CD Review : Besnard Lakes “Are the Roaring Night”
The Montreal-based band The Besnard Lakes are no longer the dark horse they called themselves on their second studio album. They have emerged from the…
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CD Review : Alice in Chains, “Black Gives Way to Blue”
The grunge movement of the ‘90s was absolutely huge for the music industry. Seattle-based act Alice in Chains was definitely in the middle of the…
CD Review : Champion, “Resistance”
It was only two years ago that Montreal-based DJ Champion (Maxime Morin) became a household name across the country with his hit single, “No Heaven.”…
CD Review: Gorillaz, “Plastic Beach”
We’re apparently in the third phase of the amalgamated rap/alterna-hip hop/techno/rock ensemble evolution that is Gorillaz. In case you don’t much keep up with Damon…
CD Review : Yeasayer, “Odd Blood”
Yeasayer’s Odd Blood has been one of this year’s the most highly anticipated indie albums. It follows the Brooklyn psychedelic rockers’ creative and experimental 2007…
CD Review: Hawksley Workman, “Meat”
I am throwing my hands up in the air. When I listen to an album, I try my hardest to find some kind of pattern….
CD Review : Courtney Farquhar “Nowhere I’d Rather Be”
I’ll admit, this album caught my eye. Courtney on the cover sitting in the grass, all legs and cut-off jean shorts in a retro flower…
CD Review : Channel 3, “To Whom It May Concern”
Why would anyone want to listen to an L.P. of a 30-year old demo tape from a band who never exactly changed the world? The…
CD Review : The Devin Townsend Project, “Addicted”
Devin Townsend recently wrote 60 songs, which he states have “four distinct styles,” each “accountable” for a different musical persona he projects. However you may…
CD Review : Sit Down Tracy, “Roaring Noon”
A tepid morning breeze blows through a Winnipeg street in late summer, rustling trash and dust up from the gutters. A 1982 Diplomat backfires in…