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A$$quake Second Birthday with Tittsworth

Posted by Jamesr on October 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I must have missed Tittsworth coming through Toronto at least six times. But all that’s fixed now as the gals and guys at A$$quake are having him over for a little celebration for their 2nd birthday. Expect some real silly club bounce and shout along madness. To get you in the mood, there’s an interview with him over at the URB and a new mix along American presidential lines called The John McCain Experience for listening over at Discobelle. ... Read More

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The Wire: A Cracked Mirror.

Posted by Jamesr on August 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Raked over in newspapers since the fifth and final series made its way on to TnaG, it’s hard to write anything new about the Wire. It’s a portrait of America through Baltimore and the cop show vehicle; of failing school systems and crumbling communities, where drugs gangs and cops act in similar flurries of selfish brutality. It leaps from the personal to the institutional, in blinding flashes of how power – legal and illegal –... Read More

Filed under Blog, Screen/Print · Tagged with baltimore, critique, david simon, Polathicks/Society, the wire

Gig Reviews: Crystal Castles and DJ Sega

Posted by Jamesr on April 6, 2008 · 1 Comment

photo credit: Jalapeno It was quite by accident that I found myself dragged along to the home coming gig of Toronto’s Crystal Castles on March 29th last. It’s been quite some time since their supposedly accidental release blew up all over Myspace. And apart from enjoying one or two of their remixes, especially of that Klaxon’s track – I’d diverted my eyes from anything carrying their rather obscured visages. Apparently,... Read More

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Interviews

The Child of Prague Stares At The Workers.

Interview With Alex Foti: Mayday Had Become A Funeral.

photo credit: cinocino In a special themed issue of Green Pepper, Foti and the Chain Workers Collective sketched a very attractive understanding of the work discipline of contemporary capitalism. In their understanding, society had found itself in a situation of profound disjuncture with our working pasts – life today was defined by contingent employment rather [...]

Don’t Mention Art Rock.

Photo is copyrighted to Lindsay Foley Sometimes a piece of art can represent more than just itself. Through how it intertwines with what’s around it, it can take on new meanings. You might be able to say the same of Estel. One of the photo sliders on their Myspace sails through a montage of gig [...]

More Words On Zines..

photo credit: donkeycart I said I’d do this some time ago, but never got around to it. Well, after the leap you can read the full text of the interviews carried out over email for the piece based around the recent independents day. Simon Reynolds has published the roughs of his own interviews on zines [...]

This is an interview with a band called Adebisi Shank

photo credit: lauranolanphotography Downstairs in Frazers, Adebisi Shank are celebrating the launch of the their debut album, it’s a pure drunken tantrum of a night and from about 10pm the venue looks and feels mentally over-subscribed. It’s all faces rammed in arm pits, and bodies reluctantly pressing against each other. The guy in front of [...]

The Lads From St Saviours.

photo credit: the justified sinner If you’ve ever entered the IFI at peak time, you’ll notice there’s a lot of people just standing around, standing around and waiting, for dates and friends. So, ambling over and interrupting several of the more male looking inpatients waiting with the question “are you one of the lads from [...]