Articles by Michael Barclay

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  Mark Kleiner Power Trio

  Love To Night

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  Any man who wears zebra pants and sings songs with choruses about "special girls” is bound to induce nightmares of Glenn Frey. Yet Vancouve...

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  Rosie Thomas

  When We Were Small

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  Who knew that Sub Pop was looking for the next Sarah McLachlan? Well, they’ve found her with Rosie Thomas, a sweet-voiced singer/songwriter...

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  Tom Waits

  Alice

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  Two new albums of songs commissioned for Robert Wilson plays, but neither one approaches the wacked-out madness of The Black Rider, the ini...

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  Tom Waits

  Blood Money

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  Two new albums of songs commissioned for Robert Wilson plays, but neither one approaches the wacked-out madness of The Black Rider, the ini...

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  Lambchop

  Is A Woman

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  While 2000’s Nixon album justifiably brought plenty of ears to the intoxicating sound of this Nashville orchestra — enough to fill London’s...

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  Microbunny

  Microbunny

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Former King Cobb Steelie guitarist Al Okada, the textural wizard featured on their first three albums, unleashes his musical id in his firs...

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  Sarah Shannon

  Sarah Shannon

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Recovering indie rocker Sarah Shannon, former singer of Velocity Girl, hasn’t gone country like so many of her peers, but instead tackles t...

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  John Borra Band

  One Night at Seven in the Morning

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  The John Borra Band might well be Toronto's finest vintage country band, boasting a cast of post-punk all-stars (Change of Heart, Blue Rode...