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...
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Inertia Sean Garrity Published Dec 01, 2001This won the Best Canadian First Film at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, and although it suffers from over-ambition,...
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Andrew Walter Gibson Scott The Exclaim! Questionnaire Published Oct 01, 2001Halifax (now Toronto) quartet Sloan have built their rep on the distinct sound of four different songwriters. Now releasing their sixth ful...
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Nikka Costa Everybody Got Their Something Published Jun 01, 2001Nikka 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...
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Alasdair Roberts The Crook Of My Arm Published May 01, 2001When 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...
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Hissy Fit Restless Published May 01, 2001There'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...
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Series 7: The Contenders Daniel Minahan Published Apr 01, 2001In 1992, I sat in a theatre watching Tim Robbins' brilliant mockumentary Bob Roberts, listening to someone behind me marvel that they had ne...
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Various ...With Naive Assurance That Their Injuries Were Wrongs Published Mar 01, 2001...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...
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Blue Mocking Birds In Colours Published Feb 01, 2001The Blue Mocking Birds' debut CD, In Colours, is a derivative piece of nostalgic '60s-inspired '80s Britpop. The threesome is comprised of T...
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It's e-sabotage! Published Apr 01, 2000Early 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...
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Braid Movie Music Vol. 1 Published Mar 01, 2000After 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...
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Freeworm The Exclaim! Questionnaire Published Feb 01, 2000Who 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...
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Richard Kruspe-Bernstein The Exclaim! Questionnaire Published Feb 01, 2000Who are you?Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, guitarWho are you? Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, guitar.What are you up to? Rammstein - full time.Hometown...
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Rock Producers Published Feb 01, 2000Album producers are like film directors to the musicians' screenwriting and acting. These four gentlemen are auteurs and sound sculptors in...
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Steve Swell Lou Grassi’s Po Band: Mo Po’ Published Sep 01, 1999The agile trombone of Steve Swell impressed in projects with Joey Baron and Philip Johnson’s Big Trouble. Here, his mastery ranges fro...
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Chrome Locust Chrome Locust Published Aug 01, 1999Todd Youth certainly left his pawprint on such seminal hardcore stalwarts as Agnostic Front, Murphy’s Law and Warzone. After time spen...
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Eerie Von The Blood and The Body Published Aug 01, 1999Former Samhain and Danzig member Eerie Von has been cursed with the vocal cords of Jim Morrison or Glenn Danzig. His sophomore release sound...
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Zoetrope A Life of Crime Published Aug 01, 1999The 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...
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Metalwood Live Published Aug 01, 1999If you think Medeski, Martin & Wood sound frantic because they lack a saxophone player, then the mellower funk-fusion of Canada’s Meta...