The Waking Eyes Interview The Waking Eyes have criss-crossed Canada about 23,000 times in the past year. That may be a slight exaggeration, but when you consider the amount of kilometres driving across the Great White North racks up, it's pretty fucking daunting...[more]
	The Marble Index Interview This will be a mini-interview that reads like a story because I was having technical difficulties with my recorder and sadly missed pretty much this entire interview. So this is pulled from memory, and will be a general commentary by all members of the band... [more]
	The Waking Eyes Ten Questions Arrogance. It pisses me off, it really does. But other than that I’d say that I really don’t give a shit about anything.[more]
	The Marble Index Ten Questions Did it make you guys closer living in a barn to record?[more]
	Fireworks Go Up You're Welcome. [more]
	Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course. [more]
	Jobriath Lonely Planet Boy. [more]
	Kelly And The Kelly Girls Swing, Swing. [more]
	The Matadors The Devil's Music. [more]
	Sweetheart Username. [more]
	Tremulous Monk Sparkle Like Your Shoes. [more]
	Peter Elkas Party Of One. [more]
	Mohawk Lodge Rare Birds. [more]
	Memory Bank Litany And Lethargy. [more]
	The Lovely Feathers My Best Friend Daniel. [more]
	John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer A Sphere In The Heart Of Silence. [more]
	C'Mon Midnight Is The Answer. [more]
	The Waking Eyes Video Sound. [more]
	Sonic Youth with Wolf Eyes. How does one go about writing something new about Sonic Youth, possibly the most name – dropped indie band of all time? This was a question that I was asking myself... [more]
	New Music West 2004 Vancouver Perks Up A Bit. 2004 was a strange year in a lot of ways, from American politics, to changing climates, to CordMag launching. And here in the southwest corner of mainland Canada, New Music West also changed significantly... [more]
	REM REM has taken Vancouver as a second home. After spending months longer in the city than it took them to record their last album, talking fondly of it at their last show here, they were back for a more intimate show at the Orpheum... [more]
	Rich Hope So this was supposed to be Rich Hope opening for the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash. But as is so often the case when some one or some band that really rocks and looks like he/she/it really rocks tries to make that step over the border from the US... [more]
	Chromeo I am somewhat guarded as I enter Broken City on this unseasonably warm Calgary evening to observe the spectacle that is Chromeo. Reason is, I can’t help but feel that a joke is being played. You see, Chromeo is either an incredibly hip novelty act... [more]
	Snow Patrol with Eisley. It was all quite erratic really. Upon a bench overlooking English Bay sat members of Eisley and Snow Patrol scanning the city for litterbugs... [more]
	The High Dials with Jets Overhead and Novillero. Short take. I was en route from another show, and unfortunately missed Novillero. According to everyone in the room, the central-Canadian super-group just blew the roof off the place... [more]
	The Pixies September 7th may have been the greatest night for people-watching at a show. Ever. Gen-X music icons, The Pixies, were about to hit the stage... [more]
	By Divine Right with the Waking Eyes and Spark That Screams. In the midst of the set, a smiling Contreras chimed up with a comment that would be echoed time and time again in coming days whenever a band from out of town would come by and play in front of Vancouver... [more]