 The current Toronto hardcore scene is marked by several bands that draw on the early 1980’s California sound. Brutal Knights have been together since 2001 and include Nick Flanagan (vocals) from Teen Crud Combo and Jon Sharron (guitar) from Hacksaw. Flanagan is also a stand up comedian and he brings a lot of his absurdist humor to Brutal Knights. Combining silly lyrics with nasty vocals, stinging guitars, and pounding to melodic rhythms makes for some thoroughly entertaining live mashups. ToBeScene recorded the band live at the Silver Dollar in February 2007 when, in addition to Flanagan and Sharron, their line up was Katie Whittaker on guitar, John Power on drums and Daniella Costanzo on bass (who later left the band).
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 Career Suicide blast out old school hardcore with an energy level that heats up any room they play. In January 2007, Martin Farkas (vocals), Jonah Falco (guitar), Matt Miller (bass), and Dave Brown (drums) squeezed into ToBeScene’s tiny studio space and got the walls rumblin’.....
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 The flashback to Toronto 1977 continued in 2008, with a special performance by the Ugly, featuring originally bassist Screamin’ Sam and drummer Tony Torcher. Steve Kotch, who played with the Demics and Viletones, filled in on guitar while Greg Dick, from the Dream Dates and Texas Dirtfuckers, had the daunting task of filling in for founding singer Mike Nightmare who died in 1997......
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 ToBeScene has videotaped a lot of reunion shows over the past 2 years, mainly late 1970’s Toronto punk bands. In November 2007, however, we were fortunate enough to record an extremely rare performance of two bands in one shot, so to speak. This time we went back to the early 1970’s and revisted Canada’s underground psychedelic era.......
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 Teenage Head are one of Canada’s best known punk bands. The Hamilton, Ontario, band has been playing their version of rock’n’roll since 1974, well before the Ramones played their first show in Toronto. Thirty years later they’re still playing shows with 3 of their 4 original members.....
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 The Viletones were at the forefront of the first wave of the Toronto punk movement in the late 1970’s. Lead by Steven Leckie (calling himself Nazi Dog back then), their antics and the violence that followed them caught the media’s attention on a few occasions. With two amazing singles, the Viletones were one of the key bands that put Toronto on the Punk Rock Map.......
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 The Mods stood out from the early Toronto punk bands with their 1960s UK inspired mod look, intelligent lyrics, and tight shows, which often featured drummer David Quinton standing on top of his drums while playing them. (At one point, Quinton was recruited by Stiv Bators of the Dead Boys to play with him in the early 1980s.).......
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 The original rockabilly wildwoman, Wanda Jackson, is still putting on shows with energy, class, style and a powerful voice that belies her age. In a ToBeScene exclusive, Aldo Erdic captured a song from her 70th birthday performance at the Cadillac Lounge on October 20, 2007........
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 The Pointed Sticks were one of Canada’s best power pop bands making up Vancouver’s late 1970s punk/new wave scene. After forming in 1978, the Pointed Sticks released a few singles and eventually their catchy, well-crafted songs got them signed to the old UK label Stiff Records........
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