The broken-hearted catch still haunts the voice, sweetly sad amongst the relentless rhythm of programmed drum beats and analog synths. With I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets, Rae Spoon’s most electronic adventure to date, the former folk artist moves […]
If good things really do come in threes, then Get Out of Sin City, Boca Chica’s third full-length album, is the best of the good things. This is definitely my favourite Boca Chica album (so far). This album has everything […]
Frank Turner is one of the people. Not content to be “one of five English guys with matching white shirts and bad teeth” entertaining the masses from the safety of the stage, he is a musician who tears down barriers […]
I saw My Boy Rascal perform at a coffee house recently, an overnight stop on a cross-Canada tour with road buddy, Folk Thief. The acoustics of the room, combined with the escalating background chatter of a bustling coffee house, did […]
Because everybody needs to know that they are being heard. Because if somebody is going to make the effort and incur the expense of sending me their CD, the least I can do is to listen with an open ear […]
There’s no question that Taylor Cochrane is a witty lyricist. The former lead vocalist of the Kronic Groove Band displays considerable wordsmithery on his debut solo album, Acoustic, on which he bursts forth with a collection of songs spanning the […]
As a newly-minted coordinator in the Music and Merch tent, I knew that Sunday was going to be the day that for me involved more selling of than partaking in music. Naturally, it was also the day of my Lightning […]
The rain clouds cleared overnight, leaving behind soupy puddles and slick mud paths to remind us that you can throw a festival, but Nature is still in charge. The south end of the record tent resembled a swamp, causing us […]
Friday’s cold driving rain which pelted those die-hard folk festers, who turned out in impressive numbers, called for wardrobe considerations beyond gauzy skirts, man-pris and flip-flops. The Resident Offspring pulled together a Derelicte hippie-chic ensemble that proved to be ingenious […]
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band are one damn fine way to start a festival. Big, loud, rollicking, stompy country blues delivered up with an extra helping of sass. No wonder there was a lineup all the way to the first […]
