Articles by Sarah Greene

Kevin Morby / Waxahatchee / Mary Lattimore

Longboat Hall, Toronto ON, March 24

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2017

Kevin Morby's approach to his show at Longboat Hall was unexpected in a few ways. The singer-songwriter and guitarist (and Woods and Babies...

Pieta Brown

Postcards

PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2017

I've been trying to figure out what makes Pieta Brown's far-from-flashy seventh record so replayable — it has become a Sunday morning stapl...

The Magnetic Fields

50 Song Memoir

PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2017

Stephin Merritt is a genius.   He can be spoken of in the same breath as Lou Reed, and with good reason: Both artists brilliantly use the f...

Amelia Curran

Watershed

PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2017

Amelia Curran's eighth album, Watershed, sees the St. John's songwriter's advocacy work with It's Mental spilling over more openly into her...

Stephin Merritt Talks Memory, Moving, Mom and the Magnetic Fields' Epic '50 Song Memoir'

PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2017

Perhaps papa really was a rodeo. On the Magnetic Fields' 50 Song Memoir, songwriter Stephin Merritt's memoir in verse, he mentions St. Thom...

Wolfe Island Winter Ball with Jason Collett, Shad, Hannah Georgas, Sarah Harmer, TUNS

The Great Hall, Toronto ON, February 26

PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2017

Wolfe Island Music Festival's "Winter Ball" — a teaser show for their annual celebration near Kingston, ON — had the casual air of an all-s...

The Sadies

Northern Passages

PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2017

Northern Passages opens with "Riverview Fog," a song in the form of a letter (or maybe a phone call) to the Sadies' reclusive old friend Ri...

Rose Cousins

Natural Conclusion

PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2017

What place do quiet songs of personal heartbreak, betrayal and inner turmoil have when the outside world presents catastrophe after catastr...