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COVER: In the shadows of Motown

DON’T CALL IT A THROWBACK: Mayer Hawthorne Photo by KEVIN SCANLON

Fledgling hip hop producer turned successful soul singer Mayer Hawthorne gives credit to Detroit’s eclectic scene, his birthplace of Ann Arbor and his parents’ placation techniques

Ghetto grandeur

THE NEXT GENERATION: Slum Village

Illa J on joining Slum Village and learning from his late brother

Enter skweee-man

NORDIC HYBRID: John Constantinides Photo by MICHAEL DOYLE

Local DJ/producer Smoked Meat Fax Machine imports the skweee

Stoned to the bone

Punkus

PUNKUSRAUCOUS REX: Sleep’s heavy classic Dopesmoker reissued

MUSIC REVIEWS

blondes

MUSIC REVIEWS

THE LOAD-DOWN

Loaddown

THE LOAD-DOWN: Apple’s iPod, a class act + the benefit of bit torrents

Second thoughts

cockblocker

BLOCK-CLOCKER: Piknic’s your Sunday pick-me-up + Kitty Pryde, Yelawolf

Femme cabal

partyfavours

PARTY FAVOURS: Faggity femmes, MikeQ, Subb-an & Ocho

RANT LINE™: Arcade Fire, C.U.N.T., Walt Whitman!

RANT LINE™

Love hate relationships

LABOUR INTENSIVE: Parlovr Photo by SHARON DAVIES

Montreal’s Parlovr break up and make up. Everything’s relatively hunky dory now, with their tortured follow-up Kook Soul finally ready for public consumption, but the deeply personal second release was the product of a fractured band.

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