USER REVIEW: Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur Jr. have quite the reputation for being one of the loudest bands. With their ear-bursting roots stretching back to when the band was beginning, being banned from...

USER REVIEW: K'naan - Troubadour If you do not enjoy hip-hop at this point, K'naan's newest album Troubadour will change your mind completely.

	USER REVIEW: The Maine With upbeat lyrics, happy sounds and rhythms I can't seem to get out of my mind, The Maine is a band whose songs simply put me in a good mood.
	USER REVIEW: Marianas Trench (Red Deer, AB) Phenomenal concert...
	USER REVIEW: Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell Elephant Shell was one of those albums that I just couldn’t get into. The vocals of Dave Monks and Graham Wright carry the group, as I find that the instrumentation is not as skilled.
	USER REVIEW: The Fray - The Fray These days, it's becoming harder and harder to find a song with lyrics that tell a story.
	USER REVIEW: U2 - No Line on the Horizon As usual, Bono and U2 have released yet another highly anticipated album.
	USER REVIEW: Nickelback, Seether, & Saving Abel (Winnipeg, MB) Chad Kroeger was just like I thought he would be. He owned the stage and everything on it.
	USER REVIEW: Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation If you have ever wanted to just kick back and chill to some good relaxing music then Thievery Corporation's latest album Radio Retaliation is the way to go.
	REVIEW: Griffin House - Flying Upside Down Listening to the album, Flying Upside Down, can't help but make me feel right-side up.
	REVIEW: Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels Ah, folkies, rejoice! I found your relaxin' by the lake this summer soundtrack! Introducing the perfect double-header companion for a Blue Rodeo amphitheatre gig is... Great Lake Swimmers!

	REVIEW: Ladytron - Velocifero Imagine yourself floating aimlessly inside a rainbow-coloured vortex. Now close your eyes, throw on Ladytron’s latest album, Velocifero (or throw on the album before you close your eyes) and keep floating for the next 55 minutes.
	REVIEW: The Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks No word of a lie, Honeysuckle Weeks by The Submarines has just become my favourite album of 2009.
	REVIEW: Angus & Julia Stone - A Book Like This If you love the idea of wandering through summer soaked fields or reflecting on a Sunday afternoon, you may want to give this album a try.

	REVIEW: Lily Allen – It's Not Me, It's You To look at Lily Allen, she’s as vibrant as her same-age contemporaries. But wipe any notion of teenage chart-pleasers. She’s “a musician’s musician”, to be taken seriously.
	REVIEW: Dragon Fli Empire – Redifine Redefine is Calgary hip hop duo Dragon Fli Empire’s third album. This time out, they have brought a loaded line up of Western Canadian artists to the studio to join them.
	REVIEW: Von Bondies - Love, Hate, and Then There's You C'mon... c'mon... seriously C'MON!! VB, you had five years to follow up with that catchy tune with this... utterly underwhelming release.
	REVIEW: Twilight Soundtrack Ah, I can smell the teenage angst pheremones now...gaggity. Seriously, Twilight movie fans, pick up the book series if you've been in hibernation and play some select tunes from this soundtrack in the background while you read...

	REVIEW: Sebastien Grainger - Live@NxNE A lot of artists get busted for lip synching during live performances or flamed for releasing supposed "live albums" that are severely edited. Sebastien Grainger's live album Live@NxNE definitely was not.
	REVIEW: Metric Live Metric's Emily Haines seems to be very comfortable with the crowd taking in Metric's 2006 show. Even by just listening on your iPod, you can tell that this is a very intimate show and a special night for all involved...
	REVIEW: Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell Tokyo Police Club's debut LP, Elephant Shell brings the listener back to the start of the millennium when the new wave/post-punk revival thrived. It was a time when...
	REVIEW: The Dears - Missiles The Dears collectively have you peering over the bridge and into a dark abyss. Not that you want to jump. But if things aren't going as expected in your world, the Dears will...

REVIEW: Paramore - RIOT! + music video for "Decode" Paramore is a song-writing team with vocalist Hayley Williams, who conjures Avril Lavigne assertiveness in surprising semblance to...

	REVIEW: The D'Urbervilles - We Are the Hunters Our friends at Exclaim! review The D'Urbervilles' We Are the Hunters.
	REVIEW: City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love Our friends at Exclaim! review City and Colour's Bring Me Your Love.
	REVIEW: The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust Moving away from the glossy plastic poptastic sound that came to characterize their time under the watchful eye of Columbia Records, The Raveonettes have gone back to their noisy roots...

