Articles by Eric Hill

Wooley / Lytton / Grubbs

Seven Storey Mountain

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2009

Free-jazz has long been a haven for spiritual searchers on enlightened paths. Nate Wooley is a young American trumpet player who has associ...

Ambarchi / Fennesz / Pimmon / Rehberg / Rowe

Afternoon Tea

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2009

What began as an improvised festival session now, a decade later, stands as a watershed moment for cross-genre (and generation) improvisati...

Swine Flu Brings Early End to the Meligrove Band Tour

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2009

Toronto, ON rockers the Meligrove Band have had to cancel the last four dates of their current tour with the Most Serene Republic, as two m...

Maserati/Juan MacLean Drummer Killed in Elevator Accident

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2009

Jerry Fuchs, who's served as the drummer for !!!, the Juan MacLean and Maserati, died early Sunday morning (November 8) from injuries susta...

Mountain Goats

The Life of the World to Come

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2009

Folk storytellers from Dylan to Sufjan have pulled the bible from the drawer for inspiration, but on this 17th the Mountain Goats album, re...

Capybara

Try Brother

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2009

Is it fair to be especially impressed when a new band you fancy come not from New York, Toronto, Los Angeles or Montreal but Kansas? Capyba...

Various

M - Pop Muzik / 30th Anniversary Remixes

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2009

At the risk of exposing my fogey status, I must confess I owned the seven-inch single for "Pop Muzik" in the early '80s. As an artefact of...

Black Heart Procession

Six

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2009

A big part of BHP's early appeal was their almost cartoonishly bleak approach to mood and tempo. Their first three albums were snail-paced,...