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Girl Fight
posted: March 31, 2010
Mieka Pauley had already achieved some traction as a solo artist before linking up with Brian Cassagnol and Andrew Morgan to form the Mieka Canon. There was the Starbucks Emerging Artist Award, the New York…
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The Prince of Trip Pop
posted: March 29, 2010
Making it in Canada’s exalted indie pop scene might go something like this: Recording with session players from Matt Mays & El Torpedo, The Guthries and The Heavy Blinkers. Touring Europe with Sufjan Stevens. Playing…
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Rock of Ages
posted: March 24, 2010
Salem, Virginia. It’s a little town nestled within Appalachia in Southwest Virginia, so one might expect to come across plenty of bands playing the high lonesome music indigenous to the area. But loud, assertive rock? Hooks…
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Speaking English
posted: March 22, 2010
When you’re signed to a major label (Geffen) fresh out of high school and have a celebrity manager to boot (Joe Simpson), some would say you’ve made it. But for Barefoot frontman Chris Pearson, this was…
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The Passion of the Synth
posted: March 17, 2010
Can man love machine? It’s a theme that’s been explored exhaustively, from Blade Runner to Small Wonder. Time and time again, the answer seems to be a resounding yes. Chalk City City up as more…
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Death of Auto Tune
posted: March 15, 2010
The sounds of technology permeate virtually every second of the day for most of us ” the cry of our cell phones, the click of our keyboards, the synthetic tremble of Ke$ha’s autotune vocal chords…
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