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Review –“Secrets”– So Young
reviewed by Laura Stanley The debut EP from London Ontario’s So Young is a collection of gritty yet catchy songs that are so easy to digest you will be left hungry for more. Self-categorized as “love...
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Review- “Bang With the Van Gogh”- Watershed Hour
reviewed by Michael Thomas In the vein of good old-fashioned rock and roll, there is a dearth of all-girl bands. Those who went to ALL CAPS! last weekend had that void filled in full. On the second day...
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Review –“Air Loom”– The Yips
reviewed by Jack Derricourt The Yips play startling music. They live in Ottawa, a pattern I’m beginning to notice amongst provocative rock and roll music here in Central Canada. Their intial EP sunk...
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North of North East: Dirty Frigs, Maica Mia, Old and Weird; What a Wednesday...
by Jack Derricourt What a start to June: yes to Kathleen Wynne; yes to Enbridge; yes to Tornadoes ripping through Southern Ontario; yes to badass Canadian rock and roll dominating the start of NXNE....
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Review –“Walkabout EP”– Strange Fires
Reviewed by Jack Derricourt There is a land, where the rock and roll is just. There is a place where the four-four beat never gets old, smelling fresher than plastic money. There is a forest of four...
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Why YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN Should Win the Polaris Prize
by Jack Derricourt It’s a bleak time for rock and roll. It always ebbs and flows, this guitar music of the soul, between the charts and the trash can; right now, there are guiding lights, but the air...
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Review –“Power Buddies”– Power Buddies
Reviewed by Jack Derricourt “What’s your power buddy?” That very might well be the new small talk in Edmonton bars; a new astrology for the rock and roll heart. Answers will flow like Alberta premium...
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Review –“Sludge”– Fantasy Creeps
reviewed by Jack Derricourt Here come the fantasy creeps They’re all around you . . . -Uncle Bob The sludge is strong with this one: Fantasy Creeps, forged in Victoria, BC, and given breath by way of...
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Review –“Tombstone Salesman”– Betrayers
Reviewed by Jack Derricourt Apologies for a short review this week: the Jays are in make or break mode, and I’ve chewed my fingernails down to the bone, making typing fairly difficult. The one relief...
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Review –“At Work On Several Things”– Jons
reviewed by Jack Derricourt Lazy-gentle: that’s how I would describe Jons’ newest release. At Work On Several Things is dream pop of slow-dissolving greatness. This album is a slack fest — literally,...
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