Articles by Sam Sutherland

All Your Ears Can Hear

History

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

In a move that should be considered mandatory for every music community, a bunch of punks from Victoria, BC have put together a comprehensi...

Anti-Matter Matters

Anthology

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

Between 1993 and 1998, Norman Brannon (then known as Norm Arenas) conducted interviews with post-punk and hardcore’s most interesting figur...

What the Fuck?

Curse Word Band Names Challenge the Music Industry

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

"We got an e-mail this morning from Coachella saying they won’t book our band because of our name,” says an exasperated Brian Borcherdt, wh...

American Steel

Destroy Their Future

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

Since quasi-disbanding in 2002 (only to become the brutally shitty Communiqué), American Steel have left a mighty mark on a few of punk’s b...

Black Cross

Severance Pays

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

It’s been four year since we last properly heard from Louisville, KY’s Black Cross. Formerly known as Black Widows, the band formed followi...

The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2007

Since releasing the spastic blast of noise that was the band’s self-titled debut EP, the Discord of a Forgotten Sketch have gotten weird. T...

The Locust

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2007

The Locust are nothing if not brutally uncompromising. A constant aural assault of blast beats, distorted synths, confusing time signatures...

The Weakerthans

Reunion Tour

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2007

John K. Samson has made a career out of writing excruciatingly detailed accounts of life’s tiniest moments. While the band’s last full-leng...