When you play live, you often wear a mask with storm clouds hanging over your face. What does that represent?
That started out as a joke. I like jokes and I like performing, but not being a performer, I needed something. I don’t want to say it’s like a gimmick but living [...]

Weird Canada on False Face:
“They’ve once again skirted the unwieldy threat of identifiable genre and stayed true to their adjective hyperbole.”
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(If there’s a leading light in the local R&B scene, it’s the Limestone Lothario himself, RayJon Artemis IV. After three platinum albums, four double-platinum singles, and five triple-platinum heart attacks, Mr. Artemis has earned his place in the Kingston pop pantheon.  We were fortunate enough to sit down with Artemis a few weeks before the [...]

Pitchfork reviews PS I Love You:
Honest-to-goodness, hard-line indie rock is alive and well in the great white North. “Facelove”– a ferociously catchy single from Kingston, Ontario, duo PS I Love You– was the hiding on the B-side of a shared 7″ with “All Yr Songs”, last fall’s Best New Music-approved track from Toronto’s Diamond Rings.
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I’ve been derelict with my duties, and I apologize. There’s been some switcheroos since I last posted links to the radio shows of Apple Crisp volunteers, so here are a handful of fresh links, with thanks to the CFRC logger for the files:

Laura’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable (starts half way in after primordial soup)
Part 1
Part 2
Paul’s [...]

With five dozen acts playing tomorrow’s Homegrown Music Festival, we thought we’d tell you who we’re most stoked to see.

Barbs’ photo, natch.

The round-up continues. Now for movies. Barbeau’s photo.

More of Kingston’s favourites from last year. Photo by Barbs.