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Choke

In Sickness and In Health

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

You've heard it before. Hell, you've probably even read it in this very magazine: being in a band is akin to a marriage — albeit of the pol...

The Integrity of Converge

Boston's Best Take The Lead In A Year of Aggression

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Jacob Bannon has "a million things to do today," but since he's a man who thoroughly enjoys his work, this is far from a complaint. And rea...

Junior Boys

Let's All Make Believe

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

Jeremy Greenspan lives on Tin Pan Alley, if only in spirit. Even when he's relaxing in the lobby of a Montreal hotel, the most senior of th...

The Arcade Fire

Talk About the Passion

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

By the time you read this, what will likely be the most surprising phase of the Arcade Fire's career will be over. And they know it.Up unti...

Hidden Cameras

Canada's New Pop Nation

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

December 14, 2001. The season's first snowfall is blanketing Toronto, bringing with it the melancholy that usually accompanies the holiday...

The Organ

Glummer Girls

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

Last time I saw the Organ play, I was among the few hundred Montrealers who'd converged for the BC band's first crack at Quebec. Androgynou...

Sixtoo

And Change

PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

The first time I visit Sixtoo's Montreal apartment it isn't the nicest of days. The sun is battling the clouds for weather supremacy, and t...

Step Inside Richie Hawtin's Plastikman

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

Ronald McDonald knows it. Calvin Klein knows it. The Rolling Stones know it, and so does Richie Hawtin: in today's 500-channel universe, lo...