Films
The Last Pogo
The Last Pogo is an all-too-brief 26-minute glimpse at the Toronto punk scene circa 1978. The film set out to document one last-hurrah at the Horseshoe Tavern, a venue that two promoters known a...
Homemade Hillbilly Jam
An excellent music documentary that seeks out what’s left of hillbilly culture, Homemade Hillbilly Jam is a look, both visually and musically rich, at the Ozark Mountains. Focusing ...Features
Nachtmystium at Sala Rossa with Boris and Torche
I was been a fan of ex-Nachtmystium alumni Aamonael's Avichi project and when the new Nachtmystium album Black Meddle came out I was blown away. So it was pretty exciting to have a chance to...
Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton at Suoni Per Il Popolo
This year, I missed most of Montreal's brilliant freedom-music festival Suoni Per Il Popolo, due to an unexpected series of holidays both in and out of the country. But I was lucky enough t...News Stories
Songs
Albums
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Human Highway Stream
Moody Motorcycle
Suicide Squeeze
We all know the band Islands right? They have been inhabiting the Earshot radio charts real estate for the past bit. While the excitement is blossoming, perhaps I should introduce you to the c...
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Monte Dunn and Karen Cruz
Monte Dunn and Karen Cruz
Fallout
A rollicking good, completely hippified time circa 1969 with Tim Hardin, Fred Neil and Richie Havens sideman Monte Dunn and his wife Karen Cruz. Straight up female-fronted folk-rock songs that soun...
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Eleanoor Rosenholm
Vainajan Muotokuva
Fonal
8-piece Finnish band Eleanoora Rosenholm are a departure from the celebrated Fonal sound, opting instead of glacial electronica or forest-free-folk-psyche for a very slick, mature 80's synth...
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Clark-Hutchinson
A=MH2
Sunbeam
Clark-Hutcison’s A=MH2 is 49 minutes and 20 seconds of the most epic psyche-jam you have ever heard. Seriously, this is so smoking and amazing and totally drug-drenched and exotic tha...
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Jihae
Afterthought
Independent
Jihae is a sexy Korean chick who appears topless with strategically placed long hair on the album cover. She grew up in Nigeria, Sweden and the UK before settling down in New York City. Her...
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Asian Dub Foundation
Punkara
Independent
Alright then, I’ve been waiting patiently for the follow up to Tank, which is probably one of my most listened to albums. The more I have listened to that album the more I like it. So let...
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Outlines
Our Lives Are Too Short
Sonar Kollektiv
Musically Outlines has a fairly experimental approach to hip hop. It sounds almost IDM-ish initially, taking the hip hop sound and adding some glitch. But oddly the vocals are fairly typic...
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Trees
Light's Bane
Crucial Blast
The inundation of Sunn0))) influenced drone metal is slowly reaching the point of ad-nausea, with certain stuck-in-the-mud metal reviewers already lashing out at the sub genre for being bori...
