“I wanna be the Steve Albini of dumb party music.  I wanna be totally pretentious about unpretentious shit.  “Man, check out this dumb party band, they’re the most dumb party.”  “Fuck that band, those guys are poseurs, they aren’t truly dumb party.”  Yeah, that’d be sick.” – me, a while back Toronto’s PKEW PKEW PKEW […]

How much analysis does an album called Fuckbird Barnacle demand?  I doubt Super FM would want me to over analyze this.  The album cover is a cartoon style drawing with a naked man with a soft, shitty body (much like mine) staring in a mirror with a dripping crystal formation on it.  I don’t know […]

I generally like to joke about how the UK indie rock scene is a bland pastiche of douchey dance-punk and lame copycat bands that can’t manage to put their own spin on a sound, or even worse, pervert those sounds (every time I think about Fat White Family and how they’ve achieved greater success than […]

This album winning “Album of the Year” over Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly at the Grammy Awards is kinda like NARAS telling black people to go fuck themselves the best way they know how. Not surprised in the slightest though, considering the album sounds like it was made in a board room. (Click here […]

While many discovered Mac Miller during his early mixtape days, my introduction to his music was 2011’s Billboard 200 topping Blue Slide Park.  Blue Slide Park was just short of being a musical abomination, a white suburban frat boy edition of Wiz Khalifa’s Rolling Papers (a poor record on its own merits).  So why would I even […]

Haitian producer Kaytranada’s debut LP 99.9% is one of the most recent projects to come out of this popular wave of pop producer albums featuring loads upon loads of guest vocalists, re-surged into the spotlight by artists like Mark Ronson and Disclosure.  I like the trend.  I think it’s a good thing for radio pop, […]

Hey man, it’s summer!  Let’s rap on a summer album! No Hitter is Petite League’s follow up to their debut last October, Slugger.  Slugger was pretty good, man.  It was a nice, fun, catchy listen, but it sounded a bit like an album by one of many bands that could’ve found themselves in high school […]

This is a tricky record to review, for a multitude of reasons, greatest of all being the inherent socio-political messages.  There is no separating them from the music here.  G.L.O.S.S. are who they are, play who they are, write who they are, Sadie shouts who she is, and every last bit of it is socio-politically […]

So I got this cool little 7″ 4 song multi-artist compilation from It’s Trash! Records the other day (along with some others) exclusively featuring punk bands from Hamilton, ON. On the A-side we have tracks from Flesh Rag, as well as Jimmy and the Jerks, and on the B-side we’ve got Get off the Cop, […]

Are you scum?  Do you like to root around in the garbage for half-eaten cheeseburgers and broken bottles of beer with a few drops left?  Have you ever gotten so wasted that you’ve stripped naked and tried to play yr electric guitar with yr genitals, then you sliced yr dick open so you had to […]

I used to love Animal Collective, guys.  Deeply, passionately, without shame.  In middle school, Strawberry Jam was a damn revelation as to what music could be.  Songs like “Winter Wonderland”, “Fireworks”, and “For Reverend Green” (especially “For Reverend Green”) blew my pubescent mind.  I worshipped Avey Tare like a god.  They weren’t perfect, but they […]

Before AFI really hit the mainstream with their melodramatic, misguided, and sluggish worship of the Cure, they were an insipid and dull mall punk band from California.  However, in between, they experienced one of the few transitional periods that far outstripped what came before and after, All Hallow’s E.P. being the peak of that transition.  For a […]

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I’m not one to be much for the emo sect of pop punk. I know it’s closed minded to almost upfront judge an entire genre of music, but I just don’t find much there that I enjoy. And usually, I’m even less of a fan of “noodling”. Skulking around the dark and terrifying internet, I […]

Panaderia’s one of like a gazillion projects by David Castillo, who, among other things, is probably best known for his Pizza Time project, which is sort of dead and sort of not.  Panaderia is, more or less, the Pizza Time project shifted and slightly altered, and Buena Onda is the first release under the new banner. […]

At 7 tracks and approximately 13 minutes, Berlin, DE is the follow-up to Free Pizza’s great 2014 album Boston, MA (I guess they’re doing a Sufjan Stevens locational thing?), and while both are clearly works by the same band, this set of songs marks an obvious stylistic shift that serves the band well. What we have […]

Sudbury is likely one of the most overlooked locations for music modern day, and Howie Moonlight’s debut mini-album is a prime example of why.  Their music has lingered in my mind and in my music library long before this release through audio rips of their performance videos on YouTube of pop gems such as “Shanghai” […]

So apparently this band formed in February, and recorded this EP in the same month, which tempts me to call bullshit because this short little set of songs, while simple in style, emanate an aura of maturity and confidence nigh unheard of in such an early stage of a band’s life.  Influences seem clear enough, […]