Let me preface this review by saying Iâve known Summer since she was barely out of her teens and coming out to sit in or jam at various venues I was playing at around Victoria BC. Iâve watched her career with great interest and she has ...
Unfamiliar Records.
The scene has been hit by the sharp sounds of a new five piece: The Clips. The debut album Matterhorn is made of raw, electric energy mingling among melodies. Lyrically, the album is freeform, created strictly from wh...
Angela Verbrugge: The Night We Couldnât Say Goodnight (Gut String) A review of the debut album from the Canadian vocalist
CD REVIEW
The Bicyclesâ Oh No, Itâs Love is not the kind of record that warrants a large, wordy review filled with pretentious journalistic nit-picking. The fact of the matter is simple: Oh No, Itâs Love is filled to the rim with h...
A Seven Inch Mixdown by Rene Milord:
First up is an Albertan band called MYELIN SHEATHS with a disjointed, noisy, poppy, post-punk EP. Itâs kind of sloppy, perhaps better live? Hozac Records 047 (at Patâs Pub, May 6)
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Best of 2016: The Garage received a lot of blues CDs this year and all of them were above standard, but ultimately had to be judged for other reasons of personality, believability, skill and versatility, etc. Take a bow Michael Kaeshammer a...
Metal Blade Records
Bison is the most hyped band in Vancouver right now. Sometimes hype can be a tough thing to deal with, but these fuckers keep coming through every time. Every show is better than the next, so every album is obviously ...
Hush Hush Noise - Band Of The Month
The Japandroids are a two piece guitar wailing, drum pounding, singing machine, (do droids get angry when you call them machines?) and âLullaby Death Jamsâ is their recipe for a good time. Itâs made up of five interestingly good track...
Lay it On Me
Self-distributed
Waa-BOOM! With an album title ripped from frontman Ryan Hobenâs muscleman tattoos, indiefolkrocksters Minto punch it open with sludgy dirge, âNew Bonesâ â formerly a chooglinâ alt-country number i...