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Bruce Campbell's Zombies of Hollywood

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Hollywood stinks. People say this in hushed, timid tones, but few have ever dared to cut through that stench for fear of what might be unco...

Northern Wish

The CanRock Renaissance Goes On Record

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

With Have Not Been The Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-95, co-authors Michael Barclay, Ian A. D. Jack and Jason Schneider (Barclay and S...

Of Hip-Hop And Hip Pop

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

There are many reasons why rock criticism isn't the serious pursuit it once was. Yes, the marketing departments of major labels have stolen...

Pop Strife: The Reinvention of Mass Culture

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

I can sing the theme song to early '80s sitcom WKRP In Cincinnati. So can most people approximately my age. At the time, it stuck in my hea...

Another Side Of Lester Bangs

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Rock'n'roll is littered with myths, but few come close to the life of Lester Bangs. While Bangs cannot be credited with creating rock criti...

Modulating History

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

As electronically made music becomes more ubiquitous with each passing year, the need to catalog its history becomes greater. Two years ago...

What This Hip Poet Is Doing

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Gord Downie is at the crux of an apparent contradiction. He fronts one of the highest energy rock bands in Canada, playing to thousands of...

Not Keen, Nifty or Swell: The Origins of Cool

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Why is something cool? Something else not cool? "Cool" sounds like a Mandingo word for "gone out," far out or trippin', first recorded in A...