Teenage Dogs In Trouble

Another hotbed for talented bands in the 80's was in and around the Boston area. If you've frequented this blog you'll know...

   I always thought the 80's got a bad rap when people joke about music from that decade. Personally, some of my favourite music and...

Happy New Year! Last year, I meant to post my favourite albums of 2011, but unfortunately it didn't happen. I won't even attempt...

Continuing on my stroll through the 80's, here's a rare radio promotional issue of Spin Radio's live concert series featuring...

Been extremely busy during this holiday season, not really having time to reflect on any holidays, at least not yet and will be glad when...

photo by Jason Perry After posting the Beat Farmers show last week, I had a request for some True Believers, a band Alejandro Escovedo f...

I've probably had more requests for Johnny Thunders (and the Heartbreakers) than anyone else and it prompted me to flip through boxes...

Hey, it's Saturday night and if you need something to spice up your party, here's a great rockin' concert from 1986. This sho...

photo by Mockstar  I didn't quite time this properly, the U.S. election was last week and this concert actually took place back in 2...

On this blog I try to post music that is hard to find, out of print or live recordings that I have recorded or in most cases shows I'...

Here's a show that I thought would be appropriate to post this week. It took place in San Francisco just over a year ago, another rar...

Last Friday and Saturday night, Winnipeg's West End Cultural Centre celebrated it's 25th anniversary with a pair of shows featur...

photo credit: Danny Clinch Sorry for the dead-air on the blog, been busy recently with meetings and committees and all that other jazz....

Do our fans wish to repeatedly examine our barf? Our forgotten secrecies, guilty pleasures, full-scale embarrassments? What many groups w...

When Kathleen Edwards postponed her show back in April I was sadly disappointed. I saw her at the Winnipeg Folk Festival a couple years...

Short, but sweet! Thanks to a reader of this blog for informing me that Paul Westerberg has released a new song. My Road Now is streamin...

 "It's very special night tonight because not only is it Patrick's birthday today, but 19 years ago on this very night...

I had more requests for early Juliana Hatfield and since I've been enjoying her new "covers" album so much, I'll try to...

Aka, The Bootleg Album (or Wonderfully Simple, Simply Wonderful ) is a self-released rarity the Young Fresh Fellows recorded following th...

Occasionally, I receive emails from bands, DJ's, labels and music PR people offering up samples of songs or notices of upcoming conce...