Articles by Michael Barclay

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  Dead Kennedys

  Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  After much painful legal wrangling over the catalogue, here they are: every Dead Kennedys album except the first - which remains property o...

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  Quasi

  The Sword of God

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  With Sleater-Kinney on hiatus, it'd be nice to know that drummer Janet Weiss will be touring a great Quasi record. Alas, the new album by W...

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  Martin Tielli

  We Didn't Even Suspect that HE Was the Poppy Salesman

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  Martin Tielli is a man of many musical talents and he puts most of them to use at his day job in the Rheostatics. Rheos fans expecting swoo...

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  Thalia Zedek

  Been Here and Gone

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  The upper classes are chattering about a revival of cabaret and torch songs, as epitomised by pristine soprano singers or flamboyant new ga...

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  Bran Van 3000

  Discosis

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001

  While their befuddling debut Glee flailed as often as it flew, the second album from these Montreal genre-fuckers is a complete delight fro...

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  R.E.M.

  Reveal

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001

  Yawn. While their last album Up had numerous sublime moments that suggested a rejuvenation - the god-awful single "Lotus" was not among tho...

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  Kurt Swinghammer

  Black-Eyed Sue

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001

  Buoyed by the positive response to his labour-intensive 2000 release Vostok 6, his first release in almost a decade, Toronto artist Kurt Sw...

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  Various

  Better Than The Average Weekend: A Tribute To Shadowy Men On A S

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2001

  It's truly touching that bands from across North America (Saskatoon, Dayton, L.A., Montreal, Connecticut, New Jersey, Dartmouth) decided to...