Punk Rock Archives - A Journal of Musical Things

RIP Mr. Chi Pig

The above image is from Ken Chinn’s AKA Mr. Chi Pig’s last-ever interview with BeatRoute Magazine, and pretty much says

Micah Schnabel is an optimist. Fiercely. He believes that the world can be a beautiful, loving place. We just have

Back in May 2018, I led a great group of people to London for a tour of the city’s rock

Ah, bollocks – Pete Shelley is gone. An apparent heart attack at only 63 years old. If you were to

The rainbow flag of gay pride was first flown in San Francisco on this day in 1978. And as for

Thirty-two years ago today there was a massive tornado outbreak that hit areas around Barrie, Ontario. It was bad. As

Before CanCon required a certain amount of Canadian music be played on the airways, punk and alt rock musicians did

If you’re into 90s/2000s punk revival, you’ve probably heard something that’s come out of Fat Wreck Chords. The influential California

I just missed the original punk rock explosion of the 1970s, so my experience with what actually happened is somewhat

I don’t have kids but if I did, I’d spend an awful lot of time teaching them about music. Why

For the casual observer, punk seemed to explode everywhere at once in about 1977. In the days before the Internet,

Dave Krikst in Conversation with TBP Podcast Ep 002 July 29, 2020
Dave Krikst (aka My Man D) is the creative mind behind many of the most memorable shareable off the court or ice moments in Canadian sports over the last 20 years. Throughout his career, starting early on with theScore television network and Rogers Media’s’ FAN 590, and then with Bell Media’s TSN, Dave has established […]
Mark Silver
Launch Day – The Backstage Project Podcast July 23, 2020
Welcome to the launch of The Backstage Project Podcast! I’m Mark Silver, and I’ll be your guide as we weave our way through the history, here and now, and future of the Canadian sports and entertainment landscape. The Backstage Project Podcast takes you on a journey into the sports and entertainment world. We focus on […]
Mark Silver
Rick Chisholm in Conversation with TBP Podcast Ep 001 July 11, 2020
In our premiere episode we are blessed to sit down with former Vice President of Programming and Production at TSN and Executive VP Broadcasting for Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, Rick Chisholm. We chat with Rick about the formation of TSN, the Vancouver and London Olympics and much much more. Have a listen. The post Rick […]
Mark Silver