Articles by Rob Nay
Voyeurs
The Voyeurs
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005
Featuring Brian Henry Hooper, formerly of Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, the Voyeurs play a form of subtle music that draws on wide influe...
Les Georges Leningrad / AIDS Wolf
Call the Office, London ON February 15, 2005
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005
While their hometown scene currently attracts a parade of fawning critics, Les Georges Leningrad and AIDS Wolf showed the concrete talent t...
Backyard Babies
Tinnitus
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005
After close to 16 years of playing music together, Swedens Backyard Babies latest offering gets off to a less than admirable start. "Bran...
Low Budgets
Aim Low, Get High
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005
Featuring ex-Dead Milkmen Joe Jack Talcum, the Low Budgets play music designed for a frat house full of computer programmers. Aim Low, Get...
Ugly Beats
Bring on the Beats!
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005
The Ugly Beats blast out of Austin, Texas with enough garage hustle to transform a nunnery into a raging dance party. With swelling organ r...
Hot Snakes / CPC Gangbangs
Lee's Palace, Toronto ON November 8, 2004
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004
Montreal's CPC Gangbangs lit up the evening with a superb shot of wild rock'n'roll, dancing up a storm, knocking down microphones and leapi...
Mission Of Burma
A Gun to the Head
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004
A Gun to the Head offers an inspired map to a riveting band. This compilation shows why Bostons Mission of Burma has remained highly rever...
Transmissions From the Heart (of Winnipeg)
FESTIVAL
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004
For one week each autumn, the stark quietness of Winnipegs downtown is disrupted by groundbreaking transmissions. Sounds that range from m...