Music

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” ...

If there is a redheaded stepchild of the creative arts, the music video format is it. Literature, music, theater, even the L’Enfant terrible that is cinema, all have their “respectable” champions and preservationists. Music video, on the other hand, has ...

Mayhem—they’re one of the most recognizable and influential Black Metal bands in history, and one who certainly have a fair amount of controversy surrounding them. If not for a series of events that made the genre infamous in the early ...

Mood music is a phrase that evokes either sounds for some downtown lovin’ or something more in the vein of Jackie Gleason’s’ For Lovers Only. (Believe me, despite the title, there is a HUGE divide between the two categories, unless ...

Friedrich Wilheim Murnau’s Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) is widely acknowledged not just as a classic of German Expressionist cinema but also as the silver screen’s first interpretation of Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire classic Dracula ...

This may be the Year of the Dog according to the Lunar calendar, but make no mistake — when it comes to brash, brazen rock and roll, 2018 is set to be the year of Thunderpussy. This quartet of four ...

With Ought’s third album Room Inside the World (the group’s Merge Records debut), the Montreal-based quartet traverses new musical ground while staying true to its basic take of metropolitan-weary, angst-ridden outlooks on life. The wry wittiness of frontman Tim Darcy’s ...

Well, reviewing this album now may seem like bandwagon-jumping, what with it having been released in March last year, with the band now blowing up, and I really hope it does seem like that. I actually was exposed to Idles ...

“I honestly just think we do have people in this country now who’re just a bit fucking humourless, and they just don’t know when you’re joking. ‘Is he joking, this comedian? This comedian joking up on the comedy stage at ...

No Pop, the fourth album from Odonis Odonis, is the sound of motion. These are songs of speed and machinery: subways, bullet trains, fast cars, highways, treadmills. Despite the album’s reliance on electronic equipment, one can still catch a whiff ...