Cloakroom's Bobby Markos on Dissolution Wave's glued headstocks and strategic fuzz
Photo by Vin Romero BY GREGORY ADAMS Earlier this month I had the chance to speak with Cloakroom bassist Bobby Markos for Northern Transmissions. In that...
Gut Feeling Podcast #10 - Adam Mitchell (Spectres)
Photo by Lindsey Wallace Hello! It's just about the end of the year, and once again I've invited Spectres guitarist Adam Mitchell onto the podcast to get...
Gut Feeling Podcast #9 - Ashley Webber (Ashley Shadow)
The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Ashley Webber, a Vancouver based singer-songwriter whom just released her second solo album, Only The...
Rewind: S.T.R.E.E.T.S. - Skateboarding Totally Rules Everything Else Totally Sucks
S.T.R.E.E.T.S. at Pat's Pub.Photo by Gregory Adams. BY GREGORY ADAMS I must admit, that mini-guide to Global Symphonic from a few weeks back has still got me...
Chance Lovett's 7 year journey to soulful debut solo single
Photo by Victoria Black BY GREGORY ADAMS There’s a matter-of-fact efficiency to the title of Chance Lovett‘s latest single, “7 Years”. The soul song first...
Only Built 4 Recent Linx, Vol. 1
Failure, photo by Priscilla C. Scott Hi, hello! No interview this week, but I'm excited about the talks I can share a little later on in the month. While I'm...
METZ's Chris Slorach talks gratitude following massive gear theft
Photo by Norman Wong (IG) BY GREGORY ADAMS Even under the best circumstances, heading out on tour can be a total gamble of faith. Toronto noise-rock veterans...
Hotline TNT's Will Anderson talks Craigslist amp scores and neck-snapping shoegaze
BY GREGORY ADAMS You don’t have to be a total gearhead to know good tone. Sometimes all you need is volume and a lil bit of intuition. That just may be the...
Gut Feeling Rewind: A Luna Red - Finding warmth inside frigid souls.
BY GREGORY ADAMS Hey everyone! Shortly after posting last week's mini-guide to Global Symphonic, I remembered an old interview I'd done with A Luna Red's...
A mini-guide to Vancouver's Global Symphonic
BY GREGORY ADAMS Earlier this fall, Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug announced he’s set to issue the first-ever vinyl pressing of his Sunset Rubdown project’s...
Matthew Sweet on his spooky musical salutes to Scooby-Doo
Photo by Evan Carter BY GREGORY ADAMS Released earlier this year, Matthew Sweet’s newest solo album, Catspaw, features the power pop great's most feral...
A mini-guide to New Jersey’s Gern Blandsten Records
BY GREGORY ADAMS “Fine musical products for the socially unaccepted” I’ve been trying to find a hard copy of this tagline/mission statement from Gern...
ACTORS on the cold, skewed solos of Acts of Worship: "I wanted to create the sound of the killer's mind unraveling"
Photo by Shannon Hemmett BY GREGORY ADAMS Of the many great scenes in Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat —his 1996 semi-fictionalized biopic on painter and friend...
Gut Feeling Podcast # 8 - Mark Palm (Supercrush)
This month's Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Supercrush vocalist/guitarist Mark Palm. While currently based in Seattle, Mark grew up in Vancouver,...
Two Steps Down: Ken Olden on Damnation A.D.'s detuned drive
Damnation A.D. in the mid '90s You could look at Ken Olden's personal discography as an exercise in working in extremes. On the one hand, he's helped...
face to face's Trever Keith on punking up "Popeye" in the '90s
Photo by Derek Hahn BY GREGORY ADAMS For my money, one of the ‘90s best compilations was Saturday Morning: Cartoon’s Greatest Hits. Described at the time as...
Zoon's Daniel Monkman: I’ve got to put slide on this record...It really gives the feels
Photo by Vanessa Heins BY GREGORY ADAMS Whether through ethereal slide patterns or a mauve miasma of chord work, Zoon’s Daniel Monkman delivered a...
A mini-guide to the heavier side of Jade Tree Records
While occasionally accurate, it’s funny to think that a record label can be defined by a single genre. If you bring up Motown, Fat Wreck Chords, or Earache...
Gut Feeling Podcast # 7 - Terry Ondang (Noise Floor Recording Studio)
This month’s Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with The Noise Floor Recording Studio‘s Terry Ondang. Currently based in Gabriola Island, B.C., the Noise...
Dumb's Nick Short on Spicing Up “Pizza Slice” with Whammy Action
Dumb’s “Pizza Slice” officially came out of the oven last week, but the Vancouver quartet’s latest, and arguably spiciest single (one side of a split 7-inch...