Mythbusters: the family edition
Chances are, at least once in your life, you’ve raised your eyes skyward to ask, “Why am I the only normal one in my screwed-up family?” Turns out you’re not alone in questioning your...
Category: Arts
Through the Shadow World and back
Although Frodo Baggins’ quest to throw Sauron’s One Ring into Mount Doom was indeed a perilous journey, so too was mine. It was handed down to me, not by the Council of Elrond, but...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Nov 19 Reflector
Choice Cut Them Crooked Vultures by Sean-Paul Boynton The past few years has seen the gap shrink to the point that it’s practically non-existent. Besides younger audiophiles thumbing through their parents’ record collections and...
Listen to your mother
“I don’t think I’d ever want to do that.” That’s how Ryan Guldemond responded when asked to describe his music. The lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for Mother Mother clearly didn’t want to define...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Nov 5 Reflector
Choice Cut Tegan and Sara Sainthood Sire It has been exactly one year and three months since Tegan and Sara released The Con, and in the time between then and the recent debut of...
Breaking through the club doors
by Sheena Jardine-Olade The female DJ was at one time something as weird and mysterious as a unicorn, or a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It warranted a...
Changing perspective
If you’re one of those “macho men” — you know the kind, with the brutish demeanor and the urge to high-five and/or fist bump every passing Joe six-pack you run into who might have...
The Ice(land) man cometh
Did you know there was more to Iceland’s music scene than Björk? If you answered no to that question, Sindri Mar Sigfusson forgives you. “I sort of understand that no one really thinks about...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Oct 22 Reflector
Choice Cut: The Flaming Lips Embryonic Warner Bros. Back in the days of vinyl, when rock bands were becoming more and more ambitious, the idea of a double album was exciting and intriguing. With...
