INTERVIEW: ELEPHANT STONE (MONTREAL)
Elephant Stone, the psychedelic rock outfit based in the bustling city of Montreal, offer up a transcendental blend of Eastern psych-rock on their strongest release yet. Their new self-titled LP is a clear and concise 10 song set that revives that allusive fusion of mystic scales and weste
REVIEW: PATRICK WATSON – ADVENTURES IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD (2012)
While listening to Patrick Watson‘s newest album, Adventures In Your Own Backyard, I thought something sounded familiar. Snippets of songs were reminding me of the music from a Spaghetti Western movie – the sub-genre of 1960s Italian-produced western films with their own distinctive mu
REVIEW: COEUR DE PIRATE – BLONDE (2011)
In 2009, you couldn’t avoid hearing Béatrice Martin in France. She was everywhere, and rightfully so. The tattooed piano player with a voice as sweet only Haribo or Willy Wonka could ever craft took the country as well as Canada with her pop songs firmly rooted in songwriter territory. These wasn
INTERVIEW: YOUNG GALAXY (MONTREAL)
Young Galaxy and I just chatted once again (our previous interview in February), getting a progress report on how the year has gone since the release of Shapeshifting to the acclaim of Gorilla vs. Bear, Polaris Prize and Pitchfork. Yet that hasn’t been the biggest event in the lives of Step
Interview: Young Galaxy, Part One
Young Galaxy is a core of three musicians, Stephen Ramsay, Catherine McCandless and Stephen Kamp. Their album, Shapeshifting, is all about transformation and changes, highly reflective when you reflect back on the rest of their discography. We had a chance to chat with Stephen Ramsay for a bit abo