Articles by Jessica Carroll

Wavves / Little Girls / Ganglians / Tonstartssbandht

Friendship Cove, Montreal, QC September 23

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2009

To say the Wavves/Little Girls show at Montreal's Friendship Cove was degenerate may be an understatement, but it wouldn't be a rock show w...

Listen to Islands' Entire New Album Now at Exclaim.ca

PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2009

Montreal's Islands are not well known for their stylistic consistency. Dabbling in everything from power pop to artsy, discordant rock, the...

Chet

Chelsea Silver, Please Come Home

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2009

Chet's lead vocalist, Ryan Beattie, has managed to perfect that classic blue-collar, contemporary folk voice. It's masculine but unpredicta...

Amanda Zelina

Love Me 'Til I'm Me Again

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2009

It's not uncouth to state that the music industry is overwrought with gratuitous female pop singers and establishing individuality as an ar...

The Yes Pleases

From Whence It Came

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2009

The Yes Pleases' From Whence It Came sounds like it was recorded in a ballroom: it's expansive, passive-aggressive and totally reminiscent...

Virgin Festival Ontario Featuring Nine Inch Nails, Pet Shop Boys, the Pixies, Grizzly Bear, Franz Ferdinand

Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON August 29-30

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2009

It would be a lie to say that Virgin Festival Ontario went off without a hitch. Unfortunately, this year's fest at at Toronto's Molson Amph...

Victoria Psych-Pop Space Cadets Vincat Ready <i>Hoi Polloi</i> Full-Length, Cross-Canada Tour

PUBLISHED Aug 24, 2009

Victoria-based psychedelic pop act Vincat seem to have a good handle on themselves. On their MySpace page, they describe their sound as "A...

Film Studio Has Another Go at Jimi Hendrix Biopic

PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2009

With the world abuzz over Woodstock's 40th anniversary this year, it seems appropriate that a biopic about the life of hippie favourite and...