Plastic and Wax Issue #4 features write-ups for Nothing Serious, Skid Palace and The Follow Ups and highlights a slew of 2024 releases. Check out the playlist below to listen to the bands mentioned in our summer issue. Grab issueRead more…
The Follow Ups – Know Who Your Friends Aren’t
Here’s a fun one. Moncton’s The Follow Ups deliver their second LP – the follow up (sorry, couldn’t resist) to 2019’s The Follow Ups … Don’t Like You Either. It’s 12 tracks of goofball nonsense (plus 2 semi-serious tunes) clockingRead more…
Skid Palace – Love Is A Broken Record
Skid Palace is the new project from Peterborough-based solo artist Ryan Kennedy. As the title suggests, Love Is A Broken Record is a mighty despondent experience. Six down-tempo numbers delivering varying levels of angst. Production is modern (read: huge beats,Read more…
Nothing Serious – Bitter Days
Bitter Days is the new record from Nothing Serious – a trio that lays claim to Basement, Ontario (a nebulous space known to be somewhere around the Durham region) as their home. It’s a continuation of the fast-paced, melody-driven precedentRead more…
Playlist Monday – Issue #3
Plastic and Wax Issue #3 saw the largest print run yet (350 copies), featured write-ups on Mononegatives, Wasting Time and Fine Motor Control and highlighted new releases from a bunch of great bands. Which bands? Check the playlist* embedded below.Read more…
Fine Motor Control – Calamity
Calamity is the new EP from Toronto’s Fine Motor Control. Not to be confused with the drum/bass “new grunge” outfit of the same name also from Toronto circa 2004-2007. This band is actually the fifth collaboration between Vello Verder andRead more…
Wasting Time – Hurry Up and Wait
Hurry Up and Wait is the latest from Toronto’s Wasting Time. It’s the immediate follow-up to 2023 EP Chainsaw Dynamos and sees the four-piece picking up right where they left off. It’s a succinct collection of tightly-spun punk-rock head-bobbers. Frontman/songwriterRead more…
Mononegatives – Crossing Visual Field
Crossing Visual Field – the latest from London-based post-punkers Mononegatives – is the record we thought people would be making in the future back in the 80’s. While we now have scarily-accurate facsimiles of songs by famous artists created byRead more…
Playlist Monday – Issue #2
Plastic and Wax issue #2 is in circulation and issue #3 is on the way. Grab your copy of the new one starting in May – first dibs at the release party at Handlebar in Toronto May 4. Or atRead more…
Marvelous 3 – IV
IV is the fourth full-length from Marvelous 3. But to call it a fourth album would be extremely misleading. A quick history lesson: Butch Walker, Jayce Fincher and Mitch “Slug” McLee alongside vocalist Jesse Harte spent the late 80’s/early 90’sRead more…