyr' Fails to Match Billy Corgan's Ambitions

  PUBLISHED Nov 25, 2020

  For myriad reasons, it's best to approach each post-millennium Smashing Pumpkins album with as little backstory as possible. With that bein...

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  Petr Cancura, Charlie Hunter and Geoff Clapp Channel Collaborative Joy on 'Don't Let It Stop!'

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2020

  Born in the Czech Republic and raised in Ottawa, saxophonist Petr Cancura brings a world of influence to his craft. After a sojourn in Broo...

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  AC/DC Are Back to Their Former Glory on 'POWER UP'

  PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2020

  In 2017, it looked like AC/DC, a band synonymous with resilience, was far too fractured and vulnerable to carry on. Within a two year span,...

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  AC/DC Got "Back in the Groove Again" Thanks to New Technology and Old Friends

  PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2020

  AC/DC are consummate professionals — and that's where most people, even hardcore fans, seem to get it wrong. Despite all the bawdy lyrics,...