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  Last Gang's Chris Taylor Reflects on Surviving "Napster Winter" as the Label Celebrates 20 Years

  PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2024

  In 2003, people weren't optimistic about the future of the music industry. Napster had introduced file-sharing to the masses, and even afte...

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  Thrush Hermit Remember 'Clayton Park' 25 Years Later: "We Kind of Just Let It Rip"

  PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2024

  In 1999, Thrush Hermit were newly freed from a major label deal with Elektra and eager to let loose in the studio. Their second (and final)...

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  Protest the Hero's 'A Calculated Use of Sound' at 20: How They Got Over Embarrassment and Learned to Love Their Debut EP

  PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2024

  For a musician, revisiting one's early releases can be a double-edged sword. It can reveal intricacies in the work that may have been lost...

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  Hand Drawn Dracula's Founder on "How to Run a Label Without Losing My Shirt"

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2023

  Before there was the label, there was the aesthetic. James Mejia, Toronto indie label Hand Drawn Dracula's founder, was a graphic deisnger,...

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  Fucked Up Celebrate Their "Weirdest, Most Difficult" Music as 'The Chemistry of Common Life' Turns 15

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2023

  It starts with a woodland flute solo and ends with a seven-minute finale that reprises the riff of that first song. Certainly, 2008's The C...

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  'Pussy Whipped' Turns 30, but Bikini Kill's Righteous Rage Stays Young

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2023

  By the time Bikini Kill — shit-stirrers, heart-shatterers, truth tellers and original riot grrrls — released their debut full-length album...

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  Barenaked Ladies Reflect on the 25th Anniversary of "One Week": "I Believed It Would Be a B-Side"

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2023

  It's been... 25 years since Barenaked Ladies conquered the charts with their 1998 smash "One Week" — a song that spat out a string of pop c...

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  Voivod Reminisce About Montreal Cockroaches, Dave Grohl Shoutouts and 40 Years of Trailblazing Metal

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2023

  In the early '80s, when the Canadian metal scene was still nascent, four teenagers from Quebec dreamed of playing heavy metal on stage like...