NOFX Ribbed – Live In A Dive Fat Wreck Cords Seeing NOFX live is always surprising – breaking from the typical concert formula of playing hits interspersed with new singles, they take pleasure in shocking the audience with obscure or [...]
THE SELF-PROCLAIMED KING OF SIN A CONVERSATION WITH DAEMON GREY When asked how he would describe his music to those who don’t know it, Daemon Grey says ‘devil sex rock’ – and honestly, if Satan isn’t currently headbanging and/or having an orgy [...]
FEED THE CHILDREN, YOU DUMMY A CONVERSATION WITH CHEAP TISSUE The eclectically-named garage punk band Cheap Tissue brings back the nostalgia of old school punk rock with its no-bullshit attitude, mocking the inauthenticity of new age politics [...]
The Turbo A.C.’s Radiation Concrete Jungle Records The Turbo A.C.’s kicked off the July 22 release of their newest album Radiation with a proclamation that “radiation will sweep the land, the kids will be infected” – and honestly, the kids don’t [...]
Dumb Seeing Green Mint Records Only a band with music that is decidedly smart would call themselves “Dumb”. With clever, snarky lyrics woven into a mockery of the conventions of money-obsessed modern life, Seeing Green is both the album’s name [...]
Mad Caddies Punk Rocksteady Fat Wreck Chords The Mad Caddies’ new album is the summer album we’ve all been waiting for. A compilation of punk rock classics played with a beachy reggae style, this album boasts a series of perfect tunes to rock [...]
WOODEN SHJIPS w/ HOLY WAVE & ZONES @ THE HORSESHOE TAVERN, TORONTO JUNE 5, 2018 Banging out blissful music against an ever-shifting psychedelic light show backdrop, Wooden Shjips plays a spellbinding show at the Horseshoe Tavern. Neither the [...]
The Coathangers Live Suicide Squeeze There is a hectic, chaotic energy to live music that studio recordings simply cannot capture, and punk band The Coathangers want to remedy this with their latest album, Live, released June 1 of this year. [...]
Eels The Deconstruction E Works/PIAS The Deconstruction, Eels’ twelfth album, manages to maintain a laid-back, mellow sound while simultaneously evoking vocalist Mark Oliver Everett’s deep soulfulness through a series of impassioned laments and [...]
Cheap Tissue Cheap Tissue Lolipop Records Cheap Tissue’s self-titled first album has all the grit, passion, and messy sonic energy of a classic punk band’s debut LP — think Bad Religion’s How Could Hell Be Any Worse but with more a more refined [...]