Review of Niki & The Dove’s Instinct and giveaway
Eliot HazelIt feels a bit anticlimactic to try and sit down and formally review Instinct, the debut album from Sweden’s Niki & The Dove, and the reasons for this are many. Besides the fact that...
View ArticleReview of Frida Hyvönen’s The The Soul
KnotanArtists lose record deals; it happens all the time. But when it happens to an international artist and rather than find a new deal, they disappear off your radar entirely, well that’s just a...
View ArticleAlt-J and JBM at Wrongbar in Toronto
Frank YangCambridge, England quartet Alt-J couldn’t have known how prescient they were when they named their debut album An Awesome Wave, as that’s pretty much what they’ve been riding through 2012....
View ArticleJens Lekman and Taken By Trees at The Phoenix in Toronto
Frank YangTechnically, the Swedish consulate in Toronto is in the office tower on the northeast corner of Yonge and Bloor, but on Thursday night it was unofficially relocated to the Phoenix Concert...
View ArticleEl Perro Del Mar covers The xx
Frank YangThe cover song is typically reserved for songs that influenced an artist, have great personal meaning, or just tickles their fancy and can usually be categorized as either “classic”,...
View ArticleReview of El Perro Del Mar’s Pale Fire
Memphis IndustriesIt’s been interesting tracking the musical evolution of El Perro Del Mar, the musical project of Sweden’s Sarah Assbring. Her 2006 self-titled debut cast her as the mournful ghost of...
View ArticleNick Cave & The Bad Seeds are back to set you straight. About what? EVERYTHING.
Cat StevensLots of interesting news came down the pipe from all around the world yesterday, but tops was this from down under – the new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record is coming. It’s called Push...
View ArticleThe House Of Love return with a fresh coat of Paint
FacebookA pile of this and that from overseas to get to today, so why not start with the item that I’m sure the fewest people – statistically speaking – care about. And that’s the return of The House...
View ArticleVideo dispatches from Scandinavia and beyond, featuring The Knife
Alexa VachonPresently trying to work out this year’s vacation schedule, which if all goes according to plan will feature a return engagement to Reykjavik and Stockholm in late Summer. Which has...
View ArticleThe Deer Tracks believe good things come in threes
Angel CeballosThe serial as a form of structure is hardly uncommon in art these days; it’s the standard for television, has been used as long as books have been published, and is increasingly the norm...
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