Drawing inspiration from noise, post-punk and melodic indie rock traditions—not to mention unusual snacks—Kingston, ON trio False Face is set to rearrange the structure of your auditory cortex while simultaneously making you bob your head and crave a handful of wasabi peas. This week marks the group’s first trip east, but their friendly mugs will […]
Jaime Forsythe
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Lies That Tell the Truth: Reenactment as Artistic Strategy
When artist Alison S. M. Kobayashi found some discarded answering machine tapes in a secondhand store, she saw not only a voyeur’s delight, a but a ready-made script waiting to be acted out. Her impersonations of the characters on the tapes, including a divorce lawyer and a fiancée, give a second life to the collection […]
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Reg, out
MuchMusic won’t play Gentleman Reg’s video. Shot for his exuberantly catchy tune “The Boyfriend Song,” the video features Gentleman Reg (AKA Reg Vermue) singing and strumming an acoustic guitar. In the background, a crowd of half-dressed friends are tangled up in a playful orgy. It’s a heady scene of boys and girls kissing and groping […]
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Wanting
The first time Molly sees a peacock, an expression comes to her: “I never forget a face.” Where the phrase comes from, she isn’t sure. Maybe it’s something her grandmother says. More likely, she’s lifted it from a lipstick commercial, or a movie about a stalker. Late movies on cable are usually about stalkers. It’s […]