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Think About Life – Sweet Sixteen

Think About Life – Sweet Sixteen

Think About Life is a Montreal-based band that formed in 2005 as a collaboration between a few friends in an industrial building in a lost corner [...]

Interview: Off With Their Heads
words by Chris Aitkens | photo by Tony Nelson

Interview: Off With Their Heads

“Off With Their Heads might be the best punk band going right now — Epitaph needs them; music needs them!” That was Brett Gurewitz’s explanation [...]

Show Review: Off With Their Heads at Foufounes, Montreal 2/24/10
words and photos by Chris Aitkens

Show Review: Off With Their Heads at Foufounes, Montreal 2/24/10

I’m probably the laziest critic in the world. While most critics can produce a review the week after an event, it took me close to [...]

THE BCASA – Fuck It Up Hard
reviewed by Chris Aitkens

THE BCASA – Fuck It Up Hard

The BCASA represent a big part of the Montreal punk scene, but to every other city, they’re just another band with an unusual long name: The B*ll C*sby Anarchist Society of America (censored after receiving a cease and desist order from Bill Cosby’s lawyers). Well, that’s soon to change…

Basia Bulat – Gold Rush

Basia Bulat – Gold Rush

In the Spring of 2007, Rough Trade Records released the debut album from Basia Bulat. Entitled Oh, My Darling, the album generated a groundswell of [...]

ROLLER GIRLS by Susan Moss
reviewed by Celeste Gallegos

ROLLER GIRLS by Susan Moss

Originally published in Verbicide issue #25 MudScout Media, 112 pages, hardcover, $28.00 As roller derby leagues pop up all over North America, it is clear [...]

Opening Day in Montreal
words by Jackson Ellis

Opening Day in Montreal

Apr 1, 6:35 PM EDT Montreal Opens Labatt Park In Style By ALEXANDER POUTINE Associated Press Writer MONTREAL, QC (AP) — After a six-year delay [...]

PIPE FIENDS compiled by Barry Walsh and Marc Tison
reviewed by Jackson Ellis

PIPE FIENDS compiled by Barry Walsh and Marc Tison

Mudscout Media, 208 pages, 8” x 8” paperback, $25.00 I remember going to Montreal Expos games and visiting the park that surrounds Stade Olympique as [...]

IN SEARCH OF…DIVINE STYLER by Ryan Somers, AKA Fritz Tha Cat
reviewed by Jackson Ellis

IN SEARCH OF…DIVINE STYLER by Ryan Somers, AKA Fritz Tha Cat

Mudscout Media, 168 pages, trade paperback, $14.00 From 1996 to 1999, Ryan Somers — also known as Fritz Tha Cat — self-published eight issues of [...]