Articles by Melody Lau

Royal Canoe

Today We're Believers

PUBLISHED Aug 30, 2013

There's a kaleidoscopic effect to Royal Canoe's music; their myriad sounds and influences are thrown into a vessel that spits it back out i...

Franz Ferdinand

Right Said Ferd

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2013

After years of endless touring and releasing three full-length albums, Franz Ferdinand took a much-needed year off from each other. Since t...

Franz Ferdinand

Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2013

It takes Franz Ferdinand less than 25 seconds into opening track "Right Action" to jump into the first of many boisterous sing-along chorus...

Sarah Neufeld

Drake Hotel, Toronto ON, August 22

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2013

Instrumental music is not for literal thinkers. Those who need basic structures and lyrical content to help guide them from track to track...

Ty Segall

Inner Visions

PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2013

For someone who has released more music in the past eight years than most acts do in their entire career, Ty Segall seems to be an unstoppa...

Ty Segall

Sleeper

PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2013

The thoughts of Ty Segall often come out via a distorted, echoing filter, drenched in aggressive noise and the West coast rocker's signatur...

Franz Ferdinand Talk the Rocky Lead-Up to 'Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action'

PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2013

On August 27, Franz Ferdinand will release their fourth album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action on Domino Records, but to hear guit...

ALL CAPS! Festival

Day 2, Toronto Island, Toronto ON, August 11

PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2013

The ALL CAPS! Island Festival kicked off on day onewith Unfinished Business' mini confetti cannon, which was clearly (well, unintentionally...