If you propose the question of which is better in punk rock, boundless innovation or playing an established style extremely well, I’ll choose the latter any day. So while Ottawa’s Million Dollar Marxists haven’t set out to blaze new musical trails, their commitment to writing high-impact, bullshit free rock’n’roll should be celebrated.
Give It A […]
The sophomore record from Brazilian four piece The Invisibles is one of those releases that at the right time and place would have made quite the splash. It’s not too hard to envision songs like “Hello” or “The Satellite Song” as huge pop radio hits in the late 90s when Blink 182 broke with comparable […]
The River City Rebels have turned a corner here, but the direction they’re headed in will likely polarize their fan base.
Personally I’ve always been a bit ambivalent to the band. Sure, they’re a mainstay touring band and their commitment to the road is commendable, but the band’s rehashed `77-anthems simply didn’t stand up as […]
Bob: “Hope Rob don’t say balls nasty.”
Rob: “Balls nasty!”
Holy shit, that took chutzpah. Alex don’t shiv.
We’ve got our priorities all mixed up.
Bomp Records founder Greg Shaw passed away this past Tuesday, October 19th from heart failure at the age of 55. The label he build released a wonderfully eloquent press release that stated:
Greg’s lifelong devotion to discovering, raving about and releasing authentic -albeit obscure- rock & roll, and promoting rock […]
The fact that Outtakes For The Outcast sounds like such a solid, singular piece of work says one of two things: either Sick Of It All’s maintained a consistent level of quality over the years, even on their b-sides, or Sick Of It All really hasn’t shifted out of the same gear in their entire […]
This needs no introduction as you know the rules of the game by this point. Members of The Swingin’ Utters, NOFX, Foo Fighters and Lagwagon don their finest attire, drink a little too much and crank out skate-punk covers of just about everything. It’s fun and silly and doesn’t have much replay value, but it’s […]
So Paul McCartney likes the Sex Pistols. Weird, but whatever. 10 points go to Macca. Anyways…
I hit up two shows in the past months that were among the highlights of my year. The earlier show being the FemBots, Constantines and The Weakerthans in Guelph. It was actually in the basement of my University centre, which […]
Eight years is an eternity in rock ‘n’ roll. Think of all that’s happened in punk music since 1996 and it’s astonishing. That was the date that influential and celebrated west coast punk act Social Distortion released their last proper studio album. 1996. A September in fact. In 1996 we were a few years after […]
I feel a bit sorry for J Church, for upon their emergence from a lengthy hiatus they unleashed a very similar monster to the one from that other prolific 90s pop-punk act, albeit to far less attention. I’m talking the Rock Opera, which Lance Hahn and company deliver in fine form on the 15-minute multiple-movement […]
