Articles by Myles Tiessen

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  Lavender Country's Roots Run Through Past and Present on 'Blackberry Rose'

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2022

  Country music is filled with iconography. Whether it be the archetypal wandering cowpoke on the range, rambling outlaw or the city-dwelling...

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  Hot Garbage Free Fall into Electronic Psych Rock Experimentation on 'Ride'

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2021

  The psych rockers of modern times are usually blitzed out, acid-taking, guitar-jamming bands that make music at an Adderal-abusing pace. Ju...

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  Wine Lips' 'Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party' Is a Trippy Garage Rock Clinic

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2021

  We all know that scene from Pulp Fiction when Uma Thurman's character Mia overdoses on drugs, and Vincent (John Travolta) stabs a needle of...

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  Kyle Edward Connolly Channels Country-Rock Swagger with 'On Arrival'

  PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2021

  Maybe it started with Uncle Tupelo, perhaps it was the Byrds — hell, it's probably always been this way — but alternative musicians find a...

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  Teenanger Make Today's Bad Times Sound Like a 'Good Time'

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2020

  A lot has changed over the 10 years since Teenanger started making music together, but one thing has remained consistent: the world is fuck...

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  Girl Friday's Message Is Beautifully Blunt on 'Androgynous Mary'

  PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2020

  The thesis of Girl Friday's debut LP, Androgynous Mary, isn't hard to decipher — and that isn't a bad thing. It's clear they're fed up with...

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  Le Ren's 'Morning & Melancholia' EP Is Heartbreaking Enough to Make Joni Mitchell Weep

  PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2020

  Country music has always been a genre where virtuosos in expressing heartbreak and loss painstakingly present their emotional strife for th...

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  Mother Sun Take Refreshing 'SIPS' of Saccharine Psych-Pop

  PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2020

  On their sophomore album, Kamloops-based band Mother Sun fully dive into the world of lo-fi psychedelic jazz pop. The band stay true to the...