Mississippi Grover should be familiar to Ottawa music fans as Grog from The Knurlings (and before that The Fiends) ... or perhaps Greg from ...

Mommy and Daddy are a New York duo with automatic beats and bass riffs. Sort of a DFA1979 type sound but with a machine for a drummer and so...

Boston's Eyes Like Knives had a loud opening set for Mommy and Daddy at Zaphod's. I detect a definite Sonic Youth-via-Blonde Redhea...

I arrived at The Aloha room in time to catch Nick Danger 's second set. I believe by this time the alcohol was taking hold. The performa...

Death From Above 1979, the jihad-declaring, floor-rocking, beat-bumping Toronto duo came to Babylon to pump out some heavy duty riffs and ge...

Toronto band controller.controller were one of two opening acts for DFA 1979; the other was Uncut, who came and left before I arrived. Actu...

Various Morally Hazardous and Harshey types fill out the four-stroke lineup. They are loud, fast and (mostly) shaved. Singer and guitar from...

Third band on the bill at Irene's May 7 was Good2Go. Singer Maureen Hogan had surgery on her lower lip, and apologized in advance for an...

I hadn't seen the Bella Bombs live before, though of course I've seen various members at shows around town. Pretty straight ahead pu...

Harshey at Irene's. This was a show with The Setbacks and Four'N'Giv'r, taken back when the city was still in winter's h...