Articles by Martin Turenne

Smoking Out the Locals

Tobacco Funded Shows Outspend Home Grown Efforts

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Tobacco kills — so say doctors, and so say a growing number of artists, concert promoters and club owners across Canada. What most concerns...

The Sweet and Lowdown of <b>PJ Harvey</b>

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Demonic. Perverse. Toxic. Morose. Brooding. Violent. If the press is to be believed, Polly Jean Harvey is all of the above, a latter-day wi...

Four Tet / Boom Bip

Sonar, Vancouver BC - June 3, 2003

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

The recorded output of England's Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) and America's Bryan Hollon (aka Boom Bip) has always seemed a bit too polite....

Into the Mystic

Avant-folk Shapes A New Future

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

When Harry Smith released his epochal Anthology Of American Folk Music in 1952, the box bore an engraving of a single-stringed instrument b...

The Search for Middleground

New Producers Heal the Backpack/Benz Divide

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

When he took office in 1997, British Prime Minister Tony Blair prophesised the dawn of "third way" politics, placing himself in the middle...

The World Comes Around to <b>Basement Jaxx</b>

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Felix Buxton may not be a vengeful sort, but he sure likes having the last laugh. Earlier this year, British house producers Justin Harris...

He Ain't Pretty, He's <b>Kid 606</b>

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

For as long as he can remember, Miguel Depedro (aka Kid 606) has been an outcast. The technoist's mistrust of musical scenes reaches back t...

The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being Indie

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

It's all there in black and white. In early October, the American record industry reached a milestone: for the first time in its history, e...