Reviews for Endearing artists
The Caribbean
History's First Know-It-allWhen you think of Caribbean music, what do you hear? Steel drums? Reggae? Easy-listening smooth jazz? Well, as far as the band The Caribbean is concerned, none of these apply -- but for a band... read more...
By Sean Dwyer
Apr 12, 2003
Edison Woods
Edison WoodsThere's no such thing as a quiet place in New York. Certainly not in Manhattan, where four in the morning in the Bowery outpaces the average Canadian rush hour. In comparison, Brooklyn is downtown's introverted...
read more...By Russell Gragg
May 15, 2002
Paper Moon
One Thousand Reasons To Stay, One Reason To LeaveMarketed as new wave but nowhere near such, Paper Moon is an exercise in flagrant violations of (unwritten) musical code. Specifically, contrary to close to 99% of the records I've listened to over the course... read more...
By David Perri
Aug 2, 2002
Radiogram
All the Way HomeThe wide expanse from the Manitoba-Ontario border west to the Pacific Ocean is remarkably desolate save the occasional outcropping of humanity and the somewhat more frequent clouds of black flies. It's a teeth-gritting journey at... read more...
By Russell Gragg
Apr 27, 2002