Loganism: Hearwax 2.0 and the Like

It is odd for me to think that a blog that started as reviewing music with a couple friends, has actually become something with a little web presence, and actual readers.  And yet, here I …

A Singularity In The Woman-verse: A Non-Representational Approach To “Dames”

Ray Enright and Busby Berkeley’s Dames is a film that reverses the core values of theorist Richard Dyer’s “representational” and “non-representational” elements in the traditional backstage musical (20). Familiar archetypes in this style of musical, …

The Binary Code – Priest

When The Binary Code‘s self-released, debut record made its way to Hearwax Media last year to be reviewed, it was praised for its keen sense of selectiveness, and criticized  for its unwillingness to take risks.  …

Coming Full Circle: How Hip-Hop Culture Has Become Its Own Worst Enemy

In 1994, rapper Common released a song entitled “I Used to Love H.E.R.” (H.E.R. meaning Hearing Every Rhyme), in which he blamed the degradation of hip hop on west coast gangsta rap, and compared it …

Transmissions: The Starkweather Interview

Starkweather are of a diametrical nature. The band has stood on its own for over twenty years, a flagship of the methods in which disparate genres of music can be incorporated creatively into a cohesive …

Japandroids with Wavves, Happy Hollows, and Grooms at NXNE

The first time I saw Japandroids was during the summer of 2009. A hot sweaty night found me impatiently waiting for the Vancouver duo at the El Mocambo, a Toronto staple for independent music. Hot …

Weekly Worship #15

If you haven’t listened to Hacksaw to the Throat before, you might expect them to be a down tuned Myspace Deathcore band, who vehemently refer to themselves as Grindcore.  Fortunately, you’d be very far from …