Category: From the Archives
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On this day in 2020, the Georgia Straight posted this preview of an upcoming Tall Heights performance in Vancouver. This is a significant one for me, because that show—at the Biltmore Cabaret on Sunday, February 23 of that year—was the last concert my wife and I attended before Vancouver essentially shut down thanks to COVID-19.…
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Pennsylvania punk band Pissed Jeans released their fourth album, Honeys, 13 years ago. Frontman Matt Korvette discusses his songwriting, focusing on personal and relatable themes rather than political topics. He emphasizes authenticity, acknowledging his middle-class background while exploring everyday frustrations, like office politics, in songs such as “Cafeteria Food.”
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That time I interviewed Nardwuar the Human Serviette for the Georgia Straight, back in 2007.
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Australian indie-folk act the Paper Kites release a new album, If You Go There, I Hope You Find It, today. Here’s an interview I did with the band’s frontman and primary songwriter, Sam Bentley, a few years back.
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What has tongues wagging these days is sex. First there was the interview with European gay-lifestyle magazine GUS, in which Furtado said she believes all people are inherently bisexual…
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The bassist will allow that working with the notoriously obstinate J Mascis is considerably easier now than in the ’80s, when it was, he says, “a mind fuck, to say the least”.
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The coming of the Halloween season put me in mind of Dead Man’s Bones. I interviewed the duo back in 2009 and their self-titled album has been an October staple for me ever since.
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It’s a safe bet that no one watching the “Enter the Ninja” video had ever seen anything like it before. While Ninja spits head-spinning rhymes about decapitating haters, Vi$$er does a Lolita routine in a bedroom plastered with pictures of her bandmate and crawling with rats.
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Exactly 15 years ago to this day, the Georgia Straight published my interview with Benjamin Curtis of School of Seven Bells. I was really keen to talk to him, because I was a big fan of that project and also of Secret Machines, the band he was in with his brother Brandon.
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An old favourite of mine, the Icelandic “weird pop” collective múm, has a new album slated for release on the same day. I interviewed founding member Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason for the Georgia Straight back in 2009.
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