Articles by Jill Langlois

Cancel Winter

Liestillnow

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2008

Cancel Winter’s debut album might be the result of a bad situation, but it manages to take a topic as frustrating as a long, drawn out rela...

The Coast Are Tense

PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2008

"We bought a van right before we left — like a big 15 passenger van — and we just found out it’s got a crack in the gas tank,” says Ben Spu...

Parlour Steps

Ambiguoso

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

Hailing from Canada’s west coast, Parlour Steps have been flying under the radar, until now. The Vancouver quartet’s fourth full-length alb...

Jack Peñate

Matinée

PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2007

As soon as Jack Peñate’s voice is heard on his full-length debut, Matinée, it’s easy to pick up on the fact that he’s not from this side of...

Small Sins

Mood Swings

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

You know the feeling that staying in on a cold rainy day just to sip hot chocolate and read a good book gives you? That’s exactly what the...

KT Tunstall

Drastic Fantastic

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

After giving us songs like "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” and "Suddenly I See,” selling almost four million copies of her debut album, E...

Better Friends than Lovers

Great Loves

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

Vancouver’s Better Friends than Lovers may have borrowed their moniker from Aretha Franklin but the comparisons to the Queen of Soul stop t...

Southeast Engine

A Wheel Within A Wheel

PUBLISHED Oct 16, 2007

Picture this: a young, married and recently unemployed Athens, OH middle school teacher. Screams front-man, right? Well, maybe not, but it...