Articles by Jazz Monroe

Hooded Fang Discuss the Road to 'Gravez'

PUBLISHED May 23, 2013

Toronto busybodies Hooded Fang are about to release their third album Gravez. Despite retaining the band's hectic, surf-hooked élan and tri...

Majical Cloudz

PUBLISHED May 23, 2013

We catch up with Devon Welsh moments after his arrival at Toronto's Great Hall. Navigating through labyrinthine doors, corridors and stairw...

Majical Cloudz Discuss Identity and the Value of Sadness on 'Impersonator'

PUBLISHED May 22, 2013

Another week, another inward-reaching LP from the creative tropics of Montreal. Heralding the Matador Records debut of Grimes-collaborating...

Majical Cloudz

Impersonator

PUBLISHED May 21, 2013

Majical Cloudz could easily be a mess of contradictions. Devon Welsh (the duo's severe, shaven-headed singer) and cool, handsome synth-dude...

Colin Stetson

The Great Hall, Toronto ON, May 19

PUBLISHED May 20, 2013

"There's a whale in the Atlantic," says Colin Stetson, unassumingly clad in white T and black jeans, "whose song is wrong by a few hz, and...

Hooded Fang

Gravez

PUBLISHED May 17, 2013

Should Toronto require some patron saints of indie, Hooded Fang would make ripe pickings. Band members April Aliermo and Dan Lee are two-th...

Jenny Hval

Innocence is Kinky

PUBLISHED May 16, 2013

Rightly glorified for the likes of ABBA, Björk and Sigur Rós, Scandinavia is generally viewed as a locale for considered, epic music; its b...

Savages

Silence Yourself

PUBLISHED May 6, 2013

Since Pop Art or earlier, serious UK artists have generally supported the idea that art and everyday life are indivisible. Popular logic, h...