Articles by Michael Barclay

Angela Desveaux Struggles With Love

PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2008

Feist once pointed out that "the saddest part of a broken heart isn’t the ending so much as the start.” Montreal singer/songwriter Angela D...

Gonzales, International Man of Mystery

PUBLISHED May 16, 2008

Success does not define an artist; failure does. Instead of moving from one triumph after another, the ability to bounce back from a facepl...

Plants and Animals’ Parc Life

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

Montreal has more than its share of grand streets, each suited to a particular purpose. Ste. Catherine is the everyman’s consumerist artery...

Sonic Youth

Time Takes Its Crazy Toll

PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2007

Since their inception in 1981, Sonic Youth’s creativity has stemmed from their copious curiosity about all sorts of subjects: first wave pu...

Paris Je T'aime

Various Directors

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2007

Where else but Paris could inspire 18 directors to compose five-minute shorts that serve as individual love letters? Albeit some of them ar...

The Devil Came On Horseback

Anne Sunderberg and Ricki Stern

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2007

White man’s burden — sometimes that’s the only way to wake up the West to atrocities in Africa, or anywhere else. It’s the approach that di...

Nardwuar the Human Serviette

Almost Famous

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2007

To some, Nardwuar the Human Serviette (born John Ruskin) is the greatest pop culture historian in North America, with an intense attention...

Ray Condo And The Hardrock Goners

Ray Condo And The Hardrock Goners

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

As an ’80s suburbanite raised on mainstream radio and drawn to garage rock, it was Ray Condo who first seduced me into loving country music...