May 20,2013
Even knowing he’s notoriously short around journalists, at a recent Toronto tour stop, I ask Wavves leader Nathan Williams about how he’s dealing with his anxieties. He responds by wagging his beer bottle before talking a giant swig. He’s never been one to hide his taste for mind-altering substances, but he’s at his most honest (and, perhaps, arresting) on Afraid of Heights, his fourth LP proper.
May 17,2013
Ghost B.C. will be the first to tell you that they employ an obvious gimmick, but speaking in full garb at the back of the band’s tour bus, the incredibly eloquent and surprisingly candid Nameless Ghoul—one of the Swedish band’s many anonymous members—explained their spiritual and political aspirations and, more impressively, how they factor into a sex toy shaped like their lead singer’s face.
May 15,2013
“I always try to find the word to describe it, but it keeps slipping my mind,” says Savages singer Jehnny Beth, while trying to describe her post-punk band’s blistering forthcoming debut, Silence Yourself. “It’s like sweet, but sour. It’s related to aesthetic, sophisticated roughness. It’s stylized—but raw. There’s a word out there… there’s a classiness to it. It’s—for fuck’s sake!”
May 14,2013
If there’s one thing American bands love singing about, it’s America.
May 8,2013
I’ve never hung out with atmospheric electronic-pop maestro Jamison (no last name because he’s mysterious like that) for more than ten minutes, but I still consider him a friend. We’re both from Abbotsford, BC, the weird, sketchy and strangely alluring manure-covered city outside of Vancouver, and we have a ton of the same friends.
May 7,2013
There are few bands for whom the potentially problematic not-broke-don’t-fix-it cliché could safely apply. Bad Religion’s decades of near-perfect pop-punk
May 6,2013
In the weeks following its release, Pipe Trouble was called many things: Right-wing media called it a tribute to eco-terrorism. Alberta premier Alison Redford called it a “disappointing” use of Ontario public funding. Sun TV pundit Ezra Levant turned it into a regional debate, saying it was “as if the Alberta or British Columbia. government paid for a game called Windmill Bomber—hey, go bomb those windmills in Ontario.” Yeesh.
May 1,2013
Nine years. Nine long, stupid years. From us to D-Sisive’s cowboy hat to you, GO LEAFS GO.
May 1,2013
Juls Generic is no stranger to the punk scene, from her multiple appearances as a Maximum Rockandroll columnist to her
April 30,2013
The Shape of Punk to Come is generally considered to be one of the most influential punk albums of the
