Articles by Liz Worth

Be Bad

Vision Correction

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2007

In two years, Halifax, NS’s Be Bad have disseminated their broad strokes of coarse, rash explosions via short-run seven-inches and North Am...

The Sound of Animals Fighting

Tiger & The Duke

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

Tiger & The Duke is a sonic assault riddled with genius translated into auditory fixations and uncontrollable meltdowns. This reissue of th...

Tranzmitors

Tranzmitors

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

The much-anticipated full-length debut from Vancouver’s Tranzmitors is here and as far as albums go, it doesn’t get much better than these...

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Antilove

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

Antilove is a taut, twisting album laced with seedy garage kicks and gasping pop licks. The album starts off with devilish candy-coated dev...

On A Mission...<b>Bad Brains</b> Stops and Starts

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2007

After getting in on the ground floor of hardcore punk, Washington, DC’s Bad Brains have forged a career that has been plagued by stops and...

The Diodes

Toronto ON June 7 to 9

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

The floor at Sneaky Dee&#8217;s threatened to buckle under the weight of the excited crowd that had gathered to welcome back Toronto punk m...

They Shoot Horses Don't They?

Pick Up Sticks

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

The opening track on Pick Up Sticks, "One Last Final Push,” starts with chunky, cartoon-ish plodding that brings to mind struggling ’30s an...

Veil Veil Vanish

Into a New Mausoleum

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

Veil Veil Vanish’s debut EP is a salient discharge of swirling, kinetic atmospheres punctured by deep bass lines and urgent, brusque guitar...