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Jane Vain & the Dark Matter learned on the job

By Alexander Varty

The Calgary-based sextet’s singer, songwriter, and keyboardist Jamie Fooks explains how she started writing their debut album without first knowing how to play and sing at the same time.

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Bob Log III admits he does it all for the nookie

By Jenny Charlesworth

The eccentric one-man band is bringing his brand of Delta-blues–inspired punk-boogie to Vancouver, which conjures images of Hasil Adkins and AC/DC hanging out while throwing back shots of bootlegged whisky.

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Tagaq evokes long nights and open spaces of an Arctic winter

By Alexander Varty

For singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis, who now performs and records under her middle name alone, there’s nothing worse than a hypocrite.

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NOMO fuses funk, jazz, Afrobeat, and things you bang on with a mallet

By Adrian Mack

NOMO’s founding member, Elliot Bergman, is sitting in a Subway restaurant somewhere between Telluride and Las Vegas when the Straight tracks him down for a chat. A few minutes into the conversation, a voice in the background starts pumping the rest of his eight-piece band for information, asking “What are you called?” and “Where y’all from?”

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Former punk rocker Pat Mahoney is not afraid to admit he loves disco

By Martin Turenne

On a blazing hot afternoon in Manhattan, LCD Soundsystem’s Pat Mahoney is talking to the Straight on his cellphone, stumbling back into the daylight after watching the summer’s biggest movie, The Dark Knight. His take on the critically-praised blockbuster? “Piece of junk,” he says in disgust, before going on to compare the movie’s quasi-fascist world-view with that of the current Bush administration.

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Injustice inspires Sherman Austin’s revolutionary rap songs

By Martin Turenne

It has become fashionable among musicians, especially rappers, to declare their support for the candidacy of Barack Obama. The African-American leftist MC Sherman Austin, however, sees things differently. But it’s not that he’s an admirer of John McCain, or of Ralph Nader. The cause he’s backing is revolution.

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Hey Rosetta! is on a roll

By Elaine Corden

When talking to a musician from Newfoundland, there are certain things that, fair or not, a West Coaster can expect: a lightning-fast patois delivered with old-world inflections; a disarming amount of friendliness; and, likely the result of both of those things, a certain amount of what-the-eff-are-you-talking-about?

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