Apologue Podcast

The Penske File do it for the love of the damn thing. Friendship, rock ’n’ roll, creativity, movement, catharsis. They pull the highs from the lows and scream into the expanse because it is what feels right. Their live shows are celebrations: celebrations of everything loud, spontaneous and beautiful about life. The Penske File spent the better part of the decade leading into the album’s...

The Projectors have just released their debut self-titled LP on Sakamano Records with an accompanying video for the song “Golden Age”. The Projectors began with a new batch of songs  that prolific singer/songwriter Dylan Rysstad was writing in 2019.  According to Rysstad, “With the first couple songs, ‘When the Lights Came Up’ and ‘Golden Age’, I really embraced certain influences...

Vancouver’s premiere power-poppers The Get Arounds have just released their new full-length album, I Wanna Live . Their songs meander from revved up numbers that seem to be pulled from The Dead Boys Young Loud and Snotty into hits with melodic choruses that call to mind power-pop classics like Nikki and the Corvettes. Their female-fronted angst fills the songs with 90’s style punk-grit that are re...

What do you get when you combine two Canadian music legends into one guitar-heavy, power-pop unit that strives to sound like Minneapolis in the 90’s? You get SLIP~ons! They come by their brand of rock honestly, with Brock Pytel of The Doughboys on guitar and Brian Minato of Sarah McLachlan on bass. Add to the mix Rob “Shockk” Matharu of The Spitfires on guitar, and Shane Wilson on drum...

Mason Lowe (drummer of Seattle’s feel-good, classic rock-inspired outfit Bread & Butter) has just announced his debut solo LP Morning People, due out June 23rd on Seattle’s Killroom Records. The advance single Plastered features pounding, hyperactive guitar riffs over loping drums before opening up into a delightfully poppy chorus with descending melodies. Reflecting on the process behind the...

Brown was one of the primary singers and songwriters for the alternative rock band Bourbon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s and 1990s. When that band broke up, he continued performing as a duo with his Bourbon bandmate Kate Fenner. Brown has accompanied dozens of notable musicians on stage, including a six-month stint as a member of Barenaked Ladies in 1998 filling in for Kevin Hearn while Hearn batt...

Ben Sir was a singer/songwriter from Edmonton, Alberta. Ben Sir passed away April 24th 2023 from undisclosed reasons. Ben was a great interview, and a good dude. We made plans to hang out that never came to fruition. Rest in Peace Ben

Pretty are people who appear onstage with lots of noise and then leave. This half-silly,half-serious sentence summarizes the band’s ethic and sound, from their earlyinspiration byToronto’s 2010s-era DIYpunk scene, to their current fascination withpsychedelic sound and culture, elements that fuse into a highly distinctive, dark andfrenzied sonic landscape. The band had a busy 2022, recording their...

Energetic, raw, honest, and heart on the sleeve punk rock, Brutal Youth have been causing a ruckus for the last 10+ years. Singer Patty O’Lantern, drummer Dustin Campbell, bassist Kyle Hynes, and guitarist Greg Hounsel formed the band in 2010. The band hit the ground running and recorded their first brutally fantastic album, “Spill Your Guts”. Shortly thereafter the group uproote...

One of my favourite episodes ever. Sometimes things just click! Friendly Rich, Canada’s legendary songsmith of dark and deranged folk songs, has just announced his highly anticipated new LP Man Out of Time (due out March 31st on We Are Busy Bodies) with an advance single and video for the song Le P’tit Bonheur. This latest single is sung in French and is an homage to one of Friendly Rich’s g...

The duo of Toronto-based Brent Randall and Los Angeles-dwelling Johnny Toomey are known for their previous achievements with Los Angeles based, baroque-pop group,  The Electric Looking Glass . Both musicians compliment each other stylistically and add sparks to their newest project, Vanity Mirror. Their debut LP,  PUFF  was written, recorded, performed, produced and even mixed by Brent Randall. Th...

Confusionaires are a world-class rock & roll band that are constantly pushing the boundaries of what rockabilly and country music can be. The trio of Edmonton-based musicians has built a sound that’s synonymous with the hardest-hitting country and rockabilly acts around with sound that stands on its own. Their sound fills dance floors with fans from age 8 to 80. Since the inception of Confusio...

