Features
Tuesday, January 26 2010
Part 2: From Handsome Furs to Oneida
Slipped Discs continues with hip-hop royalty, a genre-busting classical quartet, the future of soul music, an Americana demigod and many more. All records that missed our top 60 list last year.
Reviews
Wednesday, February 29 2012
Islands: A Sleep & A Forgetting
Islands have made their first "heartbreak" album, influenced by classic soul and doo-wop sounds.
Thursday, October 22 2009
Islands: Vapours
Islands dials back the excess just like you like it, you damn hipster rube.
Wednesday, June 18 2008
Islands
Former Unicorn and Islands bandleader Nick “Diamonds” Thorburn has unearthed a Byzantine treasure chest from a subterranean pop goldmine, full of weird death-dreams and bloody sagas...
Friday, May 23 2008
Islands: Arm's Way
Nick Thorburn and company deliver an album so lavish and over the top, that you have to marvel at the fact that they actually almost pull it off.
Friday, June 2 2006
Islands: Return to the Sea
As long as Islands keep treating us to these complex, appealing songs, we'll continue to respond more than positively.
Blogs
Tuesday, January 5 2010
Islands - "No You Don't" (video)
Continuing a long tradition of women getting their big break in music videos (Alicia Silverstone, Tawny Kitaen, etc), Michael Cera, a hot up-and-coming actor making…
Tuesday, August 25 2009
Islands - Vapours (new album / MP3)
Islands Vapours (Anti-) Releasing: 22 September The Montreal indie band returns this fall with their third full-length album. Jamie Thompson rejoins former bandmate Nick Diamonds…
