Articles by Tara Thorne

Wintersleep Gets Adventurous

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

It took less than a year for Halifax quartet Wintersleep to morph from experimental side project into one of the city's biggest draws. Afte...

The Return of Kathleen Edwards

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Kathleen Edwards' lovely 2002 debut Failer was recorded in Ottawa on the cheap; it was a scrappy, sassy collection of alt-country vignettes...

Ultramagnetic Studios

Buck 65 / Joel Plaskett / Matt Mays

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

Sitting atop a million stairs in downtown Halifax's historic Khyber building is the unassuming Ultramagnetic recording studio. With its car...

Dependent

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

Brian Borcherdt started D-Pression Records in 1994 so his Yarmouth band, Burnt Black, could put a logo on its debut cassette Happy. He smar...

Ben Lee

Awake is the New Sleep

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

For Ben Lee — who once sang: "If you were here I'd make you cry like I did" — to come off a break-up singing, "Open your heart and catch my...

Ruth Minnikin

Marooned and Blue

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Ruth Minnikin's smooth, laidback voice has always been the highlight of any project she's ever been involved with, from her high school ban...

Ben Lee

Hey You. Yes You.

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

"Music 4 the Young and Foolish" is possibly the worst thing Ben Lee has ever committed to disc. On the breezy substandard disco number a St...

Some Girls

Feel It

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

On the title track of Feel It, Juliana Hatfield sings, "Back and forth I go in and out/between yes and no and confidence and doubt," which...