Articles by Michael Barclay

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  Kurt Swinghammer

  Vostok 6

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Perhaps because of his prolific work accompanying over 20 performers in the last two years, including Ani Difranco and the Rheostatics on t...

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  Old Reliable

  Gone Are the Days

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  On the surface, there isn’t much to set Old Reliable apart from dozens of other alt-country bands who like their guitars just a tad o...

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  Alun Piggins

  Balladesque

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Bouncing back from the disintegration of the once-great Ontario rock’n’roll machine the Morganfields, Piggins has landed on his...

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  Mark Growden

  Downstairs Karaoke

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  Growden, a San Francisco Bay Area eccentric, sums up many of our thoughts when he croons: “Sometimes I feel like a piece of red meat/...

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  Nemo

  In Stereo

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  This Winnipeg quartet hover somewhere between the dream state of Sianspheric and the crunch of Chore; they toured with the latter this summ...

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  Joe Strummer

  Rock Art & the X-Ray Style

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  Say it ain’t so, Joe. By staying out of the spotlight during this entire decade, we could reasonably expect an album’s worth of...

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  Various

  7 8 Thyme: A Saskatoon Independent Music Compilation 1999

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  Dead prairie town? I think not. And neither does compilation producer Michael Zablocki, who (mostly) successfully compiles a more-than-dive...

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  The Cash Brothers

  Raceway

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  Onstage, the together-at-last siblings of Peter (Skydiggers) and Andrew Cash are visibly having the time of their lives, so more power to t...