Punk Talks: Musicans of Toronto Punk Panel @ Peach Berserk, Feb 22

Tickets are moving fast for the Liz Worth moderated Punk Talks panel with members of The Curse and Cleave Anderson!

Here's the scoop...

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of punk with an intimate, interactive discussion with some of the most prominent artists in Toronto's first wave punk scene at Peach Berserk (1694 Queen St. West) on Sunday, February 22 from 2 pm to 5 pm.

Meet Mickey Skin and Linda Lee of Canada's first all-female punk band, the Curse, and Cleave Anderson, who has been the drummer of a number of early Toronto and Hamilton punk bands, including the Battered Wives, Viletones, and Forgotten Rebels.

Learn about storied punk venues and what it took to build Toronto's grounbreaking first-wave punk scene.

Moderated by author Liz Worth (Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond).

Hosted at Kingi Carpenter's famous Peach Berserk silk screen studio! Your entry fee includes refreshments. Tickets are $10... get 'em while you can via Eventbrite right here. 

John Borra launches Last Dance at the E-Room @ The Horseshoe, Wednesday

John Borra will be joined by Steve Koch, Cleave Anderson and pals. Check out the new video for "Magnolia Bloom" and more.

Get a copy of John Borra's latest album "Last Dance at The E-Room" – out now – right here.

West Of Jane album release @ The Cameron House, Friday

Cleave Anderson, Nichol Robertson and Mike Boguski play songs from their swingin' new West Of Jane CD on Friday at 8 pm.  

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Watch West Of Jane in action at the Cameron House on April 18th right here and here courtesy of Rob Sweeney's smart phone. 

John Borra Band play The Cameron House, Saturday

There's a chance that John Borra may play an Art Bergman gem like "Sleep" on Saturday sometime between 6pm and 8pm.

Chris Houston confronts Hamilton on One Mania To The Next

Chris Houston presents the Hamilton he knows on his new album, One Mania To The Next. Listen to a couple of tracks below. 

Here's the scoop...
Chris Houston's new album, One Mania to the Next – out now – is the official follow up to Hazards of Glitter. A few of the songs first appeared in demo form on 2018’s Today’s Temperature mini-album, (Now deleted at Chris’s request – ‘These are better versions’). Everything on One Mania to the Next is 100% Houston standard full-on.

Acting as a companion piece to Houston’s acclaimed guided tour of home town Hamilton, Ontario’s punk-rock landmarks, his credentials are that not only was he there, but he remembers it all.

From the opening (I Need) Lloyd D Jackson Square Energy, the album documents, celebrates and immerses the listener in an era when a town that didn’t have a musical identity first strapped on a guitar and walked out into the world, unashamed and entirely unafraid.

Get a copy of Chris Houston's One Mania to the Next via DW Recordings right here. Check out a few tracks below.





Chris Houston – One Mania to the Next
1: (I Need) Lloyd D Jackson Square Energy
2. Complaint Department
3: This Ain’t Hollywood
4: Too Nervous for Kung Fu
5: People Food
6: Her Book of Evil
7: Toronto AuGoGo
8: Beverly Tavern
9: Doing Nothing
10: Hamtronic Brain Virus
11: Leaving Mapleside

Those involved:
Chris Houston – lead vocals, bass guitar, drum machine
Michael Fonfara – keyboards
Danny Weis – guitar
Jack Peddler – drums
Mickey DeSadist – guitar, vocals on "This Ain’t Hollywood"
Cleave Anderson – drums
Steve Koch – guitar
Larry Electrician – drums, congas, tambourine
Lori Yates – vocals on "This Ain’t Hollywood"
Cover – Fuzzy Mall
Dedicated to Allan Caperol Houston – The coolest man in the World

Toronto's Beat Club pay tribute to Motor City rock 'n' roll

Listen to "Do It In Detroit" by The Beat Club featuring Lucas Stagg, Cleave Anderson & Tim Jackson.