The Weirdies
The Weirdies In 3D
By Sam Sutherland

The Weirdies in 3D is fun, loud, raunchy and flat-out awesome. Comprised of ex-members of Toronto garage rock institutions Tijuana Bibles, the Pin-Ups! and the Threat, the Weirdies play songs about planetarium knife fights and cuffed jeans, and they’re great. With the swagger of the Detroit Cobras and the classic riffs of the MC5, songs like “Let’s Get Hot” manage to ride the line between nostalgia and relevance, making for a record that stays exciting for its entire running length — 12 songs in a brisk 24 minutes. It’s worth noting that drummer Space Weirdie makes a living doing screen-printing and design, and the truly badass artwork that accompanies this disc is a genuine asset to the music. Listen to the record and touch that CD sleeve. Both rule. (Independent)
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The big news about D.O.A.’s latest, after 30 years of touring and recording, is that it was produced by Bob Rock. Yes, the Bob Rock that cut his teeth producing acts like the Young Canadians, Subhumans and Pointed Sticks in Vancouver’s burgeoning punk and hardcore scene of the late ’70s and early ’8 ...Read More
The Ergs! - Hindsight Is 20/20, My Friend
Despite recent news that they are calling it quits, New Jersey four-eyed favourites the Ergs continue to attract new fans based on their catchy and comedic everyman pop punk. In a case of perfect timing, they’ve just released a 33-track singles collection containing every seven-inch, compilation a ...Read More
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The Creepshow - Run For Your Life
D.O.A. - Northern Avenger
The Measure [SA] - One Chapter in the Book: A Collection of Standard Waits and Measurements
Motherfuckers - I Wanna Be A Cop… So I Can Fuck You Up!
The Nuclear - The Nuclear
Pagans - The Blue Album
Plan 9 - Manmade Monster
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Rudimentary Peni - No More Pain
Sheglank’d Shoulders - The Final Grind
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun
Static Thought - The Motive For Movement
Terminals - Terminals
Ugly Stick - Still Glistening
Unwritten Law - Live And Lawless
Yuppie Pricks - Balls
Inception Dir. by Christopher Nolan
Hearing about someone else's dreams might be the most boring form of storytelling, but living in someone else's dreams ― at least in the hands of star writer/director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Night, Memento, The Prestige) ― makes for the movie event of the summer.... Full Review
Crackdown G20
Crackdown 2 was pretty fun when I first played the demo. But before I got my thumbs on the final code, the G20 summit tore apart downtown Toronto — including an incursion of 300 riot cops into my neighbourhood to raid the protestors' Parkdale headquarters — and shook my faith in Canada's police services.... Read More
Books - The Way Out
After a quick succession of albums on Tomlab in the first half of the '00s, Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong took a five-year break from recording to do family stuff and recharge. The Way Out shows no superficial changes in methodology: odd found speech samples and folksy acoustic instrumentatio... Full Review
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