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Is Feedbands A Scam Or Is It Just Useless: Review
Vinyl record subscription service resembles high-tech Columbia House-esque business model Editor’s Note – Feedbands ads has been popping up quite a bit all over blogs, including this one. It’s an interesting idea – the
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Playing at Canadian Music Week will get you places: Tour Diaries
Saskatoon’s The Pistolwhips takes CMW by storm Editor’s Note – Once upon a time Zachary Davies of The Pistolwhips promised us a story about going to Osheaga in Montreal. But for whatever reason that
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Fluid Waffle is an old Canadian college rock band that is perversely curious: Wax Artifacts
Record collector nerds rejoice: Fluid Waffle is easy to find on vinyl Record shopping, especially used record shopping, is one of my favourite hobbies. I have spent countless hours sifting through mounds of garbage
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Ominocity’s Guide to Becoming a Missed Connection
How to turn potential regret into potential sweat Missed connection posts are a modern day phenomenon; a compact eight second rollercoaster that is equal parts love, loss, regret and hilarity. Reading them is like
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A New Year’s Odyssey: A Journey of Tears, Vomit and Awkwardness
New Year’s Eve is the worst whether you have someone to kiss or not In the past decade it has become clear to me that New Year’s Eve is the one night of the
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Ominocity’s Guide To Record Collecting in Thailand
Buying a monkey in Thailand is apparently cheaper than buying a Meatloaf album on vinyl Editor’s Note – Ominocity’s good friend Geraldine Sparklehorse is currently situated in Thailand or thereabouts writing for some pan-Asian
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Ghost town, Saskatchewan Part 5: Photo Essay
Five tips that every ghost town hunter should consider Every time I find myself out in the middle of nowhere Saskatchewan I ask myself this question: “What the fuck am I doing with my
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SevenFortySeven: Retro Download
Sevenfortyseven (or 747) was a project born from my fascination with cassette tapes, guitar noise, and lo-fi recording techniques. Initially started in 2007 as some kind of weird shoegaze band in my hometown of
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Poler Bear – Se Dénouer: Retro Download
Local musician contributes ‘lost’ post-shoegaze album Poler Bear has served as a way to turn my abject boredom and sleepless nights into something productive. The album, So Long, Lonesome was born out of a
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Ghost town, Saskatchewan Part Two: Photo Essay
Smuts, Saskatchewan – portrait of a town long dead When I was seven-years-old, this bizarre and strangely mysterious school bus showed up at the end of my block. Being seven, I had never seen
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