Canadian hardcore heroes Fucked Up just announced that they'll be putting out a new single next month, which features an unreleased track called "Tower On Time" and a cover of the little-known but great 1979 track "High Rise," from the UK band the Trainspotters. Their version of the track replaces the verses with Damian Abraham's…

Once a year or thereabouts, the great Fucked Up release a new 12″ single in their Zodiac series. All those singles feature long, adventurous songs inspired by the years of the Chinese calendar. Their latest is the 20-minute “Year Of The Hare,” and it’s the seventh in the series. The single is out in June, ...

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 […]

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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 [...]