Articles by Shain Shapiro
Fertile Ground / Kellylee Evans
The Pepper Jack Café, Hamilton ON - January 28, 2006
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006
Hamilton has no soul. This dirty, poverty-stricken steel town is depressed. It's in need of soul, any soul, to brighten the darkness and in...
Animal Liberation Orchestra (ALO)
Fly Between Falls
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006
While improvisational jam band fare is anything but generic, the music that has been permeating within its walls often succumbs to an inter...
Matthew de Zoete
Across The Sea
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006
Hamilton, ONs youthful music community is usually synonymous with two stylistic outputs; loud and crap. One has to grow up and out in this...
Gabby La La
Be Careful What You Wish For
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006
This is wildly weird, eccentric stuff that is perfect for Les Claypools Prawn Song imprint. After scoring a local opening gig in San Franc...
Trey Anastasio
Shine
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006
For his first foray outside Phish, lead guitarist and principle songwriter Trey Anastasio released the best studio effort of his career in...
Ben Rogers
The Dawn of a New Error
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006
Ben Rogers is the jack of all trades on his independently released debut. While the Vancouver-based songwriter has assembled quite a suppor...
Wide Mouth Mason
Shot Down Satellites
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006
The last place to find crunchy, Southern blues rock is Saskatoon. Still, local heavyweights Wide Mouth Mason have been melting the citys s...
Mr. Something Something
Casbah, Hamilton ON - October 21, 2005
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005
Throughout a two-hour set at the Casbah, the sextet of Mr. Something Something proved that they rank with any Afrobeat in the world today w...
