Articles by Kevin Hainey

Burning Star Core

The Very Heart of the World

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

Multi-instrumentalist and psychedelic drone visionary C. Spencer Yeh has been operating as Burning Start Core (BXC, for short) in his homet...

Lula Côrtes E Zé Ramalho

Paêbirú

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

Long before Zé Ramalho emerged as a want-on pop star, in some hip pocket of the ’70s Brazilian psych underground’s deepest recesses, Lula C...

Windy & Carl

The Dream House/Dedications to Flea

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

The first album in five years from ambient guitar drone’s most loving couple, Windy and Carl, is a formidable affair that takes their peace...

Richard Youngs

The Naïve Shaman

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

Hardly any modern day singer-songwriter can strike the chord of life and set its sounds reeling out into the infinite seas of vibration as...

Cobra Killer & Kapajkos

Das Mandolinenorchester

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

What’s a group to do when their scene or fashionable music style suddenly dies? Well, when you’re Berlin electroclash duo Cobra Killer, you...

Paul Duncan

Be Careful What You Call Home

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

Existing somewhere in the songwriting stratosphere between Sufjan Stevens, Will Oldham and Múm, Paul Duncan explores a number of different...

Rick White

The Rick White Album

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

One of Toronto’s most respected rock band dudes, Rick White has walked a long, harrowed path down through indie rock’s most far-out dimensi...

Holy Fuck

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

Who says you need laptops, computer programs and hi-tech gear to make wickedly dense dance music? Lo-tech Toronto improvisers Holy Fuck are...