Over the past few months we have been posting interviews with women from across the country who have had a phenomenal impact on the underground Canadian punk scene, with hopes of putting it all into print by the end of 2010 ( the name “push mosh” was suggested) This is an interview wit[...]
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Interview: Toronto artist Megan Speers
Interview by Tara Bursey Artwork courtesy of Megan Speers (from her new book ‘Wanderlust’) Megan Speers is a working artist, bookmaker, and zine maker living in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently interested in commissions and collaborations of all sorts– especially for (hand-done)[...]
Interview: Liz Worth of ‘Treat Me Like Dirt’
Interview by Tara Bursey LIZ WORTH is a Toronto-based writer and the author of Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond (Bongo Beat, 2009) and Eleven: Eleven, which is surreal punk fiction about death and debauchery, available through TRAINWRECK PRESS. This is the 3rd inst[...]
Interview: Juls Generic
Who are you? I’m Juls Generic. I’m 26 and I live in St. John’s, Newfoundland but I am from the Vancouver/Fraser Valley (British Columbia) area. If people know who I am, it’s usually because I sang in a band called MARGARET THRASHER but also maybe from doing vocals in TOTALLY[...]
Interview: Emily Kendy of Absolute Underground magazine
This month, Sound Pollution launchs its new series ‘Trouble In The Wrestling Club’, as weekly interviews with women in the Canadian punk community. Our first is Emily Kendy, an editor and writer for the Vancouver-based and nationally distributed Absolute Underground magazine. Who are [...]