The Rebellion Magazine: Backlog: Issue 03a

Issue 03a - Dusk: Released on February 22, 2005.

Focus - Joe Vaux

Back to the night beast, the art of Joe Vaux:

Focus - El Tono

"I am a citizen observing what is going on around him. People get inspired by visiting galleries, reading books... I mainly get inspired by walking in the street."

Focus - Metric

After seeing the heavenly presence of Emily Haines join the likes of Broken Social Scene in Toronto a few years ago, I decided to purchase everything she has been a part of musically speaking. Two full-length albums (one of which has been discontinued), an EP, and a set of bootlegs later, and I'm still fiending another dose of Emily's healing breath. Luckily as I write this, Metric's newest album is circulating the radio waves pretty heavily. With the semblance of sounds crowding our ears these days, it's a blessing to know there's still room for bands like Metric - the rarity that doesn't bank off of one catchy radio hit and proceed to produce crap until they, in the words of Mike Tyson, "fade away into Bolivian".

Focus - The Postal Service

Unfortunately in today's music scene, terms such as "emo" and "indie" rock seem to have no specific meaning in defining a band's sound. Putting all genre-defining-bullshit aside, there exist a few bands that defy even the emo kids sense of definition. The Postal Service, composed of Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello, are a prime example of one of these bands. Pairing up these two masterminds has produced a sound simultaneously eerie and soothing, their serenading cemetary sounds peacefully putting you to sleep while you continue to jam away in dreamland.