Women guitarist Chris Reimer passed away in February, more or less ensuring that the Calgary band (already on hiatus) would never record a follow-up to their fantastic sophomore album, Public Strain.…   Read Story »

Although they missed Sasquatch due to visa problems, Scottish noise avalanche architects Mogwai arrived at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood ready to melt eardrums. The band visited a few numbers from…   Read Story »

Happy Friday. This week we've got recent videos from The Vaccines, Chad VanGaalen, Bikini, and Swedish House Mafia. It was another slow week for new videos, so I included a couple of clips that came…   Read Story »

"Sara," from J Mascis pal Chad VanGaalen's fourth full-length album Diaper Island, opens with a pretty whistle then turns into a bit of a winsome lover's sigh. The collection's the first the Calgary…   Read Story »

Sub Pop labelmate Chad VanGaalen created this playful, psychedelic video for "Not Enough," the ambling, sing-along lead single from J Mascis' great (mostly) acoustic album Several Shades of Why. It…   Read Story »

Black Mold is the electronic project of 2009 Polaris Finalist Chad VanGaalen. Debut LP Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz (out 8/11 via Flemish Eye) is a collection of instrumental sounds created mostly…   Read Story »

Because as we've noted, it is rather awesome. Listen at MySpace. The album's out 9/9 via Sub Pop.   Read Story »

Anyone keeping up with Chad VanGaalen -- and everyone should be -- has seen his drawings at some point or another, gracing the covers to his albums, lending an air of animated surreality to videos by…   Read Story »

We were just talking Calgary in the writeup for BTW the Neighbourhood Council. It's back to Alberta again with "Willow Tree," one of 12 new songs from ex-busker Chad VanGaalen's forthcoming Soft…   Read Story »

Whether he's drawing or recording, most everything Chad VanGaalen does artistically is quick-engaging, left of center, and unique to his distinct mesh of influences. Here he lends his trademark…   Read Story »