Articles by Kevin Hainey

Goslings

Spaceheater / Perfect Interior

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

Heavy dream/space drone and lo-fi indie pop are merged together at last, courtesy of the Goslings. A husband and wife duo, Max and Leslie S...

Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton

Black Vomit

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

Two disparate worlds of margin-walking experimentation merged at last summer’s Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville:...

David Rubin

Secret Agent

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

Sometimes outsider musicians live so outside any conception of what’s going on in music’s evolution they can’t help but make astoundingly i...

Amps for Christ

Every Eleven Seconds

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

Amps for Christ is a trippy-dippy mishmash of a project that fluctuates between sub-electronic experimentation, fuzz-guitar meditations and...

Venetian Snares

Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom P

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

With a gushing title like the one Venetian Snares (aka Winnipeg resident Aaron Funk) used here, you might suspect some spastic joy coming d...

Man Man

The Silver Dollar, Toronto, ON - June 5, 2006

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

The five-piece freak-out pop team known as Man Man certainly proved themselves a riotously entertaining, if not specifically niche, live ac...

Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection Volume 2

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

Uh, huh huh, huh huh. Huh huh, huh huh. Huh huh. Beavis and Butt-Head, like, totally suck. The eternal metal-head losers practically canoni...

Gimme Radiation

SOUND ART

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

German sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard draws some strange music from Chernobyl’s deathly silence on his sophomore album, 4 Rooms, and the way...