Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Mocean Worker

Enter The MoWo

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

Adam Dorn has himself quite a pedigree to live up to, what with a father who produced records for the likes of Roberta Flack and John Coltr...

Troubleman

Time Out Of Mind

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

Despite sounding pretty relaxed, multi-disciplinarian producer Mark Pritchard — ex of experimental UK duos Global Communication and Jedi Kn...

OM Festival

Paisley, ON - June 18 to 21, 2004

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

The past came back to haunt the Om summer solstice festival this year, when long-forgotten anti-rave forces bullied an Ottawa Valley townsh...

Various

Kompakt 100

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

Plenty of music-lovers (and makers) sit around talking about starting up a label. But in the mid-’90s, this group of Germans — producers Mi...

Six-String Samurai

Lance Mungia

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

Low on budget but high on "cool," Six-String Samurai's fledgling filmmakers came this close to a cult classic. A 1957 nuclear war has resul...

Avril

Members Only

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

Blame DFA. Or rather, thank them, because rock has relearned how to dance while electronic music continues to fetishize the guitar. The lat...

Walt's Tomorrowland / Walt Disney on the Front Lines / Mickey Mouse in Living Color Volume 2 / The Chronological Donald Volume 1

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

The Disney brand is, by now, a synonym for safe and innocuous — I mean, was anyone surprised they refused to distribute Michael Moore's ant...

D12

D12 World

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

On "My Band,” D12 tackles the uneven dichotomy between Marshall Mathers and his hometown crew, freeing them from the self-justifying postur...