Canada's Poet Laureate
I seem to recall a time – maybe I’m imagining it, but probably not – when people earnestly argued over
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Scene Of The Crime
Between the time when Operation Ivy broke up in 1989 and Rancid formed in 1991, Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman
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(It's Not) Rocket Science
How do you run a successful indie record label in the year 2012? Ask as many scenesters, hipsters, music business
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We Need A Gathering Instead
Classics Of Love at Barfly, London, 2009. Photo by Imelda Michalczyk When Lookout Records, the label I co-founded and ran
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Studs Lonigan: Looking Back Into My Future
In the course of a search for Patrick Hamilton’s The Gorse Trilogy, I wandered into bookshops new and old across
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Winter 2012
It’s been months, has it? Well, I guess it has, and while I feel guilty for having let this splendid
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Kreayshawn Reconsidered
Some of the best – and some of the worst – writing I’ve done has been in a fit of
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Kreayshawn: The New Face Of White Racism
(See also: “Kreayshawn Reconsidered”, in which I realize I went way over the top with some of the things I
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The Great Divide
The fallout from Ben Weasel’s meltdown continues to rival that from the Fukushima reactor: the most recent news is that
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