Articles by Greg Pratt

Mike Watt Working on Third Punk Opera
PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2010
 There are never enough punk operas in the world. Well, maybe there are, but not if you're Mike Watt. The ex-Minutemen/fIREHOSE/Stoo...
Free Jazz Great Bill Dixon Dies at 84
PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2010
 American free jazz/avant-garde trumpeter Bill Dixon died last night (June 15) in his sleep. He was 84. Along with the trumpet, Dixo...
CBC Radio's Grant Lawrence to Release First Book
PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2010
 Grant Lawrence has built a name for himself in Canadian music history. Between his long-running broadcasting stint over at CBC Radio...
Update: Brutal Knights' Nick Flanagan Talks Bone-Breaking Crowd-Surfing Accident
PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2010
When Brutal Knights vocalist Nick Flanagan recently suffered an intense crowd-surfing injury at a show in Montreal on Saturday (June 5), he...
Listen to Against Me!'s <i>White Crosses</i> Now on Exclaim.ca
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010
 Floridian punkers Against Me! are constantly changing, and their new album, White Crosses continues the band's love of evolution. Th...
Mississauga, ON's Rock the Coliseum Fest Ropes in the Junction, Dinosaur Bones, Metz
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010
 Looking for a summer music festival that's a bit more intense than the usual fun-in-the-sun fare? Well, head out to Mississauga, ON...
Kingdom of Sorrow
Behind the Blackest Tears
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010
Kingdom of Sorrow's 2008 debut CD was a letdown. Considering the parts (Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta and Crowbar's Kirk Windstein), that shit sh...
Wormrot
Abuse
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010
It's no secret that Earache Records isn't the label it once was. So, it's with a been-building-for-a-decade sigh of relief that they put ou...