It seems like a lifetime ago now but I once saw Public Image Ltd. play a show at the old Exhibition Stadium in Toronto.  It was in the summer of 1989 and they were the middle band between The Sugarcubes and New Order, who were headlining. That was normally not something I would have been interested in except I liked PiL somewhat and, as I put it at the time, I wanted to see Johnny Rotten before he died.
Who could have predicted that less than a decade later he would …

It was reminded to me the other day that on April 5 it was 15 years since Kurt Cobain died. That seriously seems like a long time, long enough to re-assess what his legacy and that of Nirvana was and means.
I’ve written about Cobain`s death before, I just don’t remember who for, but if I find the link I’ll update this post because I have no interest in rehashing any of that same ground.
I was just starting out in music journalism then and it was one of the biggest stories …

January 2009

I’m not sure how to start this post. I originally wanted to say that Doc Dart and his iconoclastic punk band, The Crucifux, were one of the more interesting stories in the US hardcore scene in the 1980s. But they were also pretty marginal. Dart’s screechy vocals, although tame by today’s standards, were definitely an acquired taste at the time. A guy I went to high school with kept comparing him to Jello Biafra, and I guess I could see the comparisons, with the, ahem, unusual vocal stylings. But in …

One of Canada’s best punk rock bands, Problem Children, perform “We are the Children” from their 1985 debut LP, The Future of the World is Up to Us. During their time they released three records that were simply head and shoulders above their contemporaries. It’s a shame they weren’t better known.
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