Anniversary
The Pack a.d. Reflect on the "Punk Rock Perspective" of 'Unpersons' 10 Years Later
PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2022
In a career defined by loud, grimy garage albums, the Pack a.d.'s 2011 release Unpersons just might be the loudest and grimiest of the bunc...
The New Pornographers Reflect on the "Baroque Garage Rock" of 'Mass Romantic'
PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2021
"Visualize success, but don't believe your eyes."That chorus lyric from Mass Romantic's "Jackie" pretty much describes the career arc of th...
Dan Mangan Celebrates 10 Years of 'Oh Fortune' and "Breaking Out of the Singer-Songwriter Box"
PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2021
In 2011, Dan Mangan wanted to be more than nice, nice, very nice. His sensitive folk pop tunes had earned him a sizeable following and a de...
'Loveless' at 30: Zoon Reflects on the Influence of My Bloody Valentine's Shoegaze Blueprint
PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2021
When recording Loveless between 1989 and 1991, Kevin Shields and his band My Bloody Valentine famously almost bankrupted their label, Creat...
'Road Apples' at 30: The Moment the Tragically Hip Became CanRock Legends
PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2021
The Tragically Hip's second album Road Apples, named for horse droppings, is anything but. Having recorded 1989's Up to Here in Memphis, th...
Remembering September 24, 1991, the Day Underground Music Hit the Mainstream
PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2021
"Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old." These lyrics that open Nirvana's 1993 swansong, In Utero, may have sounded, to th...
"I Won't Be the Same No More": Handsome Furs' Career-Defining 'Sound Kapital' Turns 10
PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2021
"When I get back home / I won't be the same no more." And he wasn't. When Dan Boeckner sang those lines in the opening bars of Handsome Fu...
'Billy Talent II,' the Crowning Achievement from the Unfairly Maligned Alt-Rockers, Turns 15
PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2021
When Billy Talent achieved CanCon fame in 2003, they had finally found a formula that worked for them. The Mississauga band had toiled away...
