Articles by Steve English
Anti-Hero
Unpretty
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005
They dress like chain-smoking goth-punk jailbait and play like Kittie bludgeoning Alaniss angry-girl masterwork Jagged Little Pill with a...
Cherry Valence
TCV3
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005
Coming on like the greatest Time-Life Sounds of the 70s comp never made, the Cherry Valences third LP is a magnum opus of hairy-knuckled...
Dredg
Catch Without Arms
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005
The third album from Bay Area alt-metallers Dredg seems hell-bent on answering perhaps the least-asked question in the history of rocknro...
Shawn Hewitt & the National Strike
The Soft Society
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005
Everything you need to know about The Soft Society, Scarborough native Shawn Hewitts debut EP, you learn in its first five minutes. "Ghost...
Our Lady Peace
Healthy in Paranoid Times
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005
With their earnest global do-good work, unabashed guitar hedonism and predilection for bombastic, stadium-sized alterna-rock, Our Lady Peac...
So They Say
So They Say
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005
When it comes to overwrought 20-something white boy angst, the American Midwest is, indeed, the best. Strange that a region vaunted for its...
30 Seconds To Mars
A Beautiful Lie
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005
Jared Leto is Hollywoods undisputed king of pain. As an actor, hes taken more lead than 50 Cent and the Game combined, been stabbed, brut...
Tourmaline
Strange Distress Calls
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005
This New Jersey-based quintet exist at the junction of indie and emo, where the paths of self-expression and self-absorption diverge. Virtu...