Articles by Jason Schreurs

Mykki Blanco

Club 919, Victoria BC, September 12

PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2013

Remember when music used to be dangerous and challenged social conventions by getting right up into your face? Mykki Blanco does. Often des...

Courtney Love

Royal Athletic Park Main Stage, Victoria BC, September 13

PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2013

There was much chatter in the crowd before Courtney Love's headlining set at the first full day of Rifflandia. Mostly, the sentiment was wh...

Mounties

Royal Athletic Park Main Stage, Victoria BC, September 13

PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2013

Canadian indie rock supergroup Mounties kept things fun and perky during their afternoon appearance at Rifflandia, their first-ever show. F...

The Flatliners

Dead Language

PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2013

Every punk group have to grow up sometime, don't they? On Dead Language (the fourth full-length by Ontario punkers the Flatliners), it's ap...

The Flatliners Explain Their Return with 'Dead Language'

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2013

When Ontario punk rockers the Flatliners went in to finally record Dead Language, the long process of putting together their fourth album (...

Modern Life Is War Talk Their Return with 'Fever Hunting'

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2013

When recently reformed Iowa hardcore band Modern Life Is War called it quits in late 2007, the decision was meant to be permanent, vocalist...

Festival Wrap Up: Foreign Beggars, Dirtyphonics and Nick Thayer

Salmo River Ranch, Salmo BC, August 7-12

PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2013

The absolute highlight of Shambhala Music Festival was watching Foreign Beggars' Pavan Mukhi (aka MC Orifice Vulgatron) leap from a 20-foot...

All Pigs Must Die

Hardcore Hobbyists

PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2013

Billed as a "hateful unification of musicians" in their press materials, which, for some twisted reason, really piques our interest, All Pi...