C’Mon Low, give us a new record and tour already. Oh you are? Great.
Sara KieslingIt might not have seemed like four years, what with Alan Sparhawk’s Retribution Gospel Choir putting out not one but 2 records in the interim, but it really has been that long since Low...
View ArticleThe Radio Dept. and Young Prisms at Lee’s Palace in Toronto
Frank YangFact one: The Radio Dept. are not, by any conventional standard, an exciting live band. Fact two: I was terribly excited to see The Radio Dept. make their live Toronto debut on Monday night....
View ArticleDeath Cab For Cutie discover you can play these songs with strings on Spring...
Autumn de WildeBen Gibbard’s songwriting is kind of emo/heart-on-sleeve on the best of days, so how could he ratchet up the melancholy quotient now that he’s officially Mr. Ex-Zooey Deschanel? By...
View ArticleM. Ward decides to try being M. Ward again for a while
FacebookMatt Ward has had a pretty good last few years thanks to his willingness to not be Matt Ward, or more specifically M. Ward. Yes, putting his solo endeavours largely on the backburner since...
View ArticleReview of School Of Seven Bells’ Ghostory
Justin HollarI had actually forgotten how weird Alpinisms, the 2008 debut from New York’s School Of Seven Bells was. It basically inverted the balance of pop-to-experimentalism of the Deheza sisters’...
View ArticleCONTEST – Young Prisms @ The Drake Underground – March 10, 2012
Frank YangWho: Young Prisms What: San Francisco quintet who were far too young to have lived through shoegaze the first time around, but have an affinity for hazy, reverb- and fuzz-laden dreampop...
View ArticleWild Nothing streams Nocturnes; clever headline eludes blogger
Shawn BrackbillWhen I first started playing guitar in high school, I spent an inordinate amount of time in music and pawn shops looking for pedals – they were (relatively) cheap, fun, and would...
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