Cover Story

Final Fantasy

He Got Game

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

Owen Pallett has never met a dichotomy he doesn’t love. As Final Fantasy, he’s a solo performer who sounds like a symphony. His music is pr...

Tiga

Eye of the Tiga

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

Tiga Sontag is, like most of us, a product of his times. You may have guessed this when the domestic DJ/producer hit the world stage a few...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Love Cats

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

Last December, MTV.com ran a news story regarding the direction of the forthcoming Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. Their producer, Squeak E. Clean,...

Writer, Thinker, Creator, Destroyer

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

I feel like Dan Bejar's perfect foil, setting the rules that he can refuse to play by. I've offered his Destroyer project the cover of Excl...

Cadence Weapon: Resident E-ville

Edmonton Hip-hop Champion Charges In From Leftfield

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Inside Toronto's church-turned-club Revival, a sold-out crowd of next-big-thing seekers has arrived en masse to UK grime queen Lady Soverei...

Buck 65 An Affair To Remember

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

"For as long as I've been doing this, I've been loving hip-hop as hard as I can. And not like in a creepy stalker-boyfriend insecure kind o...

Kid Koala

The Player

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Every DJ has their signature sound. Grandwizard Theodore made his by "scratching" a record back and forth.Cash Money found a way to rhythmi...

Carolyn Mark The Mostest Hostess

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

"She's the finest hostess ever," says Neko Case, disputing the title of the latest album by her friend Carolyn Mark, Terrible Hostess. "Nob...