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Ripped Jeans and Rat Pedals: Sloan's Jay Ferguson on the rawness of B-Sides Win
December 7, 2020
Photo by Alison Dyer BY GREGORY ADAMS The Sloan archive is sprawling, impressively so. Credit that to nearly 30 years of activity and four unique songwriting...
Winter synths and holidays from a distance: Jody Glenham on her Melt
December 1, 2020
Photo by Tom Belding (IG) Some folks start cranking their wintertime playlist the second they starting taking down their Halloween decorations. Others may...
Gut Feeling Podcast #2 - Jesse Gander (Rain City Recorders, d.b.s.)
November 25, 2020
We’ve got another Gut Feeling podcast interview on deck this week, and it’s a doozy! The talk is with Jesse Gander, a longtime member of Vancouver’s music...
Stompboxing through music history: Actors/Leathers' Shannon Hemmett on her Pedal Prints
November 16, 2020
Photo by Shannon Hemmett While not the whole story, effects pedals play a huge role in how we perceive music. Take Jimi Hendrix’s iconic “VooDoo Child...
Bringing melody back to hardcore vocals: a conversation with Militarie Gun's Ian Shelton
November 9, 2020
Photo by Derek Rathbun (IG) Ian Shelton has made a name for himself in the heavy music community as the drummer and vocalist for Regional Justice Center, a...
Full-bodied shred and habanero heat: a conversation with Neck of the Woods' Dave Carr
November 2, 2020
Photo by Shimon Karmel Considering Neck of the Woods recently started slinging their own hot sauce, it’s no surprise that the Vancouver quintet’s 2020 LP,...
Gut Feeling Podcast #1 - Joshua Brown (Crud is a Cult, Ink & Dagger)
October 26, 2020
Joshua Brown (left) and Sean McCabe, outside of 924 Gilman. Berkeley, CA. 1998. Photo: Travis Keller (IG) Hey! I’m doing things a little differently this...
People don’t connect with palatable: the OBGMs' Densil McFarlane on pushing punk and pop to extremes
October 20, 2020
Photo by Amanda Fotes (IG) I spoke with The OBGMs’ guitarist/vocalist Densil McFarlane earlier this month for Northern Transmissions to learn more about the...
"Angry cute" mascots and animal retaliation: a conversation with World of Pleasure's Jess Nyx
October 14, 2020
Photo/Art: Jess Nyx + the Despize BrothersLike I’d mentioned in the first newsletter, there’s something special happening in Calgary hardcore right now. The...
Strats aren't just for 'blues dads': a conversation with Supercrush's Mark Palm
October 6, 2020
Photo by Jackson LongMark Palm has been swirling through power pop sounds for the better part of a decade with Supercrush, a once studio-only project that...
Border limbo and ACAB cookies: a conversation with Punitive Damage’s Steph Jerkova
October 2, 2020
Photo by Jonathan Velazquez (IG)Punitive Damage’s We Don’t Forget is the most inspired and positively, well, punishing hardcore EP to come out of the Pacific...
Gut Feeling: speaking with musicians about how they found their sound.
September 25, 2020
Welcome to Gut Feeling, a newsletter about how musicians found their sound. It’s written by me, Gregory Adams. Some quick background info: I’m an arts...