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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 03/10/2026

Ok so Matt Johnson has my book this is crazy

Matt Johnson poses with a copy of the book In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World by Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 13/08/2026

my local drive-in theatre has one of the craziest double features I've ever seen

a double feature of Paw Patrol: Dino Movie at 8:55pm followed by The Odyssey at 10:40pm

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 18/05/2026

email to my editor while filing a draft over the long weekend

Happy long weekend from one monarchy loving Canadian to another

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 15/05/2026

Aside from the ChatGPT-like prose and my extreme skepticism that a book club of a thousand Singaporeans would be interested in my book about Canadian music of the 2000s, the biggest red flag is the overly effusive praise. It’s almost convincing but sorry I don’t think the response was electric!

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 15/05/2026

My publisher warned all their authors about these book club scams, and I have gotten a few of them now that are very similar, but I’m curious about the endgame. How precisely does this lead to the scammers extracting money or useful data from me? I want to ask

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 12/05/2026

This just came up in my Apple Music autoplay after listening to Soul Glo. This is the band’s only song and they have just five monthly listeners on Spotify. Mythical autoplay pull.

A song called “Muscle Dump” by a band called Old Tits. The artwork is a white square with the word Fuck and a drawing of wrinkly breasts crudely sketched using something like Microsoft Paint or the Apple photo editor

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 11/05/2026

came across this guy pretending to swing people around in a circle pit. Such a good bit

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 30/04/2026

Honoured to have been invited to Ottawa to give a keynote speech to English teachers in my hometown. Books are punk actually!

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 21/04/2026

the artwork for Mark Kozelek's post-allegations discography makes it look like it's Christian easy listening music

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 20/03/2026

Timothee Chalamet looks like he's about to demonstrate how to fall down the stairs without getting hurt

Timothee Chalamet with a goatee and shaggy hair at the Oscars

Justin Trudeau with a goatee and shaggy hair in an old youtube video

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 18/02/2026

I love American Football but I don’t like how every American Football album is called American Football

The Norman Rockwell painting Freedom of Speech depicts a working-class man rising to speak at a New England town meeting or city council gathering.

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 03/02/2026

There are two distinct types of mid-2000s CanCon rock fan and both of them are enjoying themselves today

Exclaim headline: Alexisonfire Announce Toronto Show to Mark 20th Anniversary of 'Crisis'
Underoath and Computer will open the show at RBC Amphitheatre

Exclaim headline: Broken Social Scene Plot Tour with Metric and Stars, Announce New Album 'Remember the Humans'
The All the Feelings Tour comes to Toronto this August

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 31/01/2026

What I was listening to in January 2026 ✌️

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 22/01/2026

Currently listening to “Grace General” by John K. Samson in the middle of January

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 31/12/2025

my December in music. happy new year!

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 24/12/2025

merry Christmas Eve. Family member unknowingly put electronically heated mug in the microwave and it promptly caught on fire and then the battery exploded in a big fireball. Everybody safe, house did not burn down 👍

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 24/12/2025

family Christmas shenanigans have begun

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 16/12/2025

For all of my fellow music enjoyers out there… here is a list of my favourite albums released in 2025. I do this every year to stay hip and “with it.” happy to discuss! no worries if not!

1. Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You
2. Militarie Gun - God Save the Gun
3. Turnstile - Never Enough
4. Laura Stevenson - Late Great
5. Moving Mountains - Pruning of the Lower Limbs
6. Lorde - Virgin
7. Bon Iver - Sable, Fable
8. Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done
9. Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power
11. 11. Sister Ray - Believer
13. 13. The Armed - The Future is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
14. Tyler Childers - Snipe Hunter
15. Anxious - Bambi
16. Petey USA - The Yips
17. Arm’s Length - There’s a Whole World Out There
18. Sam Fender - People Watching
19. Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still
20. Wednesday - Bleeds
21. The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie
22. Fust - Big Ugly
23. Adult Mom - Natural Causes
24. Liquid Mike - Hell is an Airport
26. 26. Flycatcher - Wrench
28. 28. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam
30. Dying Wish - Flesh Stays Together

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 31/07/2025

My 5x5 for July 2025 (rip Ozzy)

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 22/06/2025

There are a thousand half-empty parking garages like this one in Toronto but people will still say this because there isn’t free street parking directly in front of the specific store they want to visit

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 18/06/2025

Thanks to @thestar.com for their obsession with my new book! www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

A major 1980s nostalgia concert, Canadian pop punk and an imploding submersible: what we’re obsessed with this week

Simple Minds live, “In Too Deep,” “Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster” and the new Big Thief song are among our culture picks.

