How to survive the sleazy beast
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…
Jeff Nielsen
D.O.A. on mediocrity, punk and the Canadian lumberjack look
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…
Teenage Kicks
“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…
CD Review : Jason and the Scorchers, “Halcyon Times”
“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…
CD Review : Channel 3, “To Whom It May Concern”
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…
CD review : The Paperbacks, “Lit From Within”
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…
CD Review : Mike Roe “We All Gonna Face the Rising Sun”
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…
CD Review – The Danks “Are You Afraid of the Danks”
Moe Sizlack: Seems nobody wants to hang out in a dank pit no more. Carl Carlson: You ain’t thinking of getting rid of the dank,…
CD Review : Civet “Hell Hath No Fury”
Is Civet the greatest female rock group since the Runaways? No. Their official bio calls them, “the hottest all-girl rock n’ roll band (both literally…
CD Review – Two Hours Traffic, “Territory”
Two Hours Traffic new album, Territory, crams 40 years of guitar-pop history into a half hour or so. It’s tight fit but they’ve wedged Beatles…