Greys isn’t an aggressive band, even though they sound like it. Well, okay, maybe they’re a bit aggressive - their music is an intense mix…
I’m not sure how relatable this experience is, but during our family’s Sunday morning breakfast ritual I would quite often find my mom poring over…
Mark O’Brien was a virgin until he was 38. He was a poet, journalist and activist; he also had a rare form of polio that…
Edgar’s posters have become the symbol of the No! Downtown Hamilton Casino group, a collection of activists, businesses owners and Hamiltonians that is extensively involved…
Politics and music go way back. In the 1980s Public Enemy challenged the assumption that music should be a form of entertainment and, as writer…
I’m pretty sure I remember Fiona Apple saying in an interview that “if you create something, you should feel like you have nothing left.” This…
First, the context. About three weeks ago I wrote an article about art and Hamilton that argued the development of a neighbourhood does not do…
The Polaris Music Prize is a yearly award given to a Canadian artist for best album, as decided by a group of music journalists and…
You’d have to be a little crazy to open a record store in 2010. And to open that store on Friday the 13th? That’s like…
If you grew up in the 1980s and were gay, there weren’t really any TV shows you could relate to. All in the Family featured the first…