Sam Sutherland’s 2012 book “Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk” traced the rise of such genre pioneers as D.O.A. and Teenage Head and placed them in a broader cultural context. With “In Too Deep” (House of Anansi), authors Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel grab the baton to showcase the next generation. Subtitled “When Canadian Punks Took Over the World,” the book offers well-told origin stories of Sum 41, Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, Billy Talent and others, while not neglecting the contributions of lesser known, but still significant bands like Boys Night Out and Moneen. —David McPherson

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 06/06/2025

Signed copies of my new book yesterday at Queen Books in Toronto 📕🖊️

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 04/06/2025

My first book, IN TOO DEEP: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World, is officially out today from @houseofanansi.bsky.social or wherever you buy books. I hope you enjoy it. 📚 Find a bookseller: linktr.ee/intoodeepbook

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 31/05/2025

my May in music: seven new releases, some low-key singer-songwriter stuff, old punk faves, and a Ceremony album that goes straight to the top mostly because each song is like 20 seconds long

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 29/05/2025

Nathan Fielder age 13 vs Sidney Crosby age 14

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 27/05/2025

My first book IN TOO DEEP comes out in just one week! If you’d like a copy, I’d really appreciate it if you’d pre-order it from your local bookstore. Pre-orders really help drive further sales and visibility! Shop local 📚 linktr.ee/intoodeepbook

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 22/05/2025

Can’t wait to log the new Turnstile album on Letterboxd

Instagram post from Turnstile with a caption that reads: we’re happy to share that our visual album Turnstile Never Enough will be playing in theatres near you. Tickets are available now for the first screenings beginning June 5 with more screenings/theatres to follow.

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 20/05/2025

My first book In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World is out in just TWO WEEKS! Now with a cover featuring a great quote from the very cool and kind Tim McIlrath of Rise Against. Preorder here ➡️ linktr.ee/intoodeepbook

The cover of In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World, showing the title in white block font along with the black silhouette of a spiky-haired guy jumping in the air with a guitar, on a red background. On the bottom there’s a quote from Tim McIlrath of Rise Against that says “when it comes to Canadian punk, the music world is simply a better place for it.”

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 19/05/2025

Every time I see this TV commercial I think about how this guy looks like a perfect mix of David Dastmalchian and Justin Trudeau

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 13/05/2025

Celebrating the launch of my new book IN TOO DEEP with a party at Rivoli. Q&A and book signing followed by live karaoke. If you haven’t already preordered a copy, you can buy one there from Type Books. See you there! 🤘 Free tickets 🎟️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-too-dee...

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 05/05/2025

when you send your new single to a music blog looking for press coverage and they send you back a price list

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 30/04/2025

5x5 for April. 🌷 It’s been a month of unpredictable weather and I can guess roughly what the temperature was that day based on what I listened to.

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 08/04/2025

This is the correct way to respond to people hassling your band about their touring schedule

HELLO H8ERS!

Yeah we saw all the angry Toronto freaks in the comment section, did you really think we’d do our hometown dirty like that? GROW UP.

6 TORONTO SHOWS. Starting with a house show. Each one bigger than the last. A “tour” of Toronto taking us through the venues we came up playing over the past decade. MEGACITY MADNESS BABY.

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 29/03/2025

the young people seem to be seriously underestimating how popular Creed were 25 years ago

TikTok comment that says “I love how Creed is more popular now than they were 25 years ago”

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 25/03/2025

I did the a24 bracket. That top four involved a couple VERY hard choices.

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 11/03/2025

It’s true, there are only two punk bands that aren’t right wing

TikTok comment that says “@SilentRage420: dropkick Murphys and Green Day or the only two punk bands that I know that are not right wing nut jobs”

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 07/03/2025

In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World is one of CBC Books’ recommended reads for this spring 📚 Preorder: linktr.ee/intoodeepbook

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 28/02/2025

February 5x5. Those new albums from Sam Fender and Anxious are great.

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 28/02/2025

I would love to finally understand why Finch wrote their best song "What It Is to Burn," named their debut album after it, and then didn't include it on that album's official track listing

the album artwork for What It Is to Burn by Finch

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 26/02/2025

Toronto traffic is almost always bad but sometimes it’s also funny

News headline that says: wrong-way vehicle drives into construction site on Gardiner Expressway, falls through hole

Vince McMahon meme where he’s progressively getting more excited/entertained. The first slide says “wrong-way driver” and Vince looks intrigued. The next one says “drives into construction site and he looks entertained. The last ones says “falls through hole” and his head is flung back and mouth agape in shock.

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Adam Feibel @adamfeibel.com · 24/02/2025

I contributed a piece to the latest volume of @lyricsaspoetry.bsky.social, a journal spotlighting the work of songwriters and their lyrics. The theme is “dreams” and my short essay is about “So Much for Everyone” by Dan Mangan, one of my favourite Canadian artists.

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