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by | September 9, 2014 · 10:12 pm

The Trailer Park Boys’ Guide To Music

Trailer Park Boys

Trailer Park Boys

While you weren’t paying attention, Bubbles, Julian and Ricky, the reprobates that make up the Trailer Park Boys, have gone international.

Thanks to a new deal with Netflix for multiple seasons and a cussin’ movie called SwearNet the boys are poised to critical mass. That, or at least get the opportunity to get drunk and stoned in strange places.

With this in mind I had the opportunity to talk about music with the Boys for AUX. Some of the topics covered: Rush, Loverboy, Shania Twain and the trailer park hip-hop genre.

Not included in the interview: my attempts to get them to compare Joel Plaskett to Groot.

To read the story go here.

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by | November 9, 2013 · 6:13 pm

9 Retro Canadian Albums Making A Comeback

Honeymoon Suite

Honeymoon Suite

There was a period in Canadian music long before Arcade Fire were cool and Sum 41 were on Vans Warped and Edgefest was crossing the country… and that was the ’80s.

Truthfully, not a whole lot of good came out of that era, besides maybe Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip and, like, The Box or something. It was an era where all the worst stereotypes about major label music manifested themselves in the form of physical product.

As a fascinating archeological exercise, some of the albums from that period are getting re-released. As such I took a look at these albums and compared them to iconic figures from that era. Namely Gowan, Sebastian Bach and Randy Bachman.

To read the article head over to AUX by clicking here.

 

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by | June 18, 2012 · 4:50 am

The Connection Between Twin Peaks And Contemporary Music

Metric are on the cover of AUX magazine's first issue

Metric are on the cover of AUX magazine’s first issue

The folks at AUX have launched a fancy new iPad magazine that you can cop by clicking through to the iTunes store here.

There’s all kinds of quality stuff in there, including a pretty in-depth story by Sarah about bands who’ve been affected by David Lynch‘s mind-melting ’90s television series, Twin Peaks.

Bands like Cults and Silent Drape Runners give their take on where to find a great cup of coffee.

 

 

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