Darryl Talks To Bands

I caught up with Becky & Maya at Club Saw this past Saturday night. Based on our conversation in this podcast, I decided to put together a quick PACK "best of" playlist. Very quickly it got up to 28 songs

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Honestly, listen to the playlist and try to figure out why these songs (especially from Unpersons through It Was Fun While It Lasted) aren't all over Canadian Rock & Alternative Radio????

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Much Love

Darryl Spring

DTTB Ep.66 - George Stroumboulopoulos

Punk Rock & Politics

One of the people I wanted to interview while planning this podcast series, without question was Strombo. This is another episode where I get to interview a remarkable interviewer. Like Alan Cross Official, or CFNY founder David Marsden. All of whom, shared some amazing stories in this series.

George and I talked about 102.1 The Edge in this episode. He was colleagues with some of my mentors there, including the late Martin Streek Tribute. In fact the last time I saw George in person was at the Opera House for a celebration in honour of Martin.

We also discussed the Danko Jones / Monster Truck issue, which I weighed in on, based on an episode done with Jon Harvey. This led in to an important chat about where we are in North American in 2022. Which only left me thinking, are politics in George's future? In an official capacity?

With George out on the West Coast, I thought we were talking at 6pm PT, so I didn't even write out questions or set up the light I use for video podcasts. But with George, I'm kind of glad we just hit record and go.

Phantom Atlantic just released a new EP on June 18th called Your View of a Former Me. Described as cinematic alt-rock, their sound is BIG and this collection tells a story.

Last we spoke was at VooDoo Rockfest, which was the focus of 2 episode back in Season 1

The Glorious Sons have established themselves as a force in Canadian Rock n' Roll. As someone who got to see them in the early days in Kingston, their success isn't a surprise.

They're back with new music and have been producing it themselves during lockdown.

The best part is that they've achieved everything as an independent band on their own terms.

Demetrius Nath is the singer of the Mississauga pop punk band Maybe May

He also has a day job in the industry and is an all around good guy.

Maybe May recently release a video for their new single "Survive, Satellite". The song and video is getting some attention across the country.

This is a timely song that captures a feeling that I think most of us share right now. And it rocks

Deadset Society went platinum, then went on hiatus. In the downtime, the remaining members formed the band Tense Machine.

Meanwhile, Deadset frontman Reid David Henry has released some solo material, I got to catch up with him to talk about that, being a Dad and the stress of being a Leaf fan

New Episode, with old friends. The Damn Truth ARE Rock n' Roll. Their live show is captivating and their record is OUT NOW

I got to chat with them just ahead of the release of "Now or Nowhere"

The Beaches are back with a new EP called Future Lovers. I got to talk to them about the new music, their love of doing press and is everything alright with Canada's rock power couple?

Ken Tizzard was a memeber of The Watchmen and Thornley. His latest project is a collaborative album of covers that covers a wide spectrm of music.

He also shares some personal stories about how he went in to lockdown about a year befre the rest of us did.

Return appearance from Complicit. This time to tackle an Ariana Grande song.

Don't judge, LISTEN! Tell me you don't like it.

PS - Their name is Alanna Sterling