Label Profile – Lovepump United
By Taylor Burgess While attending Vassar College in New York, Jake Friedman and Mookie Singerman used to play in the...
Múm with Sin Fang Bous and Hildur Guðnadóttir – October 30/09 @ Pyramid Cabaret
By Dustin Danyluk [caption id="attachment_295" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo by Samanta Katz"][/caption] The Pyramid Cabaret was sparsely populated when Hildur Guðnadóttir,...
CKUWho? TwangTrust with Stu Reid
[caption id="attachment_286" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Stu is on the right."][/caption] Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. on CKUW 95.9 FM or online at www.ckuw.ca...
Rob Vilar’s Story Time – A Place to Bury Strangers
[caption id="attachment_283" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - Exploding Head (Mute Records)"][/caption] By Rob Vilar “The Gravitron is...
Weird Shit with Kent Davies – The Weirdos of Winterband
By Kent Davies Like some kind of ZZ Top fundamentalist doppelganger, Winterband is a bearded Apostolic Pentecostal Christian rock band...
Dragonette
Cruisin’ to Bruise By Sabrina Carnevale Dragonette singer/songwriter Martina Sorbara epitomizes the almighty frontwoman role by combining a strong undercurrent...
The F-Holes
Pluckin’ Away By Sarah Petz There aren’t a lot of bands who can hop from playing a gig in the...
Miesha and the Spanks
Love and Spitfire By Kent Davies From the ashes of Alberta punk act Bogart comes a deadly duo of potent...
You Say Party! We Say Die!
From Love to Hate and Back Again By Taylor Burgess They’ve only just released their third full-length, XXXX, but it’s...
Tyondai Braxton – Central Market
When Braxton isn’t completely rewriting the math-rock playbook in Battles, he’s busy composing music for an orchestra and, well, playing...