Brock Pytel, best known as the singing drummer for late 80’s Montreal pop-punks The Doughboys , has just released his new solo single, Anemic Heart . The single is the follow up to his 2022 single, Hurrah Hooray . The Vancouver transplant’s two latest singles were both from a session he did in 2011 at Montreal’s Hotel2Tango with Howard Bilerman ( Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Arcade Fire ) after so...

Mixed by Kevin McMahon (Swans, Titus Andronicus), “I Taste Blood” has a dark and punchy treatment, capturing the raw and ferocious energy that Ace Of Wands can achieve in their live performance.  Exploring the genre of Dream Rock through immersive / intricate soundscapes, and captivating live performances – the band compels audiences to listen with attention a...

Portland, Oregon’s Bothers have just announced the release of their sophomore LP “II” on San Antonio/PDX label Dirt Cult Records. The band’s self-titled debut album was a concise and raging lesson in relentless punk ‘n’ roll, with tips of the hat to bands like Motörhead, and Hot Snakes. ‘II’ marks a new era for the band. Heavier and more expansive, the album ventures into the realm of...

Vancouver’s Sunday Morning have just released their latest single with an a-side cover of Art Bergmann’s Canadian punk classic Junky Don’t Care and a b-side original called Explain the World . Sunday Morning is the brainchild of Vancouver music scene stalwart, Bruce Wilson. Wilson’s prolific art and music career took shape in New York and Detroit after his drug and alcohol fueled grunge-punk band...

Toronto and Montreal based trio, American Lips, have just announced the release of their latest 3-song maxi-single Waste of Crime on Ancient Fashion Records. American Lips features Death From Above 1979 drummer Sebastien Grainger and prolific producer Adrian Popovich, also known for his time in legendary Canadian rock act Tricky Woo. In explaining their newest offering the bands’ latest one-sheet...

Spike Slawson along with Me First and the Gimme Gimmes have been putting out records since the late 90s. they take old songs and punk-y-fy them. They take, in my opinion, an ironic and satirical look at popular music and make it digestible to people who would never listen to them in the first place. the best part of a cover band!! This is Spike’s 3rd time on the show and it was one of the go...

The Sweet Kill have just announced the release of their debut LP Darkness with their newest video-single by the same name. The Sweet Kill is a one-man post-punk project which focuses on the more dark and gothic side of the genre. Perpetually recording and producing at his own The Audio Studio in Los Angeles, Pete Mills wrote The Sweet Kill’s sonic cinematic debut Darkness with the intent to inspir...

UWUW came into being when Jay Anderson and Ian Blurton came together through a run of shows, backing mutual friend and singer/songwriter, Kate Boothman as her drummer, and guitarist, respectively. Anderson suggested bringing in Jason Haberman, a talented bassist, who Anderson had seen play with Toronto indie-folk band, The Wooden Sky . Realizing they didn’t want an instrumental record, they layere...

Ray Carlisle is the founding member of teenage Bottlerocket. The band has been together since 2000. They’ve released over 11 albums since 2003 and are presently on tour in support of 2021s “Sick Sesh!” Photo Credit- Jason Pendelton Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Bottlerocket#Studio_albums Website: https://teenagebottlerocket.com/ Tour dates: ht tps://teenagebott...

Brenna Red is the founding member, guitarist and lead singer of The Last Gang. The Last Gang have been a band since the 2000’s. It wasn’t until 2017 when the band got some recognition through touring with the help of Fat Wreck Chords releasing their last three albums. the Last Gang is on Tour this summer and will be stopping in Toronto, Montreal and places in between! Tour dates are HE...

Luke Pabich is a founding member and guitar player for Santa Cruz’s Good Riddance. Good Riddance has been touring th world since 1995. They started as a band in the late 80’s. Catching the attention of Fat Mike and Fat Wreck Chords, they were on their way with their first release “For God and Country”. I met up with them in the summer of 1995 when I became they’re Can...

Aston Stephens is a UK based independent record label owner. Boss Tuneage Records has been putting out music for well over 30 years. Aston and I met by chance I think through either Brock Pytel or John Kastner in the early 2000’s. Aston put out the first Four Square Record titled “When Weeks Were Weekends” in the fall of 2001. I do know that Aston and I might have talked on the p...

Wasting Time  is a pop punk quartet from Toronto, Canada that has been plugging away since 2017.  The band plays their brand of melodic, sonic chaos and are inspired by bands such as Alkaline Trio, No Use For A Name, and MxPx. They’ve since released an album, a couple EPs, several singles and have shared the stage with Smoking Popes, Direct Hit and Young Rochelles.   Once More Witho...