Boys Life's Brandon Butler on reunion, van fires and how "you can’t recreate 30 years ago"
Boys Life. Photo: Paul Drake. BY GREGORY ADAMS This past weekend, cult Kansas City, Missouri quartet Boys Life hit the stage for their first shows in almost...
Toadies' Mark Reznicek on creepy-vibed alt-rock and grooving with the Goolies
Toadies in the ‘90s. Photo: Michael Lavine. BY GREGORY ADAMS Horror, music, and animation — it’s a winning combination! Dating all the way back to 1929’s The...
Rex John Shelverton spirals out dreampop beauty on a decimated SG Junior
Photo c/o Rex John Shelverton BY GREGORY ADAMS Musical instruments are precious. That doesn’t mean you have to be precious with them. When San Francisco-...
Scratched toms and dumb-fun collage: Sloan's Andrew Scott talks Twice Removed album art at 30
Andrew Scott in his studio. Photo c/o the artist. BY GREGORY ADAMS Andrew Scott is putting in the work. When Gut Feeling reaches out to the Toronto-based...
cherry pick harnesses "sludgy, gross" shoegaze with a skateboard pedalboard
cherry pick. Photo: Mungo Dulmage BY GREGORY ADAMS There’s controlled chaos coursing through Vancouver shoegazer cherry pick’s fantastically noise-dialed new...
Gut Feeling Podcast #28 - Shira Blustein (The Acorn / Chupacabra)
The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is with Shira Blustein, the Calgary-born, Vancouver-based restauranteur behind celebrated vegetarian spot the Acorn and the...
A Mini-guide to Ebullition Records' Eclectic Underground Hardcore
Orchid in Vancouver. Photo by Gregory Adams BY GREGORY ADAMS It has been a long-ass time since the last label guide, so this month Gut Feeling is doing a...
Poisoned Seeds' Avrinder Dhillon finds fertile ground home-recording hardcore
Poisoned Seeds. Photo: Avrinder Dhillon. BY GREGORY ADAMS Poisoned Seeds guitarist Avrinder Dhillon’s handiwork is all over the Vancouver hardcore group’s...
How Helmet's Page Hamilton Went Space Age with Gigantor
Page & Gigantor, circa 1995. C/O YouTube. BY GREGORY ADAMS Helmet are titans of groove. That’s undebatable. From the mighty “Unsung” — post-hardcore’s first...
Dom Romeo Details Total Dom-Ination of His Integrity Days
Integrity in concert. Photo c/o the band. BY GREGORY ADAMS Last year I spoke with Domenic Romeo to get into his playing on the debut album from End Reign, a...
Gut Feeling Podcast #27 - Adam Mitchell (Pura Mania/Spectres)
Hello! It's nearing the end of 2023, and per tradition I've invited Adam Mitchell onto the podcast to get into some of his favourite records of the year —...
Gut Feeling Podcast #26 - Tom Thacker (Gob/Sum 41)
The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Tom Thacker, the Fraser Valley, BC-raised founding guitarist of pop-punkers Gob, and longtime member of...
Did Antarctica's Eric Richter Play Glacial Shoegaze on Johnny Cash's Jaguar?
Antarctica live in 1999. Photo: Brian Maryansky BY GREGORY ADAMS A few months ago, I spent the back-half of a newsletter praising the then-upcoming re-...
Adam Miller reflects on hurled barstools and Vogue-ing in Vancouver
The Vogue at the Brickyard. All photos: Gregory Adams. BY GREGORY ADAMS Sometimes the shows you remember the most are the ones that don't go according to...
Dracula's Deuce: Revving Through Gary Usher's Horror-Themed Hot Rod Record
BY GREGORY ADAMS While I love hearing a 60’s-era monster party song any time of year, cemetery rockers and blood-sucking bops make up a substantial part of...
Gut Feeling Podcast #25 - Jordan Blilie (The Blood Brothers)
The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Jordan Blilie, the onetime co-vocalist for surrealistic hardcore outfit The Blood Brothers. The band...
Rewind: Watchers Revel In Vampire Driver's Nocturnal Rhythm
Watchers circa 2007. Photo c/o the band. BY GREGORY ADAMS Hey folks! We're back with another rewind, this time around cult Chicago quintet Watchers. I'd...
DFL's Monty Messex talks pizza, P90s, and My Crazy Life's Beastie-bolstered hardcore
Monty, live in the '90s. Photo c/o DFL. BY GREGORY ADAMS For a group quite literally co-founded by one of the most iconic hip-hop figures of all time, DFL is...
Gut Feeling Podcast #24 - Vanessa Heins
The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Vanessa Heins, a Toronto-based photographer who has worked with artists in the worlds of punk, folk, pop,...
Dave Clifford Talks Up Pleasure Forever's "Ominous" and Funky Return
Pleasure Forever circa 2003. Photo c/o the band. BY GREGORY ADAMS “It’s really strange and scary-sounding.” This is Pleasure Forever drummer Dave Clifford on...