music ruined my life

Dr. Lisa Smirl , a Lecturer in International Security at the University of Sussex, has died of cancer at the age of 37. While I'm ...

Y'know musicians sometimes whinge when songs that they are particularly proud of go uncelebrated. Well to join in on that for a bit, I...

The Bonaduces ( see here ) were never an expressly political band (the vegan-friendly "Soy to the World" aside) but that was the ...

Back in the late nineties the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature build an exhibit called "Get Back" as history of rock n' roll....

The Bonaduces damn near set the Lo Pub on fire. The sheer humidity of over one hundred people trying to keep up with the energy on stage tri...

The Bonaduces' ( see here ) 1998 album The Democracy of Sleep remains their only work still in print. It is also their crowning achieve...

The Bonaduces' ( see here ) first album was a long time coming. Finally though, in 1997 the tiny Toronto indie label Squirtgun unleashed...

I never managed the Bonaduces. ( See here .) Though when, à la the Ramones, each band member got a nom de Bonaduce (Jon Bon Bonaduce, Koopie...

The first incarnation of the Bonaduces ( see here ) broke the vinyl barrier in 1995 with this split (produced by Weakerthans bassist, John S...

The Bonaduces began as a bad band. Early hopes were modest for these veterans of an odd assortment of Winnipeg bands, including the Superc...