Marvin Gaye, The Mizell Brothers and the Quest for Music’s Holy Grail
Now here’s the deal. When it comes to what we consider to be the holy grail of modern music, a song so rare there isn’t even a complete version of it, we’re not…
Plants and Animals – The End Of That
Montreal-based Plants and Animals return with their 3rd full-length LP The End of That, a scarcely-definable back-to-basics romp that finally places the band in a category alongside neighbours Arcade Fire and the nation’s…
Festivali 11, 1972: How One Pop Show Brought Down A Dictator
Stories of music altering the political landscape of an entire country are rare but they are there. Music can bring a mysterious sense of vindication to events by virtue of being an aural…
The History of the Synthesizer featuring Roger O’Donnell
When Joe Meek recorded the 1962 hit, “Telstar” with his band The Tornados, he used the distorted tape recording of a toilet flushing in his house to recreate what he believed to be…
Mina May – Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt
If the Beach Boys come back to musical earth as a robot super roadster, the name for that car tearing up the coast will likely be called a Mina May. Sure, there are…
