Articles by Rob Bolton

Midstates

Boxing Twilight

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Midstates have managed to succeed in a rather awkward task, which is to sound a lot like many of their colleagues in American indie rock (D...

Readymade FC

Babilonia

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

First of all, it should be made clear that this is not a new release by Vancouver shoegazers Readymade, but rather the second album of exot...

Alice in Videoland

Outrageous!

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

While the electroclash scene may have dropped from the hipster radar lately, there is still some pretty cool music out there that merges ha...

A Northern Chorus Are Hopefully Lonely

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Creating a rich, dreamy guitar pop album can be a tall order, but clearly not for Hamilton's A Northern Chorus. A triumphant follow-up to t...

All Natural <b>Great Lake Swimmers</b>

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Tony Dekker takes acoustics very seriously. His haunting, sombre ballads emit an otherworldly quality, due in no small part to the natural...

Mount Sims

Ultra Sex

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Combing electro music, performance art, fashion, dance and sex, Mount Sims is an excellent poster boy for the recent electro-clash scene. A...

Schneider TM

Zoomer

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

What happens when you have a German electronic artist making music with the folk-pop sensibilities of Beck? Zoomer would be a pretty good i...

Swayzak

Dirty Dancing

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Blending together electro, deep house and techno, the London duo of James Taylor and David Brown have produced a great album (their third)...