Articles by Matthew Ritchie

Alvvays

Alvvays

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2014

Alvvays are generally associated with other Toronto acts, but with members originating from Cape Breton and PEI, their sound is more rooted...

Factor

"Four for the Road" (ft. Jeff Spec, Ghettosocks, Timbuktu and Muneshine)

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2014

It's not like you needed any more evidence that Friday was the best day of the week. But just in case you do, Saskatoon-based beatmaker Fac...

Erasure

"Elevation"

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2014

Long-running UK synth-pop act Erasure first gave word back in May that their follow-up to last year's Christmas-themed Snow Globe, The Viol...

Chilly Gonzales and Boys Noize Team Up as Octave Minds, Premiere "In Silence"

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2014

Canadian composer Chilly Gonzales is no stranger to collaboration, having previously partnered with Jamie Lidell, Feist and, more recently,...

Boyhood

Richard Linklater

PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2014

It's a simple enough storyline, but its execution is anything but. Boyhood, Richard Linklater's 12-year epic, tells the tale of Mason (Ell...

Wish I Was Here

Zach Braff

PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2014

When Zach Braff's directorial debut Garden State celebrated its tenth anniversary in January, it seemed like the internet's collective cons...

Life Itself

Steve James

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2014

For some reason, writing a review of a film that documents the life and times of the world's most famous film critic, Roger Ebert, feels li...

Begin Again

John Carney

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2014

Everybody deserves a second chance. Take down on his luck record-label executive Dan (Mark Ruffalo), a handsomely dishevelled Dad whose pas...