Articles by Daniel Sylvester

Lora Bidner

To the North

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2015

While To the North may be structured like your typical singer/songwriter release, Lora Bidner strives to make every moment of her sophomore...

Pole Gets Back to Nature on 'Wald'

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2015

This month, Pole released Wald, his first album since 2007's Steingarten. And while an eight-year gap between albums may feel painfully lon...

Wilco

Lansdowne Park, Ottawa ON, September 20

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2015

After changing their name to the more modish CityFolk, Ottawa's Folk Festival underwent a substantial expansion for their 2015 edition. Mov...

Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin

Touristes

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2015

After a chance meeting in New York, Malian blues-folk guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and American vocal looper Julia Easterlin created Tourist...

Pole

Wald

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2015

On Pole's classic trilogy of albums (1, 2 and 3), Stefan Betke seemed absorbed wholly by the sonic qualities of his music, as the Germen mu...

Howard Kremer

Summahtology

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2015

As fans of the popular podcast Who Charted? can attest, Howard Kremer is one of comedy's true weirdos. But like fellow oddballs Reggie Watt...

Müller_Roedelius

Imagori

PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2015

Hans-Joachim Roedelius is a serial collaborator. After helping to define Krautrock in the early '70s with his bands Cluster and Harmonia, t...

Various Artists

µ20

PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2015

When Mike Paradinas (aka µ-Ziq) formed his Planet Mu record label in 1995, electronic music was on the verge of breaking into the mainstrea...