Words: Jesse Locke
The 2012 Images Fest closed out on a highly enjoyable note with this evening of aquatic entertainment. As the MC explained, booking indie-rock stalwarts Yo La Tengo to perform their score for oceanic avant-gardist Jean Painlevé had been eight years in the making, but it was undeniably worth the [...]
Words and photo: Jesse Locke
As Friday night traffic rushed by on Spadina, a crowd ranging from veteran showgoers to hyperactive children gathered inside the basement gallery. Buzzing with anticipation and filled with grilled cheese from a festival food sponsor, the audience formed a seated circle around the performers, closed their eyes and [...]
Words: Gabriel Jasmin
I’m one of those (like you, I’d guess) who enjoy physical releases, LPs and tapes and CDs and stuff. So, I wanted to take some time to look back on the past 12 months and appoint myself an expert on the matter to pick out the 15 best album covers out [...]
Words: J.R. Cumming
1. Holy Other – With U EP
No question for me here. Though only five tracks and 22 minutes, I spent more time with this EP than any other release this year, and don’t imagine tiring of it any time soon. Mournful, ethereal, yet textural and incredibly mysterious, [...]
Words: Kevin Stebner
Funny how the only thing that truly marks the passage of the year are year-end Top 10 lists.
Well, once again, major media failed me. All the true life melters flew under the radar; all the true life melters had to come from active digging. Every record that moved [...]
Words: Anthony Hansen
Track One: “My Own Cobain” by Limp Bizkit
One fine day, myself and two other Texture writers (J.R. Cumming and Texture head honcho Jesse Locke) attempted to relive the most misguided days of our youth by putting on Limp Bizkit’s Greatest Hits. It didn’t work. Though good for an unintentional [...]
Words: Jeremy Curry
The year 2011 felt like one of my past relationships going backwards. It started off long, frustrating and complicated, but it ended with excitement, wonder and a hell of a lot of questions. The reason for this is because I’ve moved from my hometown of Calgary, Alberta, to the monstrous [...]
Words: Jesse Locke
2011 was a year of riots, revolutions and people’s microphones, punctuated by heart-sinking stories with the occasional feel-good tale or extraordinary surprise. The speed of current events streaming through the tubes of the internet and spread like wheatpasted show posters made it hard not to become [...]
Words: Alessandro Marcon // Photos: Ming Wu
Sandro Perri’s got an ice axe, sledgehammer and razor sharp X-Acto knife, so don’t even think about putting him in a box. Unless of course that box is beautifully decorated, jammed packed and serving up pints. In that case, he’ll happily oblige, as was [...]
Toronto’s X Avant new music festival gives praise to generations of experimental sounds
Words: Jesse Locke // Photos and Video: Jesse Locke and Landon Speers
For his sixth annual X Avant as exiting artistic director of Toronto’s famed Music Gallery, festival founder Jonathan Bunce (a.k.a. Jonny Dovercourt) aimed to go out with [...]
