Articles by Sam Sutherland

New Mexican Disaster Squad

Peace With Nothing

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

Three fantastic originals and two killer covers make up this digital EP, which should be finding its way onto vinyl grooves by the end of O...

Various

The Emo Diaries: Chapter Eleven — Taking Back What's Ours

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

Entitling your compilation series The Emo Diaries might have seemed like a good idea back in 1998, but it’s a little painful in 2007. Consi...

Pistol Valve

Tsunami Girls From Tokyo

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

This is totally awesome. Ten brass instrument-toting Japanese girls, plus a DJ and a violinist, performing slick-sounding ska, pop and Who...

The Weakerthans

Reunion Tour

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

John K. Samson has made a career out of writing excruciatingly detailed accounts of life’s tiniest moments. While the band’s last full-leng...

Japanther Put In Some Effort

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

"Our shitty recording quality is just because we’re lazy,” says Ian Vanek, one half of Brookyn-based DIY punks Japanther. "If people are at...

Bump in the Night

Film Festivals

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

After debuting with an excitingly bloody program last year, Toronto After Dark Film Festival has a meaty line-up of zombies, Russian swordf...

Deliverance

John Boorman

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

It’s funny how someone’s highly disturbing rape battle cry can become a creepy pop culture institution. Deliverance, of course, gave the wo...

Masters of Horror: Season One

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

First of all, this 14-disc set comes in a sick-looking mini-mausoleum complete with tiny plastic columns at the front and the ominous Maste...