Articles by Sam Sutherland

Bionic

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

Blasting away with as many Southern-inspired riffs as any other band playing this weekend, Montreal’s Bionic kicked out some impressive, hu...

Discord of a Forgotten Sketch

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

They were drunk! They were sloppy! They were great! This Montreal-based quartet blazed through a set of start/stop hardcore that owes as mu...

Sixtoo with Hadji Bakara

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

Performing a set of entirely new material, this set of hook-filled electronic music was only brought down by Sixtoo’s rapping, which was sp...

Tall Firs

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2007

Performing a set that mostly consisted of bland-sounding renditions of what could have been discarded Sonic Youth b-sides, this band were n...

Ad Astera Per Aspera

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2007

Fronted by a pudgy Frank Black look-a-like with a thin John Waters moustache, this band had their visuals down pat. Thankfully, their uniqu...

Hot Cross

Risk Revival

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2007

While losing a founding member, guitarist and songwriter might cause some trouble in the tepid waters inhabited by many hardcore bands, Hot...

Only Crime

Virulence

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2007

Punk rock super-groups unite! Comprised of current and former members of a grocery list of bands that includes Good Riddance, Bane, Converg...

The Agency

Turn

PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2007

This record has a lot stacked against it, or in its favour, depending on your point of view. Once home to cry-baby extraordinaire Chris Car...