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Review of Malajube’s La caverne and giveaway
Joseph YarmushIt’s almost certainly too much to read an excess of meaning into the title of Malajube’s last albums, but when you’ve only got a (very) rudimentary working knowledge of the French...
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More Sloan than you can shake a stick at
Yep RocThis is not a review of the new Sloan record, the twentieth-anniversary saluting The Double Cross, even though it is out next Tuesday and the time would be about right to do a review. I will say...
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Echo & The Bunnymen and Caribou at Primavera Sound
Frank YangOkay, so that’s the touristy stuff out of the way. Let’s get down to business, which is to say the music. As in festival. Music festival. While Primavera Sound’s main, three-day event would...
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Review of First Aid Kit’s The Lion’s Roar and giveaway
Neil KrugThe Söderberg sisters of First Aid Kit make no attempt to represent themselves as anything other than what they are – two girls barely on either side of 20 harmonizing on heartfelt songs that...
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July Talk, Chains Of Love, The Big Sleep and more at Canadian Musicfest
Frank YangDespite only seeing four bands, I like to think that I covered a fair bit of ground – stylistically, geographically, exploratorily (?), what have you – on the first night of Canadian...
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Review of Japandroids’ Celebration Rock
Maoya BassiouniHaving made up my mind about the whole wave of garage-bred, white-noise, guitar-drum duos that seemed to saturate the scene a few years ago before even hearing Japandroids – three...
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Evening Hymns lets Spectral Dusk settle
Lane MeyersHave I been waiting for this for a while? You might say that. Ever since Evening Hymns’ debut album of gorgeous folk-pop Spirit Guides made my 2009 year-end list, I’ve been eagerly...
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Review of Purity Ring’s Shrines
Sebastian MlynarskiI expect there’s a lot of interest in drawing parallels between the success of Purity Ring with that of Grimes what with both being based out of Montreal – although Purity Ring’s...
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Spinoffs, videos, and other Can-Con miscellany, featuring L Con
Andréa de KeijzerShaking out the “Made in Canada” box to kick off the week. L Con is the sort-of but not-really pseudonym for Lisa Conway, perhaps better known as the voice of Toronto’s moody, art-orch...
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Savages, Limblifter, and more at Canadian Musicfest
Frank YangIf you’re ever debating what to do on a given evening of either Canadian Musicfest or NXNE, you can always do far worse than to simply post up at either The Horseshoe or Lee’s Palace for the...
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