Punknews Podcast: Some Party - Episode 1
While Punknews.org is staffed by an increasingly global team of volunteers, we try not to forget our roots as a small zine and website based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Yet even in those early days it seems like we've always spoken more about the music coming out of New York, LA, Philadelphia, and Gainesville than that…
December 13, 2011

Tours: Cuff The Duke
Oshawa, Ontario's Cuff the Duke are headed east through Quebec to play a number of headlining dates in the Maritimes. The band is supporting their recent third full length Sidelines of the City. En route the band will play dates supporting the Pascale Picard Band and the United Steelworkers of Montreal. Click below for the dates. Sidelines of the City was released in 2007 via…
March 12, 2008

Tours: Cuff The Duke announce dates, streaming "Sidelines of the City"
Oshawa, Ontario's Cuff the Duke are streaming their new full length Sidelines of the City via their MySpace page. The band has also has the tune "If I Live or If I Die" available for free via the Canuck version of the iTunes Music Store. The record, their third and the follow up to 2005's self titled release, hit stores this past Tuesday via via Hardwood…
October 25, 2007

Media: Cuff The Duke: "Surging Revival"
Oshawa, Ontario's Cuff the Duke has posted the song "Surging Revival" online. You can check it out via MySpace. The song appears on the band's new full length Sidelines of the City, their third full length and follow up to 2005's self titled release. It hits stores on October 23rd via Hardwood Records, the Universal backed…
September 17, 2007

Media: CBC Radio 3 Sessions to become podcast, TV show, compilation
CBC Radio 3 has announced several new initiavies related to their live sessions series. The Radio 3 Sessions are now slated to be a podcast, a TV show and a new compilation CD. The podcast launches September 12th and will be hosted by Tariq Hussain, It will record Canadian artists live off-the-floor as they experiment with alternate arrangements and new songs. The TV show, titled In Session will be a half hour…
September 03, 2007

Media: Cuff The Duke to release "Sidelines of the City" in October
Oshawa, Ontario's Cuff the Duke have set an October 23rd release date for their upcoming third full length and follow up to 2005's self titled release. Hardwood Records, the Universal backed imprint run by Toronto singer / songwriter Paul Hayden Desser, will again be behind the release. The new record will carry the title Sidelines of the City (beating out the earlier…
August 20, 2007

Media: New Cuff the Duke record this summer
Oshawa, Ontario's Cuff the Duke were recently in the studio recording the follow up to their sophomore self titled full length. The band is planning for either a late August or early September release, but those details are still under wraps. The band's Three Gut released debut album Life Stories For Minimum Wage was reissued earlier this year via Outside Music. The label also released frontman…
June 16, 2007

Media: Outside Music to reissue Cuff The Duke's "Life Stories..."
In February Oshawa, Ontario's Cuff The Duke will see their debut album Life Stories For Minimum Wage reissued via Outside Music. That record was first released in 2002 via Three Gut Records, and introduced the group's mix of shoegazer distortion, punk and country. The band hits the studio in February to record their third album, the follow up to 2005's…
January 17, 2007

Media: Cuff The Duke recording in October
Oshawa's Cuff The Duke have announced that they'll hit the studio to record their third album in October. The record will follow up 2005's Hardwood released Cuff the Duke. In recent months members of the band have joined members of the Weakerthans and FemBots in the instrumental indie rock…
September 30, 2006