The Wrens / Raising The Fawn Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON - February 7, 2004

Published Jan 01, 2006

Toronto's Raising the Fawn took advantage of the packed house by performing a strong set, especially when lead singer John Crossingham sang...

Take Out The Trash Festival Gladstone Hotel, Toronto ON - May 22 to 24, 2003

Published Jan 01, 2006

An inaugural year for this three-night affair of bands, B-films and beer. And if you think the surrounding Parkdale neighbourhood is rough a...

Shonen Knife / Modey Lemon Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON - October 30

Published Dec 01, 2003

I'm not sure how these two bands ended on the same bill, but it was quite a contrast in rock trios. Pittsburgh's Modey Lemon unleashed a pow...

Trembling Seduce the Government

Published Nov 01, 2003

This Motor City threesome are all over the map on this six song EP. They are at their best when they are representing Detroit Pop City with...

Birthday Machine Direction & Destination

Published Nov 01, 2003

As a Canadian band on an American label, I really wanted to like the Birthday Machine's four-song seven-inch debut. I was also looking forwa...

Patty Duke Fanzine #4/Various Patty's Favorite Boy Bands

Published Nov 01, 2003

This has been a fun series of releases, with consistently nice packaging (the records come with the zines), and prior bands including Buck,...

Langhorns Mission Exotica

Published Jun 01, 2003

Mission Exotica is the perfect title for this album of surf/spy offerings from the veteran Swedish trio. It starts off with one of the best...

Salteens Let Go of Your Bad Days

Published May 01, 2003

Vancouver's sunny-side up popsters have stretched things out a bit on their second album; the ten songs clock in at 28 minutes, up from 25 i...

Ghosts Of Modern Man Ghosts Of Modern Man

Published Apr 01, 2003

GOMM, formerly Pillar before a name change for the standard legal reasons, are a four piece from Regina, whose core members have been togeth...

Dreams Among Stars Dreams Among Stars

Published Apr 01, 2003

My first impressions of this EP were positive: pleasant cover of some bicycles by the sea, pleasant sounding name, and Mark Gaudet (Eric's T...

Riff Randells Riff Randells

Published Mar 01, 2003

This six-song EP really moves right from the start, which is appropriate since the lead track, "C'mon," is about living in the here and now....

Riff Randells Riff Randells

Published Sep 01, 2002

This six-song EP really moves, right from the start, which is appropriate since the lead track, "C'mon," is about living in the here and now...

Tina And The Total Babes She's So Tuff

Published May 01, 2002

I bought this sight unseen, just because Tina Luchessi (of Trashwomen and Bobbyteens fame) is the Tina in question. I was hoping this would...

Deathray Davies The Day Of The Ray

Published May 01, 2002

Texas is associated with being big (i.e., Texas toast) and bad (i.e. "Texas kicks ass bumpers stickers”). Dallas, TX’s Deathray Davies are c...

The Organ We've Got To Meet

Published May 01, 2002

It's a little easier to enjoy melancholy if it's somebody else's. A good example takes place when you spin this Vancouver band's debut seven...

El Vez Boxing With God

Published Apr 01, 2002

The Mexican Elvis is back with another collection of reinterpreted popular songs, à la Weird Al Yankovic. While the curly haired one capital...

Avengers VI Real Cool Hits

Published Apr 01, 2002

From 1964 to 1968, the six Anaheim, CA, pals known as the Avengers VI rode the last wave of the West Coast surf music craze (which probably...

Just Barelys Just Barelys

Published Nov 01, 2001

This is an album of honest, slightly skewed bedroom pop made by a rural Nova Scotian who was probably a bit twisted by growing up in Hamilto...

Fuzzy Love Pagan Schmalz & Other Sacrifices

Published Apr 01, 2001

This band takes "songs you've never liked before" and loungifies them by giving them the electric organ treatment while flavouring them with...

Ewoks/Lottie Collins Ewoks/Lottie Collins

Published Feb 01, 2001

The Ewoks have a drummer, an organist, a vocalist and a lot of spunk. Picture a catchy, danceable, but loose and garage-y sound, one similar...