ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
CENTIPEDE HZ – DOMINO RECORDING COMPANY Animal Collective’s career so far has played out like a tug of war between the band’s melodic sensibilities and its more esoteric, experimental leanings. […]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
SAID THE WHALE
MOVING MOUNTAINS The past year and a half has been an eventful one for Vancouver’s Said the Whale. Other than winning a Juno last year for Best New Group, the […]
YOUNG THE GIANT
STILL NOT BURNED OUT FROM THE ROAD OC-bred Young the Giant are finally nearing the end of a nearly solid, two-year touring stretch following the release of their self-titled debut […]
THE HIVES
WHEN IN ROME, DO AS THE HIVES DO It’s 2012 and the so-called “garage rock revival” of the early 2000s is a distant memory. The White Stripes imploded, The Vines […]
DURBAN POISON
LIVING FOR THE BACK-TO-BASICS ROCK AND ROLL The sleepy town of Victoria, BC, is not normally known across Canada for its strength as a punk rock community, but the litter […]
YEASAYER
BROOKLYN BOYS IN CONTINUOUS FLUX If there has even been a band to keep its audience on its toes, it would be Yeasayer. And that’s just the way they like […]
PIGEON PARK
PUTTING MUSIC FIRST Kevin Okabe has just lit up a cigarette when I spot him outside the Woodward’s building. He begins to put it out so we can head in, […]
REMONES’ LAST STAND
The Remones play their last-ever show at the Ship & Anchor on Saturday, August 25.
BLACK EARTH
NIGHTMARES LAID DOWN TO WAX Breaking up (with the dead) is hard to do, but for Anthony Janicki (a.k.a. AJ Skull) a parting of ways with his Calgary-based horror punk […]
BLOATED PIG
BEER-METAL BASTARDS ROCK THE NORTHERN FLAG Just like the Texas-sized garbage heap drifting in the Pacific Ocean, Bloated Pig are an oasis of sludge in Calgary’s sea of extreme punk […]
