by Sheldon Birnie
Like The Boss said, “Summer’s here and the time is right for racing in the streets.” Continue reading “Hillbilly Highway – Back on the Road”
Ray Wylie Hubbard – The Grifter’s Hymnal
If you’ve never heard Hubbard’s particular brand of “deep-groove-in-the-blood-masterless-samurai-folk-poet-blues,” then it’s about time you did. Continue reading “Ray Wylie Hubbard – The Grifter’s Hymnal”
Kittie – I’ve Failed You
Right off the bat, you get your ass handed to you on the sixth album by these hard rocking Canadian ladies. Continue reading “Kittie – I’ve Failed You”
FUCK DETECTOR: Self-titled 7”
Fuck Detector is a mid-west punk band from Fargo. Continue reading “FUCK DETECTOR: Self-titled 7””
Citing Sources :: John K. Samson’s “Provincial”
By Victoria King
After a disturbingly friendly-weathered day, John K. Samson welcomes the subzero chill that we Winnipeggers are so familiar with. “I’m kind of relieved it’s getting a little colder. It was freaking me out yesterday. It was kind of unsettling… We need the real winter,” he explains over the phone. Continue reading “Citing Sources :: John K. Samson’s “Provincial””
Hillbilly Highway – Take heed of the Grifter’s Hymnal
by Sheldon Birnie
Ray Wylie Hubbard is a goddamn beauty, bottom line. Continue reading “Hillbilly Highway – Take heed of the Grifter’s Hymnal”
NANS & NAT – The Right Words
There’s music that people to dance to, and there’s music that people listen to – and The Right Words stays resolutely on the dance-only side of the line. Continue reading “NANS & NAT – The Right Words”
Tony Sly – Sad Bear
This second solo release from Tony Sly – former front-man of ’90s whiny-punk-heroes No Use For A Name – is for the most part a painful way to spend 30-odd minutes of your life. Continue reading “Tony Sly – Sad Bear”
SERENGHETTO – Serenghetto
This band is going to be coming here sometime in the next few months. Continue reading “SERENGHETTO – Serenghetto”
.RU :: Underground tweenoise masters in the post-USSR
By Kristel Jax
In mid 2010, I started billing myself as a DJ who played Solntsetsvety. Solntsetsvety – or Солнцецветы, a Russian word that translates to Sun Flowers (abbreviated СЦ in Cyrillic) – is an artist network which has been spawning lo-fi tracks and albums ranging from harsh noise and pure experimental to transcendental kraut jams and lo-fi reggaes since the late ’90s. Solntsetsvety is based – sort of – in cities Minsk, Belarus and Moscow, Russia, and sort of on their website, lesom.ru. The groups belonging to Solntsetsvety were hard to penetrate, even armed with digital translation and English articles on David MacFadyen’s Far From Moscow blog. Solntsetsvety was magic – and a mystery too intense to shrug off. Continue reading “.RU :: Underground tweenoise masters in the post-USSR”