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Quebs Like Us

Montreal's Malajube Expand In Every Direction

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2009

"It's not getting any easier," says Malajube's keyboardist, Thomas Augustin, about the band's four-way songwriting style. "We're more effic...

K'naan

The Beautiful Struggle

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2009

You would be hard pressed to find a more apt descriptor for K'naan than his own name. K'naan means traveller and it could apply to any numb...

Sebastien Grainger Moves Mountains

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2008

On the phone from his Toronto neighbourhood, Sebastien Grainger is walking off a heavy dinner of jerk chicken and Irish moss. Early in our...

The Tensions of Fucked Up

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2008

I am rubbing the glass-shard-filled head of a 300-pound guy named Pink Eyes. Damian Abraham, vocalist for the hipster-punk-baiting Fucked U...

Chad VanGaalen

Home Alone

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2008

For Chad VanGaalen, a subconscious mind is a terrible thing to waste. He should know — the Calgary songwriter has built an entire career ou...

Fuck the Facts

Capital Punishment

PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2008

Sometimes a career breakthrough turns into a career breakdown. After releasing their highest-profile album to date, their first on influent...

Elliott Brood

Building a History

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2008

On September 11, 1857, approximately 120 men, women, and children emigrating from Arkansas to California were slaughtered by an unlikely co...

Scarlett Johansson

Down in the Bayou

PUBLISHED May 15, 2008

When word first leaked in late 2006 that actress Scarlett Johansson — who had just been immortalized as the hottest hottie of hotropolis by...