With nostalgia festivals like When We Were Young and Sick New World reaching Mecca status among aging alt millennials, one thing has become starkly clear upon peering at their lineups: pop-punk still fucking rules. For its part, Canada was undeniably teeming with talent in the early aughts, and a new book seeks to explore the history of that phenomenon.
The aptly titled In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World arrives June 3, 2025, via House of Anansi Press, and was written by Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel (who, full disclosure, are a former Exclaim! editor and current contributor, respectively). Its nine chapters are said to recount "how Canada became the improbable birthplace of a new age of punk icons," one icon at a time.
Spanning pop-punk CanCon starting in the '90s and continuing into the 2000s, the book features original interviews with a laundry list of that era's heavy hitters: Tom Thacker of Gob; Steve Jocz and Jason "Cone" McCaslin of Sum 41; Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau of Simple Plan; Ben Kowalewicz, Ian D'Sa, Jonathan Gallant and Aaron Solowoniuk of Billy Talent; Shane Told and Paul Koehler of Silverstein; Dallas Green, George Pettit, Wade MacNeil, Chris Steele and Jordan Hastings of Alexisonfire; Fefe Dobson; and Josh Ramsay, Matt Webb and Ian Casselman of Marianas Trench.
Today, Feibel and Bobkin have revealed the book cover, which you can see below. Pre-order In Too Deep here, and find it through your local bookseller soon.
