Articles by Fish Griwkowsky

Hugh Cornwell / Twilight Hotel

Power Plant, Edmonton AB - March 26, 2006

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

Facing any rock iconoclast can be risky, but as former Strangler Hugh Cornwell stood there hissing at his paltry assembly of alcoholic folk...

Shout Out Out Out Out / Twin Fangs / Eve Cournoyer

Power Plant, Edmonton AB - March 10, 2006

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

Love wasn't just in the air during this CBC3 ménage a trois, it sprayed over the cement, the bricks and the skin. Taped live for future edi...

The Truth and <b>Old Reliable</b>

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Shuyler Jansen gophers up last from the tight basement of the 100-year-old house Old Reliable have bargained their practices into. He looks...

Old Crow Medicine Show

O.C.M.S.

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Despite the allure of rock’n’roll rebellion ubiquitous in our hearts and ear canals, one of the uncool secrets to sustaining a good band is...

Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminals Starvation League

From the End of Your Leash

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Revolution is impossible without institutional oppression; Bobby Bare Jr. is proof of that. This is a notable album, sprung from symbolical...

Vertical Struts

The Vertical Struts

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Finally! Raymond Biesinger and Trevor Anderson show off a feline-cool, canine-fierce array of focused talent, taking their frenetic live sh...

Castanets

First Light's Freeze

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

While there’s nothing here to turn you hair instantly white, the next Castanets album does boast some sticky melody-making, perfectly simpl...

Vailhalen

Pop Violence

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

Running along fellow Calgarian Chad Van Gaalen’s sci-fi lines of pretty, aggressive, nerd pop, Vailhalen are contributing heavily to the re...