Articles by Owen Torrey
Alex G Kept the Mystery Alive in Toronto
History, November 5
PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2022
In the middle of his set in Toronto on Saturday night, Alex Giannascoli, who performs under the name Alex G, began to croon the opening lin...
Art d'Ecco's Glam Rock Is Crystal Clear 'In Standard Definition'
PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2021
Art d'Ecco wanted to do something impulsive. It was 2016, and he was feeling listless a few shows into a tour for an album that wasn't doin...
Matthew Grimson's Posthumous 'Prize for Writing' Finally Brings the Halifax Hero to the Rest of the World
PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2020
It's a late July evening in 2018, and there's barely room to stand in Gus' Pub — an unofficial landmark in Halifax's live music scene. From...
Ambient Legend Laraaji Captures the Beautiful Naïveté of Childhood on 'Sun Piano'
PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2020
When people tell the story of ambient music pioneer Laraaji, they usually start here: one day in 1978, as Laraaji was playing the zither in...
Shopping
All or Nothing
PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2020
Dance, like politics, concerns itself with assembling and managing bodies, with making them move. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that move...
Battles
Juice B Crypts
PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2019
Like a hummingbird in flight, Battles make the most complex labour look carefree and weightless. Since the release of their debut album, Mi...
Starcrawler
Devour You
PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2019
Amongst certain fans of rock'n'roll, the go-to litmus test for assessing a band's quality is the question of how "real" they are. By such a...
Spoon
Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon
PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2019
It's a tricky thing to release a best-of album in the digital era. When the format was first conceived, each record in a band's catalogue e...
