Articles by Jason Schneider

Graham Parker

Imaginary Television

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

Here's an interesting concept: British cult hero Parker was asked for the first time to write a television theme song. He gets so frustrate...

Dearly Beloved

Make It Bleed

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

From the moment of inception in 2006, Dearly Beloved were a band that had everything going for them, mostly because of their Toronto indie...

Radar Brothers

The Illustrated Garden

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2010

When the Radar Brothers's founding rhythm section departed in 2008, following the release of the L.A. band's last album, Auditorium, it lef...

Drive-By Truckers

The Big To-Do

PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2010

While the Drive-By Truckers's penchant for constructing albums around grandiose notions of Southern identity has dissipated slightly with t...

Johnny Cash

American VI: Ain't No Grave

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2010

I hate the word "closure." I'd like to believe Johnny Cash did too, considering he continued to record right up until he drew his last brea...

The White Stripes' Love Letter To Canada

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2010

Jack White says it best in Under Great White Northern Lights, the new documentary of the White Stripes's 2007 Canadian tour, when he cites...

The Besnard Lakes Psychedelic Nocturnes

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2010

As critics worldwide recently lauded Montreal for its contributions to music in the first decade of the 21st century, Jace Lasek and Olga G...

Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore

Dear Companion

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2010

What hit me immediately about this album was how on second track "My Wealth Comes To Me," Sollee and Moore sound like a modern-day Louvin B...