Grandaddy Chillin' and Thrashin'

Published Jan 01, 2006

Skateboarding is usually aligned with SoCal punk and other aggressive music. Pick up any skate or snowboard video, and I guarantee you won't...

Ottawa Cisco Systems Bluesfest Ottawa ON - July 4 to 13, 2003

Published Jan 01, 2006

This year's Ottawa Bluesfest was a huge triumph. Although much of the content steered far from "the blues," the addition of two new stages g...

Ween The Brown Remains Insane

Published Jan 01, 2006

"Out of this musical vacuum came this one ray of light, and that was Ween." - Henry RollinsThis month, Ween will release its eighth or twelf...

Little Bullhorn Productions Kathleen Edwards / Jim Bryson / Wooden Stars / Kepler / Gentleman Reg / Howe Gelb

Published Mar 01, 2005

Down a dead-end street, a stone's throw from Ottawa's Italian district, you'll find Dave Draves milling about in the cosy confines of Little...

Mice For Almost Ever Scooter

Published Oct 01, 2004

It seems criminal that this outstanding mid-’80s Cleveland trio imploded before they found any acclaim. Led by Bill Fox, who later released...

Guided By Voices Bee Thousand: The Director's Cut

Published Oct 01, 2004

Scat Records chief Robert Griffin has the collectors scrambling with this lovely triple-vinyl double-gatefold 10th Anniversary edition of Gu...

Speaking Canaries Get Out Alive: The Last Type Story

Published Dec 01, 2003

Don Caballero drummer Damon Che shows that he is no one-instrument man with another edition of impressive guitar callisthenics on the latest...

Greg Weeks Awake Like Sleep

Published Feb 01, 2002

Sleepy sounds are certainly not foreign to Rochester-based Greg Weeks, but never have they so boldly embraced a psych-rock lineage, as if th...

John Vanderslice Time Travel is Lonely

Published Jul 01, 2001

With the release of Time Travel is Lonely, his second full-length since breaking from pop outfit MK Ultra, Vanderslice has proven that hard...

Crooked Fingers Bring on the Snakes

Published Jul 01, 2001

Just over a year since we were asked to become accustomed to his latest disguise, Eric Bachmann presents the second Crooked Fingers offering...

Kleenex Girl Wonder The Smith Album

Published Jun 01, 2001

Graham Smith had a dream about making an album about making an album. While some dreams are usually ignored or forgotten, Smith made a point...

Greg Weeks Bleecker Station

Published Jun 01, 2001

New York City's Greg Weeks continues to pen desperately sad songs charming enough to nod off to, and I mean that in the best possible way. H...

Of Montreal Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse

Published Jun 01, 2001

Kevin Barnes and his merry band have been refining their idea of imaginative pop song structure for about four years now, although Barnes ha...

Lou Ford Alan Freed's Radio

Published Mar 01, 2001

The self-described "workingman's pop" of Lou Ford's second release was a bit of a hard sell for me, at first, but three or four listens of A...

Neckbeard Sexpo

Published Mar 01, 2001

Victoria's Calvin Dick (aka Neckbeard) wants your ears, not your money. As with past efforts, his third collection of breaks and beats is av...

Waves Flame A Little Brighter

Published Mar 01, 2001

The duo of Phil Parhamovich and Jeff Kearns has pooled their collective influences and come up smiling with Flame A Little Brighter. Basemen...

Songs: Ohia Ghost Tropic

Published Dec 01, 2000

Jason Molina has consistently surprised and delighted with his Songs: Ohia project throughout the last four years. In the beginning, Palace...

Lofty Pillars When We Were Lost

Published Nov 01, 2000

With the Lofty Pillars, Boxhead Ensemble's Michael Krassner has found an outlet for what he calls folk music. Krassner's folk doesn't includ...

Masters of the Hemisphere I Am Not a Freemdoom

Published Nov 01, 2000

Masters of the Hemisphere are the runaway winners for lamest album of the year. After dealing a promising self-titled CD a couple of years b...

White Hassle Life is Still Sweet

Published Nov 01, 2000

Railroad Jerk members Marcellus Hall and Dave Varenka join Matt Oliverio for the band's first outing as a trio, following up 1997's National...