The weekend was stuffed with almost too many awesome Northside shows to handle.

Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley met on the streets. As fate would have it, Australia’s Adelaide Fringe Festival was occurring on those streets, and while Webley was stomping and screaming as a street performer, Palmer was a human statue — a kind, loving statue who didn’t forget about Webley when her future band, cabaret punk [...]

Andrew W.K. is keeping busy. This sounds suspicious to me, because it is, at least when you consider that his upcoming shows will be the first in five years with a full band. I know, I know, there’s the show on Cartoon Network and that motivational speaking tour and some piano performances and blabla, but [...]

Alright Andrew, I have had enough of you. The release date for your ‘lost’ third album, Close Calls With Brick Walls, has been pushed back to March 23rd. It will now be unveiled a month after your big town hall meeting (as opposed to this past week), doubling the effective exploitation of the Steev Mike [...]

If it seems like just yesterday that we were reporting on Andrew W.K.’s mysterious trail of tears; you’re wrong. It was four days ago, and you can find that story here. With the town hall meeting still weeks away, AWK (or perhaps the artist formerly known as) has now unveiled some more big plans: the [...]

It was a sad moment this morning when I clicked the link for tickets to Mr. W.K.’s town hall meeting and found they were sold out; sad, but not surprising. The enigmatic rocker, an undeniably gifted showman and party slogan wunderkind, has little left unconquered in the world of music: two successful full lengths, his [...]

Just when you thought the Torontonian, living legends of post-hardcore couldn’t get any zanier they go and release a Christmas single that’s sure to ring in holiday cheer — well, as best a band with a frontman named “Pink Eyes” can anyways. More Canadian hardcore fun after the jump.