Articles by Lorraine Carpenter

Patrick Wolf

Montreal QC October 3 to 7

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

Flamboyantly adorned with glitter, platinum hair and an antique military jacket, London’s Patrick Wolf played to a room of screaming girls,...

Air Guitar Nation

PUBLISHED Aug 31, 2007

Air Guitar Nation is a workmanlike documentary record of the international air guitar tournament in Finland circa 2003. The film traces the...

Montreal QC September 25 to 28

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2007

This little-known local combo bridged psychedelia and prog in loose whirls of modern pop, carefully coordinating melody, rhythm and rock te...

Montreal QC September 25 to 28

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2007

Barely one song into this local band’s set at the festival’s closing party, Bionic’s Jonathan Cummins checked out to buy smokes, saying tha...

Metric

Montreal QC September 25 to 28

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2007

Mommy, look at the pretty lady! It’s easy to understand why most women rockers either dress down (no leg, no cleavage) or go sextreme (crot...

Pony Up!

Montreal QC September 25 to 28

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2007

Sure, they’re young and easily intoxicated, but don’t think you can mess with Pony Up. Weaned on ’80s pop and ’90s alterna-whatever, these...

Shalabi Effect

Montreal QC September 25 to 28

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2007

The problem with pairing headliners Soft Canyon with Sam Shalabi and friends is that some rock fans assume that avant garde instrumental mu...

Stars

Montreal QC September 25 to 28

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2007

"We’re gonna take over, all the faggots are gonna take over,” said Torq Campbell, translating Jesus’s spiel about the meek for the 21st cen...