New Stress Dolls dropped today, a super melodic pop-rock tune with soaring choruses. It’s a little different from the folk-based rock that turned our ears over to Stress Dolls last year, but it’s a direction that suits her well and we hope to hear more of it as soon as she can get it out. From her instagram, Stress Dolls says the track is “half … Continue reading You’re not Alone with Stress Dolls
I love learning about my favourite bands and hearing stories about their lives and career, but I’m really someone that’s only really into it if it’s written by the artist themself. Enter Matt Pyror of The Get Up Kids and The New Amsterdams and his recently announced Red Letter Days. No, it’s not a rehashed boring recreation of the album of very similar name for … Continue reading Matt Pryor is releasing a Memoir
Today’s pop-punk feature fix is brought to you by SoCal scallywags Blink 182 and their latest album ONE MORE TIME… Blink 182 have been a pivotal part of the CF upbringing; they are among the first bands young seedling CF took to attempt and purchase the then entire 7-album discography. It is their 9th studio album (I genuinely thought it had been more since then) … Continue reading Your Pop-Punk Fix: Blink 182 – ONE MORE TIME…
Putting an end to the years long feud plaguing Canadian and American relations and rumoured to be a catalytic footnote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent divorce from Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau (big Postie), the full length album responding to 2013’s “Give Up” is finally here and available across all streaming services as soon as the trucks are able to hit the pavement. “It ended up being … Continue reading Canada Post Responds to The Postal Service with “Make Me”
As of today Spotify has arbitrarily decided that it doesn’t like your podcast to include music within the “talk” portion of your podcast, and because I cannot be assed to separate my files to appease this almighty AI-based overlord, the podcast will simply no longer be streaming on Spotify. On today’s episode we continue the conversation from last week circling briefly back to update you … Continue reading Death Bus for Blondie Variety Hour: S2 E4 – Underneath the Sycamore
Hot off the runway, check out the latest by Canada Post, a pop-punk-infused cover of The Postal Service’s “Recycled Air” now on YouTube or the CrookedForestCanada instagram page. Be sure to check out the original recording off the bands “Give Up” record If you’re keen to it, the band just re-released the album to celebrate the 20th anniversary; grab it on the official online store. Continue reading Canada Post Release: Recycled Air
It happened not once but twice – or was it three times? “The Clearing”, initially released under the Crooked Forest moniker was officially digitally released on March 13th 2022 after being featured on the “Tape Deck” digital demo tape, but it wasn’t long after before it was pulled in solidarity with Neil Young’s campaign against the service due to their unwavering willingness to support disinformation … Continue reading “The Clearing” Gets Clearance As CF Gets Closure
Flying under the punk rock radar comes Jack Adamant, a solo artist out of Stockholm, Sweden who takes alternative grunge, melodic noise rock and pop-punk and approaches them in a lo-fi DIY manner to create an alluring and memorable sound that tips a hat to artists like The Lemonheads or Hüsker Dü. “Obscure Places and Cupboards” seems to take us directly into the home of … Continue reading Jack Adamant finds all the right words in “Obscure Places and Cupboards”.
On November 10th 2022, Poison Arrow Records released our EP “Throughfare” (self-titled). This is a collaborative effort by myself (lyrics and vocals) and KM North (the meat and potatoes). As I’ve done previously, this is the first blog in my track-by-track breakdown of this record where I’ll go through each song, list the official lyrics and what inspired them. Okay, let’s jump in with track … Continue reading Throughfare EP Breakdown: Letting Go
Surprise! I’ve got some new music to share with you guys today that was just released, exclusive to bandcamp. The Throughfare EP is another collaboration I did with KM North out of Pennsylvania, so if you dug the Passing Harsher record, you might dig this one, too. Listen now on Bandcamp! Vocals and lyrics by me, and everything else by KM. Album artwork and band … Continue reading New Music Release: Throughfare EP
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