Articles by Kyle Mullin

Czarface (Inspectah Deck + 7L & Esoteric)

Every Hero Needs A Villain

PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2015

The rhymes are as crippling as kryptonite on Every Hero Needs A Villain, Inspectah Deck's sophomore effort with Boston battle rap legends 7...

Hawksley Workman Embraces the Gear of Yesteryear for 'Old Cheetah'

PUBLISHED Jun 11, 2015

Icy winds wailed outside of Hawksley Workman's home studio, Burk's Falls, as he wrote and recorded his newly released album, Old Cheetah, e...

Sharon Van Etten

I Don't Want To Let You Down

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2015

Idiosyncratic singer Sharon Van Etten may have titled her new EP I Don't Want To Let You Down, but she sings the title track's verses in a...

Patrick Watson

Blinded By Science

PUBLISHED May 28, 2015

An album about robots may seem suited for the kind of experimentalism seen in science fiction, but Patrick Watson — the Montreal-base...

Maestro Fresh Wes

Compositions, Vol. 1

PUBLISHED May 26, 2015

Discount veteran Canadian MC Maestro Fresh Wes at your own risk.   The elder rapper — who is 47 years old and dropped his debut LP, S...

Patrick Watson Melds Flesh and Machine on 'Love Songs for Robots'

PUBLISHED May 21, 2015

Patrick Watson's new album may be called Love Songs for Robots, but it was inspired less by science fiction than science fact. The Montreal...

James Burrows

Paradise Cinema

PUBLISHED May 18, 2015

James Burrows' influences are more than apparent on his new LP, Paradise Cinema. The Toronto singer songwriter sounds like the King of rock...

Snoop Dogg

Bush

PUBLISHED May 12, 2015

On Bush, hip-hop's most famous gangster rapper has morphed into a gangster of love. Snoop Dogg's 13th solo studio album, Bush, finds the el...