Category: music reviews
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On May 13, 2015, the Jesus and Mary Chain brought the Psychocandy 30th anniversary tour to Vancouver. The Georgia Straight sent lucky ol’ me to review it. In retrospect, I had a lot of nerve calling William Reid “doughy and bespectacled”, given that this is now a very accurate description of myself. I would put…
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The impending release of Jehnny Beth’s latest solo album, You Heartbreaker, You, reminded me that I once interviewed her for the Georgia Straight ahead of a Vancouver performance by her band Savages. Savages bemused by Mercury nod (This article originally appeared in The Georgia Straight.) It’s arguably the most prestigious honour in British music, so…
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Digging through the archives, I discovered that I have actually written about Mother Mother quite a lot over the years, so I have decided to split this blog post into two installments. This is the second.
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Inspired by the recent release of Something Better Change, Scott Crawford’s documentary about D.O.A.’s Joe Keithley and his evolution form punk rocker to politician, I dug through the Georgia Straight archives and unearthed all the times I have interviewed Keithley over the years.
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If you were lucky enough to have been among the select few curious indie-rock fans at the Royal when Interpol made its Vancouver debut at that long-defunct Granville Street venue in 2002, you might very well have been instantly turned into a fan for life. That’s the effect it had on me, at any rate,…
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Revisiting the two opportunities I have had (to date) to interview Killers frontman and all-around nice guy Brandon Flowers.
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By coincidence (or maybe not), the harder Sigur Rós played, the harder the rain fell.
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I recently reviewed Vancouver music-scene mainstay Phil Western’s latest release, Longform, for the Straight. In the review, which you can read here, I described the double LP as “an exercise in what he is arguably best at: namely, hypnotic electro built from lush layers of synthesizer tones over a variety of creatively deployed but generally…
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