In 2003 New Bomb Turks vocalist Eric Davidson assembled a compilation for the ever hip Gearhead Records of some of his favorite recent garage-punk tunes. In my mind the record is absolutely essential and a must for anyone looking for a taste of the modern bands in this genre that exist outside the major label […]
I’m sure in some past lapse into irrationality I’ve expressed the opinion that I hate Maximum RNR.
It’s really not their fault either; they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. A few years back I was headed to Toronto to catch a show on the New Bomb Turks’ purported “farewell […]
I try harder than most to do my civic duty and support Canadian content, and when it comes to television that’s a much more difficult pill to swallow than in music. I could run on for a good while talking about great Canadian bands; home grown television less so. Yet when there are actually Canadian […]
Malcolm Bauld’s better known as the singer and guitarist for Montreal three-piece The Frenetics. The Frenetics are one of my favorite voices in the Canadian punk scene right now and present a very mature, very firmly grounded sound. They share a spirit and stylistic qualities with bands like the Constantines, The Weakerthans, FemBots and singers […]
It’s been a long time since we’ve had new material from SNFU. An EP on Alternative Tentacles in 2000 was the most recent, and if you’re looking for a proper full-length, you’ll have to dig up FYULABA from 1996. That’s a huge span of time, musically speaking, but the long running prairie / west coast […]
Listen to the first 30 seconds of The Undertones’ “Family Entertainment” and you’ll get a fairly good idea of the approach The Ends are taking. In that song, Feargal Sharkey never really breaks into his trademark vocal quiver, instead relying on a marble-mouthed fuzz very similar to the style Ends singer Ian takes to dizzying […]
Well this has been in the works for the better part of a year now, so what a relief it is to finally have this news out:
Happy New Year!
In the spirit of new beginnings, we’d like to finally disclose something
that’s been in the works behind the scenes for some time now.
We’ve always run Punknews.org as […]
