Well, it wouldn’t be the Grammys if we didn’t have to spend at least some amount of the following week with the same old aftermath talking about whichever things the Grammys fucked up this time. This year, that’d be the “In Memoriam” section of the ceremony. If you bounce around Twitter you&#...

15 years ago, the great Toronto punk band Fucked Up began an ambitious series of records — entire EPs devoted to the years of the Chinese Zodiac. On those records, Fucked Up have always been at their most adventurous, stretching their arty hardcore out to 20-minute track lengths and pulling in ideas from all over the musical landscape....

It's beautiful out. That's one of the fucked up things. From all available evidence, we've been blessed with a nationwide wave of sunny spring-into-summer weather. At this point, I've seen dozens of videos of police beating and manhandling and pepper-spraying and tear-gassing demonstrators while wispy clouds drift lazily across clear blue skies....

The Tragically Hip were beloved national treasures in their native Canada. They attained that stature long before frontman Gord Downie's death in 2017, but Downie's terminal brain cancer diagnosis inspired many Canucks to express their admiration, sometimes by covering the Hip's music.