As you might know,  the second album (following his critically acclaimed Seek Magic) from the immensely talented Dayve Hawk’s Memory Tapes project, Player Piano, was released earlier this month and he has embarked on a tour around the US and Canada to promote it, making a stop in Toronto in a couple weeks. Thanks to […]

She was the girl everyone loved to hate on, but I loved her mostly because she didn’t give a fuck what anyone else thought of her. Sure, her far too early death didn’t come as a shock to anyone, but the constant talk of the “27 Club” seems so incredibly crass. Russell Brand wrote a […]

Last Saturday was a night I had been waiting for, for what felt like forever. I’ve been a little bit obsessed with the music of Teenage Kicks since I first heard Rational Anthems (which they informed me references the documentary on the making of the incredible film Apocalypse Now – Hearts of Darkness – more than […]

Well basically I just started out to lead [an interview] with the most insulting question I could think of. Because it seemed to me that the whole thing of interviewing as far as rock stars and that was just such a suck-up. It was groveling obeisance to people who weren’t that special, really. It’s just […]

Thursday night I went to The Hideout to check out a band very new to the Toronto scene, Attagirl. I caught them once before at Clinton’s last month, rounding out the same line up they played with for this show (Poor Young Things and Salty Radio). When I first heard them at Clinton’s having no […]