Rob Ondzik

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Devours Tape Release

Showing up to the Astoria early and alone, here was no one there to hide behind. The crowd that would later arrive hadn’t yet, but…

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Role Mach

Carl Orff’s political convictions are highly contested. Having composed Carmina Burana during the rise and reign of Nazism in Germany, his orchestral masterpiece remains muddied…

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Smash Boom Pow

They say honesty is the best policy, a policy since adopted by rock and rollers Smash Boom Pow as their mission statement. With this phrase…

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Vague

In the absence of performance, recorded music takes on an air of effortlessness. Yet no sound is independent of a source. In reality, the way…

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Here’s The Thing

I never liked my Grade Three teacher, Mrs. Lang. She was a conservative woman with a seemingly chinless face who showed us Bible story reenactment…

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columns

Here’s The Thing

Books are the endless frontier. I feel constant guilt over how much reading I accomplish, always thinking it should be more. At some point I…

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Village

I first met Jessica Chau about eight years ago in high school, when she took on the daunting task of tutoring me in math. Today,…

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