Music Reviews
Kanye West – Yeezus
Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov It takes a certain type of artist to circumvent an entire industry. Where most albums are released after months of promotion, singles, online streams, and sometimes entire tours, 2013 has seen My Bloody Valentine, David Bowie and now Kanye West release albums with little or no warning, to [...]
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Arts & Crafts: 2003-2013
Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats You’d be hard-pressed to name a more important, more successful music label in Canadian history than Arts & Crafts. 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the label started by little-known indie musician Kevin Drew and major label expat Jeffrey Remedios, that would go on to revolutionize the Canadian [...]
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Foxygen – We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: Sean Marchetto Jello Biafra sang about the hippies never coming back at the close of the 1970s – Foxygen are yet another example of just how wrong punk was about the fate of their forerunners.
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Justin Rutledge – Valleyheart
Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: Michelle Kennedy Little darling, I’m along for the ride/You’re the one I want to be quiet beside/Rest your head until you dream of a rhyme/So many sparrows, so little time.
Posted in Folk + Roots, Music Reviews, Rock + Pop
Ke$ha – Warrior
Rating: 2 / 5 Reviewer: Michelle Kennedy Goodness gracious Ke$ha has managed to achieve the exact level of mediocrity that all her previous efforts have led us to expect – only this time with dubstep!
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Big Boi – Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumours
Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Sean Marchetto Big Boi’s rap sheet makes it abundantly clear that he likes to have his fingers in a lot of different pies. Best known as the earthier half of OutKast, one of the most successful, and increasingly separated, hip-hop duos of all time. Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumours marks [...]
Posted in Music Reviews, Rap + Hip-Hop
Interview with … Christian Hansen
Michelle Kennedy Christian Hansen is a man who plays in a band with his wife Molly Flood. Christian Hansen is also a band that features the man and his wife as its sole permanent members. It’s pretty confusing and not confusing at all. Formerly Christian Hansen and the Autistics, this new incarnation is more about [...]
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Sean Marchetto The hill rises towards the moon from the forest like a smooth green dome meeting its silvery equal. A light mist circles in the foot of trees like a moat. I cross the threshold and begin my ascent into the light, moving ever closer towards the large incandescent [...]
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