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Volume 23, Issue 2
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Kontroller :: Legend of Zelda : Skyward Sword


by Kabir Kaler

After a highly anticipated wait, our friend in green is back to save the world in an all new adventure called Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Continue Reading »

Hillbilly Highway – Overnight to Albuquerque

by Sheldon Birnie

With the news a couple weeks back that Neil Young & Crazy Horse will be releasing a new album, titled Americana, a wave of excitement began to build inside of me. While I’m a big fan of much of Neil’s overall oeuvre, for me his work with Crazy Horse stands above and beyond his other collaborations, and beside or beyond his best solo work. This is real exciting news out here on the Hillbilly Highway, friends. Big time. Continue Reading »

Cloud Nothings – Attack on Nothing

For most bands, creating a nine minute track (here, “Wasted Days”) that only has approximately 45 words and is mostly instrumental would seem overly indulgent. Continue Reading »

BROTHERS – These Limbs; Our Firewood

I had totally forgotten about music like this somewhere between my copies of At The Drive-In, Japandroids, Pretty Girls Make Graves and Fugazi, Continue Reading »

A Name Unheard – Human


This eight tune offering from young Vancouver based rockers is a tight unit. Continue Reading »

RatTail :: Self-Proclaimed Weirdos

By Janet Adamana

After only a few short years of writing, touring and performing, the slightly bizarre but incredibly creative Toronto trio RatTail continue their path of injecting contagious, raw, experimental pop into the Canadian indie music industry. Continue Reading »

Hillbilly Highway – Visiting the Wheat City

by Sheldon Birnie

“Up in Brandon, Manitoba, I left 13 empty jugs / Canadian Women, lord, Canadian Club.” – Tom T. Hall, “Canadian Women” Continue Reading »

Lafidki / Orphan | Oliver – split LP



My friends in Belarus just met Saphy Vong of Lafidki and had this to say: “[Vong] is utterly crazy; we enjoyed talking to him about his music, which [Simptom Pogremushki] described as Cambodian New Year.” Continue Reading »

CHUCK PROPHET – Temple Beautiful


Chuck Prophet is by no means new to the music scene, and his 12th album (holy shit!) proves his musical prowess in both songwriting and lyrical maturity. Continue Reading »

SALINAS – All These Choices


Formerly known as The Furr, this Winnipeg indie quartet aren’t nervous, quirky, violent, or sarcastic — nor does their music suffer from the lack of it. Continue Reading »

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