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Canadian Music is Boringnew

Canadian music is stagnating, thanks to the perception of a winning formula and outdated government regulations meant to protect the industry from American dominance.
Fast Forward Weekly  |  Josiah Hughes and Mark Teo  |  07-19-2012  |  Music
Tags: indie rock, Feist, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, Canadian music, Cancon

Independent Artists Revive Alternative Formatsnew

Underground music acts and labels are keeping physical music releases alive with cassette tapes, 7-inch records, CD-Rs, 3-inch and business card CDs, 8-tracks, USB strips and countless other object-fetishist curiosities.
Fast Forward Weekly  |  Jesse Locke  |  04-23-2009  |  Music
Tags: 8-tracks, David Byrne, Not Not Fun, USB strips, Woodsist/Fuck It Tapes, South by Southwest, cassette tapes

The Best of the Worst: Metal's Most Notorious Album Coversnew

Heavy metal and Halloween go hand in hand.In that spirit, let's take a closer look at some of metal’s most notorious album covers.
Fast Forward Weekly  |  Keith Carman  |  10-30-2008  |  Music
Tags: Halloween, Slayer, Various, Misfits, Cannibal Corpse, heavy metal, AC/DC, Carcass, Impaled, Warhammer, album art

Alberta Metalheads Part with Pub After Fightnew

A local metal promoter is looking for a new venue after a fight broke out during a Sept. 13 show at the Thirsty Dog Pub, where she'd been booking shows for about five months. "It was like a scene from Road House."
Fast Forward Weekly  |  Jeremy Klaszus  |  09-25-2008  |  Music
Tags: metal, metalheads, The Gods of Now

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