k-os Interview Let’s face facts - hip hop has come a long way in the last 25 years. Long gone are the days of hip hop sheepishly hiding in the back corner of your local record store. Now hip hop is everywhere. It’s referenced by and entwined into the lives of not only B-Boys and B-Girls, but even indie rock kids, and – gasp! – soccer moms...[more]
	Leave Interview Montreal is a town that is beautiful, active, fun, rich… and a very strange atmosphere for musicians to wade through, depending on their philosophies. Leave is a band that has felt some of that peculiar pressure in its hometown...[more]
	Motion Soundtrack Knockin' Video Shoot Not too far back, we reported that our friends in Motion Soundtrack had landed themselves a videoFACT grant to make a video... Not long later, the band passed out a call for some assistance with the swanky video, looking for extras to fill a concert scene at the shoot. Well, your faithful Cord staffers know a good story when they see one...[more]
	Xiu Xiu Interview When I arrived at Vancouver’s Brickyard for the scheduled doors of 9pm, there was little sign of activity. I met up with Jamie Stewart and Caralee McElroy from the band Xiu Xiu, as well as ‘dungeonmaster’ Simon, as they are unloading their tour bus in front of the venue. Tour minivan, rather...[more]
	Sam Roberts Interview I walk out of Highbury Islington Tube Station into the blazing hot sunlight and squint over to my left where across the road is located ‘The Garage’. Garage indeed. It looks like the sort of place that wouldn’t be at all out of place along a strip of repair shops that find more problems than what actually needs fixing...[more]
	k-os Ten Questions ...I’d just want to know how the hell we got here and what’s the hell is up with the aliens. [more]
	Leave Ten Questions I’ll try to go to all the pubs around London and drink a lot of beers. Just try to catch up. [more]
	Xiu Xiu Ten Questions Ok, if you were going to impersonate Macy Gray, and all you had a knife and some piece of fruit, what piece of fruit would it be? [more]
	Sam Roberts Ten Questions Is George W. Bush a spider? [more]
	If I Learned One Thing In Quebec City... ...it's to always be prepared. Always. For anything. Sure, there's some peripheral things I learned there, like there's a piece of Europe in Canada, and where the building style of New Orleans originated. But that all pales in comparison to just damn well making sure you have the proper things to enjoy your day...[more]
	Brian Borcherdt The Remains Of... [more]
	Hot Carl Hot Carl. [more]
	Sondre Lerche Two-Way Monologue. [more]
	John Frusciante The Will To Death. [more]
	Alanis Morissette So-Called Chaos. [more]
	Alexisonfire Self-Titled. [more]
	By Divine Right Hybrid TV Genii. [more]
	Gomez with Wil (who is accumulating much coverage here... On July 16th, I paid a visit to the Commodore ballroom to take in quirky British band Gomez. My experience thus far had been limited to selections off the new CD Split The Difference. I was eager to witness the live show based on the excellent rock I had heard... [more]
	Sam Roberts Band ...a sort-of review from Quebec City Eventually, Sam Roberts and his Band came out to as much fanfare as the weather-weary and small crowd could muster... We thought maybe the band would do a curtailed set, like put in an appearance so as not to disappoint those who had waited for them, but just play like three or five songs and then retreat to a less electricity-conducting place... [more]
	HemiCuda with Red Hot Lovers and GG Dartray GG Dartray refused to stick to one genre, leaving me with no easy way to pigeon hole them. Damn them. Breaking into a ska riff here, letting slip a bit of AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" era music there. A little bit of early Judas Priest... [more]
	Mission Of Burma A surprisingly small crowd of all types of people attending; young and old,punks and hipsters. I haven't seen anyone in a club, watching a band from the pit area, be asked by security to please stop smoking in quite some time. The offender nodded politely... [more]
	Tippy A GoGo I've been running across a lot of one-man bands in the last little bit, and Tippy's the latest. No cymbals strapped to his knees or anything, but he's generally good for a load of home-made instruments and DIY punk music. I last saw Tippy perform ten or more years ago in Edmonton, playing a set for Mosh Fest that was interrupted by a naked guy ... [more]