Articles by Nicole Villeneuve

The Thermals

Personal Life

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2010

Though the hooks are as unrelenting as ever on the Thermals' latest album, Personal Life, it's a decidedly more spacious affair than the pr...

Castevet

The Echo and the Light

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2010

Picking up right where they left off, Chicago, IL under-the-radar, sprawling post-hardcore quartet Castevet deliver on every promise their...

Bars of Gold

Of Gold

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2010

The debut album from Bars of Gold kicks off with a small string arrangement backed by a pulsing drumbeat that's quickly overtaken by a spee...

Land of Talk

Finding A Voice

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2010

"I'm sorry, I'm so soaked!" Elizabeth Powell apologizes as she approaches and immediately leans in to greet me with a hug despite the fact...

Spitfist

Sweaty Already

PUBLISHED Aug 3, 2010

Toronto, ON's Spitfist know exactly what they want and on their three-song Sweaty Already EP, come charging straight for it. Featuring Stac...

The Garlics

The Garlics

PUBLISHED Aug 3, 2010

It's hard not to make mention of the teenaged make-up of Montreal's the Garlics because, for one, the youth and inexperience are audible in...

Director Floria Sigismondi Talks <i>The Runaways</i>

PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2010

With the strange and surreal aesthetic that informed much of Canadian director Floria Sigismondi's name-making early music video work (thin...

Floria Sigismondi

PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2010

If you watched music videos in the late '90s, the intricate macabre aesthetic and now-familiar jarring camera work of Canadian director Flo...