Articles by Heather Parry

Vines

Melodia

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

The media have always had a field day with the Vines, touting them either as grunge throwbacks or the saviours of modern rock. All this poi...

Company of Thieves' Genevieve Schatz

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2009

Company of Thieves, as the name might suggest, is most definitely not just a "girl singer with a backing band." The Chicago three-piece are...

The Whip

X Marks Destination

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2009

Being in the Whip right now must be a double-edged sword. Since debuting some 18 months ago, they've burst out of the Manchester scene with...

Inward Eye

Inward Eye

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2009

Inward Eye have really tried to capture the DIY nature of '70s punk in the artwork of this EP. It looks pretty gnarly, pretty dark and the...

Broken Spindles

Kiss / Kick

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2009

Solo projects all too often result in decadent pieces of crap that no one actually wants to listen to, especially if the artist is a bit in...

Tamarama

Wonderland City EP

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2009

Life is hard - that's a given. It's also the subject of so much good music it's become a cliché. Life can't be that hard, however, f...

Company Of Thieves

Ordinary Riches

PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2009

Company of Thieves have created the musical equivalent of an enigmatic friend. Difficult to connect with, scatty and impossible to pin down...

Andrew W.K.

The Sound Academy, Toronto ON February 5

PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2009

The night, on paper at least, was every self-respecting punky teenage boy's wet dream; mindless party music, dress up, videogames and Jason...