Articles by Jasamine White-Gluz

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  Planet Smashers

  Ten: 1994-2004

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  Ska-punk is thankfully dead and gone, its remnants only exist now as the mindless bottom-feeders of punk music. Montreallers the Planet Sma...

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  The Blood Brothers / Kill Me Tomorrow / The Chromatics

  El Salon, Montreal QC - July 7, 2004

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  The Chromatics were docile and moody, bridging ambient guitar noise with a simple drum-machine beat backdrop. While much more laidback than...

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  Hawthorne Heights

  The Silence of Black and White

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  Of all the bands trying to emulate Thursday’s screamy post-hardcore sound, I didn’t expect one this to come directly from the band’s former...

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  Necessary

  This is Us

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  The Necessary breathe refreshing pop rock into a genre being oversaturated by black hair and white studded belts. This band’s strength is g...

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  A Faith Called Chaos

  Forgive Nothing

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  From the first intense riffs and bell-like hooks on "They Leave a Small Hum in their Wake,” you catch on that A Faith Called Chaos means bu...

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  From First to Last

  Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Bodycount

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Unfortunately, the first release by From First to Last meets all the criteria to be forgotten as generic pop-hardcore. Falsetto screeches,...

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  Secret Machines

  Now Here is Nowhere

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  The musical landscapes of Texas’s the Secret Machines are coloured with bright odd pop flavours and kinky guitar bits. There’s an odd Beck-...

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  Underoath

  They're Only Chasing Safety

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Underoath is one of the more original bands to spring from the screamo music scene, infusing ferocious intensity with interesting electro s...