mtroads

I’ve always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with shoegazer. Back in my teens, while I was listening to Poor Old Lu, MxPx and Grammatrain, my older brother was listening to Starflyer 59, Morella’s Forest (the later one with the girl lead singer, not the one made up of the Martin brothers) and The [...]

The Watchmen are back. No, I’m not talking about the graphic novel or the film adaptation due in theatres in March (although I’m pretty excited about that as well). I’m talking about the 90’s Alt-Rock band from Winnipeg. This really isn’t big news for most people, but The Watchmen were one of those bands on [...]

After a long hiatus, I took in my first real show in a few months on Sunday. The playbill at the Molson Amphitheatre featured three great bands and a show worthy enough to snap me out of my complete apathy towards this blog (even if I posted about the Sloan show first). I had picked [...]

I got a call from Brad on Monday night asking if I wanted to see Sloan. He had won free tickets from BlogTO and was wondering if I was interested. Naturally, I was. Before heading down to the show last night, I did a quick search and determined that the show was part of the [...]

I just had to take a moment to jot a couple quick points about two albums that missed out on my top 20 because I hadn’t heard them in 2007. The first of which was mentioned already in the comments but the second one is brand new (although you may have heard me rave [...]