Mendelson plays out like a really amazing movie or radio drama, but in a highly subjective and avant-garde way. The loud vocals (almost dead...

This won the Best Canadian First Film at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, and although it suffers from over-ambition,...

Halifax (now Toronto) quartet Sloan have built their rep on the distinct sound of four different songwriters. Now releasing their sixth ful...

Nikka Costa can best be thought of as the lovechild of Prince and Lenny Kravitz, however implausible that might be. She lives in that area b...

When it comes to ye olde school Britpop, this is the real deal. Of course, it's more commonly referred to as folk music. The lyrical storyte...

There's something to be said for wearing your influences on your sleeve (a record sleeve that is). The new CD from Vancouver's Hissy Fit owe...

In 1992, I sat in a theatre watching Tim Robbins' brilliant mockumentary Bob Roberts, listening to someone behind me marvel that they had ne...

...With Naive Assurance That Their Injuries Were Wrongs So, you can't find your girlfriend after the rave; she drifted away on a cloud of c...

The Blue Mocking Birds' debut CD, In Colours, is a derivative piece of nostalgic '60s-inspired '80s Britpop. The threesome is comprised of T...

Early in February, some of the most popular online business web sites were taken down for short amounts of time by what are known as "denial...

After six years together, Midwest emo giants Braid decided to call it a day in 1999. But here in the wake of that unfortunate event are two...

Who are you? Freeworm, a long distance runner recycled into computerised music.What are you up to?Morphing from a studio worm to a live perf...

Who are you?Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, guitarWho are you? Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, guitar.What are you up to? Rammstein - full time.Hometown...

Album producers are like film directors to the musicians' screenwriting and acting. These four gentlemen are auteurs and sound sculptors in...

The agile trombone of Steve Swell impressed in projects with Joey Baron and Philip Johnson’s Big Trouble. Here, his mastery ranges fro...

Todd Youth certainly left his pawprint on such seminal hardcore stalwarts as Agnostic Front, Murphy’s Law and Warzone. After time spen...

Former Samhain and Danzig member Eerie Von has been cursed with the vocal cords of Jim Morrison or Glenn Danzig. His sophomore release sound...

The music of Zoetrope never made a huge impact on the metal scene. They were entertaining in their own right, had the chops and ears to writ...

If you think Medeski, Martin & Wood sound frantic because they lack a saxophone player, then the mellower funk-fusion of Canada’s Meta...