Articles by JM Lacombe
Drop Nineteens Have Lost Their Thorns on 'Hard Light'
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2023
Whether shoegaze's enduring cross-generational appeal and TikTok meme-ability had anything to do with Drop Nineteens reactivating and dropp...
At Their First Ever Canadian Show, Black Country, New Road Showed Vancouver the Power of Reinvention
Hollywood Theatre, August 25
PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2023
It's nothing short of a minor miracle that Black Country, New Road played their first ever Canadian show to a sold out audience at Vancouve...
Dumb Are Smarter Than Ever on 'Pray 4 Tomorrow'
PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2022
On their third LP for veteran indie label Mint Records, Vancouver's Dumb impress with strong songwriting and production choices, artfully e...
Dazy's Noisy 'OUTOFBODY' Is Full-Tilt Power Pop
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022
Dazy, the bedroom power-pop alter-ego of James Goodson, released a compilation of his early EPs and singles last year called MAXIMUMBLASTSU...
High Vis Refine Their Vision on the Boundless 'Blending'
PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2022
High Vis pull off an astounding trick on their sophomore album Blending: they create an alternate reality where shoegaze and brit-pop were...
Armand Hammer Engrossed Vancouver with Nothing but Their Beats and Rhymes
Fortune Sound Club, August 7
PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2022
Armand Hammer, the New York City hip-hop duo of Billy Woods and ELUCID, are having an incredible year — which is surprising, considering th...
Show Me the Body Showed Vancouver the Brutal Power of the Banjo
Fortune Sound Club, August 4
PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2022
Show Me the Body's appeal is nearly impossible to explain or categorize. The New York band, led by vocalist and banjoist Julian Cashwan Pra...
Tallies Craft a Vision of Dream Pop All Their Own on 'Patina'
PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2022
Upon first impression, it would be easy to dismiss Tallies' sophomore album Patina for leaning a little too hard into early '90s 4AD cospla...
