Articles by Lorraine Carpenter

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  Candy Ass / Cherry Persuasions

  Petit Campus, Montreal QC - February 6, 2003

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  From Berkeley's online slang dictionary: "candy-ass: adj. wimpy, weak-willed, overly meek and mild." But don't tell that to this Candy Ass....

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  Johnny Marr

  Journeyman Smiths Legend Emerges Solo

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  Despite being the musical force behind the Smiths, England's most influential, fanatically embraced indie band and one of the top acts of t...

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  Poxy

  Café Campus, Montreal QC - January 8

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  Montreal is turning into the sleaze rock capital of Canada, with One976, Paradise, Bordello, the Cherry Persuasion and the Snitches all ben...

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  Various

  Varia 2002

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

  Hard industrial, pumping techno dance, drunken "German" punk, shadowy electronic soundscapes and sleazy electro lounge crooning converge on...

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  Sinewave & dB

  2Phur Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  This delectable spilt EP features the lazy breakbeat workings of Winnipeg's Sinewave, aka Mark Wiebe, and the "drum & down-tempo" darkness...

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  Janet Panic

  The Girl Who Passed For Normal

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  The lead track is so neatly catchy that it’s an effort to stay interested afterwards, like a porno after the payoff. A kick-ass beat, a coo...

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  Jordi Rosen

  Madame Xavier

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Simple sunny pop meets murky Eastern European folk on this debut by Montreal singer/songwriter/accordionist/Tarot reader Jordi Rosen. The m...

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  Soundcinema

  Water

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Fitting somewhere in the loosely defined parameters of trip-hop, the debut disc by this Montreal-based duo (Harriet Hume and Sue Ward) fram...