Articles by Scott Tavener

Patrick Watson

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2009

Patrick Watson, the man and the eponymous band, won a Polaris Prize for 2006's long player, Close to Paradise. Furthering the quartet's sou...

Various

Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers!

PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2009

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Merge gathered a bevy of non-label artists to cover 20 tracks from its catalogue. Despite Score!'s inher...

Metric

Fantasies

PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2009

Metric's Old World Underground teemed with bravado and danceable synth pop, while Live it Out tried to take an evolutionary leap forward. F...

Patrick Watson

Wooden Arms

PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2009

With a Polaris Prize on their mantel, Patrick Watson's eponymous quartet returns with a quietly beautiful record. Teeming with ornately cra...

Nick Johnston of Cut Off Your Hands

PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2009

Raucous New Zealand crew, Cut Off Your Hands, took their time bringing debut LP, the Bernard Butler-produced You & I, to North America. Whe...

Cut Off Your Hands

Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON March 30

PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2009

One brio-filled album and a handful of promising EPs deep, Kiwi combo Cut Off Your Hands could ride simmering "New Zealand is the next Swed...

Slim Twig

Toronto ON, March 11 to 14

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2009

Looking like an old-west preacher in thin-cut black garb, local wunderkind and Tropics front-man, Slim Twig bounded through a charged Gla...

$100

Toronto ON, March 11 to 14

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2009

More classic than alt, country combo $100 commandeered the back of the Horseshoe, harkening back to the venerable bar's roots (or at least...