Those who graduated high school before 1998 (read: before high-speed internet was available virtually everywhere including rural areas and before file sharing sites forced the bottom out of the bootleg album industry) may remember when one of the easiest ways for young fans to really prove their undying fan-dom for a band was to know every song and every lyric in a band's catalogue and be able to recall them by rote. Some kids would even play “Name That Tune”...

Oh you lucky lil' junkies, Y'know, I give you lil' ingrates a lot an' don' ask fer much back, but I think I out-did myself fo'ya dis week junkie. Not too long ago, I did the "unthinkable" an' walked right inta major label central an' started layin' my sticky fingas on stuff. 'At's kinda like wavin' a AK-47 aroun' in Times Square an' expectin' ta walk out in one piece, butcha know what? I pulled it off bitch! Dis week...

Look around the pop diaspora in 2011, and you might be surprised to discover that something's missing: innocence. It sounds impossible to believe, but think about it – when's the last time you heard some sugary pop which didn't have some ulterior motive? The prevailing trend in both pop and indie rock has been to sugarcoat hard feelings recently, and play to some kind of overdone irony; Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera built their careers on such fashionably professional pop,...

Dolly Parton brought her Better Day Tour to the Sleeptrain Pavilion late last week, and reaffirmed what most people in the venue already knew within minutes – that she is still a top notch performer, and a country music legend, without a doubt.

 Opening the show with an even more feel-good version of Katrina and the Waves' "Walking on Sunshine,” Dolly was charming and engaging, and had an over-abundance of energy. She danced and moved around the stage with the...

When I had first learned that Sloan was playing the main stage at Barrie's Kempenfest this year, I was a little skeptical about the crowd that might show up. Were they going there for Sloan or for the cold beer on a hot Friday night of a long weekend? As Sloan took the stage and the crowd around me started to get into them, my skepticism was laid to rest. This song is dedicated to you because this song is...

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 album, David Comes To Life. When the band stopped at The Independent in San Francisco on July 25, 2011, Ground Control Magazine's head photographer Raymond Ahner was there to catch the mania and, truly, neither he...

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 album, David Comes To Life. When the band stopped at The Independent in San Francisco on July 25, 2011, Ground Control Magazine's head photographer Raymond Ahner was there to catch the mania and, truly, neither he...

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 album, David Comes To Life. When the band stopped at The Independent in San Francisco on July 25, 2011, Ground Control Magazine's head photographer Raymond Ahner was there to catch the mania and, truly, neither he...

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 foun' some complete works ta put in yer works'is week. 'At's right, in addition ta the single songs I was able ta lift from da fi' points o' da interwebs, I also nabbed a coupla full...

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 over by year's end and ultimately selling over thirty million copies worldwide, Nevermind would come to be much more than one of the most successful and influential albums of all time; the album that returned unaffected rock n roll integrity and passion to...