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9ES351: Wide Appeal

by on December 4, 2025 at 10:50 pm
Posted In: Podcast, Podcasting, Uncategorized

Really the only thing that stops us from being just like Jesse Plemons in Begonia is that none of us are beekeepers.

 

Waitaminute- Jon is a beekeeper. I guess it’s time for us to kidnap a CEO. This podcast is about to really take a turn. Hit us up in the comments if you’re a CEO who would like to be kidnapped by the three of us.

 

Anyways, it’s hard to get out to the movies these days and by hard I mean really fucking expensive. Factor in a baby-sitter and you’re looking at dropping $200 on a Friday night at the movies with a food-court dinner. I wonder if high-school kids still go to the movies for dates or if they’re totally priced out of that too.

 

We talk about a few other pretty recent flicks like Caught Stealing and Asteroid City and then Scott talks about a film that is definitely not that recent: The Long Goodbye.

 

Then we talk about The Pink Panther and how it might be one of the greatest theme songs of all time. Stay tuned for some future episode of 9ES where we rank the greatest theme songs of all time… probably.

 

Meanwhile on a brand new episode of Garbage Time we talk about some of the dumbest matches in pro-wrestling history including the infamous “Kennel Match” where a bunch of scared dogs just peed and pooped all over the place. I guess talking about things really going to shit leads us to (of course) talk about the Toronto Maple Leafs. There’s a connection there I just know it.

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Our intro song is a brand new jam cooked up by OKU-DA just for us, do yourself a favour and check out his SoundCloud).

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’77 Montreal 2018 – Punk Rock’s New Home

by on July 28, 2018 at 1:14 pm
Posted In: 77 Montreal, Blogs, Homepage, Keith, Montreal

It’s almost impossible to go to ’77 Montreal and not get a little nostalgic. The very name of the festival harkens back to the fabled year of 1977 where punk rock was officially “born”. Obviously part of the point of this festival is to celebrate the past, present and future of all things punk rock.

But things can get blurry with that mission statement. Because after all, what is punk rock? Swinging by the Cinema ’77 we learned about the band Television who were active several years before 1977 and had a sound that doesn’t have much to do with the modern definition of punk. But, for lack of a better definition, Television is punk rock.

Thankfully, punk rock is more of a mindset than it is a fixed form of music.

L7 hit the height of their popularity in the 90’s with what was basically a grunge hit “Pretend We’re Dead”. But, a second of seeing them on stage tells you that they fit the bill for punk show. Without missing a step after their hiatus they even brought out new material like “Dispatch From Mar-a-Lago” to show that they’re still just as interested in being brash provocateurs as they were in the 90’s.

Ska has always been punk rock’s kissing cousin. The two scenes had huge amounts of overlap, particularly here in Montreal. The Planet Smashers could tell you all about it (they talk about getting rushed by skinheads back in the day on our podcast interview with them) as one of Montreal’s legendary ska bands. I marveled as fans who might not have even been born in 1999 belted along the lyrics to “Life of the Party” and knew to get down low without prompting for the 10 count in “Surfin’ in Tofino” (the old school method of dividing up the pit and having both sides crash into each other was retired a while ago). ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Screaming Demons – GPYS 153

by on April 5, 2018 at 7:08 am
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

Montreal based punk rock & roll band Screaming Demons join us this week in a conversation about punk rock and horror movies. I’d love to say that we talk about other stuff, but really, when you put 4 guys in a room with a few beers who all love horror movies, that’s what you get.

Yanick & Jordan are technically on the show to plug their upcoming show April 13th @Crobar. Also, you can check out their EP “Raising the Dead” on BandCamp. Enjoy the show!

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As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Walter J. Lyng is a stand-up comedian based out of Montreal, you should follow him on Twitter @wallygoodtimes and on Facebook: Walter J. Lyng

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Paul Gott (Ripcordz) – GPYS 151

by on March 8, 2018 at 6:30 am
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

Paul Gott is probably the only guy in town with both “old school punk rocker” and “CBC” on his resume. Paul was actually one of Walter’s professors way back in Wally’s journalism school days. He formed Ripcordz nearly four decades ago in 1980 and has been touring and playing punk rock ever since. We talk about balancing life in punk with a career in the mainstream media, some of his tattoos and a great story about how he got an underage kid to interview Metallica.

All this and more on Go Plug Yourself, Montreal’s favorite indie English podcast. Enjoy the show!
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Be sure to keep up with Ripcordz on Facebook: RIPCORDZPUNK
And if you’re in the mood for some punk and hardcore on April 20th you should probably try and find your way to The TraXide.

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Walter J. Lyng is a stand-up comedian based out of Montreal, you should follow him on Twitter @wallygoodtimes and on Facebook: Walter J. Lyng

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’77 Montreal – The Pale Lips Ignore Negativity and Just Go For It

by on July 25, 2017 at 5:21 pm
Posted In: 77 Montreal, Blogs, Homepage, Montreal

18121646_1787312808157927_3226895699996837260_o Full disclosure. I met Lynn Poulin from The Pale Lips a long time ago. Back when she was skating under the name “Lyn-Dah Kicks” as a member of Montreal Roller Derby (check out Scott’s piece on her here). Since then however she’s gone on to become the drummer of The Pale Lips!

The Pale Lips are bringing their love of classic old time rock n roll, punk rock and glam to kick things off at ’77 Montreal this Friday, July 28th at Parc Jean Drapeau.

I had the chance to ask a few questions to lead singer Jackie Blenkarn:

Keith: How did The Pale Lips get together? Did you guys always know you were going to be a “old time rock and roll/classic punk” band, or did that style develop after the fact?

Jackie: We really came into the band having an idea of what we wanted to sound like. Classic punk and rock and roll are common ground for all four of us. What makes our sound unique is the other individual influences that pepper their way into songs.

K: Montreal ’77 is a celebration of the explosion of punk that occured around the 1977 date. Several seminal punk bands had formed earlier, but it was 1977 that saw a string of releases from acts like Iggy Pop (his first solo album), The Clash, The Sex Pistols and The Ramones (who released both their second and third albums in ’77) that really forced punk into cultural significance. 40 years later, the genre is still going strong. To the Pale Lips, what is it about punk rock that is so important that keeps it around in 2017? ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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