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  • Toronto is Doomed? Not anytime soon!

    Last weekend, I was in Ottawa for the All That Is Heavy II doomfest, a six-band shindig featuring Blood Ceremony, Iron Man and Revelation, to name a few. This was the second notable doom-metal festival in Canada over the past few years, after Montreal is Doomed in December 2010, which happened to be Pagan Altar’s…

  • Steve Earles’ Book Reviews – April/May 2012 edition

    Steve Earles’ Book Reviews – April/May 2012 edition

    Another edition of thought-provoking book reviews from our Irish based correspondent Steve Earles. Please enjoy!

  • Ginger Baker’s a crazy guy. Great drummer, but a crazy guy…

    If the Bobby Liebling doc Last Days Here was a testament to a man hitting rock bottom due to drugs, once could say that Jay Bulger’s new doc, Beware of Mr. Baker, shows the heights one can ascend to while totally whacked out on smack. But unlike Liebling, who got by with a little help…

  • New venue, same Acid Mothers Temple…

    For the past four or five years, I’ve counted on Japanese spaced-out psych merchants Acid Mothers Temple coming through town in April. They always seem to take a trip over here right when spring starts to bloom. Well okay, so spring was a little late this year. Also of note: this gig wasn’t at the…

  • Thérèse Lanz of Mares of Thrace: The Hellbound Audio interview

    Thérèse Lanz of Mares of Thrace: The Hellbound Audio interview

    I had the opportunity to chat with Thérèse Lanz about Mexican food, video games, being interviewed, stupid questions she is asked, Chicago (and what to eat late night), U.S. Politics and a little bit about music a few weeks prior to the release of The Pilgrimage (Sonic Unyon Metal) and the cross Canada tour that…

  • Girls gone wild…to Meshuggah!

    Good music should move you on some level. These girls are dancing to Meshuggah. No further description is necessary.

  • Finally, a way to combine football and heavy rock without a single note of “Don’t Stop Believing!”

    As a die-hard sports fan, I’m often disappointed by the musical selection at sporting events. For every time that a stadium DJ might play “Run to the Hills” or “Hit the Lights,” there are at least a couple hundred renditions of “Don’t Stop Believing,” “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” “Blitzkrieg Bop” and whatever Nickelback’s latest…

  • Jay H. Gorania’s SXSW 2012 – Part 2

    Jay H. Gorania’s SXSW 2012 – Part 2

    By Jay H. Gorania Friday, March 16 It seems likely only in some perverse, alternate universe that a former member of Today is the Day would be in a band with a member of Fall Out Boy, but it’s true. It’s Milwaukee’s Enabler. If it wasn’t for the damn crowds and time consuming travel during…

  • Bobby Liebling is NOT on drugs.

    Although he came off as a coked-out space cadet on the two occasions I’ve seen him perform, and I’ve read many an interview where he clearly appears to be off his rocker, I can safely say that Bobby Liebling is not on drugs. Because I’ve seen him on drugs, in the Last Days Here documentary,…

  • Jay H. Gorania’s SXSW 2012 – Part 1

    Jay H. Gorania’s SXSW 2012 – Part 1

    1808, on the “other side” of the highway, where a crack dealer is literally in sight, the ghetto neighborhood was a fitting home for br00tal music.