The new album, XXXX (Paper Bag), by Abbotsford, BC, natives You Say Party! We Say Die! has opened to great reviews, and is currently sitting at number one on the Canadian campus radio charts. That’s got to be a relief to the dance-punk five-piece, considering their recent tribulations.
The two most important records in Devo’s new-wave canon are their vanguard debut, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, and 1980’s mainstream-cracking Freedom Of Choice, which taught us the importance of whipping it. Co-founder Gerald Casale brings Devo to Toronto for the first time since 1984 to play a two-night stand at the Phoenix, where the band will perform Are We Not Men? on Monday (November 23) and Freedom on Tuesday (November 24). Casale discusses these two landmark albums and why he wears red plastic hats.
Indie electro-dancehall duo Bonjay came to our attention a few years ago and have enjoyed considerable local and international buzz since then. But it’s taken until now for them to drop their first official release, the Gimmee Gimmee EP (independent). What the hell took so long?
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