>Portugal. The Man - In the Mountain in the Cloud

I didn't want to be there. Clubs aren't really my scene but my friend roped me into it anyway. My friend getting into a fight with her boyfriend set the mood for the rest of the night. The fact that a couple of the... continue

>Eatliz - Teasing Nature

I get into work one 8AM and the first non-goodmorninghowareyouohgood conversation I actually have involves a masked bandit at large within the building. Apparently a raccoon had been huddled up on the back of a... continue

>Heartless - Heartless

“So is that a hickey?” a random drunk asks me in Topper’s Pizza in downtown North Bay. She’s hammered, and I can’t remember, but I think I am too. I’ve been drinking $3 rum and cokes out of plastic glasses. Have you... continue

>City and Colour - Little Hell

So I had a thing for musicals back in high school. It wasn’t so much that I was very talented, but I think I was there for the rush of being on a stage. When the lights hit you, it’s just that butterfly in your stomach... continue

>Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday

Gym class was the death of me. Well, for a number of reasons. I had grown up mastering the moves of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, dominating people in Mario Party and planting proximity mines in GoldenEye. The idea of... continue

>Grey Kingdom - Grey Kingdom EP

I wasn’t doing anything for New Year’s, so a close friend of mine managed to secure me a ticket for an already sold out local New Year’s event. It was the works – drinks, food, and music. This friend of mine was my... continue

>Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile

At the end of my years at primary school (aged 10-11), I had to make a choice about my life – whether to push myself academically and take an exam called the “11+” to get into some really top quality schools, or to not... continue

>Bedouin Soundclash - Light the Horizon

Almost a year ago, I was strutting through the streets of Japan drinking ume-shu (plum sake). My dream had always been to come to the land of controversy. Why not fine dine at a Japanese Vegetarian restaurant amidst the... continue

>Jimmy Eat World - Invented

For the first few years of secondary school, my classmates and I all took a compulsory Music class as part of the year’s lessons. These took place, a nice 10 minute walk, through a semi-wooded area, away from the main... continue

>Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks

The pastor’s voice booms through the radio of our rental car. He is shouting in a cadenced manner about the moral deviancy of swimming in a public pool amongst skimpily clad people, linking it to some ambiguous excerpt... continue

>Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone

My suspicions were first aroused the day before it happened. She asked me not to meet her to walk to college the next morning. She had been asking me to do that for the last year every single morning. For some reason I... continue

>Gossip - Music for Men

Toronto is a comparatively large city next to my hometown which has a population of fewer than 100,000 people. My first subway ride was a bit nerve wracking as I had never used Toronto public transportation alone... continue

>La Dispute - Somewhere At The Bottom Of The River Between Vega And Altair

My parents got divorced when I was 13 years old. A few weeks prior to the “event” itself, my mum and I were in a McDonalds drive through and she said to me that there were issues between my father and her. It went over... continue

>Transit - Keep This to Yourself

It was an odd way to spend an evening with your girlfriend for the first time after getting back from a holiday. She came to my school to see if she wanted to be there to study the next year – we both knew she didn’t.... continue

>Balance And Composure - I Just Want to be Pure EP

I started going to university in September ’09. The UK drinking age is 18, but I was born quite late in the school year, so I was one of the last kids I knew to be able to legally go out on the town. Perhaps because of... continue