>Iggy & The Stooges / The Raveonettes / Wavves / Surfer Blood / DD/MM/YYYY / The Soft Pack / Mini Mansions / De Staat / Queen Kwong / Burning Boyz - "My Day At Dundas Square NXNE 2010"

I got to Yonge & Dundas Square just before noon, and there were some round tables and patio chairs set up, so I cracked open a NXNE copy of NOW and got right to the Q&A with Iggy Pop. Still overcast and gloomy, around... continue

>Misfits - "An Anti-Nativity"

“Have fun at Black Flag.” This is what one of two guys said tongue in cheek, getting off the GO bus just before the Brampton station, where I make the transfer to get to Union. That’s after I ask if he and the friend... continue

>Alexisonfire - "I Had A Cold, Yet Great Day On Set Of 'The Northern'."

When I was told I was going to be spending the day on a hill in Etobicoke, ON, for the new Alexisonfire video, the northern, I must admit I was a bit skeptical. A) it's a hill and B) its early December and absolutely... continue

>The Verge Music Awards 2009 - " A Roar Of Applause And Cheerful Banter"

I am supposed to be in class. Politics class usually brings an array of interesting debates and today we are comparing the left and right. However, I find myself standing off balance on a city bus, bumping into the... continue

>$100 / Women / Chad Vangaalen - "CMW 2009"

$100 / Women / Chad Vangaalen @ Horseshoe Tavern, March 12th 2009 in Toronto, Ontario. 9 Cold FX, 3 Echinacea, 2 Vitamin C and 3 Vitamin D pills – this has become my morning routine for the past week. Everyone... continue

>The Virgins - "Destructive Quality They Induce"

The Virgins @ El-Mocambo, February 5th 2009 in Toronto, Ontario. I have been on the phone for hours and am starting to feel the shame of a pedophile. I try to explain my situation but it still comes off creepy.... continue

>Ten Second Epic - "The Making Of "Welcome to Wherever You Are""

It’s quite cold and there is snow and rain falling all around us but that is all secondary because today is a special day. Today there is a video to be shot. We’re at a house in North Vancouver hanging with a bunch... continue

>Young Galaxy - "Young Galaxy Was Wonderful"

For some reason, I felt skeptical about the Young Galaxy show.  I hadn't been out in a while.  Especially not to the Horseshoe. I couldn't tell you who opened.  A band that left little to be remembered.  Does a... continue

>SCENE Fest 2007 - "The Hometown Everyone Wishes They Had"

Everybody has their own hometown and no matter how proud you are of it no one will ever be able to understand your hometown like you do and appreciate it on the same level. You see, I grew up in Barrie, Ontario and now... continue

>Daggermouth - "A Book About SEX"

Remember the first time you found out what sex was? Gah! I remember being so grossed out. I was traumatized for weeks. My mom told me one day before bed and I couldn't sleep all night. Then one day while flipping... continue

>Cat Power - "Let Your Mind Slip Out Of Your Skin"

Someone once told me the only person you can trust is yourself. But can you really even trust you? I mean, I can lie to myself better than I can lie to anyone else. I can believe my lies so much that I forget they are... continue

>Cursive - "One Man’s Problems Are Another’s Entertainment"

It’s interesting. What this world has become. When one man’s problems are another’s entertainment. Something to laugh at. Something to mock. It really isn’t very logical, yet they call it human nature. When one man... continue

>Patrick Wolf - "The Magic Position"

About 40 people waited up to three hours outside the El Mocambo. When we got inside and realized the venue was less than half full, we hardly thought the time and aching muscles were wasted; at least now, we made it.... continue

>Uncut - "Upside Down"

Uncut at Sneaky Dees, Toronto April 13th/07 | Photo: Julie Michaud Imagine living upside down. Your hair constantly flowing over your ears in a vertical position. Swaying and swooshing to the music. Your... continue

>Explosions In The Sky - "Sometimes Saying Nothing is Better Than Speaking At All"

Explosions In The Sky with Eluvium at the Opera House March 25th, 2007 Toronto, Ontario | Photo: Michael le Riche Sometimes saying nothing is better than speaking at all. There is a level of consciousness that... continue

>Makeshift Memory, Eight Eleven, Rockets!, and Gene Wilder - "Well Who Says This is All We Got?"

Show Article : October 27th at the Lions Hall in Innisfil With: Makeshift Memory, Eight Eleven, Rockets!, Gene Wilder, and more By: Sari Delmar Photo: Sari Delmar 4:00 Don’t forget your wallet. We’re... continue

>Alexisonfire - "After Six Months Off..."

