INDEPENDENT MUSIC FOR THE INDEPENDENTLY MINDED
ARTIST

ARTIST NEWS

02.14.2007
If you could collect the best parts of Cheap Trick, Lou Reed, Oasis, R.E.M. and the Beatles, and discard the filler (OK, the Beatles didn't have any)...
02.14.2007
It's 2007 and Sloan are still kicking out the rock, still making the rounds, still generally being awesome and even claiming to have a "49-per cent...
02.08.2007
Like a Beatles "best of" that no one had discovered, Sloan's eighth LP, Never Hear the End of It, packs a mammoth 30 tracks onto one thrill-filled...
01.30.2007
The cover shot of Sloan's 650th album echoes that of Television's Marquee Moon - four gaunt, haggard dudes stare down the camera - except these...
01.30.2007
For more than a decade, Sloan have been big in their native Canada without even reaching Guided by Voices-level fame stateside. With thirty,...
01.30.2007
Yep Roc Records announces 30 Days of Sloan, a 30-part video-serial documenting the making of Sloans latest ultra-LP Never Hear the End of...
01.22.2007
Frankly, I didn't come to Sloan's eighth album expecting a whole lot. The Nova Scotian quartet's last two albums were patchy and sounded like a band...
01.16.2007
Well into its second decade, this Canadian quartet once influenced by My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth now writes, plays and sings cheery,...
01.16.2007
Sloan, a quartet originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, has a few things that other indie-rock darlings lack. First, the band has been around for...
01.16.2007
One trend in the 15-year-career of Canadian pop/rock group Sloan (stars in their own country, cult heroes elsewhere) has been towards excess. From...
01.15.2007
There are 30 songs on Sloan's "Never Hear the End of It," a playlist that's part stunt and part statement by a band that has always been equally fond...
01.15.2007
Despite their roots in the remote cold and relative isolation of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sloan is one of the best Canadian rock acts for 15 years...
01.11.2007
This popular Canadian band's latest opus is ironically titled, considering that more than a third of the disc's 30 songs clock in at less than two...
01.11.2007
Congratulations to Keisuke, in Toyama, Japan - the winner of our Sloan prize pack! The prize pack included an autographed LP, autographed DVD, and...
12.22.2006
It's official. No longer will I be able to assume that good old-fashioned "Rock 'n' Roll" is dead and gone; instead, I'l have to open my eyes to the...