Filed under: Exclusive , Holy Hell , Book Club , Canada It's been said that they were famous before they ever played a show. With an unpredictable singer and an unbridled sound, legendary Toronto punks the Viletones were just as known for their antics on and off stage as they were for iconic underground songs like 'Screamin' Fist.' Although the history of the Toronto first-wave punk scene fell into relative obscurity after its early start [...]
I haven't posted very much over the last few months so here's a gift, southern ontario punk rock from the late 1970's. These bands all formed in '75/'76, the colonies/the poor northern cousins answer to DIY bands coming out the US and the UK. It seems that there was a seed in music in that time period that germinated at the same time in western speaking countries. Why?, ( in Canada it was CANCON ) who knows but the late 1970's was a very rich time for music and the [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , Count Five , Guest Blogger , Canada With the Polaris Prize awards coming soon, I have to pause and reflect on the absurdity of my situation: I am a bald, 300-lb. 30-year-old who makes his living yelling in a band with an expletive for a name. Not only that, but said band has somehow found itself nominated for what is arguably Canada's most important music award: the Polaris. [...]
A wide and varied collection of Canadian artists for you on Canada Day 2009, One Hundred and Forty Two years old... Happy Birthday Canada. Viletones - I hate You-Without You The Real McKenzies - Ceilidh Cancer Bats - Sorceress Die Mannequin - Do It Or Die Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown Neil Young - Tonights the Night [...]
In William Gibson's Neuromancer Screaming Fist is an operation run by Armitage with the purpose of destroying a Russian computer network by planting a virus in the system, but the attempt... Punk | Powerpop | Mod | Hard Core
Not sure what radio is like in other countries, but Canada has a rule that we call CanCon (Canadian Content) which has been around since 1971. To give you a quick overview of what Cancon is, presently Canadian radio stations must play at least 35% Canadian talent . (back when the CRTC implemented it in the 70's it was around 20%)They use a rule called MAPL , that breaks down how talent can be classified as Canadian. There have be fights left right and [...]
Despite the large and ever-growing number of unread books in my collection, whenever I'm at a loss about what to read next I invariably gravitate to something chosen from a short list of well-loved favorites. The criteria for being part of that elect group of books isn't so much a matter of importance or literary merit , but rather stems from my personal and empirical experience as a reader. To put it simply, they are books I never tire of re-reading. The list includes The Great Gatsby , The Loved One , [...]
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