A Place To Bury Strangers – Rare and Deadly
By Stephan BoissonneaultWhen I saw that the eighth full-length release for New York’s strobing noise punks, A Place To Bury Strangers (APTBS), was going to be a collection of B-sides, demos, and recovered sonic experiments, I was pretty ecstatic. I immediately pictured hearing an unreleased track from the Worship (still my fav album) era. This is, however, […]
Holy Fuck – Event Beat
By Stephan BoissonneaultSix years of silence, and then Holy Fuck crawl out from whatever fog-drenched Toronto barn they’d been haunting and hand you something that feels less like an album and more like a transmission from a noisy dimension. Event Beat opens its mouth and “Evie” falls out — a bass line so locked-in it feels like […]
Lamia Yared: Between the Minho, Euphrates, eras and traditions
By Frédéric CardinFrom the Minho to the Euphrates, two rivers separated by thousands of kilometres, one in Portugal and the other in present-day Iraq, more than a millennium of intercultural, religious, and artistic weaving contemplates us. This is somewhat the premise of the album From Minho to Euphrates by the Lebanese-Canadian singer and oud player Lamia Yared, […]
Population II – Gimmicks – EP
By Stephan BoissonneaultQuebec’s Population II has followed up on their 2025 release, Maintenant Jamais, with a new EP, definitely plunging the prog rock three-piece into more synthy waters. This new batch of five songs they call the Gimmicks – EP, honestly feels more Tangerine Dream than Black Sabbath (a group the band gets compared to a lot), […]



































