A PBR10 Q&A: Amy Cole of The Rural Alberta Advantage
Don’t let their name or the fact they play percussive folk songs about hometowns and heartbreak fool you into thinking that The Rural Alberta Advantage haven’t been making a ruckus. As one-time holders of the “Canada’s best unsigned band” title to to sold-out tours, Juno noms, and international critical acclaim, you could say they’re almost...
Paper Bag Records: Slow and steady wins the race
I first met Trevor Larocque at the big HMV in Toronto. He was the baseball-cap-wearing new guy full of jokes in the Dance department, and I was the busy Marketing Supervisor dabbling in various shades of red hair. He said, “I’m Trevor; I used to be the biggest KISS fan,” and produced an embarrassingly uncool...
Austra: a most operatic, soaring debut
The buzz around Toronto’s Austra is as grand and alluring as their debut album, Feel it Break. Although words like opulent, lush, ethereal and theatrical have been used to describe the album –mixed by Damian Taylor (Bjork, The Prodigy, UNKLE) – classically trained singer Katie Stelmanis (vocals), Maya Postepski (drums) and Dorian Wolf (bass) create...