Wolfe Island Music Fest

I’m off to see this one for the first time. Here’s the lineup: 2:30pm to 3:00pm Lady Racers 3:15pm to 3:45pm Fat Robot 4:00pm to 4:30pm Fembots 4:45pm to 5:30pm Great Lake Swimmers 5:45pm to 6:45pm Chris Brown All Star Band featuring Kate Fenner 7:00pm to 7:45pm Jon-Rae and the River 8:00pm to 8:45pm Holy […]


The Coast

It’s taken me a while to get something down about this band. This Coast is from somewhere near the middle of Canada, a place called Toronto. The name comes from a Paul Simon song, sounds like a mix between Verve, U2, Smiths, New Order. Building/driving atmospherics made from heavy reverb, offset with the slightly fragile […]

Sea Wolf

Do the work. In a previous post on Silversun Pickups and the Ship Collective I simply wrote off a band because they had the word wolf in their name. At the time, I think I might have heard too many calls of the wolf. I’m glad Dustin O’Halloran from Devics told me to take another […]


Band Of Horses

So a bunch of guys from Seattle formed a band, opened gigs for Iron and Wine, signed to Sub Pop and received favourable reviews at Pitchfork. that’s one story…. or. Perry Farrell started fronting a different band, with better songs. I’ve had Band of Horses‘s song The Funeral stuck in my head for a week […]