When Tom talked to Fucked Up about the making of their upcoming album, the band’s frontman, Damian Abraham, said his lyrical themes this time around were personal rather than character-driven. Abraham was wrestling with his career, his age, his status: “It’s about being in a ’subversive’ young-pe...

The drummer recalls missing out at the awards ceremony in 1989    

As a tribute to the Toronto concert film The Last Pogo, which captured many of the city’s first-wave punks playing the Horseshoe Tavern on 12/1/78, last month Fucked Up performed a set of covers from that legendary show at the same venue, just in time for its 35th anniversary. They did songs by the Secrets, [...]

"There's a lot of fucked up travesty in the world" the hitmaker says    

PUP, the excellent Canadian punk band (and one of our 40 favorite new bands of the year) had a bit of a surprise for their audience last week at the Halifax Pop Explosion Festival, when they started covering Fucked Up’s “Queen Of Hearts,” from their last album David Comes To Life (our #4 album of [...]