We’ve reached an era where the method that an artist uses to announce an album is almost as much of an art as the music that appears on that album. And when the creaky old major-label system attempts to announce a surprise LP, that can get fucked up. Last week, we saw the bungled early […]

The Leeds event takes place on May 25

As a way to make some sort of artistic sense out of the year we just had, the Canadian newspaper The Globe And Mail recently teamed up with the Canadian Opera Company and the indie label Arts & Crafts to share a six-song compilation called Broadsheet Music: A Year In Review. The compilation features Canadian [...]

The event will take place on September 29

“The Art Of Patrons” is one of many songs on Fucked Up’s fantastic Glass Boys that deals with the ideological whiplash of staying punk while growing old and getting famous. As explained in Tom’s great Fucked Up profile, one of the complicating factors rattling around Damian Abraham’s consciousnes...