Category: music
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A fun freelance gig I’ve had for the past couple of years has been writing the Sound Check column for Concrete Skateboarding magazine. Sadly, Concrete has decided to stop covering music, and so Sound Check is no more. I have decided to post a few of the article I wrote for Concrete, starting with this…
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For this week’s Georgia Straight, I interviewed English postpunk act Eagulls about convincing their reluctant singer to join them, and their resemblance (or lack thereof) to a certain American band. Read it here, and check out some of the group’s video’s below.
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One of my favourite articles to write in recent years was this Georgia Straight cover feature on South African rap act Die Antwoord. It’s not that the group was a great interview—it was actually tricky getting decent answers out of Ninja and Yo-Landi—but writing the story gave me the opportunity to research an area of global pop…
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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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