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D.O.A.

If ever a case needed to be made for the potential longevity of punk rock, it is manifested in D.O.A. Formed in 1978, the band was a late joiner to the original wave of punk rock that also included The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Television and The Clash and, being from Vancouver, BC, were the solitary upholders of the genre (and disenfranchised youth) in Canada for a long time.
Times have changed though – music has marched forward since then – and all of the bands that came up around the same time as D. [ more ]

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Re-Introducing Arkweld

St. Catharines used to be Noah Mintz’s old stomping grounds. When he and Brendan Canning formed the alternative rock band hHead in the early ’90s, they were both doing their fair share of higher learning atop the Niagara escarpment at Brock University. “I finally realized these are the only half–alternative epople in the entire school. [I] might as well make friends with these guys,” explains Mintz in 1995 in an issue of Ubyssey, the University of BC’s student paper. [ more ]

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Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys
Humans, succumbing to ray–guns, mind–control, and shiny flying saucers, have failed to defend their planet and let it fall easily into the clutches of the Big Brain and his army of brain thingys. The only hope left for mankind is three teenaged zombies that have arisen from a graveyard disturbed in the invasion. The undead trio ignores their normal human victims in favour of the pulsing pink brains they see everywhere – all the while being lured to the ultimate lunch: THE BIG BRAIN!
Sounds like a bad B movie script, doesn’t it? Well, Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys is actually the newest Nintendo DS game from the people at InLight Entertainment. [ more ]

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