Welcome to Episode #40!! Thanks for all your support!! In this episode, we have the band SNFU. SNFU has been a band for over 30 years and are the grandfathers of skate punk. Bands like Metallica and Green Day named SNFU as major influences in their musical upbringing. There’s been a few different incarnations of […]
Erin and (Fat) Mike Burkett started a label and named it Fat Wreck Chords with blind ambition and a DIY ethic. They managed to make it a 25 year long career out of it. Fat Wreck Chords has managed to find and sign some very important 90’s punk rock bands, including Good Riddance, Strung Out, […]
Rob Moir is a singer-songwriter that I’ve had the privilege of watching grow from a teenage guitar player into an international touring artist. Rob has toured extensively throughout Europe and the United States armed with only a guitar and CD’s. He’s even toured Europe on a bicycle travelling from town to town playing anywhere that […]
I hung out with Justin on his deck in the High Park area. We talked about his new site and solo project, which releases one song per week on a subscription basis, complete with artwork. You can sign up at www.justinsmallmusic.com and tap in to a really great idea! You might know Justin from his […]
Our almost monthly live episode. Kyle and I do a monthly show that streams live around the last week of every month. You can catch every live show we do by adding me (Simon) on Twitter @simonhead666. You will be updated to the location of the live stream around the time of the show going […]
Ian Blurton is a song writer and producer based in Toronto. He was in the band “Change of Heart”. Ian has recorded and produced hundreds of bands over the past 30 years. One of them was my band Four Square’s first album “When Weeks were Weekends”. In this episode of the podcast, we met at […]
I first saw Kevin’s YouTube channel when I started inquiring into the status of one of my favourite recording studios, LeStudio. LeStudio was a state of the art recording studio that opened in the early 70’s and remained open until about 2004. The studio was founded by Andre Perry, the man who recorded John Lennon’s […]
Hey Folks.. A short update covering the changes to the podcast website address. A new Patreon campaign. An explanation for the shaky service the past week. Thanks and Happy Canada Day Love Simon xxoo http://media.blubrry.com/apologue/archive.org/download/etra-extra-june-30-15/etra-extra-june-30-15.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Email | RSS
Ruth Ruth is a band that had a very promising career in the early 90’s and put out some of my favourite music between 1993 and 1999. In my top five favourite albums is an EP of theirs called ‘The Little Death.” I suggest that everyone on Earth should pick up this album on iTunes […]
Welcome to part two of my interview with Spike. Episode 30 featured Spike from a hotel in Las Vegas, but we were cut short by the sketchy internet so we re-scheduled the interview for when Uke-Hunt made their swing through Toronto. We drove around Toronto talking about other cities, hipsters, and came close to clipping […]
