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    • ‘Tis the Season of my Discontent

      by Beauty

      I would be content to sit in the shade in all my pale glory, except that people seem to feel compelled to point out my whiteness.

    • The 2004 Eddies

      by Crom

      A night long bacchanalia honoring the submissions for TV spots and new this year: print ads all featuring Big Rock beer.

    • Louie Vega – Choice

      by Azuli Records

      Now everybody plays the four-on-the-floor house beat, but DJs used play four-on-the-floor with funk, jazz, Euro and syncopated rhythms

    • Envoy – Shoulder2Shoulder

      by Soma Records

      The title track from his forthcoming album, is an agitated cross between the martian sounds of Red Planet and the techno punk of Green Velvet

    • Screw thy Customer

      by David Gluzman

      I don’t ask for much, I simply want to be treated relatively the same as a 40 year old walking into your establishment.

    • Busdriver – Cosmic Cleavage

      by Pamela Hruska

      Being original in this saturated day in age is rare, and this is an album which should be highly commended for doing so.

    • R4NT Video: 10 Cents

      by Gordon McDowell

      Gordon McDowell and Geoff Helmer take the reigns and herein have spurred some heated discussion on borrowing.

    • Any Black Sheep in the Family?

      by MaxPower

      You are not caught on camera and there are no witnesses. You may have left fingerprints, but you aren’t worried.

    • Jim Brynes – Fresh Horses

      by Obsidian

      Most of the regular readers of r4nt will have never heard of Jim Byrnes but I’m willing to bet you’ve probably seen or heard him on TV. His most recognizable role was probably as Joe Dawson on the Vancouver-based Highlander series, and he has also done numerous commercial and cartoon voice-overs such as Inferno in …

    • Special Feature: Big Dada

      by Big Dada

      Having taken it upon themselves to release heaps of records on the sly without you even noticing. It’s cos we’re from London innit?

    • OHM – Forget Who We Are

      by Resistance Media

      Their policy of embracing P2P seems to be paying off spectacularly and the band will soon be able to play their first OHM party in London.

    • Interview with Blockhead

      by R4NT

      There’s been a tendency in instrumental hip hop towards the bombastic and the plain tacky, which is why Blockhead is so refreshing.

    • Lamb – Between Darkness and Wonder

      by David Gluzman

      The mid 1990’s introduced me to a new style of music that has forever changed the way I listen to music. I remember when I first heard Massive Attack and the dark sounds of Tricky I had immediately found a new direction to take my CD collection. Morcheeba also had a huge amount of influence …

    • Menthols

      by Crom

      One of those grimy pre-spring days, when all the grass is visible from the warmth, but dead and brown from a lack of sun and water..

    • A Brief History of my Closet

      by Crom

      The Clothes were a sloth like people, living wherever they chose, and choking up traffic and putrefying the air..

    • The Evolution of TV

      by MaxPower

      Get people who want to be on TV (for free), buy them plane tickets and give them a hundred American dollars and you have it..

    • R4NT Video – April Fools

      by R4NT

      Second up in the R4NT Video series. Start you day watching someone experiencing April Fools in a way you’ve never seen before.

    • Schneider TM – Reconfigures

      by Ear Sugar

      It’s difficult to do political music but music is more often alternative to politics because music connects people so well.

    • Miami 2004 – The Underground Sound of the Miami Music Conference

      by Azuli Records

      The definative Miami showcase lp featuring tracks you will know already – along side those destined to be the summers anthems and booty shakers.

    • Interview with Sixtoo

      by Chris Harron

      He’s been making music since the mid-90’s: he’s been a Sebutone, an affiliate of Anticon, brought together illegal art and music..

    • Canada as a Tropical Paradise

      by MaxPower

      The Turks & Caicos islands would like to be annexed by Canada and they have been waiting for it to happen since 1988!

    • The Breast Police

      by Terence Leung

      Cleavage is evil and makes you look like a corner store hooker with an overly hospitable party zone..

    • Thought Piece: Eating

      by Wartank

      It wasn’t a sexually charged event. She simply radiated culture and elegance in a way I had never been exposed to..

    • Dear Uncle

      by Crom

      After his success with the invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell wrote a letter to his uncle, who was also an inventor..

    • R4NT Video

      by R4NT

      An introduction to an ongoing series of R4NT video footage. This is just a snippet of what sort of madness to expect in future issues.

    • Regazzi – Video Stream

      by Schnitzel Records

      BERLIN-based electro-pop outfit Ragazzi are a delightful mix of mellow, immaculately produced modern grooved and quirky beats..

    • Late Night Tales – Turin Brakes

      by Woah Music & Azuli Records

      As the LateNight series enters it’s 11th release we are proud to present another class act and yet another maiden voyage for the compiler..

    • Interview: Skalpel

      by R4NT

      Marcin and Igor have been digging in the crates, trying to build the most exciting collection of samples from Polish Jazz records..

    • Zen RMX: Remix Retrospective

      by David Gluzman

      Who would have thought that an Ex-art teacher (Jonathan More) and a computer programmer (Matt Black) would have started a creation back in the late 80’s that would revolutionize some of biggest artists of the 1990’s? This duo, formally referred to as Coldcut put out some serious madness before launching their sushi madden Japanese …

    • Zen CD: A Retrospective

      by David Gluzman

      What have the ninja’s at Ninjatune been upto for the past decade or so? Since their conception by Jonathan More and Matt black (most know these guys as Coldcut) back in the early 1990’s, there has been a huge cult following and a reputation for finding some of most amazing talent available on the …

    • lunchboxes.com

      by MaxPower

      Are you a serious executive who wants a futuristic lunch sack and has no time for 80’s retro-chic? The ‘Silver Orb Lunch Box Tote’ may be just what you need to cure the PB&J blues. Or try out the NYC kitsch look with your own ‘Chinese Take-Out’ Lunch box/Bag – you’ll swear you’re in an episode of Friends!

    • In Flames – Reroute to Remain

      by Crom

      All things known to man have gone through two questions by everyone, What is it? And why should I care? And this album was no different when I was first told of it. I thought “ah yeah, another Soil, another metal head loud mouthed band”. Quick! Diverge from this thought and hearken back to three …

    • Bachelor Chow

      by Wartank

      Pick your meat.. I generally stick with chicken or beef because it fries up real easy and heck I must be part black cause I dig that fried chicken..

    • Crom’s Letter to the Editor of Cosmopolitan

      by Crom

      .your magazine being so obviously targeted at women in the early twenties to late forties, it begs the question, what could I, a 25 year old Male Canadian really have to say about Cosmo..

    • Who Will Watch The Watchers?

      by MaxPower

      I suggest that the ability to present differing viewpoints is a hallmark of an open society, but that shouldn’t give journalists a free pass to make up ‘facts’ that they think may possibly, in some sense be correct..

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