How do you go about creating a music video in a world where people have to social distance? That’s the challenge for video directors and musicians today. As much as our new isolated way of living h...
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Local duo Fionn keep busy from home
For the young alt-folk duo Fionn the hardest part about adapting to the new way of life in the wake of COVID-19 is not being able to play shows. The duo, consisting of twin sisters Alanna and Brian...
Vancouver’s Ludic release new single “Love Me Like”
In French, “ludic” is an adjective that means “showing spontaneous and undirected playfulness.” It is also the name of one of Vancouver’s most promising and unique bands making waves during these s...
Vancouver’s Hollow Twin share new single “Before I Leave”
Hollow Twin has only been recording music for eight years but listening to their haunting, cerebral music, the dark folk-rock duo sounds like they’ve been doing this for eighteen years, particularl...
No World for Tomorrow: Looking back and looking ahead with Coheed’s Claudio Sanchez
When Coheed and Cambria recorded their fourth album, Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume II: No World For Tomorrow, lead singer and guitarist Claudio Sanchez remembers it as a time when ...
Everything certainly is possible with Enter Shikari
“Is this a new beginning?/Or are we close to the end?” The question opens Enter Shikari’s sixth album, Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible. While the world is in the most uncertain positio...
Algiers cooks up a revolution-ready album in There is No Year
The best bands are the ones that have a style and sound a bit difficult to describe. Algiers do not just fall into this category, they have nuzzled their way in, settled there, and produced a strin...
Throwing rocks against the cave wall
One would think that more than 60 years of living and 32 years of sobriety would have mellowed out Keith Morris, but these days, the legendary punk singer is just as angry as he was in 1980, when h...
Unplugged and Online: Something for the fans
Shane Told is trying to be positive these days but it’s hard not to be pessimistic. “Nothing’s going to change right now,” says the lead singer of Burlington, Ontario’s Silverstein. “We know we’re ...
Vancouver’s Hello Victim want you to feel uncomfortable with their latest video
In January of 2018 Megan Emanuel put a post on Facebook stating, “Girl seeking guitarist/pianist/band to write tell-all album with.” It was a matter of days before she serendipitously met Adam Wil...
Play it like it’s your last show – Andrew Seward of Against Me!
In the spring of 2013, Against Me! bassist Andrew Seward found himself at a crossroads in his personal and professional life. “I didn’t know if I wanted to be in the band, I missed my young daughte...
25 years of big choices
Back in 1995, I vividly remember rushing to the local HMV at Medicine Hat Mall, picking up Face to Face’s latest release, Big Choice, an album that, at the time, I had no idea would stay with...
