Articles by Myles Tiessen

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  'Slingshot' Launches Winnipeg's JayWood into New Territory

  PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2022

  On "YGBO," an interlude that appears late on JayWood's sophomore album Slingshot, the Winnipegger repeatedly shouts a line that, on its own...

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  Toronto Goth Rocker Praises Plays Their Cards Right on 'In This Year: Hierophant'

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2022

  Jesse Crowe, better known by the appellation Praises, draws a card from a tarot deck at the start of each new year. Crowe uses the randomly...

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  Jamboree Push at Conscious and Conceptual Barriers on 'Life in the Dome'

  PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2022

  To decrypt Jamboree's Life in the Dome is to discover a melancholic tale of desolation. The sophomore release from the Winnipeg alt-rockers...

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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...