Articles by Mike Chilton

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  Martina Sorbara

  The Cure for Bad Deeds

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002

  Take the best of such coyly confident and sweetly forceful female performers as Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Diana Krall, Jane Siberry and J...

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  Standard

  August

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002

  Sometimes trippy, sometimes prog, sometimes emo, sometimes folk and power-pop, sometimes even a little bit country, nothing about the Pacif...

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  Vermicious Knid

  Days That Stand Still

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002

  Sometimes annoying, but never boring, this small-town Southern Ontario four-piece takes the better elements of early '90s soft-loud-soft al...

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  Knife in the Water

  Crosspross Bells

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2002

  Before the sweet Americana beauty of the short-lived Whiskeytown, there was the long pedigree of Austin's Knife in the Water. Of late, the...

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  Buzzd

  Frog From Above

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

  This late '70s stoner throwback that bridges the gap between goofy-sounding guilty pleasures - think of the missing link between Rush and t...

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  Infinite Xs

  Infinite Xs

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

  This queer-core super-group's debut's grittiness and punchy rhythm is belied by its highly melodic undertow. The relentlessly driving punk-...

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  Beat Crusaders

  All You Can Eat

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  Judging by the silly cover, the hokey band name and the fact the band hails from Japan — the country that either produces schlocky pop band...

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  Full Nine

  Full Nine

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  The debut from this Toronto four-piece starts out kind of promising, with a harmlessly melodic strain of power pop that would make such ban...