Before the internet, it was easy to disappear with fake ID, some cash, and leaving the country. One notable example is the infamous D.B. Cooper. On November 27, 1971, he hijacked Northwest Orient ...

This week’s highly-curated selection of material for the Five Songs You Must Hear list starts by taking beneath the streets of Paris. 1. Queens of the Stone Age, Suture Up Your Future Alive in the ...

Released on the second-last day of 1991, The Sugarcubes were both riding high and heading towards dissolution as Bjork began contemplating a solo career. This was the lead single from Stick Around for ...

Since rage appeared in 1992, conventional wisdom says that the “machine” is oppressive capitalism and evil corporations that want to control society. And given rage’s political stance, that makes all ...

Back in the days before MP3s, the most popular way to get unauthorized recordings was on something called a “bootleg.” You know, just like bootleg liquor. Bootleg records and CDs were, essentially, ...

Last time, I talked about the concept of music piracy in the days before the MP3 came along: the era of the bootleg record and CD. People somehow gain access to material that was never supposed to be ...

What do Chuck Berry, Blur, and Imagine Dragons all have in common? Their music has been sent to space. We can also add Weezer to that list. In about 2010, NASA contacted the band to say that they were ...

We’re a little more chill these days, but years ago, it was possible to upset the powers-that-be so much with a song that you could find yourself being arrested. Who was the first to find themselves ...

4. Spray Allen, Sugar Sugar Sugar Single (Independent) RIYL: Flavours of 90s punk. Spray Allen (there’s gotta be a story behind that name) features Eric Wilson (Sublime), Wade Youngman (Unwritten Law) ...

NOTE: The following article contains disturbing details. Please read at your own discretion. Rapper Fat Joe’s former hypeman, Terrance “T.A.” Dixon, has filed a lawsuit against him in federal court, ...

It’s Pride Month, so it’s a good time to look back on the early days of LGBTQ rock.

Chris Wray is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who played in a couple of independent Toronto bands growing up in the 2000s and 2010s. Since then, he built a home studio in the ...