Articles by James Keast

Russian Futurists

Pop Prodigy

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Sometimes it's difficult not to feel a little bitter towards precocious young talent. Take Matthew Adam Hart for example. Having messed aro...

Living Big Life

Rhume, Greenfield Main and Seven Years of Kelp

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Everything about Jon Bartlett is big. He's a big guy, well over six feet. He talks big, brimming with enthusiasm, firing ideas at you as fa...

Andrew Vincent & the Pirates

Slack Happy

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In Andrew Vincent are housed a number of contradictions. On the surface, he seems like a mid-20s slacker content to plop his butt on a couc...

Ben Harper

Has No Life

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"I've read, or not read, as many books as the next guy. I drive a 1983 Chevy Silverado truck with a hot rod engine in it. I take out my tra...

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

Turning Over A New Leaf

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In a recent British interview, Welsh band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci laid it all on the line: They were sick of the Welsh thing, sick of the gno...

Genghis Blues

Roko Belic

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

There are great documentaries that transcend their subject matter, that arouse your interest in mundane or unfamiliar subjects. Then there'...

Duotang

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Having proven themselves road-worthy over several years of good clean work and hard living fun, the Duotang duo of bassist Rod Slaughter an...

​Tanya Tagaq

She the North

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2016

On stage, Tanya Tagaq screams, pants, grunts and growls mostly wordless exhortations of intense emotion; her vocalizations balance melody a...