Articles by Martin Turenne

Shots From The Canon

Attacks Led By Resentment, Not Reassessment

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

There was a time when I avoided going to libraries and bookstores, disheartened that I would never get to read all of history's great works...

The Strokes

Plaza of Nations, Vancouver BC - April 16, 2004

PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

The first time the Strokes came to Vancouver, they opened a show for England's Doves at Richard's on Richards. Unknown to all but obscurant...

Innocent Or Criminal?

Asian-American Idols Represent

PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

One is a dexterous street poet; the other, an adorable nerd. They are, respectively, New York City's Jin and Berkeley's William Hung, two m...

Starsailor

Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC - February 3, 2004

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

Over the last year, a group of Vancouver-based 20-somethings have inaugurated the Bad Teenage Poetry collective, holding readings around to...

Gomez

Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC - February 4, 2004

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

The first published record review I ever wrote was of 1999's Liquid Skin, the sophomore album by England's Gomez. In it, I described the So...

Philip Glass

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver BC - January 18, 2004

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

Perhaps more so than any modern composer, Maryland native Philip Glass has earned a loyal following among college-age listeners just as muc...

Jon Delerious

No Warning

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

If deep house is a connoisseur’s form, then Calgary’s Jon Delerious is its newest gourmet chef, serving up a clutch of sizzling tracks on h...

Step Inside Richie Hawtin's Plastikman

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

Ronald McDonald knows it. Calvin Klein knows it. The Rolling Stones know it, and so does Richie Hawtin: in today's 500-channel universe, lo...