Early-2000s Canadian Pop-Punk Explosion Explored in New Book 'In Too Deep'

Featuring interviews with members of Sum 41, Alexisonfire, Simple Plan, Gob, Billy Talent, Silverstein and more

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BY Allie GregoryPublished Nov 7, 2024

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. 

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