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Blocktreat
Blocktreat is something of an anomaly — an electronic artist with roots in the rural interior British Columbia folk scene. This meeting of worlds leads…
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Malleus Trio
Tenor saxophone, upright bass and drums: that’s all there is to Play Nice, the latest full-length release from Vancouver’s Malleus Trio. While the ingredients might be…
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Colin Scott Ruloff
It’s always strange to hear what kind of music the people you grew up with end up making. For two people whose upbringings were essentially…
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Kamikaze Nurse
It’s difficult to find bands in today’s rock landscape that deliver a grandiosity in their sound. One may go through the endless filler of the…
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Under Review: Youth Fountain, Letter to Our Former Selves
Pure Noise Records is home to many well known pop-punk bands, like The Story So Far and State Champs. Youth Fountain signed to the label…
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Under Review: Primp, Mother Loose
Mother Loose, a two sided single from Vancouver gals Primp, is the latest in an evolutionary process that has taken the band from lo-fi through…
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Under Review: Lo Siento, Brujas
It is easy to imagine Lo Siento’s second album Brujas as a dream project that turned out exactly right — just how the band thought…
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Jen Currin
“In this debut collection of fiction penned by Vancouver author Jen Currin, the reader is taken through a rapid-fire series of lives coming together and unraveling, relationships budding and breaking, self awareness developing, and the hard realities met along the way.”