Max Wall
The truth about angels
June 2, 2014When I saw The Shilohs open for Real Estate this March at the Rickshaw Theatre, frontman Johnny Payne took the stage in boyish highwaters and a slim 70s-style trench coat. On their debut album, So Wild, the band inhabits the kind of well-worn rock postures that take the back cover of dusty rock LPs. If So Wild were a moment, it would be thumbing through the LP racks, sunlight filtering in, at Vancouver’s great green-carpeted music institution, Zulu Records, where Payne is a clerk. Those warm moments are mostly absent on The Shilohs’ self-titled second LP, The Shilohs, which strikes…
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SFU student cookbook is a raw vegan knockout
March 3, 2014SFU student Emily Von Euw, creator of the popular weblog, This Rawsome Vegan Life, has created a vegan dessert cookbook for the ages. Rawsome Vegan Baking: An Un-Cookbook will be in stores March 4 through Macmillan Publishers. The book moves…
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Young Braised’s Japanese Tendencies
October 7, 2013I first came across the music of rapper Jaymes Bowman, aka Young Braised, through last fall’s “Snack City” music video. Directed by Metalab’s William Wilkinson, the “Snack City” video was a burger-exploding good time. Standing in a bucket hat against…
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Album Reviews: Volcano Choir, Earl Sweatshirt, and a throwback to Sonic Youth
September 2, 2013Volcano Choir - Repave By Max Wall On “Perth”, the opening track of Bon Iver’s self-titled second album, Justin Vernon proclaims, “This is not a place.” Indeed, the ethereal sound of Bon Iver seems not to be part of any physical…
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Jay Arner and the self
July 1, 2013I first came across Jay Arner’s music through last summer’s excellent Bad Friend / Black Horse 7 inch record. The cover featured Arner off to the side of a symmetrical group shot featuring a look-alike wearing a collared shirt and…
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We Are the City’s Violent return
May 27, 2013By Max Wall Photos by Kirsten Berlie It’s been four years since We Are the City released their last album, In a Quiet World. Filled with revisited eighth-grade demos and songs about squids, it nevertheless showcased a very promising talent,…
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