Articles by Keith Carman

Shadows Fall / Bison B.C.

Opera House, Toronto, ON March 4

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2010

Being a world-class band isn't about the amount of people you can draw on any given night. Nor is it worrying about who didn't come to the...

Metal's Top Ten Speeding Ticket Songs

PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2010

We all have them: the songs that immediately get your adrenaline pumping and cause you to lose any sense of rationality. Once that riff, dr...

The Slackers Give Us <i>The Great Rocksteady Swindle</i>

PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2010

In keeping with their tradition of an album virtually every 18 months, New York-based reggae/ska/dub/soul/jazz sextet the Slackers have ann...

Police Halt Megadeth Video over Tank Use

PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2010

Time for your weekly - or is it daily at this point? - dose of Megadeth news. This time it's rather amusing. The band have been in the pro...

Coliseum Sign to Temporary Residence, Prep Third Album with Will Oldham and Eight-Year-Old Kid

PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2010

There have been some major changes afoot while we've been waiting for Kentucky-based punk/hardcore outfit Coliseum to follow up their accla...

Igneous Human

Pyroclastic Storms

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2010

Seeing as this quintet are forged from the ashes of Swedish metal brigade Gaphia, Igneous Human don't stray too far from their previous for...

Fuck the Facts

<i>Unnamed EP</i>

PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2010

EXCLUSIVE TRACK OF THE DAY: One of few Canadian bands heralded in the international world of grindcore, Ottawa's Fuck The Facts are so musi...

Fuck the Facts

Unnamed EP

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2010

Assuring that the wild, confrontational menace of last full-length Disgorge Mexico was no fluke, Ottawa, ON's ace discordant quartet Fuck T...