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INTERVIEW: Actor ADAM GOLDBERG on his musical project THE GOLDBERG SISTERS…and other stuff 27 Aug 2013 | 11:08 am
I have a crush on Adam Goldberg. He’s the actor guy who has been in about 13 dozen TV shows, and films like Dazed and Confused and Saving Private Ryan. He is also The Hebrew Hammer - Shabbat shalom, m...
POLYPHONIC SPREE in Vancouver – words/photos 23 Aug 2013 | 01:50 am
Like a sort of Pokémon hunt, it took three attempts to catch and count them all. The timpanist and the harpist were wedged in the corner hiding (I didn’t miss the harp but I did miss the harpIST), bu...
EXCLUSIVE Photos/Interview: Portrait(s) of NEIL GAIMAN and the music that changed his life 19 Aug 2013 | 07:39 pm
At a reading in Vancouver on August 8, Neil Gaiman said he used to be the kind of writer whose name inspired a response of “oh my god, he’s my favourite!” to “who?” He admitted he’s lucky that that th...
Top 10 #MTLMoments: Music in Montreal including KID KOALA, THE NATIONAL doc, KISS, SEXY SUSHI, DEAR DENIZEN, PIKNIC ELÉCTRONIK and more 15 Aug 2013 | 11:24 pm
Montreal wants you to know how cool it is. Which is cool. Because Montreal IS cool. And I should know; I was just there for nearly three weeks. As part of its #MTLMoments campaign launched by the for...
OSHEAGA Day 3: NEW ORDER, HOT CHIP, FATHER JOHN MISTY, ICONA POP, JESSIE WARE, HOLY GHOST #mtlmoments 14 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
By Day 3 of Osheaga, my cohort Sasha Geffen from Consequence of Sound and I had been out doing “music stuff” every night in the rad city of Montreal for more than 2 weeks straight. We’d done a ton (se...
OSHEAGA Day 2: BECK, BOB MOULD, BREEDERS, TRICKY, STARS, GROENLAND, HUMANS #mtlmoments 14 Aug 2013 | 12:34 am
May as well start Day 2 of Osheaga with friends, yeah? Off we go to the Piknic dance stage to see my homies, Humans, a Vancouver electro-vocal-soul duo made out of Robbie Slade and Peter Ricq. Peter g...
OSHEAGA Day 1: THE CURE, VAMPIRE WEEKEND, PHOENIX, DAUGHTER, GUARDS, ALT-J, PALMA VIOLETS, HEAD & THE HEART, MAJICAL CLOUDZ #mtlmoments 12 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
An intense start to the first day of Osheaga in Montreal’s scenic and sunshiney Parc Jean-Drapeau came via locals Majical Cloudz, who lined six of their friends on the Verte stage during a melancholic...
Sunshine, Selfies and the SUBPOP 25th Anniversary Jubilee in Seattle 20 Jul 2013 | 05:40 pm
You know you’re old, when you find yourself in Georgetown, Seattle, about to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of a label whose creation you actually sorta remember as a kid. But here we are, July 13th, ...
Hanging out with…The Hottest Brand in the World, KISS! 19 Jul 2013 | 04:12 am
It is lunchtime, on a July day in Vancouver, and I’m standing a few feet away from KISS, who are in full makeup. It is surreal, of course, to be standing a few feet away from KISS in full makeup. Im...
BSR Live Round Up: BLACK ANGELS, FOALS, PARQUET COURTS, MOON HOOCH, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS and UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA in photos and words 8 Jul 2013 | 11:30 am
So it’s been a busy month-plus, with nary a second to stop and breathe. And even fewer moments to put fingers to paper or whatever it is one does these days. The last gasps of indie-rock tours have s...
