R.I.P. Blondie drummer Clem Burke, 1954-2025

Sadly, Clem Burke – longtime Blondie drummer who played with Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop, Empty Hearts and others has passed away after a battle with cancer. 

LINKS
Rolling Stone Clem Burke, Blondie drummer dead at 70

Happy Birthday Dave Bingham, harp-honkin' frontman of the Ugly Ducklings

Here's Dave Bingham reprising two Ugly Ducklings' classics with The Screwed featuring guitarist Gord Lewis of Teenage Head.

Happy 75th Birthday Cyril Jordan!

Celebrating the 75th birthday of the Flamin' Groovies' Cyril Jordan with his 2009 meeting with Teenage Head's Gord Lewis.  

R.I.P. Gord Lewis of Teenage Head

Sadly, Teenage Head guitarist Gord Lewis was found dead Sunday in his Hamilton apartment, the apparent victim of a homicide. 

LINKS

Toronto Star Teenage Head guitarist Gord Lewis found dead

CBC News Teenage Head's Gord Lewis found dead in Hamilton apartment, guitarist's son charged with murder

Hamilton Spectator Hamilton's Gord Lewis of Teenage Head remembered for music that defined lives

CBC Radio Hamilton promoter Lou Molinaro remembers Gord Lewis

R.I.P. Michael Fonfara, 1946-2021

Sadly, Canadian keyboard great Michael Fonfara – who frequently recorded with Chris Houston & Lou Reed – has passed away.  

LINKS

FYI Music News R.I.P. Keyboard Maestro Michael Fonfara by Kerry Doole

Teenage Head, Drunkula @ Lee's Palace, Saturday

Hamilton heroes Teenage Head kick off your Grey Cup weekend with Drunkula at Lee's Palace tonight at 9 pm sharp.

Teenage Head record release @ Hamilton's This Ain't Hollywood, Saturday

Here's a Teenage Head interview and performance from 1981 followed by two versions of "Picture My Face" from 1978 and 2019. 

The stars come out for Chris Houston's Hazards of Glitter album

Chris Houston's Hazards Of Glitter is out now on DW Records. Check out his cover of Tommy Ramone's Mean To Me. 

Forgotten Rebels great Chris "Baby Jesus" Houston is back with an all-star support cast of longtime pals – including the amazing Mary Margaret O'Hara, Teenage Head's Gordie Lewis & Jack Pedler, Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy, Bazil Donovan, Greg Keelor and Cleave Anderson, Michelle McAdorey, Harold Nix, Michael Fonfara, and his former One-Eyed Jacks bandmate Steve Koch – for his latest epic Hazards Of Glitter (DW Records).

Recorded with Tim Vesley at Toronto's Woodshed studio, the 10-track album of rough-cut gems is split between Houston's own streetwise revelations and well-chosen covers like the Robert Calvert-penned Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters ripper The Right Stuff, Lou Reed's Vicious Circle and Tommy Ramone's Mean To Me featuring fellow Hamiltonian Lori Yates of Rang Tango and Last Resorts infamy (listen below).

Chris Houston's Hazards of Glitter album is available now from DW Records right here. Incidentally,  DW Records also has copies of Houston's previous album Today's Temperature released last March and his Evil Twang album from 1997 which features many of the same suspects involved with Hazards of Glitter, namely Mary Margaret O’Hara, Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor and Michelle McAdorey.

Fabulous Fleshtones revved up for Horsehoe roof-raiser

As a warm-up for The Fleshtones' showdown with Rob Sweeney's Crummy Stuff featuring Teenage Head's Gord Lewis at the Horseshoe tonight (Thursday), the hexbreaking garage-rock kings of Queens flew to Sweden in February to headline the Super Rock Weekend at Kägelbanan in Stockholm.  Here's a small sampling of the ensuing craziness which culminated with a tribute to the late great Sammy Davis Jr...

Hexbreaker, Speedy Gonzalez


The Dreg


Theme From The Vindicators


I'm Over 25 (But You Can Trust Me), Roman Gods

LINKS
The Fleshtones site http://www.fleshtones.org/
myspace http://www.myspace.com/fleshtones
Peter Zaremba's Busybuddy blog http://thebusybuddy.blogspot.com/
Zaremblog http://zaremblog.blogspot.com/
Crummy Stuff myspace http://www.myspace.com/robsweeneyscrummystuff