Articles by Vincent Pollard

Overcast Sound

Commute

PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2012

Since the summer of 2010, Toronto, ON-based net label basic_sounds has been releasing high quality electronic offerings at the beginning of...

Nicolas Jaar

Revival, Toronto ON March 24

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2012

After over four hours of waiting on two packed floors that felt more like a series of holding pens than a club, Nicolas Jaar took the stage...

Ariane Moffatt

El Mocambo, Toronto ON March 22

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2012

Already a platinum-selling artist in French-speaking Canada, Québécoise pop artist Ariane Moffatt is only now crossing over to the Anglopho...

Martha Wainwright

El Mocambo, Toronto ON March 22

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2012

Martha Wainwright walked alone onto the El Mocambo stage with her guitar slung around her neck and launched straight into her first track,...

Mairi Morrison & Alasdair Roberts

Urstan

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2012

Alasdair Roberts has spent the best part of the last ten years dedicated to reviving traditional Scottish folk tunes, as well as writing so...

Emptyset

Medium

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2012

Medium is the third release from Bristol, UK-based Emptyset (aka James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas) and is the first recorded live. Spanning j...

Emptyset

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2012

Medium is the third release from Bristol, UK-based Emptyset (aka James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas) and is the first recorded live. Spanning j...

Deerhoof

1100 Warehouse, Austin TX March 17

PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2012

Deerhoof started out their set with reasonably straight-forward rock riffing that could have almost been AC/DC, but it only took a couple o...