REVIEW: Daft Punk - Alive 2007 Our friends at Exclaim! review Daft Punk's Alive 2007.

REVIEW: The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes Though bits and pieces of We Are the Pipettes have been released in various forms over the last couple of years, today marks the release of the three British babes' first full length this side of the Atlantic...

	REVIEW: Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd. It seems to me that Hot Hot Heat have always had one foot in the mainstream, and whether their fans knew it, or liked it, or whatever, the band was destined to be basking in the LA sunshine or walking along NY's Chelsea streets and rubbing elbows with...
	REVIEW: Magda - She's a Dancing Machine Traditionally, in the world of underground electronic music, minimal techno was one of the least conspicuous genres. I myself, up until a few years ago, couldn't tell you what constituted minimal techno, let alone name a single minimal artists...
	REVIEW: The Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil An unbridled ball of punk rock energy that is as dazzling an achievement as it is a wonderful catastrophe!
	REVIEW: Kanye West - Graduation While Kanye West won't be stripping Jay-Z of his "best rapper alive" title anytime soon, Graduation does prove once and for all that he might just be the genre's most adventurous collaborator...
	REVIEW: New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom New Young Pony Club is a British Indie-Electro band that starting releasing records around 2004. Their exposure wasn't great, however, until uber-popular Australian record label Modular started releasing their singles...
	REVIEW: Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills Full of ramblings about half remembered events and spurts of ill timed anger!
	REVIEW: M.I.A - Kala As adept at spewing brash polemics as she is at weaving sonic tapestries into dancehall gold!

	REVIEW: Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War Much like the Canadian music industry as a whole, Montreal pop band, Stars, suffer from being in a perpetual state of misdirection and artistic uncertainty. Easily good enough to find themselves at center stage...
	REVIEW: Adam Freeland - Global Underground To hardcore fans of the breaks scene, Adam Freeland's reputation for daring, technically astounding mixes often precedes him...
	REVIEW: Digitalism – Idealism Digitalism is a relative newcomer to the ever-evolving electro scene. My first experience with Digitalism was their remix of Cut Copy's "Going Nowhere", released in 2005. Later, I heard their remixes of...
	REVIEW: The Brunettes - Structure and Cosmetics Six years ago, when Phil Spector's "back to mono" slogan still had the power to provoke every would-be scenester from England to Portland into thinking they were all incarnations of Brian Wilson, Structure and Cosmetics might have made waves...
	REVIEW: Madlib – don't know'm? Well he's only one of Hip Hop's living legends! The problem with music reviews is that a writer might say something to describe an album or song that gets you interested enough to listen, but when you do, your impressions...
	REVIEW: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - IS IS E.P. My first exposure to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was back in 2003 when, as a first stop on the road to promoting their first full length, Fever to Tell, they tore up the stage on Late Night with Conan O'Brien...

	REVIEW: Rooney - Calling the World Ok Rooney, we get it. You're obsessed with the 70s. But let's run down the list anyway, just in case we missed something shall we. Does your album cover look like the male contingent from That Seventies Show crashing a Bread photo shoot...
	REVIEW: Justice Forget that old egg-headed, knob-twiddling, anti-music that your older brother tried to pass off as electronica twelve years ago. Justice have most certainly put it outta their minds, and you know why? Because while academic twaddle like...
	REVIEW: Interpol - Our Love to Admire Geezis people! With so much agitation surrounding Interpol's return as a west coast major label band, we'd half expected this NY foursome to show up on record shelves wearing Hawaiian shirts, roller skates, and freshly bleached toothy grins or something...
	REVIEW: Beastie Boys - The Mix Up Since single-handedly popularizing the ironic mustache back in the mid-nineties, The Beastie Boys seem to have become more known for their hoary old frat boy antics than for their legitimate reign as white rap revolutionaries...
	REVIEW: The Cribs - Men's Needs, Woman's Needs, Whatever Any English band that claims to not have struggled to survive under the avalanche that was the Arctic Monkeys' record breaking rise to power, is either so out of touch that they're not...
	REVIEW: MK2 - Reality Enhancement Systems' Memekast If you dig hip hop and electronic music and like to download free mixes, you could do worse than checking out the memekast at www.mk2systems.com...
	REVIEW: White Stripes - Icky Thump You know, between the untimely demise of V2 Records and the subsequent rise to fame of brother Jack's radio friendly super-group The Raconteurs, the future of the White Stripes was starting to look, at best, rather bleak...