Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

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  Homewrecker

  Association Récréative de Gatineau (ARG), Gatineau QC, September 6

  PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2015

  In what might have been one of the most inadvertently punk speeches of the weekend, a gentleman working the venue prefaced Homewrecker's se...

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  No Warning

  Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 5

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2015

  The last time No Warning played Canada was a decade ago, in Quebec with Sum 41 and Yellowcard — "the pop punk band with the violin,"...

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  Expire

  Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 5

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2015

  Expire came up through the hardcore scene — actually, the last time they played Heart Fest was on their rise — and expanded bey...

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  Iron Golem

  Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 5

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2015

  You know you're in for something special when the pit explodes before the music even starts, and so it was when Ottawa's Iron Golem announc...

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  Badlands

  Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 4

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2015

  Prodigal son Evan MacIsaac returned from Calgary with "Ottawa Hardcore" emblazoned on his back. Yes, he was wearing his own band's shirt, b...

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  Cruel Hand

  Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 4

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2015

  "We got strip-searched at the border. We're Cruel Hand. Let's go," was the first utterance of this Portland, Maine band's set. Sure, the si...

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  Harm's Way

  Centre Communautaire Portugais les Amis Unis, Gatineau QC, September 4

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2015

  Hours after a 60-minute break for a church service to happen upstairs at the venue, Chicago punishers Harm's Way took the stage. It was an...

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  Axis

  Show Your Greed

  PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2015

  It's been a good couple of years for metalcore. After Code Orange pushed the floodgates open with 2014's I Am King, excellent and diverse r...