Much like Searching for Sugar Man (2012), A Band Called Death shares the story of a musical act lost in time and rediscovered a generation later to open ears. In this case, it isn’t an inner city, Dylanesque poet named Rodriguez, but the members of Death: three black brothers from Detroit. They are regarded as ahead […]
Fans of CBC’s Grant Lawrence have known him as a musician, a radio broadcaster and an award-winning author. Now, with his upcoming memoir The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie, we get to know yet another side of Grant: the awkward sports-playing adolescent. For Lawrence, as an undersized, thick-glasses-and-knee-braces-wearing child, violence always […]
There are some bands that feel right any time and any place, like a favourite pair of sneakers that never leave your feet. But Best Coast is like a pair of sunglasses, inseparable from a certain time and a certain place, casting a cool, surf-rock shade over the harsh glow of the summer sun. The […]
Much like Searching for Sugar Man (2012), A Band Called Death shares the story of a musical act lost in time and rediscovered a generation later to open ears. In this case, it isn’t an inner city, Dylanesque poet named Rodriguez, but the members of Death: three black brothers from Detroit. They are regarded as ahead […] 