Since helping to blow the doors off of North By Northeast music conference alongside OFF! and The Descendents with a landmark performance at Yonge-Dundas Square this year, Fucked Up has continued to burn a path across North America tirelessly in support of their newest...
Hey junky, How's yer arms, ya misanthropes? Itchin' yet? Well, I got some stuff right 'ere at'll cure what ails ya. This week, we be goin' hard inta some artists, cause ya know what? It's my column annat's what I say's gonna happen. I...
Released in September 1991, Nirvana's sophomore album and major label debut elevated Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl from cult band to generational spokesmen who'd unwittingly assisted in creating a cultural shift. Rising to Number One the world...
The album has only been out for a few months now, but a mythos has already begun to develop around The Black Lips' Arabia Mountain. While bassist Jared Swilley already told Ground Control that some pretty wild shit went down in the recording studio, tales and...
As recently reported by NME , The Guardian , AOL Spinner , NY Press , and a host of other news agencies, Heineken was forced to remove an advert which features a cover of the Dead Kennedys' 'Too Drunk To Fuck' because of complaints it would encourage...
I often overhear conversations, and see Facebook postings that mention how terrible modern music is, especially in comparison to the glory days of the early Nineties alt-rock explosion. While I do have fond memories of the last decade of the twentieth century and its...
As complicated as the rhetoric has seemed to become since the dawn of the millennium, there are really only two kinds of punk band: those who make punk rock reliant upon sound and form, and those who are punk in ideal. The most visible camp has traditionally been the...
How's tricks ya punks?Awright, I'm not exactly sure wha's been goin' on lately, but has anybody else noticed how many cover songs're bein' released these days? Wha happened? Did bands start fergettin' how ta write songs or somethin'?...
Discussions with Shilpa Ray are a surreal experience; there is a very clear difference between her musical persona and personal demeanor. Both onstage and on-record, Ray just unloads on listeners with a booming and tormented but soulful bellow not unlike what one might...
Playing on what may have been the smallest stage he has ever stepped foot on in the city San Francisco, Ted Nugent brought his I Still Believe Tour to the Independent last week, and also brought with him enough energy, showmanship and guitars to command an arena-sized...