Articles by Liz Worth

Ten Volt Shock

6null3

PUBLISHED May 23, 2007

6null3 is an immediate assault on the senses. Opening track "Parts & Sections” is an opaque wall of sound that flattens the atmosphere and...

Sick Fits Bring It Back

PUBLISHED May 22, 2007

Punk’s roots have been exhumed in recent years as a whole new generation of musicians search for that distending ’77 authenticity and strip...

The Bayonettes

We're Doomed

PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

Toronto’s reigning kings and queens of pop-tinged punk rock make a full tilt return with their new EP, We’re Doomed, which sees the band fi...

Hunter Valentine

The Impatient Romantic

PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

This anticipated debut full-length from Toronto’s Hunter Valentine drags you into tainted lullabies and hoarse pleas for remorse. It will l...

Lynx and Ram

The System's On and It's Flashing Red

PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

The name of the first track, "Plan of Attack,” says it all. As soon as the first few seconds of that song seep out in search for whatever c...

Maximo Park

Our Earthly Pleasures

PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

When Newcastle, UK’s Maximo Park first entered into the already oversaturated post-punk melee that introduced the likes of the Futureheads,...

Mess Up the Mess

You Remind Me Of Summer Vacation

PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

Washington, DC’s Mess Up the Mess are a no-holds-barred, spasmodic quartet whose debut, You Remind Me of Summer Vacation, is less like a la...

Wendy Atkinson

Pink Noise

PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2007

Pink Noise is an exploration of bass sound and is Wendy Atkinson’s second solo bass-only record. Here, Atkinson creates sound collages by e...