Articles by Michael Barclay

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  Old Reliable

  Pulse of Light Dark Landscape

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  This album is a year old in their native Alberta, but Old Reliable’s records are perpetually underrated, never dated. Their 2001 album The...

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  Great Lake Swimmers

  Great Lake Swimmers

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  Using one recording trick for an entire album usually grates the listeners’ nerves well before the final note is struck. But placing Toront...

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  Throwing Muses

  The Grotto/Throwing Muses

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2003

  "I am the opposite of you,” sings Kristin Hersh on the opening track of Throwing Muses’ first album in over five years. By reforming her ro...

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  Portastatic

  The Summer of the Shark

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2003

  Mac McCaughan’s Portastatic project has spent the last five years recording soundtracks, covering Brazilian tropicalia classics, and collab...

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  Calexico

  The Expatriate Files

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  In the tray card of Calexico's fourth — and best — full-length album, Feast of Wire, there's a picture of someone warming their hands over...

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  Cuff the Duke / Fembots

  Underground, Hamilton ON - January 11

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  While the Weakerthans may have closed this triple bill, fans exhausted from waiting three years for their new album were treated to two act...

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  D.I.Y. Or Die: Burn This DVD

  Michael W. Dean

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  The interview list reads like a who's who of do it yourself American punk: Ian MacKaye, Lydia Lunch, Mike Watt, Steve Albini, Tribe 8, etc....

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  Jello Biafra

  Machine Gun in the Clown's Hand

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  Another year, another triple-disc spoken word set from Jello. And this time he's hardly short of material, not with another Bush in office...