When the Toronto hardcore punk band Fucked Up took home the 2009 Polaris Music Prize in September, they announced that the $20,000 award would be used to fund a charity release for missing and murdered indigenous women.  This past week, the idea was realized in the form of a remake of the 80’s Christmas classic [...]

Another great song up today, this time from the Montreal indie-rock singer/songwriter/band-of-the-same-name Patrick Watson.  The Great Escape can be found on Watson’s 2nd full-length album Close to Paradise, released in September of 2006.  The album would go on to be named the best Canadian independent album of 2007 by the Polaris Music Prize, edging out an [...]

A lot has been written about the Toronto hardcore-punk band Fucked Up since the release of their sophomore full-length album The Chemistry of Common Life last year.  The album has been labelled, by some, as a hardcore album that is too indie-rock to please the distinct tastes of the hardcore crowd, and by others as an indie-rock [...]

Congratulations to the Toronto, Ontario hardcore punk band Fucked Up, whose album The Chemistry of Common Life took home the 4th installment of the Polaris Prize last night.  As promised, here are my thoughts on the show last night; In point form of course, as proper sentence transitions are for suckers.

Whoever decided to have all [...]