Articles by Michael Barclay

Three Men On <b>Swan Lake</b>

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

Three men known for their singular sounds. Three bandleaders with specific ideas about songwriting and recording. Three lyricists who favou...

Toronto the Good

BOOK

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

In 2005, uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto (Coach House Press) was an unexpectedly successful book of essays re-imagining Toronto as a city of...

Geoff Berner

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

Last year, Vancouver singer/songwriter Geoff Berner published a pamphlet entitled simply How to Be an Accordion Player: An Instructional Bo...

Christina Rosenvinge

Continental 62

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2007

In the past year, a neutered Cat Power grabbed more mainstream headlines than ever and sad girl Swedes like El Perrro Del Mar and Frida Hyv...

Johnny and the Moon

Johnny and the Moon

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2007

Dante DeCaro has made his share of ruckus in both Hot Hot Heat and Wolf Parade, but for his own project he pulls out the acoustic guitar, b...

Julie Doiron

Woke Myself Up

PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2007

Whether or not her songs have been autobiographical, Julie Doiron’s body of work has always sounded confessional. Her, at times, painfully...

Beirut

Lon Gisland

PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2007

Zach Condon recorded most of his breakout 2006 album all by his lonesome self. This EP initially surfaced in Europe as a bonus CD with the...

United 93

Paul Greengrass

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

Rarely is a director’s commentary as moving as the film itself. But with subject matter as sensitive as this, writer/director Paul Greengra...