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December 31, 2021

CiTR’s Top 100 of 2021

We’re observing the end of 2021 with an obligatory & completely joyful top 100 list! After a few months of comfort and things starting to…

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November 13, 2018

Photo Essay: Tough Age

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October 4, 2017

Tough Age

Tough Age delivers the opening ninety-nine instrumental seconds of their new album Shame with nonchalant confidence. The Toronto-based self-proclaimed ‘not really punk at all’ band…

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April 13, 2017

Tough Age

In case you thought the Vancouver punk scene was dead, Mint and Deranged Records proved that it is alive and well. On March 18, the…

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July 21, 2016

Mint Records Day Party @ Sled Island

What do we mean when we talk about a show having ‘energy’? We like to talk about energy as if it’s something incommunicable and completely…

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September 24, 2015

Tough Age

Tough Age is no stranger to musical awesomeness. After frontman Jarrett K.’s band Korean Gut dissolved, he looked to his talented friends to build a…

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July 6, 2015

Sled Island 2015, Pt. 3

I woke up on Friday realizing I had slept Wednesday Addams style the night before — very still so I wouldn’t take up too much…

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November 26, 2014

Mudhoney

It’s been 26 years since Mudhoney defined Seattle grunge with “Touch Me I’m Sick.” The dirty distortion on both the track and their debut, Superfuzz Bigmuff, inaugurated…

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November 9, 2014

Throwback: Purple Hearts Social Club and Tough Age at Victory Square Block Party

If you are missing Victory Square Block Party as much as we are, these videos of Purple Hearts Social Club and Tough Age may brighten…

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October 16, 2014

PUP

With its atmospheric red lights, ruby coloured theatre curtains, symmetrical wall patterns, and haunted lounge décor, stepping into the Fox Cabaret feels eerily akin to…