Articles by Michael Barclay

Fierce Fights in <b>DMC</b> Eliminations

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

The 2003 DMC Canadian DJ Championships are well underway, with four regional elimination rounds already completed. The entire process start...

The Commitments

Alan Parker

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Movies about forming rock bands usually get it painfully wrong. For starters, everyone's way too good looking. Secondly, it's often painful...

D.O.A. Is Alive

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

www.suddendeath.comYou'd be hard pressed to think of any Canadian rock bands that have been together 25 years, never mind punk bands. Yet w...

Sarah Harmer

Out at the Hideout

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

While pissing behind Sarah Harmer's woodshed, I think of a line on her new album: "Living this close to the road / You question your vulner...

Broken Social Scene

Toronto's Ambassadors to the World

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Last year it was Montreal's electronic community. The year before that it was Vancouver's pop community. This year, Toronto rocks. And this...

Björk Starts the Fire

Year in Review 2003

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Parc Jean Drapeau, Montreal, August 28Toronto Island, Toronto, September 2There was no orchestra or choir in tow to worry about. There wasn...

Talking Heads

Memories Can't Wait

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Psycho killers and creatures of love. Dreams walking in broad daylight, 365 degrees. The man in the big white business suit who learns how...

Leslie <b>Feist</b>'s First Tango in Paris

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Anyone who's ever seen Leslie Feist on stage — solo, fronting Broken Social Scene, as a sidekick to Peaches or Chilly Gonzales, or as guita...