Articles by Jazz Monroe

Pan

These Are the Things I Love, and I Want to Share Them With You

PUBLISHED Aug 28, 2012

Post-rock has a great deal to answer for. It's a genre littered with sentimental indulgence, hammy political overtones and songs so long th...

Slim Twig

Sof' Sike

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2012

If the mantle for busiest-man-in-Toronto belongs to a politician or music magazine editor somewhere, then Slim Twig (aka Max Turnbull) is a...

The XX Talk 'Coexist,' Kiss Goodbye to Cool Exteriors

PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2012

The new LP from London trio the XX, Coexist, is as sparse and sullen as the debut that gusted them into gloomy hearts young and old, winnin...

Nude Beach

II

PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2012

Nude Beach have been borrowing the same records as P.S. I Love You, and what mighty fine ones they are. Take "Walkin' Down My Street" and "...

Gang Signs

Gang Signs

PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2012

Vancouver, BC trio Gang Signs make an implicitly sexual dance-punk dirge, flirting with morbid funk and the kind of synth-pop you picture G...

Dirty Beaches Talks Italian Horror Film Score, Sets Sights on Two New Albums

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2012

It's looking to be a hell of a busy year for Dirty Beaches man Alex Zhang Hungtai. Back in Montreal after moving to Vancouver a few years a...

Bravestation

Giants & Dreamers

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2012

Toronto, ON quartet Bravestation (a pleasantly anglophilic bunch) recently played alongside Wintersleep at CMW 2012. The two bands share so...

Caribou

PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2012

For last record Swim, PhD mathematician Dan Snaith married deep house, psychedelic trance and elements of the Ethiopiques series to expand...