June 11, 2010 Tobin Bawinkel is a tall man. A very, very tall man. While at first glance Tobin and his bandmates (including two equally tall brothers and a couple of burly looking Celts) look like a bunch of dudes you wouldn’t want to mess with, the members of FLATFOOT 56 are in reality awesome [...]
JOY ELECTRIC frontman Ronnie Martin has always marched to the beat of a different drum; in Martin’s case, that drum is analog synthesized. With an arsenal of MOOG and other vintage analog synthesizers, Joy Electric has been crafting electronic pop music in unique fashion for almost twenty years. I spoke with Martin on the phone [...]
You probably haven’t heard of REJECT, but if you get a chance? Catch one of their hurricane-like live gigs. The four-piece punk rock outfit has been bringing an energetic, rowdy stage show to Western Canada for the past five years. With a solid debut album under their belts, I talked to hard-working frontman Dustin Jones [...]
From a group poised to be “the next P.O.D.”, to one which nearly self-destructed earlier this decade, Project 86 have travelled a distinct path towards their current role as the unlikely “elder statesmen” on Tooth & Nail Records. And on the heels of their seventh full-length album, the apocalyptic Picket Fence Cartel, the group shows [...]
The problem with Cornerstone Festival is that there are so many great bands, and so many conflicting set times (“Should I see David Bazan or Brian Welch, because it ain’t gonna be both”), that finding time to check out new bands can be exceedingly difficult. However, after reading an HM Magazine newsblurb proclaiming “industrial metal… [...]
One of the last things I expected to hear this year was a solo release from Ryan Dahle, formerly of Canadian groups The Age of Electric and Limblifter. AoE disbanded in the late nineties, while Limblifter has been dormant since 2005. When I read that Dahle was dropping a new disc, love for his old [...]