Articles by Joshua Ostroff

No Luck Club

PUBLISHED May 8, 2007

Van City's finest turntable trio travelled all the way to Texas to play to a mostly empty room, which was a damn shame since hip-hop-starve...

Smoosh

PUBLISHED May 8, 2007

Kids grow up so fast today, especially when they're pre-teens with an album already on shelves and a list of opening slots for such bands a...

You Can Finally Know Jack

TELEVISION

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2007

Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab may have become viral video superstars thanks to their Channel 101 website (home to the sublimely smooth satire Y...

Super-Sized Scrolls

VIDEO GAMES

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2007

You may have noticed most of your gamer friends have been M.I.A since The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion came out. The epic RPG’s multitudinous...

The Apples in Stereo

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2007

He’s bald, he’s pudgy, but gosh darn it, people love him. Yep, Robert Schneider attracted both hipsters and hobbits (or at least his new la...

Black Lips

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2007

The hardest working band at SXSW had about a dozen gigs set up for the fest and seemed to have made an impression at every last one, be the...

Thomas Dolby

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2007

Okay, I admit I went to see Dolby as a laugh. But I should’ve realised something was up after passing his mammoth tour bus. Turns out, the...

El-P

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2007

"Anybody out there a real fan and not just a hipster motherfucker?” asked El-P as he climbed the small stage. Well, the answer was both. Bu...