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Interviews: Foxfires
Feature — September 6, 2015
Five years in hardcore can seem like eternity. In five years scenes change, groups come and go, and other life obligations can get in the way. New England Hardcore outfit Foxfires are celebrating their fifth anniversary by releasing the LP Pinetum this October. Pinetum is an aggressive and hard-hitting album, …
Music: Review: Riot Fest 2015
Feature — October 6, 2015
It’s third weekend in September and for the second year in a row I’m waiting at Downsview station. Downsview is Toronto’s Northern most subway stop. While technically still in the city, it’s a forty-minute schlep from the downtown core, which is basically an impossible journey to any self-respecting urbanite. I’m …
Music / The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Greatest Story Ever Told: Frank Turner
Feature — December 21, 2015
Earlier this year folk-punk troubadour Frank Turner released his sixth studio album, Positive Songs for Negative People. Recorded in Nashville with producer Butch Walker, the record is an attempt to capture the live sound of Frank and his band The Sleeping Souls while covering themes of longing, friendship, and …
Music / The Greatest Story Ever Told: Medictation
Feature — April 3, 2016
Leatherface never achieved the success they deserved. In the late '80s and early '90s, the UK punk band created a sound - marked by gravely vocals, killer riffs, and an underlining pop sensibility - that earned them a cult following in Britain. While the band never broke North America, they …
Interviews: The Motorleague
Feature — June 4, 2016
Less talk, more rock: New Brunswick’s The Motorleague aren’t interested in waxing philosphical about The East Coast or their place in the music industry. The Motorleague have been making music for about a decade. The band play alt rock songs and they’re based out of New Brunswick, and because …
Interviews: Pkew Pkew Pkew
Feature — June 21, 2016
Pkew Pkew Pkew is fighting off adulthood with cheap beer and Power Chords. This summer I've been invited to four weddings, a handful of people I know have gotten pregnant, and I found out that my best friend from elementary school, the same friend who used to light his …
Music: Remembering Erik Peterson
Feature — July 15, 2016
Today we lost Erik Peterson, the frontman and mastermind behind anarcho-punk act Mischief Brew. I had met Erik on a handful of occasions. I covered a couple of his Toronto shows when he was in town, and caught him headlining an outdoor concert in Tompkins Square Park the last time …
Music / The Greatest Story Ever Told: GSET: Nahko and Medicine for the People
Feature — September 25, 2016
Nahko Bear is a multi-instrumental, multi-talented, musician born in Portland, Oregon. Nahko’s songs are categorized as world fusion, and while those words are generally a meaningless catch-all for anything slightly outside Western music, for the singer and his collective Medicine for the People, the term applies. Nahko is of Apache, …
Interviews: AJJ
Feature — November 27, 2016
“The van was completely broken but I knew that there was no way I was going to miss the show. So I was skateboarding down the side of this freeway. It was the only option I could think of and there are these eighteen-wheelers flying pass me on the side …
Interviews: Talking 25 Years of Less Than Jake
Feature — February 17, 2017
I was sixteen years old the first time I saw Less Than Jake. The band was playing the Buffalo stop of The Warped Tour. The tour had set up in the overflow lot of the local Six Flags and after a morning spent eating cotton candy and chickening out of …
Music / The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Greatest Story Ever Told: Felix Hagan
Feature — April 2, 2017
Felix Hagan & the Family play grandiose pop songs tinged with hints of musical theatre, classic rock, and jazz. Hagan's shows have been described as a whirlwind of show-off nonsense (in a good way!) with Hagan playing ringleader to a seven-piece backing band of highly theatrical, immaculately dressed, misfits. The …
