ALL ABOUT HELPING BANDS A CONVERSATION WITH DARRYL HURS OF INDIE WEEK AND CD BABY Darryl Hurs is a very busy guy. The founder of Indie Week and Canada’s director of market development for CD Baby admits he gets only about four hours of sleep a [...]
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis The Road: Original Film Score Mute Records Remastered and available for the first time on vinyl, the last of three rereleases from mastermind combo Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is unspeakably lovely and full of sorrow. [...]
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE BAND…IT’S ABOUT THE FANS A CONVERSATION WITH FRANKIE BANALI OF QUIET RIOT While fully into the swing of their summer tour schedule, Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali took some time out for a quick discussion ahead of Heavy [...]
July 26, 2019 @ Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montréal In its third year, ’77 Montreal is a festival that celebrates the varied history of punk music… way back to the “big bang” of punk (arguably in 1977) to some fresh(er) faces. Some of the badass bands [...]
Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli, Balázs Pándi Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli, Balázs Pándi Trost Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli, and Balázs Pándi’s eponymous release is an interesting and notable effort from a group of [...]
A LABOUR OF LOVE: FROM OSHEAGA TO ’77 MONTREAL A CONVERSATION WITH NICK FARKAS OF EVENKO Behind every great festival there is a mastermind, and Nick Farkas is one of Canada’s most committed. As VIP of booking for Canadian event giant evenko, he [...]
POUZZA FEST 9 – MAY 17-19, 2019 LOOKING TOWARDS A SAFE SPACE FOR ALL PUNKS Unexpected as it may seem, finding a sense of community on the streets of Montreal during a punk rock festival was a reality this past long weekend. Whether [...]
Get stoked for Pouzza Fest: May 17-19, 2019. Montreal’s annual punk rock festival is a celebration music, inclusion, and respect within punk culture. In its ninth year, it features 175+ bands, and is heavily influenced by pizza, poutine, and [...]
Get stoked for Pouzza Fest: May 17-19, 2019 Montreal’s annual punk rock festival is a celebration music, inclusion, and respect within punk culture. In its ninth year, it features 175+ bands, and is heavily influenced by pizza, poutine, and [...]
MURDER BY DEATH @ LEE’S PALACE, TORONTO APRIL 26, 2019 Lee’s Palace was packed with admirers eager to listen to the stories told by Murder By Death tonight. A Murder By Death show is a remarkable affair. It’s easy to get lost in the music [...]
Cokie The Clown You’re Welcome Fat Wreck Chords There was a time when it would have been impossible to believe that Fat Mike could make you cry. “Fat Mike” Burkett, often-controversial frontman of longstanding punk band NOFX, has an outlet [...]
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Music From The Motion Picture: The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford Mute Records Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have re-released their critically-acclaimed soundtrack Music from the Motion Picture: [...]
TRUE LIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH ADAM TURLA OF MURDER BY DEATH Murder By Death will defy your expectations. What’s in a name, anyway? The fiercely original quintet out of Bloomington, Indiana is unequal parts Americana, dark folk rock, and [...]
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PMA, BABY! A CONVERSATION WITH JESSE MACKOWYCZ OF QUARTER TANK To call Quarter Tank punk would be an oversimplification. Metal would be too unspecific. Crossover comes close but it doesn’t exactly account for the almost [...]
THEY’RE FROM WYOMING AND THEY’RE PRETTY PUNK ROCK A CONVERSATION WITH TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET “I’m from Wyoming and I’m pretty punk rock when it comes to snowstorms.” Ray Carlisle of Teenage Bottlerocket sounds perfectly content to do an interview [...]
The Sh-Booms The Blurred Odyssey Limited Fanfare Records The Sh-Booms’ new full-length, The Blurred Odyssey, will move you… in every sense of the word. With its live-off-the-floor feel, it’s almost as if the band recorded in a garage… in which [...]
FLOGGING MOLLY w/ LUCERO & MATT HECKLER @ THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL, TORONTO MARCH 3, 2019 St. Patrick’s Day came early to the Danforth Music Hall tonight. Frontman Dave King seemed energized by otherworldly – or perhaps underworldly – power [...]
The Peawees Moving Target Wild Honey Records/Rum Bar Records The Peawees breathe new life into that vintage rock ‘n’ roll sound with their fifth full-length album, Moving Target. It’s as if The Peawees built a time machine out of a classic car: [...]
