Matt Charlton

No one wants to write about the happy band. The one that seems to get along, has enthusiasm for touring and the unshaken hope for the future success of their music. Where’s the scandal? The road weariness? The ego-battles? That’s the stuff that makes for a really gripping story. This doesn’t appear to be the […]

The cogswell street home of Z103’s studios is buzzing with activity prior to the arrival of the participants of today’s meet-and-greet. The walls are lined with promo posters. A DJ spins R&B tracks in the corner. Plates of chips are stacked and distributed throughout the room. Coming and going at a frenzied pace are a […]

It’s early September, and by all accounts The Hourglass Class should be no more. When the band formed four months ago to perform a last-minute show, it was with the assumption that its lifespan would be limited, due to several members’ intentions to leave the city in the fall. When the show was a success […]

Fuck The Stance. The slogan has been showing up on curb-sides and mail boxes around the city. Directed at Halifax-based rockers The Stance, it would seem the up and coming band has found some vocal opposition right out of the gate. “Someone else made it, they don’t like us,” says singer Mark MacAulay. “It’s so […]

There’s a certain look that’s unique to musicians a few hours from going on tour. With eyes open beyond their lids’ natural extension and a cigarette that burns down a visible amount with each inhale , Amelia Curran is obviously in the countdown. As she sits down to discuss her new album, War Brides, she […]

Sex, drugs, money, the quest for indie-rock message board cred: There are a lot of reasons why people start their first band. But creating a multi-vocalist concept album that focuses its theme on humanity’s lost touch with the divine isn’t exactly a reason that comes up very often. For Neverending White Lights’ Daniel Victor, this […]

In a world where everyone’s cousin is in a garage band and their roommate is a DJ, music alone is not enough. Every act is searching for the elusive hook that will separate it from the crowd. For Akron/Family, finding theirs has been a mixed blessing. But no one ever said starting your own religion […]

In life, there are cycles that are constant. Snakes shed their skin four to eight times a year, birds migrate north annually and roughly every two to three years Walter Schreifels starts a hugely influential and underappreciated band and puts out a seminal release. In Halifax to perform a solo show with friends and collaborators […]

Adam Puddington released Can’t Sleep This One Off in 2002. With well-worn observations and a gruff delivery, the album showed the signs of a truly promising songwriter coming into his own. Unfortunately, the music never managed to find the audience it deserved. Though many obstacles make it hard to succeed in the fickle music industry, […]

“I never intended to be a performer,” says Chad VanGaalen. “I was more interested in keeping an aural journal—it was quite embarrassing to imagine anyone beyond my friends and family hearing it.” The Calgary-based artist is now in a position quite contrary to his original plan. Recently signed to indie-rock beacon label Sub Pop, a […]

“I was up at 3am one morning and was really bored so I just decided to send some of our songs to Jeffery at Art & Crafts,” says Adam Nimmo, drummer for The Most Serene Republic. “He got back to me the next day and was really excited about what he heard. The rest, as […]