Articles by Randi Beers
Annie Crane
Jump with a Child's Heart
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2011
Annie Crane's second album, Jump with a Child's Heart, is filled with warm guitar and her bandmates' liberal use of cello (Sarah Bowman), t...
The Once
Row Upon Row of the People They Know
PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011
The press release for Newfoundland folksters the Once claims that the group's sophomore effort, Row upon Row of the People They Know," soun...
The Greg Cockerill Band
Festuca
PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011
The fact that Greg Cockerill is inspired by the likes of Justin Rutledge, Neil Young and the Canadian rock scene of the '90s didn't need to...
Jesse Payne
Buffalo
PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011
Synesthesia is a mental condition wherein the patient's senses are muddled: they see musical notes in colour or taste words. Jesse Payne is...
The Easy-Offs
Life is a Drone
PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011
Montreal's the Easy-offs, made up of Zak Izbinsky (guitar and vocals) and Robert Nicolo (drums), list such acts and abstract items as Grand...
C.L. McEachern
Solo Sessions
PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011
C.L. McEachern first played a ukulele in front of his nursery school class at the age of three and grew up to become a respected Peterborou...
Nikki Lane
Walk of Shame
PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2011
Nikki Lane's story is peppered with Americana clichés. She left home as a high school dropout and travelled west to be a star. After a move...
Pieta Brown
Mercury
PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2011
Pieta Brown's newest album, Mercury, comes to the market loaded with a slew of adjectives starting with m to describe it: mesmerizing, myst...