Articles by Alex Molotkow

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  Ladyhawk

  Ladyhawk

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Ladyhawk have received a fair amount of press recently, thanks in no small part to connections with that Vancouver-based "Mountain family”...

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  Tilly and the Wall

  Bottoms of Barrels

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Tilly and the Wall are a Midwestern, co-ed pop rock band with ties to Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley. Riding the current wave of indie rock "te...

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  Creeping Nobodies

  Sound of Joy

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  The Creeping Nobodies’ career has followed an interesting trajectory — their acclaim grows wider as their music becomes less accessible. Se...

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  Think About Life

  Think About Life

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  "Party band” just about sums up Think About Life — a super-enthusiastic, super-positive party where everyone gets wild and crazy and takes...

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  David Hurn

  How I Came to Hate My Saviour

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  David Hurn’s three-song EP starts out as a singer-songwriter cliché — soft-strummed guitar, mouth too close to the microphone, semi-profoun...

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  Matias

  Sleepy

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  This is the first in a series of "mood” EPs, composed by Matias Rozenberg for the fledgling Liberation Musicale CD-R label. Rozenberg is a...

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  The Sounds

  Dying To Say This to You

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Reviewing this record feels almost redundant — there’s nothing to be said about bands like the Sounds that hasn’t been said a thousand time...

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  The Stills

  Without Feathers

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Indie rock keeps getting leaner and leaner. Back in the day, nerds still had guitar heroes and wanted to get laid — nowadays the "rock” in...