Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue For Paolo is the latest effort from Calgary’s Woodpigeon, and for it, the listeners get everything they would expect from the harmony-rich band. The flip side to that coin is that they don’t really get anything they wouldn’t expect either.
Posted in Folk + Roots, Music Reviews
Rating: 2.5 / 5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov For those who have followed Ani Difranco’s career up to this point – 22 years and 16 studio albums – nothing will come as much of a surprise on Which Side Are You On?
Posted in Folk + Roots, Music Reviews
Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Michelle Kennedy Only John K. Samson, Canada’s punk poet laureate, would title a song ‘Longitudinal Centre’. Longitudinal is not a word oft thrown around in pop music. Much of what Samson can and does do lyrically is not oft thrown around in pop music. Samson is, arguably, Canada’s best lyricist [...]
Posted in Music Reviews, Rock + Pop
Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: Michelle Kennedy Let’s just say it, get it out in the open, so then we can just realize that it is absolutely irrelevant and move on: Kathleen Edwards is dating Bon Iver front man Justin Vernon. We good? Ok! Moving on…
Posted in Country + Western, Music Reviews, Rock + Pop
Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov I feel like I watched Mother Mother grow up. The first time I saw them perform was as the opening band on a four-band bill, in a club that holds a few hundred people.
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Cam Hoff Abel Tesfaye is the one man R&B wrecking crew performing under the moniker of The Weeknd. I say this because Echoes of Silence is his third album of the 2011 calendar year, marking the final chapter of a thematic trilogy of mixtapes. When the first album, House of [...]
Posted in Electronica, Music Reviews, Rap + Hip-Hop
Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov Depending on your perspective, Common is either a hip-hop renaissance man or a conflicted emcee, trying to be a little of everything to everyone. There’s Common the actor, appearing on TV and in the movies. And there’s Common the poet, performing duets with Maya Angelou and being invited [...]
Posted in Music Reviews, Rap + Hip-Hop
Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Michelle Kennedy Somehow—and likely this is a larger question of music history in general—the blues seem to transcend trend and popularity, bringing The Black Keys with them. It further seems that no matter the state of pop music, no matter what is crazy, popular and floating all over the internet, [...]
Posted in Music Reviews, Rock + Pop
