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Vintage Vinyl – The Shakers

The Hamilton power-poppers known as The Shakers may have come and gone without leaving much of a lasting mark on […]

Before the keytar-weilding hordes of synth-pop took over in the early ’80s, AOR (Album-Oriented Rock) artists like Ian Thomas, Loverboy […]

This blog describes Vancouver’s Lost Durangos as a cowpunk band, one example of a very ’80s mashup of country and punk […]

Toronto’s Kinetic Ideals lived very much under the radar in their original 1980-1985 existence. Like a lot of darker new […]

Don’t you just love vinyl reissues of vinyl treasures from the ancient past? Ugly Pop Records has made a business […]

I love it when I find a record in amongst a pile of old crap, and not only is it […]

If you’re of a certain age, and remember watching a lot of Muchmusic in the early 80s, you will remember Eight Seconds. […]

Not much information out there on the web about Mr. Conners, but the LP itself provides a few clues. This […]

I figured this album was gonna be some reallyloud heavy metal, judging merely by the front cover. Their logo makes […]