After six months off Alexisonfire played their first show at The Mod Club Theater. Coming into a venue half the size of what they normally play you could tell that they were excited. Opening with blistering drumming at... continue

>City And Colour - "So I Stood There and Soaked It In"

Have you ever felt completely numb? I'm talking paralyzed shit. Maybe it's just a phase but when that something triggers inside of you it's nearly impossible to kick the shit out of it and move on. If there is one... continue

>The Beautiful Unknown - "Blown Away"

Much like the NXNE festival, I have a love/hate relationship with CMW which breaks down as simply as I love them because they are a yearly in-your-face reminder of just how much talent Canada produces that doesn't... continue

>Alkaline Trio - "Those Many Enchanted Audiences"

"I'm sorry, but I have to go to the dentist now." I told my supervisor this as I started getting ready to leave. I always use this excuse on the days when I go to concerts. I have been working for eight hours or more... continue

>1st Annual Photo Issue Launch Party - "How we do..."

Now I'm sure some of you might be thinking that there's a slight conflict of interest in me reviewing the truth.explosion.magazine party, seeing as how I work for TE... that perhaps I may be slightly biased and lacking... continue

>The Sadies - "A Hand Clapping, Foot Stomping Good Time"

My weekends have been filled with shows since I moved to Toronto. As a matter of fact, sometimes my weekdays are too. Show after wicked show, weekend after tiresome weekend, my roommate and I go to probably every show... continue

>SPORT PIG: k-os and JUSTIN PEROFF (BSS) - "Don't Be Fooled By A Big Butt And A Smile"

Wrapped up tight in a comforter with my jeans and socks still on, my stomach doing back flips and the taste of death in my mouth. Questions flooding my head. Where am I? How did I get here? When??? What is this sneaking... continue

>Skate 4 Cancer - "A Little Rock and a Lot of Rob"

After a two hundred dollar sex offer, an attempt to be sold crack, an invite to a homeless man's happy hour and a well deserved drink- I finally made it to the MOD club, where the walls are clean, the lights are dim,... continue

>Death Cab for Cutie - "Expectations Are A Bitch"

It's something that you spend years waiting for. You are so positive that everything about this one moment will change your life. You spent months, maybe even years, sitting in your room, going over it all in your head.... continue

>These Arms Are Snakes - "Dignity Theft"

When I was a senior in high school I wrote a short story called "Dignity Theft" which was less of a story and more of an autobiographical dirge about all of the ways that teenage life makes you feel smaller, less... continue

>Q And Not U - "Any Band's Last Show"

The disappointment of going to see any band's last show is two-fold because there is, of course, the obvious bitter sweetness of the band never playing again...and then there's the second, later and perhaps more... continue

>Sleater-Kinney / Dead Meadow - "Ginger Pop and Chick Rock: How Sleater-Kinney Soothed My Soul"

When I was 18 and spent my first full summer living with my grandparents in Vermont, I had only a few friends, and they were acquaintances really. I didn't feel like they knew me at all, or I them. To make up for this... continue

>NXNE - "Fear and Loathing at NXNE"

"Where did all the junkies go?" I was wondering this as I approached the Gladstone Hotel. I'd heard from friends that before the renovations, the Gladstone was a bit of a shooting gallery. Not so anymore by the looks... continue

>Norma Jean - "Welcome to Their World"

My friend Brando called me up at around five, his first words being "Are you ready?" to which I replied "Does that sound like a valid question to you?" I mean seriously. I think the last time I was this floored by a... continue

>Death From Above 1979 - "Death From Above 1979"

They went into Black History Month while I was standing in the can remembering this really bad joke I heard when I was 18 or 19. The joke was about how you don't buy beer, you rent it; I laughed because I was in the... continue

>Sparta - "Breaking the Broken: A Diatribe in Two"

Strange- I was watching TV last night, feeling horrible, feeling like everything was fucked up and as I was changing channels Chasing Amy was on TV. I feel like the way you threw all of that on me was similar to the... continue

>Bored With The USA - "Bored With The USA"

Have you ever looked back on your life and wondered how you got from here to there? How you got from watching an Alexisonfire video on television to touring with them for a month? No? Well, I have. Recently I've been... continue

>vanA primer - "vanA primer - A Night of Firsts..."

Now just from reading the title of this show article, you might be getting an uneasy feeling. You may be remembering the last first date you went on or perhaps an unmentionable blind date with your new cyber-crush from... continue

>Underground Operations Tour: Protest The Hero - "Cock The Vote"

It has been months since I last attended a show at the local Oshawa hotspot 'The Dungeon'. I have been going to the Dungeon since I was 14 (I had my first kiss onstage at a Trigger Happy concert when I was 15. Her name... continue

>Braid - "Braid Class Reunion"

Anyone grow up in a small-town? Well I did, and then I moved somewhere bigger, somewhere more populated. I use to live in a town called Orangeville until I was 18, once I finished high school I moved to... continue

>The Darkness - "Chicks "...that doesn't give a fuck"."

It has taken me a while to put something down on paper about The Darkness' sold out show here in Toronto. Mostly because of two negatives that happened that night which totally effected how I felt after the concert. The... continue

>Death Cab for Cutie - "8 Days a Week"

What a crazy week it has been. I have done crazier stupid fun things this week, than I did all summer. Actually that is not true. From Tuesday to Saturday night I partied and drank my face off every night, and in the... continue