Articles by Chris Whibbs

Joggers

With a Cape and a Cane

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

It’s jerky, angular and just a bit shouty! Can you guess the genre? Well, that’s probably being unfair to Portland, OR’s Joggers and their...

Okkervil River

Black Sheep Boy Appendix

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Sometimes you look back on a review and think of how you could have missed how great that album was at the time. Such, for me, was the case...

Under Byen Live It Out

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Complicated instrumentation that swells like a stormy Baltic Sea? Adherence to their home tongue that transforms lyrics into a musical inst...

Juana Molina Is Listening

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

In a past life Juana Molina was an extrovert, famous for her comedy in her native Argentina, yet her mark in music is much more insular. Al...

TV On the Radio Are Scientists

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

The only certain thing when it comes to a new TV On the Radio album is where it’s recorded. Located in a rapidly gentrifying part of Brookl...

As the Poets Affirm / Coming Home to Traffic Patterns

Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ottawa ON - November 11, 2005

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

If you're a local independent band trying to slog it through the music world, the one saving grace can always be a hometown show. Of course...

Magnetophone

The Man Who Ate the Man

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

Pulled from the files of "What the hell happened to them?” English duo Matt Saunders and John Hanson return after a five year absence to fo...

Bronx Cheerleader

Tough Guy Clichés

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

Although the absolutely lovely and inventive packaging compliments the discs’ title due to its’ stark depictions of mobsters and cops, the...