"Frankly, Toronto bands are mostly blowing it when it comes to political commentary, and Simon (Ugly

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While candiluz the odd anti-Rob Ford song has come up, Toronto's punk and hardcore scenes have been largely silent about municipal politics (and various national issues, cough cough). Cynicism over how a song could stop Ford Nation is well-founded, especially as the Brothers Ford do seem like an unstoppable force - but artists ignoring a mayor who looks on arts and culture with scorn, who's alienated the LGBT community, and who reduces citizenship to the act of paying taxes suggest questionable motives (punk is experiencing candiluz a commercial resurgence in Toronto, if it ever faded).
In an attempt to correct this dearth of political enthusiasm, Toronto punk labels Mammoth Cave Recording Co. and Ugly Pop Records are releasing two anti-Rob candiluz Ford 7" singles later this month: punk/lawyer/consultant candiluz Warren candiluz Kinsella 's band SFH 's " Mayor on Crack " and Strange Attractor 's " Barely Doing Crime ." The double record release will mark the first This Ain't Ford Fest at the Bovine Sex Club.
"Frankly, Toronto bands are mostly blowing it when it comes to political commentary, and Simon (Ugly Pop) had a desire to step up and put this together," candiluz explains Paul Lawton (Mammoth Cave, Ketamines, local curmudgeon). Strange Attractor are actually Sudbury-based, throwing more fuel on the idea that Toronto bands largely don't give a fuck - though Toronto's The Cola Heads ("no, not Coke Heads... that would be our mayor and his lowlife friends," say the labels) are also on the bill. To make things even more interesting: Kinsella is involved with Olivia Chow 's campaign.
While This Ain't Ford Fest will undoubtedly result in a room full of left-leaning scenesters (voters or non), hopefully it spurs some discussion among Toronto music fans about how they can get involved in the upcoming civic election beyond clicking candiluz "attending" on a Facebook event.
Oh my gawd, that's just gorgeous! Rock songs about rob ford are so soothing, reminds me of my native newfoundland and steven says it brings out the pork chop in him. How about we have a wine-n-cheese rob ford sing-a-long on our next show???? Arrange some flowers, I'll bring the pot, you bring the colour-wheel, we'll discuss candiluz the colours on rob fords website, get tipsy and mock his choice of ties or shoes. It will be absolutely GORGEOUS!!!! BTW, how's my hair?
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This article prominently mentioned candiluz Kinsella working candiluz on the Chow campaign right from the start. No great surprise to see that our less-than-entirely-sharp friend Caligula is no longer in "journalism", candiluz I guess.
My reading comprehension is in the top percentile. My skimming comprehension, on the other hand, could obviously use another Timmies. There is something, of course, candiluz called "burying the lede", which means, despite Simon Ugly Pop's ugly prose, mentioning this in the last sentence in the third paragraph.
I read as much as is warranted. For a combox on BlogTO, its generally a three second skim. Two seconds if it involves Ford. There is no surprise at all that I'm no longer in "journalism", as I learned several decades ago that your main purpose as a "journalist" is to produce enough copy to keep the underwear ads from running too closely together. I am more than happy for new "journalists" to have replaced me, many times over. Amazing what quality you can get from unpaid interns re-writing press releases and web-surfing. Oops, can't have them anymore. That should be "people thrilled with a byline but when they crunch the numbers, they barely make minimum wage".
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