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This month's Exclaim has my cover story on The Acorn , the finest band in Ottawa, whose last record I reviewed here . I first met Rolf...

H&M's insider trading of Polaris news, continued. 5 p.m. (explanation here ) H: Thank you, baby, for the Tylenol. You are gold. Okay...

It’s the morning after the Polaris Prize ceremonies. Helen Spitzer was a presenter, introducing Miracle Fortress; I was in the peanut galler...

Polaris Prize ceremonies are tonight, and host Grant Lawrence is trying his best to prepare jokes that won’t offend the corporate sponsors,...

In our continuing game of catch-up, here are four reviews that ran in this summer's issue of Magnet , the one with Spoon on the cover. I...

More files today from mainstream daily newspapers, the Kitchener-Waterloo Record and the Guelph Mercury. As a side note, I'd like to al...

Apologies, blogosphere. Moving house took a lot more out of me than I expected. The next few days will be devoted to some catch-up, before w...

It was probably only a matter of time before Wolf Parade played the Wolfe Island Music Festival. But just to make sure the occasion was some...

Apologies for the absence: I’ve been in the Kawartha woods, homeless and housesitting in Toronto, driving to Delaware, camping in the Grand ...