Articles by Daniel Sylvester
Oneida & Rhys Chatham
What's Your Sign?
PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2016
After performing on stage together in 2012 at New York's Ecstatic Music Festival, fellow rock experimentalists Oneida and Rhys Chatham join...
Simian Mobile Disco
Welcome to Sideways
PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2016
On Simian Mobile Disco's last album, 2014's Whorl, the duo set very specific restrictions on their recording process, opting for manually o...
Lambchop
FLOTUS
PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2016
For an artist with such a sprawling body of work, it's remarkable just how solid and focused a discography Kurt Wagner has amassed over the...
Stiff Little Fingers / Mother's Children
Bronson Centre Theatre, Ottawa ON, October 28
PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2016
Gearing up for a 2017 UK tour to mark the band's 40th anniversary, Stiff Little Fingers played the penultimate date of their Canadian trip...
Oren Ambarchi
Hubris
PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2016
Although the title of Oren Ambarchi's latest full-length is playfully tongue-in-cheek, it nonetheless takes a certain level of self-confide...
Spookey Ruben
Modes III
PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2016
In 2014, Chilly Gonzales, Esthero and Owen Pallett helped Alan Deil (a.k.a. Spookey Ruben) launch a successful Indiegogo campaign to releas...
Gas
Box
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2016
The fact that Wolfgang Voigt only recorded under his Gas moniker between 1995 and 2000 is remarkable for two reasons: one, that he was able...
Bill Hicks
Sane Man
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2016
Since his untimely death in 1994, Bill Hicks has been recognized as one of the most celebrated and iconic comedians off all time. And altho...