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Best of 2012: I thought you were worth it
I don’t care who you are, nonsense gets you nowhere in my book. Fooling around is just unnecessary in a world that is full of crazed egos and general mishigas. Possibly the biggest thing Brooklyn’s...
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Best of 2012: We know something’s died
This year’s release from Hostage Calm is one of the boldest, most audacious records of 2012, hands-down. The Philadelphia pop-rock band with a political bent not only sought to continue broadening its...
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The Best Albums of 2012
So this took forever! I swear, I’m not entirely a procrastinator. Just mostly. I started working on this list back in November, before my daughter was born. Obviously it’s taken some time to put the...
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Show me your rottweiller smile
While we typically celebrate albums on this site there are times when you just can’t deny the power of a single song. That goes double when a song manages to precariously balance utter chaos,...
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All I know is that I don’t know nothing
Normally the reviews on this site get all super-wordy about things that I know. Today I want to talk about a band and release that I know literally nothing about. The Jump Off are apparently from...
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You’re my favourite two
There is no day quite as sweet as the day a new Drag The River album comes out. Drag The River has always been a band with a diverse sound; records like It’s Crazy and You Can’t Live This Way literally...
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Fuck all the old boring shits we’ve become
It’s been a long time since I wrote about a punk record. You could argue the Hop Along debut is pretty punk rock, or maybe Hostage Calm—although it’s pretty hard to suggest they’re anything but pure...
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I don’t ever want to talk that way again
The music industry, like we human beings, is a sucker for a good story. I suppose that’s why there’s been a pretty impressive furor over Against Me!’s latest record, even though it’s only their fourth...
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Old bones will break
Call it the shock of the year: The Flatliners did not win the Juno this year for best metal/hard rock album. When they say it’s an honour just to be nominated that’s probably only somewhat true; it’s...
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I bet you’d be miserable, just like me
If it hasn’t already been banished to the netherworld, the new album from Tiny Empires should effectively blow up the ghost of O Pioneers!!! and free Eric Solomon from its shackles. Long-time readers...
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I’m building it up
The Smalls perform at Sonic Boom Festival in Edmonton. A couple of weeks ago I got to experience a little piece of Canadian music history. But man, it was one of the weirdest musical experiences of my...
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