Articles by Kevin Hainey

Shalabi Effect

Unfortunately

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Montreal’s Shalabi Effect — a group who exist around experimental guitar wizard Sam Shalabi — have been through many changes throughout the...

Sonic Youth with Tim Barnes

SYR 6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

It’s been over five years since Sonic Youth hit fans with an entry in their avant-garde SYR (Sonic Youth Records) series, and this is no le...

Bill Hicks

Prescient Pervert

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Comedian Bill Hicks (who died in 1994) was a stand-up American on so many levels: he was a chain smoker, an alcoholic, a coke addict, a por...

Felix Da Housecat Gets Delivered From Temptation

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Flying from city to city, sleeping in hotels, spinning records all night amid bumping parties — the life of the star DJ can consume you if...

The Art of<b> Black Dice</b>

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

When artists fuse mediums, the results can be otherworldly. Just take Brooklyn's groundbreaking instrumentalists Black Dice, who began as a...

Jake Fairley's International Delicacy

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

There must be something mighty energetic in the air over in Berlin. Why else would every techno-wielding Torontonian make the journey acros...

Converge Rages On

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

"It's probably the angriest record we've ever written." Taken out of context, those words might not seem like much, but when you consider...

Propaganda Remixed

DVD/AUDIO

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Three Canadian organizations (terminus1525, C0C0S0L1DC1T1 and the National Film Board) have joined forces to work on propaganda. But don't...