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Under Review: Spaces, RINSE DREAM
Art-punkers RINSE DREAM’s first full length album — Spaces — released late 2022, and opens with some fluid feedback, a distorted bass throb, and the…
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Under Review: Stuck In The Muck, stuttr
The first song from stuttr’s recently released four song EP, Stuck In The Muck, hits me like a weighty snow shovel in the back of…
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Under Review: Big Rig, Big Rig
Big Rig most definitely has some “twang.” It’s not surprising then that the Vancouver band enlists banjo player Geoffo Reith as part of their four…
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Under Review: Balkan, Balkan
Famed German-American writer Charles Bukowski once wrote “don’t swim in the same slough.” But there are times when an extended dip wading in shards of…
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Under Review: Stay Positive, Anchoress
Anchoress (ˈæŋ kər ɪs) noun 1. A punk band formed in 2010, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (so reads the definition on their official…
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Under Review: Paper Dream, Omianan
I know nothing about jazz. In fact, my wheelhouse is mostly punk, post-punk, and guitar oriented rock; which makes Omianan’s debut album, Paper Dream, a…
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Under Review: About the Future, apples
It’s 4:25 AM in the midst of a dead quiet night, my insomnia acts as a gateway to my initial exposure to apples’ debut album,…
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Under Review: Thirteen Moons, did you die
Self confessed psych-pop shoegazers and Vancouver indie band, did you die, initially piqued my interest simply through their name. Apparently, the moniker stems from a…
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Under Review: Daytona, Primp
This past weekend as the autumn deluge of wet splashed the west coast, I decided to get my “Primp” on and check out the latest…
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Under Review: Baby Blue, Dead Soft
There are peculiar abandoned slices of time, when a certain tone, tune or track washes over you, like a lush, deep turquoise musical wave, and…