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Working across the pond to unite Nickelback with the sea shanty trend

January 27, 2021January 26, 2021 Amber Healy 0 Comments

Yo-ho-ho and a bathtub you can play baseball in: Nickelback is one of the latest bands picking up vessels of booze and rocking back and forth in sea shanty form. The trend of

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Origin Stories – Carole Pope on Rough Trade’s “High School Confidential”

January 18, 2018January 16, 2018 Juliette Jagger 0 Comments

By: Juliette Jagger (@juliettejagger) In Toronto during the early 1980s, Rough Trade was already a local cult legend. With fiercely audacious Carole Pope at its helm, the group’s racy live show, which combined