Articles by Michael Barclay

Ships at Night

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2007

Date of Birth: 2005 Releases to date: 7 Biggest seller: The Field Register Tire & Caster Upcoming releases: Orillia Opry, Plants and Animal...

Inside Man

Spike Lee

PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2007

The twist at the heart of Inside Man is that it’s a heist film without a heist. Clive Owen plays the mysterious meany who seizes control of...

Bourgeois Cyborgs

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

Guelph MC and Pop Montreal favourite Noah 23 loosens his lyrical density with his long-delayed Bourgeois Cyborgs project, set to beats craf...

Ghost Is Dancing

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

This new Sonic Unyon signing are an exuberant eight-piece whose enthusiasm was almost too big — both physically and sonically — for the tin...

Gonzales

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

It's a good thing most of the audience was on mushrooms, because if you weren't, Gonzales's "spectacle d'orgue" was a major letdown after l...

Evan Gordon and the Sad Clowns

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

Faced with an abbreviated set well past last call, the Sad Clowns had no trouble keeping a late night crowd of stragglers rapt. By the time...

Habitat

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

One cute couple, two cheap synths, four shows under their belt, five original songs, it might not sound promising on paper but Sylvie Smith...

Joanna Newsom

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

Living in a major Canadian city, one forgets what it’s like to be in love with an album for years before the opportunity comes to see it li...