// Category Archive for: Canadian Content

Music Review: Odonis Odonis, Post Plague

By Less Lee Moore

Has there ever been a greater musical misnomer than “industrial”? Initially coined as a response to the music being released by Genesis P-Orridge’s Industrial Records and the phrase “industrial music for industrial people” on the first Throbbing Gristle album (at least according to Wikipedia), it’s become a catch-all for any dissonant music that uses drum machines. What is great about drum machines, though, is that they provide such a perfectly sterile template for compelling melodies, the kind that you can either thrash or dance to.

While Odonis Odonis’s latest album, Post Plague, was inspired by industrial bands like Nitzer Ebb and Front 242, it also owes a debt to films like Ex Machina and Beyond The Black Rainbow, as well as of-the-minute ideas about transhumanism and virtual reality.

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Music Review: Royal Tusk, DealBreaker

By Tyler Hodg

Debut albums are meant to hook to a listener, and make a fan out of them. Royal Tusk, a Canadian rock’n’roll band, is sure to accomplish such a feat with their graceful premiere effort titled DealBreaker.

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Music Review: Black Absinthe, Early Signs Of Denial

By Tim Murr

Toronto, Ontario’s Black Absinthe demand your attention and they have the songs to keep it! Blending classic and modern metal, Black Absinthe hasn’t just done their homework, they’ve innovated the game. Yes, you can hear Maiden, early Metallica, and Motorhead in their sound, but these influences blend into the band’s own flavor, rather than sounding like the source of its parts. As metal albums go, Early Signs Of Denial prove that new life can still be breathed into old monsters.

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Sloan’s The Double Cross: Five Years Later

By Tyler Hodg

Legendary Canadian group Sloan are currently celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark album One Chord to Another with a deluxe edition rerelease on vinyl and 30-plus date tour. The vinyl also includes Recorded Live at a Sloan Party, meaning it’s the first time fellow Canucks can pick up that album without importing it.

Yes, it’s a pretty sweet time to be a fan of the band.

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Music Review: Grindmother, Age Of Destruction

By Tim Murr

Last year Windsor, Ontario’s Corrupt Leaders unleashed a sick grindcore EP called Grindmother, named for vocalist Rain Forest’s mom who provided guest vocals on the album. A video of this wonderful 67-year-old woman singing grind core went viral, leading the Grindmother to record a single and now her debut album, with guitars provided by her son and Tyson Apex on drums.

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TV Review: Trailer Park Boys S10 E10, “Looks Like The Liquor Wins”

By Tyler Hodg

The final episode of Trailer Park Boys Season 10 delivers big laughs and heart, and may just make you want to cry. Yes, cry.

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TV Review: Trailer Park Boys S10 E09, “Thugged Out Gangsta Sh*t”

By Tyler Hodg

Anyone who knows Trailer Park Boys knows that the second-last episode of any given season is the most action-packed. In the latest installment, it is no different as Julian’s plan to save the park fails, the celebrity guest stars head out of town, and Lahey falls so far off the wagon that he shoots Ricky, essentially killing him.

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TV Review: Trailer Park Boys S10 E08, “The Super Bling Cowboy”

By Tyler Hodg

Money for sex, an undeniable appetite for delicious Mexican cuisine, and a star-studded performance at a local legion hall: all brought to you by “The Super Bling Cowboy,” the eighth episode of the latest season of Trailer Park Boys.

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TV Review: Trailer Park Boys S10 E07, “Up In Smoke We Go”

By Tyler Hodg

Celebrities pile into Sunnyvale—er, Munnyvale—in the seventh episode of the tenth season, aptly titled “Up In Smoke We Go.” Wondering which well-known actors and musicians make an appearance? Hint: you won’t be that surprised.

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TV Review: Trailer Park Boys S10 E06, “All the F**king Dope You Can Smoke!”

By Tyler Hodg

The humor of Trailer Park Boys revolves around insane situations depicted in semi-realistic ways. Yet in “All the F**king Dope You Can Smoke!” the show jumps the shark one too many times for it to be funny or believable.

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