TOBIAS ROCHMAN
VIRGINIA'S 80S PERFORMANCE ART PUNKS
There seems to be a lot of radical ideas in the music . From the lyrics, visuals, arrangements right down to the use of pre-programmed beats from the Casios or whatever.
NAZI DOG GETS TREATED LIKE DIRT
Yes, I do think that ‘Treat Me Like Dirt’ is far superior to ‘Please Kill Me’ but then again it’s simple. It’s mathematics. I know Richard. I know Legs McNeil and Lester Bangs. When he was alive. I have a different vantage point. I am not a 24-year-old...
DIRTY BEACHES WANTS TO PLEASE HIS PARENTS
will admit I find rockabilly, especially it’s modern offshoots to be some of the most campy irritating shit in existence. But Montreal’s Dirty Beaches, although influenced by sun records hiccup-rock, manages to steer clear of the modern psycho zoot...
DO WHAT SETS YOUR HEART FREE
Black Jacks, is a small Montreal scum-pit bar attached to a St-Henri strip club, with a blown sound system, terrible draft beer and a reputation for, at times, getting a little <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/stabbed+death+Henri/265154...
COSMETICS ARE ALL TOUGH NOW
Canada has a track record for producing some of the ugliest, most bearded bands alive. That’s probably why Cosmetics were totally off anyone’s radar until they signed to Captured Tracks a few weeks ago. Suddenly everyone is realizing that not only are...
Mess Folk is from the Worst City in Canada
The small industrial city of Sydney, Nova Scotia is known for pretty much one thing: being the second largest toxic environmental disaster hot spot in Canada.
WOVEN BONES WANT TO TALK ABOUT DICKS AND COCAINE
You know that thing the Jesus and Mary Chain sometimes do where they try to sound ultra-American? There are a few moments where Texas' Woven Bones sound like that. Except they are American. So you get Americans trying to sound like Scottish lads...
SEX CHURCH WRITE ABOUT BUMMERS, MOSTLY
Sex Church emerge from Vancouver's haze of pot smoke and hacky sacks sounding like a goth version of Cheater Slicks (but without the Bostonian accents). They’re repetitive and hypnotic like Spacemen3 or Les Rallizes Denudes but more stripped down and...