Articles by Michael Barclay
Feist
Pleasure Principle
PUBLISHED May 24, 2017
Look at what the light did now: The evening spring skies were a fiery yellow and orange on Bloor Street in Toronto. After a torrential down...
Feist Opens Up About 'Pleasure' Principles and the New Broken Social Scene Album
PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2017
You don't rush Leslie Feist. The singer-songwriter-bandleader is a woman of meticulous moves and carefully chosen words, not to mention an...
Farewell to Stereolab's Mary Hansen and The Clash's Joe Strummer
Farewell to <b>Stereolab's Mary Hansen</b> and <b>The Clash's Joe Strummer </b>
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Mary Hansen 1966-2002Stereolab keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Mary Hansen, 36, was killed when struck by a car while riding her bicy...
Q&A Saves the Day
Everything You Always Wanted To Ask About Punk
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Question & Answer interviews spark an ongoing debate between jaded editors and excited young writers; the former find them indulgent and eg...
Projektor
Shadow Puppetry
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Jahmeel, the bandleader of the new Winnipeg swirl-rock band Projektor, is well aware that most people's first point of reference is going t...
The Constantines
True Believers
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"We like to play each show like it could be our last," says Constantines drummer Doug MacGregor. "And if you're not having any fun on stage...
Birds of Different Feathers
Carole Pope and Stompin' Tom Connor
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
It's hard to imagine two Canadian icons as different as Stompin' Tom Connors and Carole Pope. One is an artist who has seen every corner of...
King Cobb Steelie
Simply Rational
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"You know," sighs Kevan Byrne of King Cobb Steelie, "I've shot my mouth off so many times about the industry in past interviews, that I'm s...
