Articles by Sam Sutherland

Jay Reatard

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2008

Jay Reatard is a really nice guy. Just a genuinely good dude. His relationship with Toronto has become oddly legendary (punching a guy at t...

Dillinger Four

PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2008

D4 haven’t been to Canada in an insanely long time. They said it was eight years. I don’t know if that’s true but holy shit it was rad to h...

High Dials

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2008

The High Dials are a band from Montreal. They’re good, so Fred Perry decided to give them some free stuff. Stuff like pants. We biked down...

Monikers

Wake Up

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2008

If you think life doesn’t get much better than 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, you will love the shit out of Monikers. Fronted by Ryan Seagrist, e...

Brights

Heartbreakers

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2008

It’s always refreshing when a band buck a current trend they could pretty easily latch onto. Ottawa’s Brights write powerful, catchy pop pu...

Cheap Girls

Find Me a Drink Home

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2008

With staggered releases on a variety of formats, Find Me a Drink Home is the kind of record that, given some time, should deservedly permea...

Jumpercable

EP

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2008

These Jersey boys are making some damn good ’90s hardcore and while it would be easy to compare them to modern(ish) practitioners like Kid...

The Tensions of Fucked Up

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2008

I am rubbing the glass-shard-filled head of a 300-pound guy named Pink Eyes. Damian Abraham, vocalist for the hipster-punk-baiting Fucked U...