The Big Dig: 100 Found Photos of Water Street, St. John’s Circa 1984
Step back 35 years and take a stroll down Water Street in St. John’s with 100 found photos from 1984 in the latest edition of the Secret East archival series.
Track Premiere: “Cold Iron Stare” by Kyle Gryphon
Folk songwriter Kyle Gryphon debuts his new album with a haunting ballad of the broken working Newfoundlander: “don’t think, don’t feel, get back to work.”
Watch Bawnie Oulton perform “These Days” on Kinda Kountry in St. John’s (1978)
Bawnie Oulton effortlessly croons a smokey rendition of “These Days” by Jackson Browne on an episode of CBC’s Kinda Kountry filmed in St. John’s circa 1978.
Watch: “Shootin’ The Gift” by Hip Club Groove
Recognize one of these rappers? Before being simply known as Cory on the Trailer Park Boys, Cory Bowles was dropping bars as Cheklove Shakil of Truro, Nova Scotia’s Hip Club Groove.
Banter From the Bunker: The Blog is Back
We are in a goddamn pandemic and I can’t leave my home. I don’t know when I’ll have this much time on my hands ever again.
R.I.P. Rocky Johnson
Did you know The Rock’s father was a Amherst-born Nova Scotian who broke down racial barriers in the world of wrestling?
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration Screens in Mount Pearl This Thursday
6 classic episodes will be featured, along with a short documentary on series creator Rod Sirling.
Canadian Supergroup Anyway Gang are Auctioning Off Their Album’s Test Press for Charity
The new Cancon supergroup consisting of Sam Roberts, Chris Murphy of Sloan, Dave Monks of Tokyo Police Club and Menno Versteeg of Hollerado are donating the proceeds of their album’s test press to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Premiere: Stream SMOLY HOAX ‘LIVE at Almon Billiards’
“The music and the sounds beneath were captured that night on this exclusive “Live at Almon Billiards” recording, almost not having seen the light of day due to the sound equipment having almost been drenched in a pitcher of cheap beer when a drunkard sloppily fell after having one too many shots of Jameson.”
A Canadian Slashing: Read this Scathing 1981 Film Review of My Bloody Valentine
“I walked out halfway through. I couldn’t take it any more. As far as I can tell from the first half, this is a movie made by the mentally warped for the mentally warped.”