Archive for December, 2006

Org Watch - Lookout Records, White Flag, T.S.O.L

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

We’ve renovating this new house and it looks like it’ll eat up most of my spare time. In lieu of actually adding constructive content to Punknews, here’s a quick, dirty and completely biased sift through the news.

Poor maligned Lookout Records are going to start digitally releasing rare and out of print material from their […]

Canada Then

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

CBC television killed their dinnertime newscast Canada Now so that they can revive local newscasts. While I fear the introduction of local fluff stories and bargain basement regional anchors into the station’s proudly stoic coverage (we call this “Global TV syndrome”), there was an interesting quote on the move from editor-in-chief Tony Burman: “We’re […]

Les Breastfeeders - Les Matins de Grands Soirs

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Now I’m no barometer of the Canadian indie scene, but I suspect my recent discoveries are fairly typical of something happening throughout English Canada. Quebec’s hopping music scene’s been on fire for years now, what with Montreal living out its “new Seattle” tag to the envy of everywhere else, but despite the buzz it’s only […]