Articles by Sam Sutherland

Jawbreaker

Days of Whine and Poses

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2010

Their influence on contemporary punk, emo, and indie rock can't be overstated, nor can the value of the lesson in major label woes they typ...

Teenanger

Give Me Pink

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

Since early Stooges-worshiping, tape-only releases, Toronto, ON garage dudes and ladies Teenanger have been making some of the best sloppy,...

Fight Amp

Manners And Praise

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

If Coliseum ripped off Fugazi and featured former members of Kyuss, they might sound like the total sonic wrecking ball that is Fight Amp....

Leatherface

The Stormy Petrel

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

It's been six years since these massively influential, highly underrated UK punks released Dog Disco, their seventh full-length studio albu...

It's A King Thing

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PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

Yes, the band and album names are truly stupid. But if you like Superchunk, old (good) Weezer or all the times when the Promise Ring were k...

Garageland: Zeus

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2010

We sit down in the (Juno lined!) Arts & Crafts boardroom to chat with March Exclaim! cover dudes, Zeus. Babies are used as metaphors....

Garageland: Off With Their Heads

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2010

In the middle of a 16 month tour, we pile into a smoky basement with recent Epitaph signees, Off With Their Heads. Then we talk about drink...

Garageland: Leatherface

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2010

On their first-ever tour of Canada, legendary UK punks Leatherface chat with us about the challenges of creating new music twenty years int...