Reviews

Quick Hitters:: The Cable-knits

Quick Hitters:: The Cable-knits

It’s with a hint of sadness I bring you the frantic stylings of The Cable-knits. Technically, the Calgary duo – LeeJay Dunphy and Nate Waters – write pop songs; the infectious guitar melodies and harmonies are often hidden or obfuscated by fragmented blasts of noise and droning waves of sound, but they are the building [...]

mikedecline – Calmmunicate

mikedecline – Calmmunicate

Let me say this, if there’s a Juno for “Best Instrumental Hip Hop Album with a Name That Kind of Sounds Like a Word But Isn’t Actually a Word, I Don’t Think”, Vancouver-based producer mikedecline would be a two-time winner by now. I loved his last album, Umbrellatons and after being through it a few [...]

Reviews:: K. Stebner’s Cold Water

Reviews:: K. Stebner’s Cold Water

It’s no secret that making money from music is a failed venture. Even the biggest bands in the world are stuck grinding from city to city, dreading the inevitable ding from an increasingly fickle 15-minute timer. For artists like Kevin Stebner, a man making music for an incredibly small subset of the few people left [...]

Reuben Bullock – Man Made Lakes

Reuben Bullock – Man Made Lakes

It’s fitting that Calgary’s Reuben Bullock describes his state of mind, and musical perspective, as simply going where the river takes him. In a time when most folk/roots acts feel as natural as salmon fishing in the Yemen, Bullock lets go of any expectations and floats with the current. Bullock is a self-admitted work in [...]

Favorites-of ’12:: Woodpigeon For Paulo EP

For Paulo, the new EP from Woodpigeon, may have started as a tribute to family road trips and Mark Hamilton’s mandatory musical roots, but there’s more at play here. Hamilton cites touch-points like Fleetwood Mac, Boys Don’t Cry and Iron Butterfly as the inspiration for his melodies, but underneath those lasting nostalgic hues is something [...]