For 32 years Victoria jazz-punks NoMeansNo have lived apart from the sleazy beast known as the music industry. Now that the rest of the world has also turned its back on this ever-diminishing creature,...

Journalist Bob Mersereau’s new book The Top 100 Canadian Singles has reduced our musical history to sort of a baby boomer version of a Guy Lombardo set list. Despite the inclusion of indisputable classics,...

“I always say we sound like the Ramones,” Teenage Bottlerocket singer/guitarist Ray Carlisle says when asked to describe his band’s sound. Such a blunt answer is both a humble admission of influence and a...

“I want out music to be like a religious service, only a lot dirtier.” — Jason Ringerberg Cow-punk, roots-rock, alt-country, y'alternative, whatever damn term you use for music that hurts like country and hits like...

Why would anyone want to listen to an L.P. of a 30-year old demo tape from a band who never exactly changed the world? The band in question is Cerritos, California’s Channel 3, and the...

One hundred and twenty-six minutes is an unusual length for an album. Yet, that’s the exact duration of Lit From Within, the new album from Winnipeg’s the Paperbacks. It’s an extraordinarily ambitious length, like...

Holy fuck! I swear to God, I said those words, out loud, multiple times during my initial listen to Mike Roe’s history of southern gospel music, We All Gonna Face the Rising Sun. Perhaps it speaks...