The world's greatest rock 'n' roll bar band (Hold Steady live review) (October 30, 2006)

A little too unironic, don't you think?: Art Brut insist they shoot straight from their hearts (October 13, 2006)

Kasabian's unholy rollin' Empire (September 27, 2006)

Sloan's twice improved (September 20, 2006)

Award Polarises Canada's indie rock community (September 20, 2006)

Metric isn't the only way to measure Haines (September 12, 2006)

Surviving the musical version of puberty: 'The Dears aren't a baby anymore. We're in adulthood' (September 8, 2006)

Not your monkey wrench (Foo Fighters live review (August 25, 2006)

After tomorrow, they'll be on different planes: The Deadly Snakes pack it in with final concert (August 24, 2006)

Here come the Novaks! (August 2, 2006)

Illusionists who aren't afraid to cry: The Boys may well be men now, but they're still kidding around (August 1, 2006)

Band's distaste for neutral is what keeps them driving: Muse like to provoke (July 27, 2006)

A healthy, Polarising debate (July 5, 2006)

Leaving music journalism Spinning in its own grave (June 22, 2006)

Every city gets the festival it deserves (June 12, 2006)

Honey from the Tombs like malt for wounds (June 8, 2006)

I don't have a clue who these guys are but they're amazing!: NXNE hidden gems (June 8, 2006)

Wholly Strokes (May 4, 2006)

Telling stories, Gallantly (May 2, 2006)

What, no Freebird (Sam Roberts live review) (May 1, 2006)

Indie-rock stalwarts battle Toronto the cacophonous (Death Cab/Franz Ferdinand live review) (April 19, 2006)

And there was nary a Harajuku girl in sight (Yeah Yeah Yeahs live review) (April 12, 2006)

Open Mike: British rapper The Streets has provoked criticism with his latest album simply by doing what he has always done - being honest about himself (April 11, 2006)

Been there, seen that, bought the Magneta Lane T-shirt: Toronto rockers already jaded about music industry at tender age of 21 (April 6, 2006)

Rock the vote, Sennett style (March 30, 2006)

On losing his verve: Ashcroft's happily solo (March 22, 2006)

Not too big, not too small and with a band from Montreal (SXSW wrap-up) (March 20, 2006)

Musicians do us proud at SXSW: 'Even the locals don't seem local' (March 17, 2006)

Homework's done, time for the exam: Texas music festival promises sensory overload (March 15, 2006)

Why is any friend of the NME our enemy? (March 1, 2006)

A rolling start for Metric's arena-sized ambitions (live review) (February 27, 2006)

It pays to be a band that raises a stink or two (February 24, 2006)

The Junos: A delicate balance of street cred and commercial value (February 16, 2006)

Making up for the sins of new country: Neko Case and Jenny Lewis teach the hipsters how to hoedown (February 1, 2006)

A very different social scene: The Deadly Snakes show the grittier side of Toronto's indie-rock hype (January 27, 2006)

Even dance-rock revivalists need to laugh sometimes: We Are Scientists find the funny side of last year's hype (January 13, 2006)

Saving music, one MP3 at a time (January 11, 2006)

Lessons learned in 2005: Noel Gallagher is the most honest man in rock (December 28, 2005)

Setting Toronto on fire: Stars return for six-show stint (December 15, 2005)

Beauty's in the ear of the beholder (December 9, 2005)

Bands about to break: The Duke Spirit (December 6, 2005)

No repetition: Controller.Controller mixes things up (November 24, 2005)

Bands about to break: Immaculate Machine (November 24, 2005)

Cali crooner: Singing the blues ain't so easy (November 16, 2005)

We misjudged you, Ashlee (November 7, 2005)

Offensive to none (November 3, 2005)

Start making sense: The Hold Steady wants lyrics that mean something (November 2, 2005)

Bands about to break: The Lovely Feathers (October 24, 2005)

A set tighter than their pants (Franz Ferdinand live review) (October 20, 2005)

Tackling the biggies (Death Cab for Cutie interview) (October 14, 2005)

Montreal rock city (October 3, 2005)

Metricsexual (September 28, 2005)

What to see at Montreal's music fest? We ask the bands themselves (September 28, 2005)

Polished Stones (Rolling Stones live review) (September 27, 2005)

Back in black, but unplugged and without the attitude (September 23, 2005)

It takes two to make it outta sight (White Stripes live review) (September 19, 2005)

Indie scenesters just say yeah to Pitchfork's picks (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah/Fembots live review) (September 6, 2005)

They know their sound when they hear it: New Pornographers aren't just about sugary power-pop (August 24, 2005)

Soldier occupies U.K. Chart tops: Singer-songwriter trades in fatigues for rock uniform (August 19, 2005)

Everyone loves Dave, and he's got the live show to prove it (Foo Fighters live review) (August 15, 2005)

Putting gangsta to shame: Somalian rapper's war-torn past gives new perspective on hip-hop violence (August 5, 2005)

Swedes get salty if you call them another garage band (August 4, 2005)

K-os in control (July 15, 2005)

We're rooting for the Go! Team (July 13, 2005)

Canadian event pales next to British: Collaboration and creativity made Hyde Park rock (July 4, 2005)

Ambition is the battle hymn of this Republic (June 24, 2005)

Page turns serious (June 22, 2005)

Definitely, period: Other bands come and go, but Oasis will always have its back catalogue (June 17, 2005)

A user's guide to surviving NXNE: Lessons learned at Toronto's hottest (literally) festival (June 13, 2005)

NXNE by the hour (June 9, 2005)

Coldplay: The nicest of the next big things (May 30, 2005)

A kinder kind of Britpop (May 27, 2005)

Rilo Kiley keeps indie cred despite major leap (May 19, 2005)

Raveonettes reach back, way back, for inspiration (May 17, 2005)

Rock steady and ready to conquer (Coldplay live review) (May 13, 2005)

Weezer fans say it is so (live review) (May 9, 2005)

Frat boys just wanted to hear the hits (Ryan Adams live review) (May 5, 2005)

The biggest rock stars in their world (May 3, 2005)

Arcade Fire torches fear of too much hype (April 28, 2005)

The budding of Mays (April 1, 2005)

Kings of Leon put away their childish things (March 4, 2005)

Joel Plaskett shows love of Nova Scotia by way of Arizona (February 24, 2005)

Bright Eyes delivers a twin magnum Oberst (January 28, 2005)

No mope, no dope for Britrock's next great hope (January 20, 2005)

The Top 10 of 2004 (December 28, 2004)

Given enough time, you can get nostalgic for just about anything (December 27, 2004)

Next Up: The Futureheads (November 4, 2004)

The Libertines are one fine and memorable mess (October 21, 2004)

Next Up: The Concretes (October 4, 2004)

This is Green Day (September 27, 2004)

Island treasures: Sloan and Sam Roberts were neck and neck at a weekend concert on Toronto's Olympic Island - not that they were competing (August 9, 2004)

Next Up: Hope of the States (July 26, 2004)

Next Up: The Killers (July 19, 2004)

The lone wolf of rock (July 25, 2003)

2004 CD Reviews

2003 CD Reviews