Category: music
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“It’s practically a diary entry,” Showalter admits. “It’s almost uncomfortably honest at times. I didn’t intend for it to be that way, but I just wanted to go there. I didn’t want to hide behind metaphors anymore.”
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A belated Happy New Year! And yes, I realize everything I do with this blog is belated. Nonetheless, this is actually new news! Well, newish. The debut EP by my band, the Starling Effect, came out last year, but it took us a while to get it everywhere. And by “everywhere”, I mean Spotify, iTunes,…
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Oops, I keep forgetting to post stuff here. But this one is pretty important to me, since I haven’t released any new music in a long time. My band the Starling Effect has just put out a self-titled EP, and you can check it out below:
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Greetings! I haven’t been around here much lately, which is what happens when you decide to prioritize doing things that make you money over things that don’t, like blogging. To start the year off, here’s a remix I recently did of a song that my old band Hinterland first released in 2003. This is that…
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This week the Georgia Straight celebrates some of the coolest things in the city with its annual Best of Vancouver issue. I have some content in there, including an item on Vancouver’s most disgustingly beautiful piece of public art. (Can you guess which one I mean?) As part of the Best of Bands feature, I…
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Just revisiting another of the stories I wrote for Concrete Skateboarding. Click here to read my article about Australian psych-rock wizard Kevin Parker and his musical project Tame Impala. Impressively, Lonerism certainly sounds like the product of a group of people. It’s all Parker, though, and while the Fab Four vocal harmonies and acid-washed guitar…
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For this week’s Georgia Straight, I interviewed Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe about her most recent album, Pain Is Beauty, and her film project, “Lone”. Here’s a bit of what she had to say: “A lot of the album was inspired by natural disasters, and the way we think we have our lives under control,…
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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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