Articles by Melissa Wheeler

The Soft Pink Truth

Do you Want New Wave or Do you Want the Soft Pink Truth?

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

Oh the craziness! This raunchy romp in the trash pop collage vein is both attractive and repulsive, just like a car wreck you pass on the h...

13 & God

13 & God

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

Since a tour bus fire in Canada caused the layover that fused the American abstract rap group Themselves and part of the German electro-roc...

TTC

Batards Sensibles

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

You don’t have to understand French to understand the four sensitive bastards of TTC. On their second album they come with pixilated and st...

Various

Teeth

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

First, this compilation of interpretive hip-hop is elegant and subtly edgy. Secondly, there’s only so far you can push hip-hop before it be...

Kaos

Hello Stranger

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

With disco, rock, house and watery funk, Kaos presents a laid back semi-dance album in upper mid-tempo. The opener, "Lessons in Love,” is a...

Moby

Hotel

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

Moby is an interesting character. In the 14 years since his first album, his relationship with the music community has been precarious yet...

Amon Tobin

Chaos Theory

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

Only slightly less obtuse than Amon’s dense and dark signature, the soundtrack for the Chaos Theory videogame is heavy, sinister and fast....

Alien 8

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

Headquarters: Montreal, QCDate of Birth: Summer, 1996 Best Seller: Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?Upcoming Releases: Et San...