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Jon McKeil: The Nature Of Things
Submitted by Jon Careless on 09.25.07 at 2:24pm.
After recently signing a two-record contract with Wednesday Records of California, followed by the release of his sophomore album The Nature Of Things, people are expecting big things from Jon McKiel. At least with The Nature Of Things, Jon has no worries when it comes to making good on those eve...
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CD Reviews: Thom Swift, Hey Rosetta!, Ron Sexsmith
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 08.22.07 at 9:05pm.
Thom Swift
Into the Dirt (Festival)
It’s probably only a coincidence, but a telling one, that the artwork on the disc of Swift’s album is very similar to Dire Straits Brothers in Arms CD art, evoking the National Steel guitar.
Like Mark Knopfler or Warren Zevon towards the end of h...
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Bryan Ferry's Dylanesque
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 08.20.07 at 6:53am.
Bryan Ferry’s latest album, Dylanesque (EMI), has evoked a strange sort of puzzlement from critics and music insiders as it hit the North American markets over the late spring and early summer.
An 11-song collection of Dylan covers, the CD is really something of a warm-up for the long-awaited ...
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CD Reviews: Queens of the Stone Age, Paolo Nutini and more...
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 07.27.07 at 10:46pm.
Queens of the Stone Age
Era Vulgaris (Interscope)
I was a latecomer to the mad metal of the QOTSA appeal. Oh, sure, they always had chops that impressed, and lead Queen, the California man-mountain Josh Homme struck a blow for unorthodox rock music with his collaborative spirit, the re...
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Review: Icky Thump (2007)
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 07.12.07 at 3:39pm.
Here’s the one people are talking about. The White Stripes, for the first time, go into a high tech studio in Nashville, recording for one of the big labels, Warner Brothers, also for the first time.
And how has it changed them?
It’s hard to say whether being on a major has made any diffe...
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Review: Get Behind Me Satan (2005)
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 07.11.07 at 6:43am.
Easily the most different-sounding of the The White Stripes’ six full-length releases, Get Behind Me Satan is almost as a result the most frustrating. It was released in June 2005, on V2 Records.
Jack and Meg expand the band’s sonic palette far beyond the template as had been established, and...
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Review: Elephant (2003)
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 07.9.07 at 10:48pm.
Elephant was the album that solidified the band’s hold on the popular imagination. When it came out on V2 Records in April 2003, with the rampaging “Seven Nation Army” as its first single, the critics were doing cartwheels. Even hip hop artists were heaping praise on the album, specifically that ...
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Review: White Blood Cells (2001)
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 07.9.07 at 10:23am.
This is The White Stripes’ third album, the one that made them big across the planet, and the third installment of my look at the band’s recordings.
For newcomers to the Detroit duo, this is where you should start. It’s where 95 percent of the band’s following first heard them, thanks to a vi...
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Review: De Stijl (2000)
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 07.6.07 at 2:41pm.
This is my on-going series of reviews of The White Stripes recorded output. This is the second album from the band, released in
June 2000 on Sympathy for the Record Industry.
A term often bandied about by music critics is the “difficult second album syndrome.” It’s the idea that bands say ...
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Album Review: The White Stripes (1999)
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 07.5.07 at 3:31pm.
As promised, here’s a look at the first of six full-length White Stripes albums, the eponymously titled The White Stripes.
Before we get to that, here’s something to get you in the mood: The dynamic duo performing on public transit recently in Winnipeg. For some reason the link doesn't work f...
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McCartney's Masterpiece
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 06.12.07 at 4:28pm.
I’ve lived for a week with Paul McCartney’s magnificent new album Memory Almost Full, and I’ve decided it is indeed a masterpiece.
And while Macca has had to juggle a million requests to reminisce about the 40th anniversary of the Beatle’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band just a week bef...
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Amelia Curran's "Black Album"
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 06.11.07 at 7:21am.
Amelia Curran is in pain. The spring deluge on this Monday evening has the intensity of an Indian monsoon and the damp is creeping into her fingers and wrists. Arthritis affects a few unlucky before their 30s, and the rain, combined with bones broken in Curran’s Newfoundland childhood, has her hi...
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Record Reviews May 2007
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 06.4.07 at 10:35am.
Feist • The Reminder
An artist who releases a massively well-received first album usually finds a bit of pressure waiting with the second. Most forget that in Leslie Feist’s case, she had a little-heard full-length indie release in 1999, called Monarch, and also put out a remix album foll...
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Jimmy Swift Band: Weight of the World
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 01.23.07 at 6:57pm.
It’s rare that an album provokes such a stew of mixed emotions, from astonishment to frustration and back again. And, after three or four listens, that they are no closer to being reconciled is a testament to the band’s versatility, if not its album sequencing.
Weight of the World is the fou...
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Review: World Container
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 10.28.06 at 4:52pm.
Can The Tragically Hip still make vital, interesting music?
It’s a question that will haunt any band that ever traded on the vim and vitality of youth-driven rock and roll, but one day woke up and found they’d been together for 20 years.
The ‘Hip have managed to maintain a firm hold on th...
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20 years of The Hip: A Critical Discography
Submitted by Carsten Knox on 10.28.06 at 4:55pm.
The Tragically Hip (1987) A Kingston bar band releases their first EP, to some interest. The great white north is already a lyrical inspiration, even though Downie isn’t yet the principle songwriter.
Key Track: Highway Girl.
Up To Here (1989) The live performances creating fan...
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Symphony NS and CBC launch CD of commissioned works by Christos Hatzis.
Submitted by Barbara Webber on 10.5.06 at 11:40am.
CBC Records and Symphony Nova Scotia have launched a CD, Dancing in the Light, consisting of two commissioned works by Christos Hatzis.
Pyrrichean Dances was composed in, and reflects the unsettling times since the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. These tragedies are reflected in all fo...
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Review: Return to Cookie Mountain
Submitted by halifaxsportsfan on 09.15.06 at 12:30pm.
I’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of TV on the Radio’s newest album Return to Cookie Mountain for two months. Why? Partly because I enjoyed the Brooklyn-based band’s previous offering Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. But mostly because Pitchfork gave it a 9.1 rating in July (the highe...
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Evolution of the crew
Submitted by Andrea McNevin on 05.2.06 at 8:21pm.
More of mix tape than JC, Bars N Hooks Vol. 1; Volume 2 illustrates the evolution of the crew of Squaretown, Illeville and ‘up-home’ rappers.
Croucher has appearances from Kaleb Simmonds, Hussels, Ghettochild, Lamar, Trobiz, Littles and many more, all mixed by DJ IV.
Includes the now cla...
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