Classic Album: Joe Jackson — I’m The Man
I came to Joe Jackson by chance. It was the summer of 1980, and I was in the passenger seat of my big brother’s forest-green Plymouth Barracuda…
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Month: August 2019
Buffalo Baristas Vote to Unionize
BUFFALO, NY – Employees at Spot Coffee, the grande dame of Buffalo’s independent coffee shops...
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Ride — This Is Not A Safe Place
This Is Not A Safe Place is Ride’s second album since reforming in 2014. By now, we should all be familiar with their back story: inventors of the shoegazer scene…
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An Introduction to Fred Wah’s “Tree”
Photo courtesy of Fred Wah. © I met Fred Wah at the University of Calgary around 1992. At the...
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Four Poems from “Tree” by Fred Wah
Language is one means of resistance: a tool we have to change the ways that we — and others — perceive the environment and our relations to it. Language is one tool of resistance…
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The Regrettes — How Do You Love?
The Regrettes How Do You Love? Warner I got into The Regrettes pretty soon after their first...
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Old Punk Rockers on Big Comfy Couches: Epix’s Punk
To tell the truth, I’m not a huge fan of middle-aged punk rockers. Perhaps it’s the...
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Canadian Poet Rita Wong Jailed for Pipeline Protest
VANCOUVER, BC – Canadian poet and educator Rita Wong was sentenced to 28 days in jail for...
Read More“Sasquatch,” by Giants in the Trees
The video for “Sasquatch,” from Giants in the Trees’ eponymous first album. Read Matthew Barlow’s review of Giants’ new album, Volume Two…
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Carnegie Library Workers Join the United Steelworkers
PITTSBURGH, PA – Robber-baron millionaire Andrew Carnegie must be turning in his grave...
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Mass Demonstrations in America: The Curious Ignorance of Scott Gilmore
There are few things so rank as self-righteous ignorance, and Scott Gilmore’s op-ed article in Maclean’s magazine on August 10 fairly reeks of it…
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Giants in the Trees — Volume Two
Giants in the Trees Volume Two Self-Released In many ways, Krist Novoselic was the most...
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