California geek punks Descendents have a lot of history. Drummer Bill Stevenson pounded skins for Black Flag (post-Robo) before founding his own hardcore outfit based out of Hermosa Beach, and their 1982 debut album... continue
It was a big helping of poutine in the West end of Queen St. and then another audacious dish; there was plenty of space between Poutini’s and the Opera House, but plenty of time, too. During that rushed meal my... continue
Climbing the stairs to the guest check-in at The Great Hall on March 24th, there was no way to resist thinking, “From sweaty dive bars and tour poverty to swanky halls with ushers? Henry Rollins, you’ve moved up.”... continue
Birthday Boys - Sweet Young Luck - Part 10
Part 10 of Birthday Boys' 10 part tour doc, Sweet Young Luck. Episode 10 is titled "Into The Night". Follow Birthday Boys on their Canadian tour from... continue
I have never been much for the beat culture. The idea of popping a pill and losing myself with a bunch of sweaty strangers has always left me sour. I’ve always had a soft spot for live bands and beer. I don’t even dig... continue
Bathed in red light, the stage was set with a single but ominous deejay table – perhaps a little too menacing for a Four Tet show, but it left its mark nonetheless. The table itself was almost like something that you’d... continue
By the time the doors were open, I think I was a little more eager than usual for the show to get underway. Two hours prior to that I’d met up with Shad for an interview, and then I was left with time to kill before... continue
I had been on my feet for the greater part of the day’s consciousness, and when I got to Bloor St. around six, that didn’t change much. This is two hours before Lee’s Palace opens its doors and takes in the weekend... continue
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
“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
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
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 @ 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 @ 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
