Hillbilly Highway – Fred Eaglesmith, charting his own course & taking no prisoners
by Sheldon Birnie Prolific. Tireless. Uncompromising. Cantankerous. These and many more words could, and have, been used to describe Fred...
His Electro Blue Voice – Ruthless Sperm
I admit to having picked up this disc for review simply based on the enigmatic cover image, with no background...
Tony Dekker – Prayer of the Woods
The press release for Prayer of the Woods takes great pains to reassure fans that Tony Dekker’s first solo album...
Sean Christopher – Transcendence
When I first received this disc it didn’t register with me that this was an artist that I had heard...
Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe
Somewhere far, far above the hustle and drone of washed out city streets, you stand alone on a high cliff...
Tough Age – Tough Age
It takes some juice to get a debut album released by an indie label with national profile so if you've never...
CKUWho :: New volunteer driven shows on the airwaves
by Sheldon Birnie Part of the excitement at a volunteer driven organization like CKUW is that things are always changing....
Miesha & The Spanks – Girls, Like Wolves
Recorded live off the floor in a cabin on the lower lake of Kananaskis, Alberta, Miesha & The Spanks’...
Steven Vitali – Language of the Soul
If you have been to an airshow featuring a performance by the Snowbirds, Canada’s air acrobatic team, within the past...
Carcass – Surgical Steel
I admit that I’m a bad metalhead. (more…)