Random music news for Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Cats + Arnold = This perfectly stupid demonstration of technology. Music news for July 25, 2023 is nowhere near as dumb. More music news? Look here. BONUS: Someone has AI-ified a video for
Read MoreCats + Arnold = This perfectly stupid demonstration of technology. Music news for July 25, 2023 is nowhere near as dumb. More music news? Look here. BONUS: Someone has AI-ified a video for
Read MoreWhen Joe Strummer died on December 22, 2002, no one could believe it. First of all, the guy was only 50. Second, here was someone who ran marathons. Third, he’d been a strict
Read MoreWe’ve all heard the stories about where punk came from. Here’s the precis: The New York Dolls and a few other bands started playing gigs in a crappy area of New York City
Read MoreIf you’ve been keeping up with world weirdness, you may have heard the recent theory that Mark David Chapman did not assassinate John Lennon. Just as with JFK in 1963, Lennon was shot
Read MoreI was out ridin’ my skateboard the other day in a big parking lot with a sign that says “ABSOLUTELY NO SKATEBOARDING.” But I was just passing through because there’s a place for
Read MoreThe equinox. About bloody time. It’s all a build-up to summer from here, starting with some music news for March 21, 2023. More music news? Check here. BONUS: No. Just…no.
Read MoreOne of the things that makes rock great is the energy and power that comes with the music. And depending on where you go, that energy can vary from place to place. If
Read More[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] The Beatles played Toronto three times (1964, 1965, and 1966), all at Maple Leaf Gardens. Demand for tickets was huge and the band was on
Read MoreHanoi is a pretty grey city. I’ve been there and can definitively say that it retains much of the character of its bland communist roots. That’s why a band like CÚT LỘN is
Read MoreGrab the safety pins and the snarled lips, the West Queen West Punk Fest is running rampant Saturday night. The Forgotten Rebels will headline the show at the newly renovated Parkdale Hall for
Read MoreHere is the final chapter in the story of how the word “punk” came to describe a certain type of music. In January 1976—just as The Ramones were gathering momentum and heading towards
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