Stuart Berman
Producer at COMMOTION (CBC Radio 1); writer for Pitchfork, Toronto Star; author of THIS BOOK IS BROKEN: A Broken Social Scene Story + TOO MUCH TROUBLE: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones; publisher of stubermania.substack.com + hamontlive.substack.com
- Just saw a driver hanging a right at Front & Simcoe while typing on an open laptop, it's a minor miracle more pedestrians aren't killed every day
- It was a simpler time.
- In other indie CanCon news: the new single from Weird Nightmare (aka Alex Edkins of Metz) is pure power-pop gold: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jGJ...
- Our long national nightmare is over, the first BSS album in 9 years is nigh: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJoq...
- On a related note: after playing the new BSS single on YouTube, the algorithm determined that the next thing I wanted to hear was Alice in Chains' "Heaven Beside You," which I guess makes sense if your favourite genre is "bands with three words in their name"
- Today on Commotion, we gathered Baroness Von Sketch/Small Achievable Goals star Jennifer Whalen, Schitt's Creek producer Andrew Barnsley, and writer Paul Myers to pay tribute to the incomprable Catherine O'Hara: www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZJ...
- Want to bet Trump still tunes into the official halftime show and writes a 1000-word Truth Social post about Bad Bunny's performance?
- Update: the Grammys read this post and put a quickie montage together after the commercial break
- Um, did the Grammys forget Sly Stone died this year?
- For a second there, I thought Biebs was going to bust into “Under the Bridge.” The ‘92 Frusciante vibes are strong with this one. #Grammys
- There’s no better escape from the bitter cold and ambient misery of 2026 than venturing into an underground cave located on the second floor of a pizzeria, where two of #hamont’s finest indie-rock bands, Žuto (in the vid below) + Slow Reader, were kicking out jangle jams that go for the jugular.
- And here’s Slow Reader pulling a fast one.
