Articles by Isabel Glasgow

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Reflect on Their Anxious Energy: "That's Where the Magic Is"

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2023

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are taking what counts for them as a break. After two European tours, a series of residencies in US cities...

Iggy Pop Brought Sweaty Swagger to Ottawa's CityFolk Festival

PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2023

Nobody wants to let go of summer when September rolls around. Thankfully for Ottawa folk, CityFolk Festival arrives just in time to kick th...

Frankie and the Witch Fingers Are Proudly Human on 'Data Doom'

PUBLISHED Aug 30, 2023

The future may be uncertain, but some constants seem to always ring true: water will be wet, the sky will be blue, the world will be fucked...

The Hives Resurrect Themselves on 'The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons'

PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2023

A lot has changed in the garage rock world since the Hives last suited up for 2012's Lex Hives. If the aughts were the genre's wildest high...

Mdou Moctar Was Triumphant in Toronto

Phoenix Concert Theatre, July 25

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2023

A beaming grin of gratitude shone on Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar's face whenever he roamed the edge of the stage at Toronto's Phoenix Conc...

The Heady 'Rajan' Finds Night Beats at His Most Precise and Mature

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023

Danny Lee Blackwell works well in mystery. Over the past fourteen years, Night Beats has been his creative outlet for outlaw music with a b...

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's 20 Best Songs Ranked

PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2023

Listening to King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's 23-album, 231-song discography takes 16 hours and 21 minutes — that is, if you exclude a co...

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Deal in Black Magic and Black Comedy on 'PetroDragonic Apocalypse'

PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2023

Finally — King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have made an album about lizards and wizards. With a title impossibly more tongue-twisting than...