So They Say So They Say

Published Aug 01, 2005

When it comes to overwrought 20-something white boy angst, the American Midwest is, indeed, the best. Strange that a region vaunted for its...

Our Lady Peace Healthy in Paranoid Times

Published Aug 01, 2005

With their earnest global do-good work, unabashed guitar hedonism and predilection for bombastic, stadium-sized alterna-rock, Our Lady Peace...

Tsar Band-Girls-Money

Published Aug 01, 2005

There are over 2500 artists listed in The All Music Guide to Rock, and the influence of almost all of them is dutifully referenced somewhere...

Shawn Hewitt & the National Strike The Soft Society

Published Aug 01, 2005

Everything you need to know about The Soft Society, Scarborough native Shawn Hewitt’s debut EP, you learn in its first five minutes. "Ghost...

Trews Den of Thieves

Published Aug 01, 2005

Despite only having one stylistic gear (hint: it’s the one labelled "rockin’!”), the Trews’ 2003 debut became quite the little big deal, spi...

Tourmaline Strange Distress Calls

Published Aug 01, 2005

This New Jersey-based quintet exist at the junction of indie and emo, where the paths of self-expression and self-absorption diverge. Virtua...

30 Seconds To Mars A Beautiful Lie

Published Aug 01, 2005

Jared Leto is Hollywood’s undisputed king of pain. As an actor, he’s taken more lead than 50 Cent and the Game combined, been stabbed, bruta...

Anti-Hero Unpretty

Published Aug 01, 2005

They dress like chain-smoking goth-punk jailbait and play like Kittie bludgeoning Alanis’s angry-girl masterwork Jagged Little Pill with a s...

Cherry Valence TCV3

Published Aug 01, 2005

Coming on like the greatest Time-Life Sounds of the ’70s comp never made, the Cherry Valence’s third LP is a magnum opus of hairy-knuckled M...

Dredg Catch Without Arms

Published Aug 01, 2005

The third album from Bay Area alt-metallers Dredg seems hell-bent on answering perhaps the least-asked question in the history of rock’n’rol...

Screaming Trees Ocean Of Confusion: Songs of Screaming Trees 1990-1996

Published Jul 01, 2005

As if 20-somethings needed another reason to feel old, the last great Mid-Western indie band of the 1990s have finally released a best of. S...

Kazzer Broke

Published Jul 01, 2005

At first glance, it looks like Kazzer is already out of ideas for record number two. First there’s the issue of the title (suspiciously simi...

Breaking Point Beautiful Disorder

Published Jul 01, 2005

Wind-Up signees Breaking Point are a quartet of post-grungy Tennesseans whose very existence besmirches the hard-living and hard-loving repu...

Cherrybomb Speed of Light

Published Jul 01, 2005

At some point, Hollywood’s relentless intellectual property recycling program will cough up a quickie remake of Fast Times at Ridgemont High...

Elevator Division Years

Published Jul 01, 2005

Elevator Division are what UK dream-rockers Elbow would have sounded like had they grown up in the American Midwest and been reared on a ste...

Freak Accident The Freak Accident

Published Jul 01, 2005

In his old band, irritable Bay Area noiseniks Victims Family, Ralph Spight smothered his pop instincts under a thick porridge of art-damaged...

Hadley Seventy-One the Beautiful

Published Jul 01, 2005

Like cockroaches, Volvos and Keith Richards, grunge seems destined to outlive us all. With nary a grumbling heroin lament, look-at-me guitar...

Hurst Wanderlust

Published Jul 01, 2005

Brand New History, Econoline Crush’s third and evidently final album, found the band tinkering with an increasingly commercial strain of ind...

Inflation Kills The Inflation Kills

Published Jul 01, 2005

When his last band — volatile Hamilton math-rockers Kitchens & Bathrooms — called it quits, front-man Phil Williams claimed his next project...

Neins Circa Sunday Anthems

Published Jul 01, 2005

"There’s no drugs running through my veins/I’m just completely plain” protests Cameron Dilworth, creative genius behind Vancouver oddballs t...